Share Four Somethings - March 2019

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Something Loved, Something Said, Something Learned, and Something Read has been left until the last minute for March. Very much like so many other things that I do! One day perhaps my "Something Learned" will be a life hack that will help me plan ahead better!

Something Loved

Among the many things I loved this month:

hockey games and other fun times with family and friends

teaching at our homeschool co-op, especially when we can use movies to help us understand writing concepts

and finishing (or nearly, anyway) a redecorating project in our dining room.

Something Said

I'll let you make your own decisions. Unless I don't like them, then I'll tell you what to do. ~our choir director

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven

Something Learned

My daughter often finds interesting YouTube videos she shares with me. I thought this one was so neat. I do prefer the sound of some keys over others, and even for certain songs, but why would that be so if the relationships between the notes are the same? This video explores the idea that keys have different characteristics. Is D minor the saddest of all keys? I learned some details about music history and key vocabulary. 

Something Read

I completed two books in March, and I'm currently working on four others. You can see more about my reading in my Monthly Bookshelf Review for March 2019.

The White City: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime by Grace Hitchcock
Downsizing The Family Home: What to Save, What to Let Go by Marni Jameson

  

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Scripture and a Snapshot - An Example

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

~John 13:14-17~

I don't like feet. Chubby little baby feet are adorable, of course, and I know I kissed the toes of my newborns. But once we start walking, our feet become rather yucky. I don't want to touch anybody else's feet, and I don't want anybody touching my feet. So I'll be very honest - the few times the church has done an actual foot washing service, like where congregants physically wash each other's feet - I wasn't there. Nope. 

But this instruction from Jesus isn't specifically about the action of taking a washcloth to another person's feet. Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, did the work of a lowly servant. He willingly did a disgusting and degrading job in order to show love to his followers. And then reminded us that since we are certainly not greater than he is, we had better follow his example and serve others. Never thinking of ourselves as "too good" to do certain jobs, or expecting to always be served as if we are so great. Have a humble servant heart that serves others and is okay with the least glamorous position in the group. 

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Wordless Wednesday - Home Improvements

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About a month ago, we decided it was time to update our kitchen and dining room. Mostly a paint job, but it was a big paint job. We stripped all the wallpaper and then painted, and we're doing a little redecorating and reorganizing. It's finally almost done. Still needs new molding and new pulls on all the cupboards and drawers, and we will be replacing the hood vent. There are other things on the wishlist, but that's for down the road.

just before the pictures went up on the walls.
This is a pretty accurate photo of the color, while
the other photos show it a bit lighter.

Another project that was started months ago was replacing the porch floor. The old flooring had been torn up and the new Trex decking purchased and sitting here waiting. This past Saturday our son finally had the time, no other plans, and decent weather, so he got started putting that new floor down. I'm hoping that this will get finished quickly now that he's got a start on it!

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Monthly Bookshelf Review - March 2019

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March's Books Completed and Reviewed

The White City: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime by Grace Hitchcock - Winnifred Wylde goes undercover to investigate a man suspected of kidnapping. She and her bodyguard and partner, detective Jude Thorpe, are fictional characters, but the crime itself is based on a true story from the time of the Chicago World's Fair. (Read my full review HERE)

Winnifred paused at the corner of South Wallace Street and 63rd and drew a ragged breath as she smoothed down the front of her flawless navy skirt, trying to summon her nerve and ignore her misgivings. Jude's swollen face and bruises had awakened her from her fanciful musings of the romance of detective work.

Downsizing The Family Home: What to Save, What to Let Go by Marni Jameson - (Read my full review HERE.)

A key message of this book is that editing and paring a lifetime of memories is not something to put off until you approach or cross life's finish line. Rather, make sorting and selling and clearing out what you no longer need or use or love a way of living. It will make your life better now and lighten the burden on you and eventually on your loved ones.

 

During March I continued reading:

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery - I wish I'd finished this near the beginning of the month, because it's a very entertaining read. When she turns 29, Valancy Stirling decides she's had enough of following the dictates of her family, so she starts saying and doing exactly what she wants.

'I can imagine it,' said Valancy, with a shrug of her shoulders. She was suddenly free of fear again. 'I haven't listened to the gossip of Deerwood tea parties and sewing circles twenty years for nothing. But, Dr Stalling, it doesn't matter in the least to me what they say - not in the least.'

During March I started reading:

The Golden Bride (Daughters of the Mayflower) by Kimberley Woodhouse - After her parents pass away, Olivia goes to San Francisco to stay with her brother during the gold rush.

Olivia had known that her brother wouldn't be in such a place without a good reason. It made a lot more sense now. San Francisco was his mission filed. And it looked like at least one other good man lived here - even though he might stink to high heaven and be covered in dirt.

Transcripts Made Easy by Janice Campbell - a practical help for homeschool record-keeping during the high school years. I'll be reviewing this on my Homeschool Coffee Break blog in a couple weeks.

A Dangerous Collaboration (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn - The latest in the Veronica Speedwell series! Just barely started on this adventure in which Veronica and Stoker must find out what happened to a woman who disappeared three years earlier.

 Our investigative pursuits, invariably dangerous and thoroughly  enjoyable, had drawn us together, forcing a trust neither of us entirely welcomed. We were solitary creatures, Stoker and I, but we had discovered a mutual understanding beyond anything we had shared with others.

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis - another book club pick that I will need to read in a hurry. Fortunately I've read this one several times before!

He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Coming Up in April!

Shadow among Sheaves by Naomi Stephens
Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer by Priscilla Shirer
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton (ARC)
Secrets in the Mist (A Gothic Myths Novel) by Anna Lee Huber




   

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Feed Your Fiction Addiction - March 2019 Wrap-Up Round-Up & Giveaway
Book Date - It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

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