O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Desire of all nations, and their Saviour:
Come and save us, O Lord our God.
Friday 5 September 2008 - This Week in the Olive Grove
Monday it was just the two youngest cubs and Frap and I. We pretty much hung around the house and enjoyed having nothing that had to be done, nowhere that had to be gone(?), and the relative calm and quiet of having more the other half of the family gone.
Late Monday night the missionaries arrived safely home, and Tuesday was rather crazy. Hubby took the day off of work; normally this means no lessons, but it was also the first meeting of our unofficial co-op for the younger three and I in the morning. Then Lulapalooza had gymnastics in the afternoon, and after that I had to observe a Classical Conversations class that I will be substitute tutor for next week.
Wednesday was a little less hectic; hubby was back to work, and we were home in the morning. The afternoon was taken up with dance class for Toodles followed by Sgt. Elf's.
Yesterday morning there was a run to the DMV with UncleB; I took Sgt. Elf with me and after dropping him off we headed to a coffe shop down the street for our special TeaTime.
Today we have a little girlfriend who is Toodles' age here with us, because her Mama is on a retreat. Of course, this meant there had to be an impromptu tea party lunch of peanut butter & apple butter sandwiches cut with a biscuit cutter, apple slices, strawberries, sweet potato scones, and chocolate milk.
Along with this Tibby moved out last week ~ into the home of a 40-something-no-kids-grad-school-wife-scientist-husband couple from our church, not an apartment with a 19-year-old-only-known-each-other-for-a-couple-of-months friend from work ~ PTL! Upon returning from Mexico, O Special One spent Tuesday and Wednesday moving out of the room she has been sharing with Sgt. Elf and Toodles and into Tibby's old room. Now, Sgt. Elf is hard at work cleaning and re-organizing their room.
We are actually getting most of our daily work accomplished on a daily basis, and finally managing to find some time for the wonderful things that always seem to be neglected. I am still trying to figure out how to be home more, and waste less time every day. We have revamped the housework routine, which wasn't being followed anyway. The kids plotted it out with me, so I am hopeful that the whole ownership concept will prove true, and I won't have to play the Big, Bed, Mama so often.
