It’s Sunday, the last (or first, depending on your perspective) day of the week. I feel a bit sheepish about featuring myself on the blog since so much of this entire project centers around me and my thoughts/reflections on our family. Still, I said each family member would get a day so I guess today is my turn.
My gorgeous new Thai jacket from Tina!!
Busy Sunday full of people and activity. We had church in the morning. Tim led our Sunday School class on 1 Corinthians 4–good size group which meant lots of lively discussion and study.
Rachel worked with the elementary age kids during the service so we didn’t have her sitting with us. The pew seemed empty without her. We so enjoy having all the children (except for Sarah who stays in her preschool class) sit in church with us.
Tim had to slip out near the end of the service for a retreat center board meeting in Olympia. Now the pew was definitely too empty. I remember the Sunday the kids performed in the Christmas concert. Tim sat up front to video tape the service and the rest of the children (except Joshua) were in the play. My goodness, I felt bereft of all friends and family. It was terrible! I can see why my mom and mother in law are always so delighted to be in church with the whole pew full of children and grandchildren.
David standing outside his class room, Bible in hand.
After church the children helped me to get the house ready for our Bible study group. I used the new whiteboard to make a big list of everything that needed to be done. I tried to emulate Tim (who knows how to make up FUN lists) and include things like ‘play computer games’ and ‘take Matthias out.’
The kids worked very hard to get everything done and there was still some time for relaxing/recreation. I hired Joshua (who immediately contracted Rachel) to clean up the garage. We have a lot of children in our small group and need the garage available as a place for movies, wrestling, and general play. Joshua and Rachel took a long time but did an excellent job. It was so nice to have some extra hands available to share the burden.
We had a great small group. A couple from our Sunday school class joined our group today (they are good friends of ours from the homeschooling co-op). My kids were thrilled to have them come as it meant 5 more (older) companions. Most of the couples in our group have young children (two have babies). There was MUCH running around, board games, wrestling, dumping out of toys, etc. Ha!
Next week we are starting a DVD study by Emerson and Sarah Eggerichs called Love and Respect. I’m very excited about it as Tim and I attended a conference hosted by the Eggerichs several years ago and it was excellent. Tonight we filled out a marriage questionnaire and sealed them up in envelopes to be revisited after we finish the study. We spent the rest of the time in boy/girl groups sharing. Good conversation, lots of laughter.
Well, that’s the first complete week of Project 365. Very exciting! I’m sure I won’t continue such lengthy, daily blogs but it is nice to have a place to do some family journaling.
The best 5 year old in the world and his mama.
Kathy
Sweet Katherine! Glad you went ahead a posted a personal blog about you. Love that jacket! By the way, we adore the fact that the family voted to hug the tree instead of disassemble it. We finally put away all our Christmas things yesterday…Sunday Jan. 7.
Nice blog! It is sort of funny for me to be reading the blog to find out what happened at home yesterday while I was gone. I went straight from church to the Refuge meeting to Bible Study to bed … we never had a chance to talk about the day! I guess we really have ‘arrived’ as techno-geeks when I’m reading about our life on the internet without prior real-world knowledge.
Glad to see the new whiteboard is getting some use.
What a beautiful jacket! See, it is hard to know what to do with arms unless they are hugging a child. My family doesn’t want to give up the tree yet either.
Your small group sounds so fun!! I want to be in your girl group! So, who is Matthias? Have I missed the acquisition of a pet?
Rachel!! So nice to hear from you. I miss your regular blogging–get going girl! We need your voice. You are welcome in our small group any time! Matthias is the beloved guinea pig.