We have set up our focus days for the new semester. (if you are new here the freebie printables are on the right sidebar under Home Management Binder – aka my brain in a book) One addition is the return of a cooking day so we can do some food prep on the weekend and save time during the weekdays. Alannah's project this weekend was making these veggie-rich paleo muffins. They are yum.
That sums up pretty well. This old house has seen a lot of action the past few weeks. They have exhausted the board game stash and someone discovered the game book that has lingered on the shelf for who knows how long. "Mom! When did you get THIS??"
The laundry is caught up but a new basketball hoop coupled with lots of rain has made for lots of muddy clothes. Side note, we put away Gram's Christmas dress one more time. I don't know if Abbie will squeeze one more year out of it or this is it. : (
Do you have grown kids? Do they revert to middle school behavior when they are all together again?? Oh my word. It is so funny seeing these adults I know, who hold down good jobs and lead respectable grown up lives, racing each other to sit shotgun in the car or get the best seat on the couch, or bickering over music/tv/younameit. Picking out the dinner items they don't like. Arm wrestling. Hysterical. And loud.
I wonder if they will be doing this when they are 40?
They are crazy.people. My crazy people.
This soldier son is heading back to work. Time to tidy up his buzz cut. I believe after I shot this he said, "Hey mom, I am planning to shave after this. Did you want a picture of that too?"
Actually, I got a little emotional this night knowing our time was running out. Remembering where he works. Just stuff. Dad jumped in and offered some comic relief….
The boy didn't think that would go over well though.
The littles are glued to Colin. Period. He showed them how to play hangman and then sat through about a billion rounds. You get a pretty good idea of my Jango playlist if you look closely lol….
The living room has become a giant slumber party. We have one more week with Colin, more road trips, and then we really do have to get back to real life, whatever that is. 2014 promises to be a big year and my daily lists are already daunting as we work to make it happen. But right now, there is a big game on and a bunch of awesome people with my last name piled onto couches and pillows and I am not about to move them.
I am not one for bandwagons. Not one to consciously make resolutions peculiar to a day or a year. While listening to carols this Christmas, however, this line echoed in my heart as a specific possibility for the new year.
What I know in my heart? That the one thing is necessary to the other. However you position the words.
In my notes for the first day of a brand new year, a prayer:
I have some well defined goals this year. Top of that list is this – the joy that only comes by making it all a complete gift. The best I can strive for in the end is making it all an Amen. However it shakes out this year.
Starry Sky Journal 