Housekeeping and Homemaking Monday

I love a good Monday! Especially one when I don't have to leave the house!

Today was such a Monday.

I am also loving this time in my life when I do not have a strict schedule to follow or a lot of things to do. I can stay up late and sleep until noon if I want to.

While I wasn't up that late last night - I was still in bed at noon when Summer called me today.

She had already been up 5 hours and had a whole list of things she'd done and errands she's run.

I told her that was okay. I used to do that. Sometimes I still do. 

But not today. Today was not only Monday - it was MY day!

Louis Dean brought me coffee in bed and when I finally got up -  I made breakfast for lunch.

A healthy cereal and fruit.

Louis Dean did a lot of work yesterday while I was at the pool so he was not up much today.

He went back to bed around 2:00 and slept until after 6:00.

He was pretty tired.

He got nervous in the night when his arms and hands were hurting.

But he had reason to be. He had used a hack saw to cut metal and done a lot of detailed work - and the vibration took its toll.

While he slept, I was happy as a lark just fluffing up my 'clean' rooms and lighting candles in each before venturing on into a 'dirty' room to work my magic there.

The living room, foyer and porch were my rooms of this day.

I wanted a new centerpiece for the living room coffee table and decided on candles in big glass vases.

I used potpourri to line the glass around the candle jar.

I like it!

The living room wasn't hard to clean - mostly a matter of moving the stuff that had piled in there while I was working in other rooms.

I like the warm glow of these rooms. 

The curio cabinet here was emptied of my angel collection. That's all packed and stored away and I replaced it all with teacups, saucers, pots and books on tea.

I don't know why I didn't take more pictures today.

This is as you come in the front door.

I think it is one of life's biggest blessings to have a home you love.

While I do love mine, I know it's not every one's cup of tea.

It's high maintenance and lots of work.

But then again, Louis Dean and I was rather high maintenance ourselves.

My last accomplishment of this day was to clean up the front porch.

We have a lot of fairy lights strung up out there and tonight I took down some of the green garland debris and vow never to put any up again. Maybe around the door but that's all.

I didn't take it all down - yet. But it WILL all come down.

I can't wait to redo the porch ceiling.

Guess what I am going to put up instead of the greenery?

A set of old rusted bed springs.

As in mattress six.

I'm keeping all the grapevines I already have hanging up out there and will be adding more. 

Then the strands of fresh new lights will go up.

The porch itself needs some repair - as in the floor.

I can't do that but I CAN draw attention UP to the lights and 'debris!'

I will close tonight's journal entry with this thought......

Make the most of what you've got.....

and the least of what you've not!

And that's just exactly what I do!!

Works for me!