Welcome to my weekly post, Daybook Online Journal here at The Littlest Way. This is a post where I gather all the ordinary things that happen or are happening in my day to day. Things like what I’m reading or listening to…eating and cleaning and learning…These are the small moments that make up my blessed daily life; and I want to remember them. I would love to read your Daybook Online Journal, just leave it in the comments section below. You can use my prompts or make up your own to include items important to you; mine change depending on season and circumstance. This post contains affiliate links.
Thanking God for…
::Easter Monday! He is risen! He is risen indeed!
::Spring weather
::our Bible study community growing over on Periscope (replays here)
::Leo sleeping most of the Easter Vigil
::Chris staying awake for Easter Vigil, lol!
::Veronica dying eggs with the kids
Praying for…
::Mother Angelica’s soul
::safe travels for my upcoming trip to a Catholic bloggers conference
::Chris’ job
::our baby cows
::hearts that hurt
Pondering…
I’m in the process of writing a Bible study on the book of Sirach for us. I’m pondering the best way, the right way and the right time.
Listening to…
Of course I’m still listening to my Joey+Rory CD! This CD soothes my soul y’all.
Reading…
My large print Bible
Holiness is for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaria Escriva
Bible Journaling…
As an extension of my Bible Journaling, I’ve been Verse Mapping. Have you heard of it? I explain how I’ve been using it in this Littlest Way Periscope video.
Around the House…
Let’s see. It’s almost 10pm and I’m just now getting back to the computer. I’ve had a cranky toddler who is in a growth spurt and who ate candy yesterday. That’s what happened around the house today–lots of holding and loving and I am not even complaining. I’ve been keeping up on my laundry the past couple of weeks–go me!
In the Kitchen…
I’ve been buying loaves of French Bread on the clearance rack at Walmart. My bakery clearance rack sits by the milk. They are .50 a loaf. I bring them home and stick them in the freezer to add to a quick weeknight meal to stretch it for the family. (I don’t eat it, I’m still following the Trim Healthy Mama way of eating.)
Saving Money…
Y’all, I need to get back to using my competitor ads at Walmart. I’m having to buy meat and it is expensive! And my grocery budget ALWAYS needs trimmed, especially now.
Captured…
I made a MAJOR scheduling mistake! I forgot to write down State Cup for my daughter’s soccer team and we scheduled our family vacation during that time…UGH! Thanks be to God I think everything will end up working out, but WOW! That could have been terrible! So I have vowed not to let scheduling mistakes happen again. I put everything in our Google calendar so we can sync between Chris, myself and our two older daughters. I also bought myself a cute, fun and lovely Happy Planner. I’ve combined my love for Bible journaling with my planner–stickers, washi tape, scrapbook paper…it’s so pretty and functional.
Hi Jenny…
Thinking of you and saying hello…I love your blogs so much…
You’re in my heart and prayer…
Thank you Clare. This means so much to me.
Happy Easter (belated) to you!
I hope you have a wonderful month ahead.
Easter Sunday evening meal ~ Your words copied from a previous post “we all struggle with lapses of character at one time or another, it is what we do after that momentary lapse that determines what we really are” rang true Easter Monday. I struggle with anger management at times and it flared up Easter Sunday late afternoon. Your words coupled with a study on Daniel 9 and his prayer have been focusing on confession in depth today.
Appreciate your timely posts.
I am so sorry I am just now responding to you, please forgive me. I am pleased if anything I’ve said here has given any bit of help or hope…all through God. I’m going to have to read Daniel 9 then. I feel so busy right now, which makes me also feel very impatient.
Thank you for your response Jenny. May this week unfold in a gentle peaceful way as the days’ happenings occur, expected and unexpected. Thank you Lord for Your peace that weaves through each of our days. Amen
I am so sorry I am just now responding to you, please forgive me. I am pleased if anything I’ve said here has given any bit of help or hope…all through God. I’m going to have to read Daniel 9 then. I feel so busy right now, which makes me also feel very impatient.
Carmel’s Daybook Journal for Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Thanking God for…
His dying on the cross and rising again –Alleluia, Christ is Risen!
that I slept last night with no “anxiety-type dreams”
my new friends at The Littlest Way and St. John’s Catholic Church in Alvin, Texas
that my hubbie, Greg, is not in pain at the moment
Praying for…
Mother Angelica
Greg’s healing
my sisters and brothers to come back to the Lord and the Church
Pondering…
So many things
trying to organize
Listening to…
Wonderful silence
Reading…
My journaling bible – which is really The Catholic Prayer Bible: Lectio Divina Edition
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Catholic+lectio+divina+bible
Biblical Archaeology mag
Two library books by Dr. David Jeremiah which are probably overdue
but I haven’t had much time for reading lately
Bible Journaling…
1 Timothy Chapter 6 because I am struggling with finances right now
Around the House…
I need to clean and put away groceries into the pantry this morning
The bug people are coming to spray today – yuk!!
In the Kitchen…
pondering if I should put something in the crock pot while we are gone to the doctor
Saving Money…
need to start using my coupons again; it’s so easy for me to forget them when I go to the grocery store
trying to think of ways to make the pretty things I see on the internet myself
I’ve not seen that Bible before. thank you for the link. I am trying to incorporate more crock pot meals during the week days when we seem to be coming or going.