Making your Home a Haven: Cared For
We are on day three of our series with Monica. Today’s task was to make our homes more cared for by tackling some of those things that have been needing to be addressed for awhile.
I awoke at 4:30 but just didn’t have it in me to get out of bed. This is an area I am needing to find balance in, because I stay up too late in order to spend quality time with my husband, but then can’t get out of bed easily in the morning for some alone time in which to do devotion. So, that is something I’ll try to work on figuring out. For today, I’m going to take a devotional with me in the car to read while I wait for Christian to get out of school.
Today has been a long day and not much of it spent at home because I drove over to see a really good friend and spend some time with her. She is actually one of my oldest friends, (not age but length of time knowing one another) and I always crave time with her. It was such a great thing to be able to just sit and chat with her. Totally worth the hour and a half total of driving time, but it has made for some sacrifices as usual. (Poor napping for Lily, chores piling up, little time for rest.)
I am very proud to report though that dinner is planned,(Chicken Pot Pie) the dishwasher is unloaded and our bed is made. I washed Christian’s favorite winter coat and am close to starting a load of diapers. In the vein of our cared for theme, I cleaned out and organized a couple of drawers in the kitchen that have been neglected for quite some time, I cleaned the glass on the front door and I cleaned the brass on the fireplace.
I don’t have any pictures to share today, time was too crunched and I’m feeling tired.
UPDATE: The rest of the day went pretty smoothly. I managed to get some additional things done, and I even went to deep water aerobics, but most of all I was blessed by my devotional time in the car and by the men in my family. I shot some pictures of them this evening. Don’t be TOOOO jealous girls, but yeah, my husband COOKS FOR ME. =)
Here’s one of my son; take a long look because it is rare that he’ll let me:
Even when life gets tough I can ALWAYS know just how incredibly blessed I am by my family.
Greetings! I found your site from The Homespun Heart blog.
I am a 25 year old mom and I compleatly understand the waking up thing. I want to just wake up at 7 and start my day with peace and quiet (and quiet time)… but My Beloved like to stay up late and desires me to spend quality time with him too.
I just learned of the challenge you all have been doing this week. I hope after my busy next few weeks I can follow in you all’s footsteps and try the challenge for myself too!
Thanks for your encouraging post, I am happy that I am not the only mom who struggles waking up in the morning after blessing her Beloved. 