Sunday Comforts

I woke up at 10:00 this morning and jumped right out of bed and started getting ready for church!

Service starts at 11:15 and I was only 'normally' late. Louis Dean was still sleeping so I let him sleep on. He often doesn't really get into deep sleep until around 4:00 in the morning.

I could feel myself relax as I walked into Fellowship church and could hear the praise music and then the prayer as went on down the hall. I like everything about coming in the door and going into the service. 

And when I got home, Louis Dean met me at the door with a cup of coffee and invited me to watch Winning Walk with him. I had not one dose of church this morning but two! And both from the Ed Youngs - first Ed Young, Jr and then Ed Young, Sr. Win! WIN!!

I made a really good dinner for us today!

The cheese stuffed manicotti, sweet SWEET corn on the cob, salad and cantaloupe and cooked spinach with garlic and Parmesan cheese, plus garlic bread. SO good!!!

Now I am not really a cook or even a baker. I do cook and I do bake but I don't truly love doing it.

I will never forget the time my Son Dean asked me what my very favorite thing to cook was and I told him I didn't have a favorite and that I really didn't like to cook. He had such a stricken look on his face you would have thought I'd slapped him. Now Dean IS a cook! He loves everything about food from the buying of it to the preparing and eating thereof. He even enjoys looking at the grocery ads for Read's as he contemplates his menus and cooking plans.

I hear people talk about being stressed and just needing to get into the kitchen and get their hands in the dough or lose themselves in a recipe. Louis Dean is that way about his baking. Sometimes he NEEDS to get in there and make a batch of cinnamon rolls.

I confess I have been struggling with all the overwhelming things that keep happening around here.

It's like wave after wave of one thing and then another that keeps the house and the yard all tore up.

It seems like every time we go down to the ranch and get good and relaxed - we come home to one mess or another. Mostly water related lately. Then the gazebo got damaged and that creates yet another big job for Louis Dean. So.....cooking is something I do because I need to do it but I turn to other activities to calm myself down and get back to a 'happy' place in my heart and mind.

Today I found comfort in my home. Cleaning, fluffing, making things pretty.

I added a string of lights in the utility room so it wouldn't be as dark when I didn't want to use the brighter ones.

I tweaked the kitchen corner some more, replacing some old things with newer ones.

I am finally at the point where I want to toss some things I have had forever just because I really don't like them anymore.

Another comfort is music.

I picked this CD up at a thrift store and it is beautiful.

My heart seemed to lift and swell with the majestic music this afternoon and evening.

I would take my tea into the living room and sit in the comfy big chair, lean back and just let the music wash over me. I rotate 5 CDs so I added a Sarah Brightman, one of Kenny G and Yanni and the two in the Classical Romance.

Reclaiming a room and restoring order out of chaos does my soul good.

The den, kitchen, laundry room, foyer and living room have all been cleaned and bring peace to me when I walk through and light the candles. I am trying to keep the 'clean' rooms clean!

This evening I added the dining room to that list.

I set the table with my Colonial Rose dishes.

I bought this set in 1983 after my house burned.

I still love them although I have not used them in a long time.

I close this Sunday's journal entry with a peaceful heart......

And for that I am most grateful.