Thursday, October 30, 2008

Good lookin' cousins


The cousins where all a part of another cousin's wedding this weekend! This was the first time the boys have ever been this dressed up. Son #1 is now wanting to learn to tie his tie!


Contentment

I'm learning a lot about contentment right now and my boys are very much helping me in the process. It's time for me to be a stay at home mom and not pursue a career. The Apostle Paul says, "I have learned to be content in all circumstances..." I'm trying to have that decree as well.

As I'm learning to the content, a new word has entered our house "boring". For some reason this addition to the vocabulary has bothered me a great amount and is something that I don't really care to hear at all. I believe that you can be bored in any situation if you want to be bored. I realize that there are times when events are not exciting or don't do it for you. But, life is what you make it and you can learn to enjoy about anything if you put your mind to it. Oh, you can enjoy it AND be properly behaved! I don't know that I have equipped my children to verbalize and discuss better those times when they are "bored" but we'll work on that.

It's always good to bring a book too!

Monday, October 20, 2008

The new career has started

I survived my first week of being a full-time stay at home mom! It was a very busy week with lots of different people coming and going and keeping me on my toes with schedules...I don't know when I would have had time to work.

Lots of fun transition stuff on my plate this week - reducing our Internet speed, finding a cell phone for me, finding purple ties for the wedding this weekend and buying black shoes for the boys (for the wedding).

Church was really good yesterday! A couple who spent 7-8 months in Mozambique talked about their missionary experiences and the truly amazing miracles that they saw while they where there. Sixty-five people in our garage heard about it and what they expect to do when they return in a few months for the long hall! After three loads through the dishwasher the house is looking pretty much normal and clean at this point.