Mount Laundruvious

The last few days have been busy. Oct 31 was Day #1 of our World Conference (Reviving the Word); last day was yesterday. The week of the 31st found us at the church working on the building project every night. It was an awful lot of fun but, tiring: work for 8 hours, rush home, change, eat supper (thank God for C who cooked all this week), pick up B from work at 6, go to church for 6:30, home about 10:30, make tomorrow's lunches, throw in a load of wash, throw a load of dry clothes in our ever growing pile of clean clothes awaiting our tender affection, head to bed, wake and repeat. The conference was wonderful; the presence of God was powerful, alter calls were building nightly with power and effect and it was a lot more of the same routine as last week only the nights were later. Still, with all this work and such little sleep, our attitudes remained great, our spirits high, our bodies...are beginning to slow down some but I think that is mainly due to the fact that we are all, with the exception of H fighting colds.

This week is another school week and I am so excited! The course for this week is "Passion for Souls" and it will be a lot of reading to get done but do-able without agony. (:P) I am looking forward to finding out what I received on my last exam and essay. I think though, with us being in class, that mountain will simply continue to increase as it grows more than I can get accomplished in the few moments I have before work to get laundry folded.

My number 1 task for next week is to get that laundry not only under control but conquered and to get all the too small clothes organized and out of the house. I need to see what clothes the kids really do have as they now have a dress-code to follow and it would help to know what they are needing, wht they have and what can be utilized out of what they DO have...

I am establishing routines so once conquered it should not rear its ugliness again...right? We will also be eating less fast food (both of places like McDonalds and those not-so-nutrious foods like chicken fingers, noodles n sauce...you know, the quick-we-have-20-minutes-to-eat foods.). All three kids are now in the same school so that eliminates getting three different kids to 2 different places all for basically the same time and it eliminates the need to rely on a friend of ours to get C to school (which may eliminate demerits for C as she won't be late so often). Another thing that the kids being at WRPS will eliminate is the need to make specialized lunches due to nut bans and then individual allergies in both classes; they can have what they want without me scouring the ingredients to ensure the safety of other children. All plans take time and there will be revamping but we are well on our way in the process...