Fruit Inspection

If you came here 2 days ago, looking for a new Sunday Stirrings post, I just want to apologize. The missing post wasn’t due to lack of planning. As a matter of fact, it’s still swimming around in my head. But I’ve gotten in the habit of writing my Sunday Stirrings after I tuck the kids in bed. This particular week, as I said my final “good nights”, a storm blew in with some nasty lightning.

When we moved into this house 5 years ago I learned rather quickly to take the lightning seriously. The service men who have visited us after several such storms (computer guy, phone guy, maytag guy, just to name a few…) have all told me the same thing. Given that we are sitting on a huge mound of granite, with a nice big lake in the backyard, we attract lightning like nobody’s business! And I believe it’s true. I’ve never had encounters with lightning like I have since moving here.

So all that to say…when the storm came up Sunday night, I unplugged. And I’m not talking about kickin’ back with my feet up while sipping a cold beverage. It was more like frantically running to the nearest outlet and pulling out the plugs as quickly as possible!

I thought about writing the post yesterday, but I get lost in busyness during the “work week” and can’t hang on to a thought for more than a few minutes! I have to intentionally keep my weekends free so I can rest and think. God knew what He was doing when he ordered us to remember the Sabbath! Posts with a purpose have to wait until the weekends. Monday thru Friday posts are reserved for pictures, silly stories, and random thoughts. It’s just all I have time for anymore.

Is it just me? Take for example last week. We have school everyday from about 9ish to around 2ish. Then there were dental appointments, hair appointments, church, a karate class (which is new to us…I’m not sure yet how many organs I can sell to pay for it), and a trip to the museum. We do try to relax at night as a family and spend time watching a movie or playing games. Then there are showers, books, and bedtime.

Lately I’ve been trying to do all I can to help our house to sell. Our trim was starting to look really bad where it had been climbed on, scuffed, bumped by the vacuum, or banged into by an anonymous scooter driver. So in the past 3 weeks in my “spare time” I’ve touched up the paint in the house and garage, and repainted all the exterior doors. I also cleaned out the “junk room” (some people have a drawer…we had a ROOM!) and I think I unpacked 2 boxes that were still packed from when we moved in.

I’m thinking our house should sell any minute now. :)

This week is not as crazy, thank goodness! Which explains how I had time to write this today. Of course, I’m supposed to be paying bills, so….

I dunno. Life is nuts! Somebody hand me an Almond Joy!

Oh, and to make this post completely random and nonsensical (if that is indeed a word), look at the cutest thing I found in the newly cleaned junk room:

Seems that my little Miss got up after I tucked her in bed last night and went into the room next to hers and was drawing and writing with my scrapbook supplies. (Eek!) But how could I say anything but “Awwww…” after a sweet note like that?