These Fridays keep coming around more and more frequently. It’s good to pause occasionally and recount the good parts of the week before they disappear from memory. I join Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story to do just that on Fridays.
1. Dresses hemmed. I don’t mind maxi dresses in the winter, but in warm weather, I need the air circulating around my legs. I finally got to hemming up a couple of long dresses and have worn both of them this week.
2. A new mirror. Some time ago, I received an almost-full-length mirror for my craft/sewing room. But company was coming before we could put it up, so I tucked it in the closet . . . where it has been ever since. I asked Jim if he could put it up for me since I was planning on hemming the above-mentioned dresses and needed to check the length in a mirror. He was kind enough to do so. I always feel bad when something I’ve asked him to do turns out to be more complicated than I thought it would be. In this case, I wanted the mirror on the back of the room’s door–which was a hollow inside door with no studs. But he got it up there.
3. Puttering in the craft room. I came in while Jim was working on the mirror to answer a question about how high I wanted it. I stuck around in case he needed me to hand him something or get something for him. Plus, I couldn’t get out of the room without interrupting what he was doing. 🙂 So when he didn’t need me, I worked on decluttering my work table. It was an enjoyable time, and my table looks so much more spacious now.
I’ve had an idea for a long time of doing everything I need to do with the blog and computer on weekdays so I could use Saturday for family or church events, or, if nothing was happening on those fronts, I could get to some of the crafty things I want to do. I have photo albums I need to redo, photos in shoe boxes I need to do something with, craft projects I’d love to work on. I have a watercolor kit I’d love to dabble with. This Saturday afternoon in the craft room was the first opportunity to implement that desire for my craft time.
4. Wrap-up potluck. Our Bible study wrapped up its spring session with a potluck dinner and discussion of what we learned from Isaiah. It was a good way to remind ourselves of some of the key points we studied.
5. Family dinner and games. Mittu, Jason, and Timothy offered to come over and make dinner Sunday evening. Jesse was free to come, too, so we enjoyed time together.
That’s our week..How was yours?
Stray Thoughts 
It’s great that you now have your mirror hung and your craft room straightened out. I have to have things fairly straight around me or my brain just can’t think.
I’m glad that you and your family can get together for games and food. What a blessing.
I’ve read through the book of Isaiah. It must have been a fascinating book to study. A good one to do in a group. When does your study group begin again?
Have a great weekend.
They start a new Bible study in late August. During the summer, the church has “family prayer meetings” with a short devotional in lieu of Bible studies. I think people come and go too much in the summer to sustain a long study over several weeks.
What a good week! I’m glad you got those dresses hemmed, and now you’re making me wish for a full-length mirror. Heaven only knows how I’ve looked on some occasions in what I’ve worn, since I don’t have one 🙂 Your plan to get computerish stuff done on weekdays is a good one! I should follow suit …
You’ve had a great week of many blessings. I love family dinner and game nights!
How kind of your husband to deal with that mirror and how fun for you to get your craft room all set up for your weekend projects. I need to go through photos too and do something with all the loose old ones from before Iphone days. That might begin Sunday afternoon when we’re expecting rain.
Have a good weekend Barbara!
I did some alterations on a couple of pieces last week, and am loving having some ‘new’ things to wear.
My craft area is sadly in need of organizing. You’ve reminded me how motivating it would be to get in there and sort things out. I have piles of albums to work on, boxes of fabric that hold projects. It’s discouraging to walk in there! A full length mirror would be nice to have.
Enjoy your weekend, Barbara.
Sounds like you had periods of relaxation as you worked in your craft room and also accomplished a lot as well. I truly do not care to hem things so congratulations on getting your dresses hemmed!
For that #3, roomie and I used to call that “using up pockets of time” — which sometimes got us in trouble when those little projects get out of hand. But your decluttering seemed perfectly timed so you could get to your other projects.
And what a blessing Jim is for figuring out all the things that need figuring.
Family dinner and game nights are the best! Isn’t it wonderful living so close to your sons and families?
Good to get the mirror hung and get all the work done in your craft room (you DON’T want to see mine!).
Have a good week!