The rain has stopped.

The day is brightening up. It's been dreary all morning, and I watched some of Jane Eyre, which is also dreary. Now, it's time to clean our little house, iron, run errands, and think about what to make for supper.

Just spoke to the in-laws. They're taking us to dinner. No cooking for us tonight!

I'm learning to enjoy homemaking. I'm not very good at a lot of things-ironing, working the extensions on the vacuum... However, I enjoy being home and making this place a haven for my hubby. When he comes home from work, he can relax and enjoy his evening without thinking about the house.

"Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled."

(Titus 2:3-5 ESV)