A Peek At Our Life

August 30, 2008

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The twins have arrived! Two new beautiful girls now make the tally six girls and three boys... everyone is thrilled!

The Buzz Around Me

Babies are sleeping on my lap, and the rest of the family is working on gutting the bus.

Kitchen Happenings

We're enjoying having all those freezer meals we stocked up on. A frozen casserole and some salad from the garden, and dinner is done. Whew.

In Our Schoolroom

The children are enjoying exploring a new Hebrew computer curriculum. I think the four-year-old knows more than anyone so far.

The Garden View

Brayden Waller planted some beets and collards and greens for me when they were here a couple of weeks ago... they will make a nice fall garden.

In The Sewing Room

I got that new bedspread and bedskirt made to welcome the babies. Now I have to alter some wool diaper covers before the case of disposables I bought runs out.

Home-keeping Agenda

Things are running pretty smoothly, but we're not doing any extra anytime soon.

Simple Joys

That smell of newborn babies. I just can't stop kissing them and breathing in that wonderful scent... none of us can.

Preparing for Twins

I add this link below only because local folks have asked. These are the things that we will be trying to buy before the babies arrive. So, while matching outfits are fun, these things are the priorities for us. (P.S. Anyone who knows me in real life knows that used items are perfectly OK... well...just not the diaper liners. *grin*) I will remove stuff that we have already gotten.

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My 2008 Goals

Well...my hopes anyway


~Deliver two healthy new babies safely and not too early.

~Switch to cloth everything...napkins, wipes, diapers, etc.
**Napkins, diapers & wipes done!

~Switch to non-electric kitchen appliances...grain mill, blender, food processor, etc.
**Got the grain mill with the money I made from selling junk stuff on eBay!**

~Learn how to make cold-process soap
**I did it! I really did it! I made Rosemary shampoo bars, Lemon-Calendula soap bars and Spearmint-Peppermint-Tea Tree soap bars. It smells so good in my closet where they are curing!**

~Keep a hand-written journal

~Begin putting our family photos into scrapbooks

~Maintain a "no backlog" policy with my sewing projects

~Purposefully put together an emergency plan and kit for our family with batteries, radio, canned food, clothes, etc. and have it packed and ready to *go*

~Begin building traditions, recipe files, scrapbooks, etc. for our family's celebrations of the Biblical feasts: Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles

~Read some fiction for a change!

Thinking Outside Of The Mop

When my girlfriend called to force me into submission blackmail me offer her family’s services in our preparations for some friends visiting, I caved willingly accepted their help. I know her family, and have seen them in action before… they work really hard. So when she and her four teen daughters showed up this morning to help us get not only caught up, but ahead of the game, I was quite relieved.

Because I admire how skillfully and happily her children work, I am also all ears when she dispenses any advice on this subject. I want to learn all I can from folks who have good fruit in the areas in which our family is hoping to produce the same. She apparently has a much better grasp than myself on the concept of making a job fun, for I can tell you I never considered her method for getting help with mopping floors before.

Perhaps I should have been concerned when the first thing she told the kids to do was to go put on some play socks. Or even when my friend told me, “Just don’t look, Julie,” as one of her girls had all my children laughing hysterically in the mudroom. But after they left, the children asked me if they could, “Do what we did to the mudroom floor… to the kitchen floor?” Not 100% sure what I was getting myself into, but being really impressed with the look of the mudroom, I consented.

I now have a long list of children who have volunteered to clean the kitchen floor for me… any time I want.

Posted: January 16th, 2008 under Training Them Up, Weirdness At Our House, Seeing The Good, Making It A Home, Loving My Children, Hospitality & Refreshing the Saints.
Comments: 5

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Comment from Christine
Time: January 17, 2008, 4:56 am

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. May have to try this myself….

Comment from Grafted Branch@Restoring the Years
Time: January 17, 2008, 4:58 pm

That’s so perfectly insane, it just might work!

Comment from Melanie
Time: January 17, 2008, 7:53 pm

This is a hoot. My boys and baby girl would not object to this kind of cleaning.

I am praying for you. I am not sure how you do what you do.
When I am pregnant I am literally no good to any one until about the 4th or 5th month.
I vomit nonstop.
I am hoping I can get my body to heal before we have another one.

Blessings,
Melanie

Comment from Amy
Time: January 17, 2008, 9:53 pm

SOOO cute! Great pics of the children! I’ll have to keep that idea tucked away in my brain for these cold winter days stuck inside the house :)…thanks for sharing…pray you are feeling well today :)

Comment from Holly
Time: January 25, 2008, 9:29 am

Uh huh….that’s how we do it too at times. I usually use this method when they’ve already been working hard and need a little “enjoyable” employment. Gets the job done, but they have fun.

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