Change of plans...

I had great plans today.  Drop kids at school, gym, grocery shop, laundry, and get ready for the parents visit.  I come down stairs after my morning shower to find a message from the school district on my answering machine.  No school today due to weather.  For my windows the snow amounts do not appear too bad, but apparently it was bad enough that the school district decided to cancel at the last minute.  I will still manage the laundry today, but I will be recruiting small people to help a bit more in the getting ready for the grandparent visit. Much easier to do since they ill not have any extra homework to do today.  I will have them do their reading time and Ainsley will get her math facts time, but some housework will be required as well.  However, I am not venturing out so we will make due with the food we have as grocery shopping will be postponed until tomorrow.  Thankfully we have plenty of milk and fruit. Plenty with which to make due.

Working on some unfinished projects as well.  I have a large quilt that I am trying to finish.  I started this quilt back before my son was born!  It was just too large and daunting so I keep putting it aside.  I am to the point of  quilting so am just going to do a massive amount of stitch in the ditch and get it done myself.  I promised myself I would finish all my unfinished projects and kits before I buy anything new.  I want to make Ainsley some summer dresses so I have some motivation.  Also, hubby has helped me clear tha kids playroom and set up more of a sewing space for myself.  I have a new table in there for cutting fabrics and other projects.  Both of my children have had many school projects this year so they have had more opportunity to use the space than I have. I am trying to make more of an effort to have more creative time.  I really need it from time to time as it relaxes me.  Ainsley loves art projects and crafting so as she gets older I am hoping this is something we can do together.  Great opportunity to spend time with my girl.  Aidan actually likes to use the space now for homework.  Sometimes when trying to get work done he needs the escape from his sister.

What a way to start the week!  Stay warm and have a great day all.

Another busy week

So it has been another busy week with kids school projects band concerts added to the general running of the home.  I have been feeling good so I have been quite productive.  In talking to my husband in the evenings I find that I almost always rate how good a day I have had based on how much of my to do list I have accomplished.  I need to stop that!  I have more value than how much laundry I get done or whether the floors were vacuumed.  My happiness should not be measured by how much housework I am able to do.  More wrong thinking on my part.  I do this quite often.

 My parents will be visiting for our spring break.  They arrive on Good Friday and I am more than a little excited.  I must confess to them  a health issue I have been having though and I haven't felt like speaking of it.  I feel like a failure even though it is something almost completely out of my control.  More wrong thinking...see the pattern here.  I think I am afraid of being perceived as a failure of some kind.  I don't even feel right talking about this here yet which is unfortunate as it was meant to be a journal of sorts.  Know that I am okay and healthy and will maybe write something soon.  I haven't mentioned it to my mother though because I know that she will freak out and I feel like she worries about my sister so much that I don't need to add to her worry list.  More wrong thinking.

So my prayer today is that we stop the wrong thinking and negative self talk.  I pray that all my readers see themselves the way that the Lord sees them.  We can be our own worst critics can't we.    Have a blessed weekend all.

Dear blog....

How I have missed you!  I spilled water on my lap top and essentially killed it.  Not completely, but mostly anyway.  We had to make some modifications to our computer situation and now I am up and running at full speed again.  Mobile with my ipad and using the computer with our mac mini attached to the living room TV instead of a monitor.  I kind of like the situation as I can monitor closely what the kids are using the computer for.  The laptop still works for now, but needs to remain plugged in as I seem to have fried the battery.  We will let the kids use it for internet purposes, but all vital information, banking. photos and taxes had to be moved to a more secure location because that computer can go at any time.  The kids like using the computer here in the living room so I am not sure how much that laptop will get used.

We had another health scare with the in-laws so if you would please add them to your prayers.  FIL came home from a cruise with a cough.  Every time he gets a cold now, he ends up drowning in fluids. Congestive heart failure and pneumonia kick in and he waits until the last possible minute to seek treatment.  This time he got a nice ambulance ride to the hospital in the middle of the night and a few days hospital stay.  My MIL was scheduled to have her knee replaced later that same week.  My Sister in law was headed away for a long weekend in Vegas.  She lives in another city but within driving distance to them.  Needless to say, B had to head down south a few days to take care of them.  He got there in time for MIL to be released from the hospital.  FIL had already been released at this point but was not functioning at full capacity.  B was there a few days in SIL came back from her trip to relieve him to he could head home.  I guess we have officially become one of the sandwich generation to a degree now, caring for young children at home and having to care for elderly parents.  I still don't think of my parents being elderly as they are still in good health at this point.  My in-laws are not in as good of health.  MIL is struggling with pain management now after surgery and I just pray that she has the strength to actually do the therapy.  I had a discussion with her when she was here last summer that the worst thing she could do for herself was to stop moving.  Before her surgery, she was already headed that direction.

So I leave you for now with a silly photo of Miss Ainsley during lunch at a local sandwich shop from a few weeks ago.  Cold outside but so bright and sunny that she needed my sunglasss indoors.  Silly girly.  So happy it is Friday and an unscheduled weekend.  We have been so busy with activity these last few weekends it will be nice to have the down time to regroup. Happy weekend all!  Have a safe St.  Patrick's day if you partake in such things.