Thursday

Progress has been made on the church kitchen!!!! I am going back to do more work in  a while. The end is in sight. On the down side our boiler will not work properly, so hubby is working on that. It is always something.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Home all day

We will be home all day!!! Yeah!!!!! We have been out of the house more lately than in the house. We will be home all day except for church tonight.  So, my entry will be short today. May the Lord find us faithful.

Rainy Tuesday

We have had lots of rain and when it is not raining it is overcast. I am tired and I need to get lots done, so I am going to go have some quiet time  and get busy!

May the Lord find us faithful.

Sunday traditions

I have never written of our Sundays. To begin, my wonderful husband gets up first, showers and then gets me up:-) Then, he heads off to the kitchen and makes breakfast, french toast and sausage. He has been doing this for about 5 years now. I do not remember exactly when this started but it is our every Sunday breakfast. At that time we had a three year old, 1 year old and a new born. So, I guess that is why. The reason I share this today is that when he is out of town we have our own alternate tradition; we have cereal for breakfast and then french toast for lunch. This allows me to get up at my normal time and still get everyone to Church on time!! May the Lord find us faithful.

Still learning after all these years

I am still learning......Oil-based paint has given me fits the past two days. We cleaned the wall with pine-sol before we painted and now the paint will not stay on the wall. So..... we will wait and see then if it does not stay we will have to move on to plan B. I am ready to start school and stay home after this work at the church. But, we will get it finished soon, I think!

May the Lord find us faithful.

Not enough to do at my house

I have been painting the kitchen at our church. (Like I do not have enough to do at home!!!) But, I am working this week and next there and then I am going to focus on home. (We are not starting school until after Labor Day). So, I have been there all afternoon and evening! The blessings had a good day and were obedient for the most part. So, I am off to get the blessings in bed and off to a long soak in the tub, we had to use oil based paint and I am a mess!!  Blessing number 3 is doing much better as the bites are healing!!!

May the Lord find us faithful.

Piano causes major moving around

That piano has caused major moving around. I hope I have not been premature in my moving. I should have waited to see what the piano tuner/repair man says about the best placement, oh well, I will just move it all back if I have too. I needed to go through all this stuff any way to get ready for school. Today will be short as I have much work to do tonight. But, blessing no. 3 has bug bites all over her waist and head and is very miserable. This has been an interesting day.

May the Lord find us faithful.

We found a piano!!!!

I have wanted the girls to begin piano lessons but we did not have a piano(small problem there). I have always said that when it was time for the girls to begin lessons that the Lord would send us the piano. Well, I started looking at the paper last Sunday. I did not call on any because we were having a very busy week. I did however pray that we would find a good piano at a good price. Well, a lady at church had a piano that she wanted to sell.  (Only two people knew that we were looking and one just happened to be talking to this lady. )We went to look at it today and my husband is going to go get it tomorrow!!! I am so excited, I did not expect to find one this soon, but then I prayed for it a long time ago and now was the time!

May the Lord find us faithful.

Swimming

   My husband wants the blessings to swim regularly to add to the skills they learned in swimming lessons. So, I took them swimming yesterday. We had a friend of mine and her son join us. I had the kids practice their swimming and we played alot. I was able to swim since my friend was there to keep an eye on the blessings. I had not been swimming in a long while in a large swimming pool.

The blessings and I also made raspberry jelly yesterday morning before we went swimming. We made 12 four ounce jars of jelly. We shared with the neighborhood kids who helped us pick the raspberries. (It took me a while to find all of my jelly making supplies as it has been seven years since I have made jelly!!!)
May the Lord find us faithful.

Loyalty

We started Character Sketches a couple of weeks ago, we are not using it every day, just when we can. The first character lessons are on loyalty. One definition of loyalty is changing my schedule to meet the needs of others. I had to do that today.

I spent the last three days working in the kitchen at church to feed visitors for a conference. I had planned not to leave my house today, nor to do much at all but enjoy a day at home. Well, my husband had a change in his plans which meant a change in my plans. I had to go grocery shopping!!! Well, I did it with out complaining and I was okay. I did almost complain right before he left for his trip but I refrained and what a blessing it was for me not to complain for once. I am not saying this because my life is idealistic, my life is real and for one day I chose to be loyal to my husband. It was our only day home together this week. So, he is gone fishing and I am taking tomorrow off to have fun with my blessings. I think we might go swimming!!!

May the Lord find us faithful.