Skip to main content

Just Friendly Conversation About Our Evening

Well, it is late and my girls are still up. They are playing quietly on the couch with a new Barbie doll set. I an hoping it isn't the calm before the storm! Sometimes being overly tired can be worse than not tired enough when it comes to going to sleep!

What a good night it has been. The GuitarMan got back safely from his trip. He brought his best friend from college who is also in his band home with him for the week. So our house will be music-filled this week! A little while later we went to Mrs. BJ's house for the cottage prayer meeting and FlowerChild's party. What a sweet fellowship!

The boys brought their guitars and did some singing. Then The FisherMan shared some scriptures and thoughts on it. Then we joined hearts in prayer. Afterwards there was food,
followed by birthday presents. I thought for sure the children would be ready to dive into the tornado birthday cake but instead they wanted to play the game we had selected. Can you guess what they played at the tornado themed party? Twister, of course! They were so cute....they laughed and they laughed. Even Cornbread had to get in on it a time or two!


Finally they were ready for cake. Naturally FlowerChild requested the slice with the tornado on it. The cake turned out so good. I wish I could share a picture here but it has her name on it. But I'll get it up on my other blog so at least some of you will be able to see it. I didn't get as many pictures as I normally would. My batteries died and someone had swiped the ones I had stashed in my camera bag. But I got a few so we'll just hope they turn out well!

Thanks so much to Mrs. BJ for allowing everyone to invade her home! :) Thanks to our church family for making it such a special time for FlowerChild. We appreciate everything you all did. We love you!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Season of Pregnancy (updated)

I know. I have been neglecting this blog. Horribly. That's not the only thing that has been thrown by the wayside lately! It is only for a season though. Pregnancy means you must be patient with yourself and accept that sometimes you must let things slide. That also means that you have to plan in order to conserve your energy. I know if I am going somewhere later today then I don't need to rush around and try to get a lot done in the morning. Priorities must be in order. Although the morning sickness is better it isn't totally gone at this point. Whoever named it that anyway? The main thing I have been dealing with is fatigue. My blog shows it. My laundry shows it. My house shows it. Ack, everywhere shows it! I simply do not have the energy to do the bending up and down required to truly clean up, do laundry, and the vacuuming/sweeping etc. It's quite depressing actually! So I do a little here, do a little there. I manage the necessities such as homeschooling, cooking, ...
14 comments
Read more

Baby Steps

Hope you've had a good day today. We have been having some lovely autumn weather at our house! Yet I still have the urge to get the Christmas decorations out. Normally I am one of those people who likes to get Thanksgiving completed before moving on into the Christmas festivities. But there is just something about this year that has me ready to get all of the holidays going and squeeze out all the wonder. So my house now has icicle lights hung 3/4 of the way across the front. It's a small start but still an official start! I can't wait for the holiday cooking shows on Food network and the Christmas romantic comedy movies to begin. We also did a little rearranging today along with some cleaning out. I am going through the children's things and doing away with broken toys or the things that just don't interest them. I still have a ways to go until I can check "satisfied" or "completed" on my mental list. But still, like the Christmas lights, I can ...
1 comment
Read more

Power Bills

We lucked out last month on our power bill. We received a credit on our bill which helped tremendously. A lot of folks were shocked at how high their bills were, however. I can't blame them! Some of the figures I heard were outrageous! $500-600, one even $1200! One thing that got me was that many of these people work outside the home and their children are in school or daycare so the house stands empty all day. Not only that, but their families are much smaller so things like the washer, dryer, or stove would not be used as frequently. Shouldn't their bill be lower than ours? I think it has everyone trying to come up with ways to save on power. There are some things that are a given. Good insulation and windows go a long way towards helping lower a bill. When we first moved into our home the windows were very old. Some were cracked or even broken. The church eventually replaced them which was a huge blessing! But what were we to do in the meantime? Well, one way is to buy th...
10 comments
Read more