the past few weeks, i kept stuffing things in my desk - a newspaper, and empty envelope, a bill, a letter, the new dental insurance cards, etc, and times one hundred. i’ve known i need to pull all the things out and sort and throw away and respond to and pay and organize all of the things ... so, late this morning, after a hot shower and some hot coffee and my second list of thirty in march, i opened the desk and started in on the sorting. i paid the bills, threw away the garbage, made a small stack of letters to respond to; i filed the papers that pertain to our house, cleared out the tax paper work, and made a plan for getting started on some dental/orthodontic work for the kids. it is not lost on me, in fact, the gratitude brings tears to my eyes, that God has put us in this place, that ben and i have worked so hard to have jobs that allow me to pay the bills and plan the orthodontic work. we have worked and moved and gone without and worked some more and done our utmost to live and act with integrity. and here we are. blessed and striving to be a blessing. somewhere in the process of cleaning the desk and feeling the gratitude, i finished the pot of coffee. and the sun shone in all day.
ben was away for the day, teaching, but he’s home again now - so we will enjoy our evening together.
maddie and isaac vacuumed and swept and took out trash this morning so they would be ready to have friends over for a hobbit marathon this afternoon. i made pizza and french fries and my new peanut butter bars for them. (wait. who am i kidding? the bars are for me. but i’ll share ...)
this day is definitely right up there on the list of favorite days ... the pace has been so easy, so even the “work” has been restful.
i hope the rest of your saturday is peaceful and easy.
with love, e