Rainy Days and Mondays

I love both rainy days and Mondays!  Mondays  bring a clean page to begin writing your week upon. It is a good day to get organized for the week ahead. This morning as I sat at the coffee shop studying the book of Isaiah and listening to the pouring rain and crashing thunder, I was happily spinning projects for a rainy day in the back of my mind.  Paint the hallway perhaps? Finish the good book I had started?? When I was a girl at home, we played outdoors most days in the summer, so a rainy day brought the possibility of indoor fun.  For me that was usually baking cookies and reading a book. My younger brother and I liked to play 500 Rummy while we munched warm cookies! I don't think it gets much better than that!! Oh, the carefree days of one's youth!

When I finally got home after driving through higher water than I have ever driven through, about 4 inches of rain had fallen!  I spent the day pushing water down the sump pump in the basement, skimming and back washing a very full pool and finally taking a nice nap!  Oh well, I still love rainy days, which is good because it looks like more of the same tomorrow! Maybe tomorrow I will read my book or paint the hallway...

We had a wonderful vacation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Beautiful weather and long relaxing days together.  I love to walk on the beach early in the morning and late in the evening. There is nothing quite like it.  My new picture is of me and all ten children.  Aren't they a good-looking group? The beautiful Pamlico   Sound is in the background.   I will share more vacation pictures next time, as Luke took many beautiful pictures.

Thanks for reading!!

Diana