Yes, I am a numbers gal....

So, this was our week:

4 doctors appointments

6 prescriptions for antibiotics

3 cases of pink eye

1 ear infection

an infinite amount of coughing and well... you know....

I guess I was wrong, we were unable to get through winter without antibiotics...

I hope March finds us healthier!!!

Behind.... so now what??

This is my challenge: A reasonable to-do list. Every day I never accomplish all I intend to. In fact, when I make the list, I know half of it will remain un-done. I struggle with wanting to "enjoy the story" of each day. My too long list haunts my mind. Clean the bathrooms? Blog? Call a friend? Play a game with Anna and Dillon? Finish the Christmas letters? Pay the bills? Iron? Lesson plan for Biola? Put away Valentine's Day decorations? Study 2 Corinthians? Pray? What do I do now????

How do I quiet these demands, make good choices with my time, and find the elusive balance between managing my home and life and enjoying my home and my life?

Flexible planning... that what I need to work on. Today didn't "work" because I was caring for sick family all weekend, including myself. The only energy I have today is an act of God's grace, giving me enough to finish the day.

So now what?? Prayer. Pray for peace. What will bring peace to my home, to my soul? Maybe if I just do one load of laundry instead of the five that I know await me, that will be sufficient for today. Instead of scrubbing the kitchen floor, I spot clean it. Quick-wipe the bathrooms, save the deeper cleaning for next week. I have a schedule, now I need to use it. My house was cleaned last week, it will be cleaned next Monday, this Monday with have to be the "short" version. Maybe that is what I need to have in my plan, the "short" version.

And look, I have done something I have longed to do every day this fall/winter season.... share with you all in my poor neglected blog!!

Thanks for listening. I feel better already!!! Who knows? Maybe I will finish those Christmas letters after all!!!!

July 7th 2007

Anna’s party was delightful!!! She wanted to share her love of bugs and games so we hosted the “Bug Olympics”. The bug decorations and bug cake were a little creepy, but we enjoyed our celebrations. Some guests couldn’t come, so the adults became (mostly) willing participants!!

We had a Bee race...

...an Ant crawl..

..and the bug toss!!
We even had a medal ceremony!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

We enjoyed our day!! Did you???

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-7

We love, because He first loved us.

1 John 4:19

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

I am back!!

It feels good to be back. I have been “enjoying the story”; I just haven’t had time to share it with you all!!

I will pick up the story, with some occasional flashbacks. Enjoy!!