****Exhaustion Warning****

I was thinking about our day yesterday and recounting everything we did. I hadn't gotten halfway through the list and it was making me tired. Thankfully the Lord gives us the strength for each day and yesterday, when we were in the midst of it, didn't really seem all that tiring.

We started off like normal, but Kiersten was doing well with potty training, so the day kinda went like this:

* Kiersten Potty
* Breakfast
* Dishes
* Get dressed
* Do chores
* Kids made wooden boats
* Kiersten went potty about 3 times by 9! Great job:)
* Get pizza dough ingredients into the machine
* Start homeschool
* Take Kiersten potty
* Give Kiersten crayons
* Take crayons from Kiersten cause she's coloring on the walls(unfortunately something she enjoys quite a bit. Praise the Lord for Magic Eraser!!!
* Snack for kids
* Break up argument
* Help Elyssia with more school
* Potty break
* Make lunch
* Dishes
* Roll out pizza dough
* Shred cheese
* Shred massive zucchini from Shirley
* Take a nap. Sigh, big smile, love this part of the day!
* Get kids up
* Take Kiersten potty
* Assemble pizzas / Bake choc zucchini cake
* Snack time
* Outside play
* Tell the kids for the 10th time that it's not supper and no Daddy for 3 more hrs.
* Potty break
* Scott home!
* Pizzas in!
* New guy arrives(children get loud)
* Pizza quiets them. Contented sighs all around:).
* Dessert= Choc zucchini cake
* Bike ride(2 youngest pulled in wagon behind bike. Super dad is pulling:)
* Mom is inside cleaning up.
* Kids come in filthy
* Haircuts for all the "men".
* Bathtime
* Devotions
* Bedtime=Silence=Priceless and Thankfulness for the blessings of a full life

Remember I did warn you that it would be exhausting. Today was probably just as busy, but included an outing for me to have tea with a friend and then over to another friends house with all the kids to go apple picking.

Good memories mixed with a bit of sadness today. My friend Becky called this afternoon to confirm that her dad does have cancer. We're praying and won't be giving up hope anytime soon. It's just hard to watch those you care for go through this kind of thing. We pray that Bro. Dolan has many more years of making memories with his family. He's a great "Poppy" to all his grandchildren and has been one of the best music directors I've ever known. I have all kinds of good memories of Patch club, the year he was substitute coach for volleyball and all the years of adult choir. Cantatas, hay rides and Christmas Caroling. No matter what lies ahead, I thank the Lord for the blessing that he's been to our family and pray that our children get the opportunity to meet him someday. Elyssia and Garrison are too little to remember the trips to the island, but maybe the Lord will make a way for us to get back there someday soon.
It's getting late, so I'd better sign off for now. May God bless each of you with a peaceful sleep, trusting in the knowledge that He's still in control, even if things aren't going exactly the way you'd like them too. We're told to praise Him and Thank Him in the Good times and the Bad. So, Praising the Lord from whom all blessings flow. Til next time...