perfect Tuesday

Outside my window...  

It is a perfect day.  It began with a marine layer of fog that rolled up off the water and burned off before noon.  Now the sun in shining, sprinklers are going, and for some strange reason the neighbors are having a fire in their fireplace.  In my backyard, the boys have filled two large plastic totes with water and are sitting in them: ingenuity.

I am thinking...  

about royalty and their new baby.  There is just something so romantic about a beautiful Duchess and her handsome Duke husband and their perfectly healthy little Prince.  It is hard not to swoon just a little about it all.

In the kitchen...  

An Angel Food Cake is baking at this moment.  It will be served with baked cinnamon pineapple slices and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.  When the cake is out of the oven, in goes Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread.  For dinner I will be making Chicken Fried Steak and Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, and Peas n' Carrots.

I am wearing...  

Jeans, gray ruffly tank, short sleeved purple sweater, dark blue flats

I am creating...  

My current project is a small desk.  I have sanded it and painted it.  Now I've decided that I need to redo the top of the desk, so I'll be working on getting layers and layers of paint off that top and getting a better canvas to start again.  But the drawers and spindly legs look great and I'm really pleased with the color.

I am looking forward to...

A few days off in August.  Maybe some camping.  Salmon fishing.  Celebrating our 16th anniversary.

From the schoolroom...

Algebra.  Venerable Bede.  The book of Matthew.  Newton's Laws.  Adverbs.  Oh my.

Around the house...  

I've been a tornado of cleaning today.  Not a room hasn't been touched.  I set out to sweep the living room and next thing I knew, I had moved furniture all around!

One of my favorite things...

Aaron McBride.  I adore him.