Lately, I wake up every day and try to pray and plan. In my planning I try to "schedule" my day...not down to the minute scheduling, but just a general schedule so I can see how much time I have to do things. Today I was doing that and realized that this week has not at all been normal and I have had appointments or odd things every day. We had two hair appointments earlier in the week (one for all the girls and yesterday I went by myself) and today I have a doctor's appointment...just a check up. Also, today my girls had a delayed start for school because of testing that they did not have to do so they didn't go in until 10:30am. Besides my DH wanting me to come and look at things, call about things or choose things for the new house it seems other "spontaneous" things come up every day. It is driving me CRAZY! I just want a normal day where nothing surprising comes up and I can get done what I have planned. Or maybe, God wants to teach me something....flexibility...spontanaeity? I have already become very flexible in my life because of my dh's job (captain in the fire department), children and especially this house building, but what else do I need to be flexible about? I just want some sense of "routine" and "normalcy". Aaaaagh!!! Oh well...maybe it wouldn't be so fun if things were too routine. Okay, I am rambling.
So here's the plan for the day (okay, it's already noon, but for the rest of the day)...I have to leave here any minute to go to the doctor, but on the way I need to stop at Costco and get gas (it's the cheapest right now) and tortilla chips for the workers at the house, besides a few other things. After I get home and finish going over my 3rd dd's homework, I have to pick up the oldest 2 dds from drill team practice for ROTC, come home and fix dinner and have the 2nd 2 dds ready to babysit for a bible study by 6pm. Usually we have AWANA tonight, but they are having a special "thing" at the church and so my girls were asked to babysit for a bible study because the people's kids are usually at AWANAs. I think we will have salmon with raspberry chipotle sauce for dinner along with some artichokes I need to use and a salad. After we clean up the kitchen, I want to try and make a menu and grocery list for next week...I usually shop on Friday, but have absolutely no time on Thursday to do anything and I have no desire to wander around the grocery store without a grocery list. We probably would end up with a bunch of Snickers Bars to eat all week and nothing else. If I can get the menu done quickly, then I need to work some more on my bible study for tomorrow.
Aaaaah....my bible study....I had not joined a bible study for a while because of needing to try and be home to make sure my dds finish schoolwork, but I decided this year to join anyway and the two that are home can do homework while I have the youngest with me at childcare. It has worked out pretty well, except that my Thursdays are incredibly busy with no room for breathing practically. We are studying I & II Samuel and I love it! What I really love is that it is a "Precepts-type" study in that you mark it all up and don't answer specific questions, but get out of it what God wants you to and I really enjoy that type of study. I also love studying the Old Testament. I mean, I love the New Testament too, but sometimes I feel like we concentrate so much on the New Testament and forget to look at the Old Testament as showing us God's character and His holiness.
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