The Puddles

This picture pretty much epitomizes our Sunday.  Laid back. Ready to relax. We haven’t had a Sunday to ourselves in awhile.  So after attending a great day at church, we headed home.  On the way home, we realized that we really needed to stop at the grocery store.  So we all headed to Kroger to grab groceries.  Dragging my beloved children to the store when they had no desire to be there was like pulling teeth.  Ben just begged to go home.  We finally made it home, ate lunch, and then snuggled up on the couch to relax for a little bit.  Well . . . one episode of “Green Acres” and one episode of” Flipper” later and we realized that we probably relaxed enough.  There was house begging to be cleaned.

Our cleaning schedule was fabulously interrupted by a FaceTime chat with Dad (no sarcasm intended).  It was awesome!  It was perfect.  All of the kids got to talk with Dad (even the pets).   By the time, we finally got around to cleaning Ben had started to feel ill.  Not a virus kind of ill, but a my-blood-pressure-is-too-low kind of illness.  Turns out his 118/46 was enough to send him to my room to relax.  I am hoping that the low of 46 was causing his dizziness and nausea.  I pray we are not getting sick in this house!  Madie even started to feel bad last night.  No one has a fever, so I hope that all of these symptoms are due to exhaustion.

Madie worked hard yesterday afternoon to send the Minecraft world that she has created (with the help of friends) of our church Tree of Life to a person in the church who is going to upload it to a server so that other people can share in the game as well.  It was fun watching her.  She knows that I am pretty useless when it comes to computers, so she worked hard to figure it out herself.  She watched several Youtube videos and read online on the best way to do it.  Then she had to upgrade iTunes and download some new apps in order to make it all work.  It was like a female version of Chris sitting at the computer.  It was a proud moment!

We ended the day with an earlier bedtime.  Ainsley invited me to a bedtime tea party while we read our devotion books together.  Last night our devotion was about earthly treasures.  She said, “God is saying that I should love him more than I love gymnastics.”  That’s right, Ainsley!

Everyone was tucked into bed early and I can only pray that  our Monday will be great!