grateful

today

I'm grateful.

I went to the Women's Retreat at WBC this past weekend. Had a wonderful time with my friends. Even more than that, I got whipped back into shape, spiritually. Oh, how I needed that. It's so easy to get into the rut of being selfish. (for me at least).

I've been reminded that I'm right where I should be. At home with Jonas. A wife and a mother. I'm incredibly privileged to be those. There can be joy in doing even the most monotonous tasks if I do them for the Lord, right? So today I washed the floor..and I enjoyed it. That's saying a lot. Then I sat on the floor with Jonas and built lego airplanes. And I was not thinking about the other things I could be doing.

I've been reminded that my life is enough. More than enough. It is amazing.

Thanks for listening to me ramble. :)

 Have a great day!

in the past few days we have

learned something new....

had friends over...

(which meant mommy got to talk camera talk and Jonas had a little partner in crime!)

moved our shed.... (there are 3 sheds on this yard but none of them were close to the house.)

...and just today, discovered the joy of stickers. (a nice quiet activity after a bit of a rough morning!)

Hope to spend lots of time out on the yard this weekend. Hope your weekend is good!

Computers

make our life so much easier, right?? ;) Hmmm, not so sure these days. Since getting our Xplornet hooked up a couple of weeks ago I have been spending more time on the phone with their "technical experts" than I would like. Sometimes I can get away with just shutting down the computer, plugging out the internet cord thingee, plugging it back in and restarting the computer...and then I'm connected to the world wide web again. Ok, point of this all...to top it off, our (fairly new) computer died on us a couple of days ago.The power went off here one night and the next day when I tried starting the computer....nothing. We brought it in and are waiting to see what the verdict is. In the meantime we're using our old one which I'm glad we kept...except there's no programs in it and none of my photos. :(

Ah well, such is life I guess. Hope to be back with photos soon. :)

Well, here I am. I've been considering the switch over to typepad, so this is a bit of a trial. It kind of seems a silly thing to do since I'm not a famous scrapbooker or anything (LOL) and I'm not running a business, but I like some of the options so we'll see. I'm not totally getting along with it yet..not sure if that has to do with our slower internet service here or my lack of computer skills. :) I called to upgrade our Xplornet to a higher speed this afternoon so hopefully that helps. Anyways, there's not much here yet but hopefully in the next few days.

I've been taking more photos lately...took very few during those weeks while we were moving.

This was Jonas on the floor yesterday. Playing with John's little remote control Bug and telling me about the rocking horse and fishie he played with at Alvin and Leah's earlier in the week. He remembers things like that for days.

He's quite a talker now too. We went to see a friend's new baby yesterday and as we were leaving he looks into their unfinished basement and says "nessy house!" Oops.. LOL.