Fruit Inspection

My week of spring break wasn’t exactly all I had hoped it would be. I had dreams of play dates with friends, outings with the kids, and planting flowers for Easter in our church prayer garden. But my sickness early in the week really threw a wrench into the whole plan and even the weather didn’t cooperate. No flowers were planted yesterday because a storm blew through and now they are predicting temperatures so low it could frost tonight.

We do have one more chance of a play date this week for tomorrow, but before Savannah went down for her nap an hour ago her eye was red and itchy and there was pus in the corner. Looks like a classic case of pink eye, but I guess we’ll have a better idea when she wakes up. (sigh)

So I decided to focus on the positive for the rest of the week. There were 3 really good things that have happened so far:

1. Today I went through the kids’ rooms and separated clothes and toys into 2 stacks: garage sale items and Goodwill items. All the garage sale things I put in a spare closet, with the clothes hung and ready for price tags. The Goodwill items are already bagged and sitting in the back of my truck for drop off tomorrow. I feel SO GOOD about getting that DONE!

2. The sickness I had eliminated the need for the colon cleanse I was considering, so I can mark that as DONE too! :)

3. And finally, due to spending a lot of time in bed/on the couch, I was able to catch up on some reading. I have just a few pages left of Tracy Klehn’s Prayer Starters for Busy Moms. This was a perfect book for me to read in this season of my life. Constant interruptions make it nearly impossible to follow along in a novel (especially for me because reading comprehension is not a strength of mine anyways). Tracy’s book is an idea book of sorts. She breaks the chapters down into topics you can pray about, then offers suggestions of the best way to begin these prayers and continue them all day long.

It’s an easy book to pick up and put down several times a day, reading one or two of her suggestions, possibly applying them at the time, then moving on to change a diaper, fill a sippy cup, or see what all the fighting is about. There is a total of “365 creative ideas” so it would make a nice addition to daily devotional time. Also, it has a hard cover (durability) and is just a tad bigger than “pocket size”. I think for me, it will fit perfectly in the console of my truck. An excellent book to grab while stuck in traffic or waiting for ballet class to end.