Monday Is Finally Here!

    Monday, October 10th....Oh, how I have looked forward to you for several days now! Weird, huh? For those of you who know me well...actually, know me at all - know that I'm a routine and schedule kinda gal. I don't like chaos. I don't like not knowing whats next. I have to be able to plan accordingly for any and everything we do. Well, the big stuff. Every day life stuff. I'm not saying that I have to have a play date to the park on the schedule for a month or we can't do it - or we can't scratch cooking dinner at home and going out on occasion - I am saying that I can't wait 40 weeks to see if it's a boy or girl (no, I'm not expecting - just an example of the things I have to be able to prepare for), I can't feed my kids breakfast, lunch and dinner at a card table in the living room for 8 days while the kitchen floor is covered with cabinet doors, I can't spend days on end with no plans. So, the past few weeks have been crazy. No regular schedule. No specific plans or routine. Just crazy. Don't get me wrong - we had a good time, but, enough is enough and it's time to get back to "our normal". I call it "our normal" because it's probably not really normal at all to anyone else...but, it works for us!

    Through all of the chaos I have been working diligently to "Make My House A Home". For those of you that have been reading you know that I have 1. Worked very hard on not raising my voice 2. Made sure I have given each member of my family at least one compliment each day 3. Faced every sticky situation with a smile (Whoa, can we say t-o-u-g-h? I'm still working very hard on this one) So, today I am beginning a new act. While I'm still working very diligently on the first 3 I'm also going to be working to keep our livingroom, entrance and kitchen presentable for company at all times. I am not saying it is going to be spotless, just not a total mess. The email says "Our children and husbands get embarrassed when they live in a house that they can't bring their friends to." Honestly, I get embarrassed, too. I love when people stop by to see us - we love having company, but, I hate it when a friend calls and says they are going to stop by  and it leaves me scurrying around sticking stuff under cabinets and in our bedroom - that seems to be where everything that doesn't have a home ends up when we are having company! Wouldn't it be so much easier if it was already done? Then I have time to make tea and cookies instead of making it look like we aren't the messiest family on the block! So, now that the kids are back in school and it's just me and the little boys here I felt like this would be a great pick for this week! Hopefully, this will help me get back on track!

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive. -Acts 20:35