so life has been crazy at our house since the end of may!! but today...this very day....life slows down and our real summer begins!! i have worked hard to carve out a basic daily schedule, weekly schedule, and have the plans put together for a chore chart for my precious children!! i'm thankful that God has blessed me with creative, caring friends and shown me what His plans for our summer are!!
we had a great saturday at hubby's brothers house. this is a rare thing, but hubby's brother and i now have the same name. our first names were the same before and now that i'm married we share a last name....it is quite fun!!! they have twin girls who will be 8 next week so we went to celebrate their birthday. they have a boy who just turned 9 last month and then ours will be 7 next month and 5 the following month so for a long time it always seemed overwhelming to get together...but over the course of of the past 15 months they have all become best friends and we never see or hear them!! they played outside in the pool, trampoline, and swingset for about 3 hours!!
i enjoyed being able to just sit around after 5 days of vbs and how exhausting friday night was! we had brought in a dunk tank for friday night. i must have climbed back up on the seat about 50 times that night...the seat had 2 rugs on it and each time it dropped it would get saturated with more water making it heavier and heavier. then i would have to climb up a latter, straddle the tank and then lift myself up onto the seat by my arms!! each time i got a lot more saturated with water too! i was done for!!! but the kids had a great time. on thursday i did a water experiment and explained the gospel to them...we had several kids accept Christ that night!! what an honor to be a part of that!!!
so like i said at the beginning....our real summer begins!! a summer of chores, bike riding, parks, and learning about growing up!!!
we had a great saturday at hubby's brothers house. this is a rare thing, but hubby's brother and i now have the same name. our first names were the same before and now that i'm married we share a last name....it is quite fun!!! they have twin girls who will be 8 next week so we went to celebrate their birthday. they have a boy who just turned 9 last month and then ours will be 7 next month and 5 the following month so for a long time it always seemed overwhelming to get together...but over the course of of the past 15 months they have all become best friends and we never see or hear them!! they played outside in the pool, trampoline, and swingset for about 3 hours!!
i enjoyed being able to just sit around after 5 days of vbs and how exhausting friday night was! we had brought in a dunk tank for friday night. i must have climbed back up on the seat about 50 times that night...the seat had 2 rugs on it and each time it dropped it would get saturated with more water making it heavier and heavier. then i would have to climb up a latter, straddle the tank and then lift myself up onto the seat by my arms!! each time i got a lot more saturated with water too! i was done for!!! but the kids had a great time. on thursday i did a water experiment and explained the gospel to them...we had several kids accept Christ that night!! what an honor to be a part of that!!!
so like i said at the beginning....our real summer begins!! a summer of chores, bike riding, parks, and learning about growing up!!!
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