“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (p.205)
INTENTIONS FOR THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY
- do our taxes
- machine wash the bed pillows
- declutter and organize the laundry room
- finally bring clothes to the dry cleaners
- drop off boxes of donations
- create a better hand-me-down clothing system
- watch and practice two lessons in my self-defense course
- restring my necklace
- make homemade playdough (100LT #58)
- make homemade cocoa mix with J
- buy a spice organizer (100LT #1)
- celebrate “We survived our first year with a dog!” aka Lucy’s birthday by doing something fun
- post at least three things on Trash Nothing
- register M for his BJJ competition
- brainstorm plans for Lent 2020
- pray a novena
PREVIOUS INTENTIONS
- try to remember to say the Angelus twice a day (I only remembered about a dozen times, but it’s a start)
find a muffin recipe that uses applesauce(we made Tabitha’s recommendation four times!)get paperwork ready for taxes- clean the Dutch oven (100LT #5)
order Mark’s birthday presentstart browsing Valentine’s Day cards on etsy for family and friendsread one book on my Kindle(I read In the Dark, a free book I got from Amazon Prime)list 5 items on Poshmark/ebay- cross-post 5 items (1/5)
clean and organize the garage- clean out the car interior
join in on the “One Box Declutter Challenge” with Sweet & Simple Home- make homemade playdough (I just picked up the cream of tarter, so adding this back on the list for Feb)
- look into what it would cost to build a Little Free Library (the very beginnings of 100LT #76)
For the novena, if you have trouble remembering them the praymorenovenas website sends them to your e-mail every day. Also, I can't believe Lucy's been with you a whole year! Today is my dog's actual birthday (16 years old!)
Wow, 16! I can't imagine the amount of wonderful memories you've had together.