One day last fall I kept the iphone with me as we moved from one thing to another. I had great plans for Instagram after seeing Rebecca's work but mine was less than inspiring and my connection is so poor it took forEVER to move images. Still, it made for a virtual time capsule of our life right then. Life hit and I never did publish it but when we transferred alllllllll our images to an external drive this weekend they surfaced again.
It was a very full day, with Allen and Alannah in the States. I hit the ground running and kept it up til bedtime. We had a few weeks like this before I was flattened by the hospitalization (totally unrelated) and let me tell you, I wished for nothing more than to be back at it again.
The day started, like many days, with Abbie climbing into the bed at the crack of dawn. Perennial light sleeper, that one. Note to self, clear the side table….
I think we had chocolate chip pancakes, though we had never had them before nor since. They were amazed lol. We try to do something fun and out of the ordinary when Dad is traveling.
'course there are still dishes, pretty ordinary, but more fun when your mom peeks out of the dishwasher maybe <g>
treadmill time
The neighbor girls came over and if I remember right that was the day we emptied the utensil drawer and canned food shelves and they stocked the play kitchen for an hour.
Lunch and prep for extra-curric's
piano
Mailbox run
Library
Football practice – yes, next to the baseball diamond. But none of ours have ever played baseball. True story. Ok, one season of T-ball for one of the older boys in like 1992 which didn't end well when he ran the wrong way around the diamond. ; )
and yes, we had a wardrobe change at some pt. I think it had to do with the Minnie Mouse sippy cup and falling asleep in the car. The dress didn't make it through the day but it looks like Minnie did…
Movies aka "reward for being really good when Dad is gone"
Back home, with the Audio Bible. Got the New Testament 'read' last year.
walk the dogs
dinner
"Bed-night" stories.
There you have it. A very ordinary day in the life.
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Oh, this is the best kind of day of all! Ordinary is so good. As long as we can have ordinary days we live in blessed times! 🙂 I love the pictures, Kim. The yummy-looking food, the sweet kids and how they play and work, friends, the landscape and clouds (wow!), you and a mug that looks very much like mine (fun!). . . Thanks for a soothing look at an ordinary day. You are blessed. ❤
I said the same to my husband today. This is the perspective of the nearing half century mark I think. Ordinary is avoided like the plague when you are 20. By 40s you have seen enough tragedy and trial, personally and among others, that ordinary is seen as the gift that it is. Rare, when you come down to it. Any day we aren’t visited by illness, war, crime, heartbreak is worth doing backflips over! It is a blessing to be able to work in your own home, however humble, with those you love.
Wait wait wait: you all say “bed-night” stories too? Seriously? Is this a growing up in WI thing?? I thought my kids and I were the only ones who said that! LOL (bed-night snacks, too)
Fun to see day in the life posts 🙂
A very full day! I love the pictures – those precious little faces.
Love all the pictures and hooray for ordinary. Sometimes I look at all of us sitting at the dinner table and just having everyone alive and well and there is some kind of super awesome incredible wonderful. And isn’t that a crucifix on the side table in the first pic? Don’t want to ‘clear’ that, and it makes for quite a moving composition of the shot.
Yes it is Kimberlee. It is actually from Fatima. It was a gift to us when we moved many years ago. It needed a little repair and has been on the table since Christmas prep began, I confess. My goal is to clear some piles and get wonderful things like that back on the wall. : )
I love that your family calls them ‘bed-night’ stories. We call it bed-night here too. 🙂