A steady pace is what our last few days have been like-and it's been nice. I finally got all the unpacking & laundry done from our camping trip with everything put away.
Hannah went to a birthday party Friday-they played putt-putt golf, had pizza and went swimming.
Saturday I was in a real slump with house-work. I just couldn't get motivated. Pat had to go in to work for a few hours in the afternoon, so I went online for a bit to read a site on home-keeping. That helped. Editing to add the addy-it's actually a blog. Scroll down to the Home-Making title: http://www.pineblossomswebpages.com/wordpress/2006/07/29/recommended-reading-for-the-week-72906/
I desire to see home-keeping as something I do to please the Lord and as a ministry to my family instead of just drudgery to get done as quickly as possible. I'm not there yet.
I decorated a section of wall in the dining room. I used a bunch of stuff that was in a box that had been sitting around for months-all of it given to me, too. Here's the wall:
Sunday, we ended up not going to church and just enjoying being at home together. Pat got us all together to do family Bible reading & prayer and he even did a little teaching with the kids. This is really encouraging to me because I usually get that started, not him.
We all talked quite a bit at the table about finding our true satisfaction in the Lord, not in things or activities. We also discussed some habits that need to be changed around here-for all of us. That was really good-it felt like we all came together as a team to reach a common goal. Now, to work on consistency and perseverence. I might write more about this another time. Lately, any "deep" thoughts I have are so jumbled up I can't express them intelligently.
I did some work in the garden and Pat mowed the lawn with Susanna sitting in his lap. Hannah & Jonah fed all the animals. Our neighbor called and needed help fixing a flat tire on her mower. We all went over on the 4-wheeler so we could see how to take care of a flat tire. Her dh has left her, and we try to be there for her when she needs help.
Pat helped me make butter in the afternoon. We don't have a butter churn or mixer, so we have to shake it by hand and it takes awhile. I used the buttermilk to make pancakes this morning.
In the evening we had a bonfire and made hobo pies with another family we had invited over. They have 3 kids.
Hobo pies are made with cast iron pie makers with long handles. You take 2 pieces of buttered bread with pie filling in the middle or whatever you want to use-could be anything! You close the pie-maker and set it in the fire until it's done. They are very tasty!
I have more to write about getting started with school and some things I want to change, new things to implement, etc. But, I'll have to do that later.
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