• Jun. 9, 2007
A day in our life
Before I go into my original topic, I want to praise the Lord-I've been kind of complaining about church. The church we're going to is much bigger than we're used to. Our past few churches have been populated by 50 people including the itty bitty babies and up to the elderly-ist and when they had visitors each member knew they were to get to know the vistors and be extra friendly. You don't let a whole family go without greeting them warmly, they're your chance to grow by 10%! This church is different, they don't need members and they've been great in every other area, but they're not too friendly. I can't say I have a friend from church-and we've been there for almost a year. Well, now I have a friend from church! Her name is Violet and she's a sweet Southern Belle kinda gal and she's great! Thank you Lord!
Okay, so I thought yesterday was a good day to capture for a typical day for us:
We got up kind of early for us, around 8:30, and cleaned off the table of all those little things no one claims but no one wants thrown away. We spread out all our school books on the now clean table and did school. I sit at the end of the table with the 6 yr old on the right and Ash on my left, this way I can see how Girlie's handwriting is going as she works. I read the Bible (Egermeier's from Sonlight's Core K, which is great) to them both after they've done their math while I get myself ready for the day. Then I volley my attention back and forth, having one read something to themselves or do some independent work while I work with the other one. After a couple hours of this, we call it a day (school day) and clean up the living room and any other rooms necessary for the piano teacher's arrival. Now this piano teacher is an intersting woman! She needs a whole blog entry to herself! Let's just say LB was right when he said she wouldn't even remember if our house were super messy by the time she came back next week!
She arrived late, as usual, and the girls did their lessons. We had decided earlier that once piano was over we'd finish our cleaning and do some sewing. I finally felt ready to sew a sling (I have this tendency to need to be an expert on something before I actually do it), so I thought I'd do that while the girls worked on some little stuffed animal projects they had. Of course, that really meant I was running like crazy between the three of them (BB was doing those little sewing cards until she got bored and ran off to play). I had just put the baby down for a nap before we got started so I was sure we'd have a couple of hours to sew...but no, she woke up in half that time. Finally, after 2 trips across town for emergency sewing supplies from my Mom's, and 2 or 3 hours of helping the girls, I got to sit down to my sling.
Land Baron helped out by bringing us some frozen pizzas so I didn't have to stop and cook, he's so sweet ;) He was busy mowing and doing manly stuff when he should have been sleeping. I was feeling a little guilty for asking him to get pizzas, but was more concerned that my hot iron was going to get pulled off the ironing board and burn one of the girls. My visions of a sweet sewing time with all my little girls gathered around our dining room table enjoying the praise and worship and good conversation while the baby slept and bread baked in the oven were quickly dashed, lol.
LB could sense that I was a little frustrated when he overheard me snap at Girlie while she was holding the screaming baby sister right about four inches from my left ear. He nicely asked me a little while later if I was having a hard time. Gently, he held me accountable while trying to access my emotions. He then took all the girls out from under my feet for some Daddy wrestling time and a little minilecture on being quiet while we ended our day.
I got half way through the sling, after sewing rings on the one my mom had already started. Some of this time was spent sewing in the quiet night after the girls were all in bed-just me, my Singer, the radio and the baby monitor :) The baby monitor won out and I ended up in bed at 11:30.
It just won again...
