My Week in a Nutshell

This week has been pretty crazy. First with all the wonderful gatherings (which I was super excited for! I love gatherings), then with all the work I've been trying to get done.

Last week wednesday we picked up mom-&-dad-in-law from the airport. They went to Punta Cana in the Dominican, and by the sounds of things had a great trip aside from all the walking they had to do (when you have problems with your knees, any walking at all can be problematic). They told us then already that we wouldn't be having any gatherings for Easter, as mom was too tired, and to be honest, I don't blame her one bit! Friday we went to one of the big family gatherings on my side, and had a great time. They brought the Wii and the kids played a bit before some of the adults took over to play a game of golf. It was fun to watch. And of course, the food was great. I made a sour cream coffee cake the day before to bring. Saturday Chuck was working again. We were so glad he got the evening off on Friday. Sunday was another gathering on my side of the family for lunch, then at my parents for supper. Chuck and Reuben weren't there however, as both needed to work. But they still got food!

Monday... I can't remember monday. What did I do? Tuesday I started spring cleaning. All the regular weekly house cleaning was done, I made a "spring cleaning" schedule that will be done on a monthly basis (so it will never be as hard again), and then laundry. I spring cleaned both bathrooms and mopped. Crazy... took an extra 3 hours from normal. Won't take as long next month though. :)

Wednesday I baked a whole lot for the bake sale on Thursday. Took 4 1/2 hours to make 4 1/2 dozen brown buns (a new recipe mom gave me... delish!) and 7 1/4 dozen chocolate chip cookies. I brought 3 doz of the buns and 6 doz of the cookies to the sale on Thursday and made $21, with which I bought the tickets for Reuben's and Esther's social right away. Wednesday I also managed to exercise again and I got all the info for the farm 2007 papers in AgExpert. Done. All I have left for that is finalizing the end of year (fixing anything that causes problems of course), and then I can start inputting info for '08. SO happy. Thursday I also had a chiropractic appointment, cleaned a bit in mom's house while waiting for my appointment, and did a bit more painting on my mural. It's so close to finished now. Today so far we had the head guy for the dairy group down to get our financials for 2007 and calving/milk records so they can get prepped for the next dairy meeting. That took 2 hours... and finding some of that info on AgExpert can be difficult. Lots of it was easy, but getting the start of year inventories... not so. I had to look up my old end 2006 files to find them. Good thing I'm organized!!!

Today I have loads I want to do as well... starting with my mural. I want to finish today. Don't know if that will happen... I may need one more day, but I'm close... so close. Then I can post pics! I also want to finalize agexpert '07... and start on '08. Again, not sure if that will happen. Depends if I feel like a nap, lol. I've been having a constant headache for the last 2 weeks. And my lower back didn't like me cleaning the underside of the toilet tanks on tuesday. Well, at least they aren't black anymore. I dare you to check yours! Blech.

So, I also just realized (ok, not "just" realized, but anywho) that today would have been my due date for the baby I lost in September. It's funny, really, but I'm not at all upset. Could be because I'm pregnant again with a different baby... but I think it's something more. I think it's God. He's helped me through it all, and I don't have any negative feelings about that anymore. Not at all. It's wonderful to think about. :)

Well, that's been my week in a nutshell. Thank you for reading :). Next week I'll be tackling 2008 farm books, hopefully will be done the mural, and I want to do a bit more spring cleaning... basically all the extra dusting and flipping the mattress and thouroughly washing the pillows and such. Yeah. I think I may clean the fridge, the garbage cans (they almost always need a good rinse), and the window treatments as well. We'll see how energetic I'm feeling. ;)

Been awhile

I know it's been awhile since I last posted. Things have been busy. I've been sick off and on, and we've been visiting with people, which is great fun! I still haven't finished some of my unfinished projects... sigh.

I'm trying to start a regular exercise routine once again. This is easy if I do it in the morning... otherwise I tend to put it off. I'll have to work on that.

I want to get more scrapbooking done, but it is so difficult right now. I have so many pictures on my computer that I scanned from the wedding that I want to fix, but I haven't fixed them yet, and I need to do that and print them off before I can continue with my scrapbooking. I have a hard time picking page colors if I don't have the pics to look at. Sigh. I should really work on that today.

Chuck and I recently read Matthew 18 together. There is so much crammed into that chapter that means so much to me. You can read the chapter here - http://scriptures.lds.org/matt/18/18.

The first few verses are Jesus describing how we must become like a child. I love this. It describes that we need to have perfect dependance on Christ, trust in who God is, not wavering because we don't see something or because things arent going exactly as we plan... it's comforting. Perhaps we need to take a good look at our situation and see if we really are depending on God.

The last section of this chapter talks about forgiveness. I love forgiveness. It is so freeing. It's funny how many of us want to be forgiven for our sins by God, and yet have such a hard time forgiving others for what they've done to us. Why? Why can't we see that it isn't "letting go" and "dismissing" what they've done? Forgiveness is a gift from God. It is important in preventing another foothold for the devil. If we live in unforgiveness, we live in bitterness and resentment, and the devil has another foothold in our lives. But, if we forgive others for whatever they have done, we can see the situation in a different light, the way the Holy Spirit wants us to see it. We can be free. We don't have to feel miserable because of something so-and-so did at such-and-such a time. Granted, sometimes these things are difficult to forgive. However, we aren't doing ourselves any favors by holding onto these things. How often has the other person long forgotten this grievance? How often have they prayed about it or asked forgiveness for it and already been released by God for what they have done? What good are we doing by holding onto it? It is so much better to give it to God... only He knows how to deal with the situation properly, both in the heart of the person to be forgiven, and the person doing the forgiving.

Wow... a small thought sure does stretch into something much bigger!

I hope you've all had a great weekend. :)