We love Sundays! One of our favorite days of the week, but not really a day of rest. One of my friends called me on a Saturday afternoon, about 4pm, and asked me what I was doing, "Getting ready for church! We're going to be late!" Well, there is some truth to that as we usually try to get shoes and clothes ready the night before, however, we still have our trials and today was no different!
Joey's birthday was yesterday and Megan and Robbie had to go do farming chores for a friend so our Saturday was already out of the norm.
Shoes seem to be our biggest downfall. Even if we line them all up the night before, a little one will carry one off or it's fun for them to wear a bigger shoe and leave it somewhere, and we just don't have the man power to stand guard of the shoes.
We will sometimes have something other than our normal fruit breakfast, like cinnamon raisin toast or oatmeal. Everyone helps to get ready until we're all ready, and we can accomplish the routine in about an hour or less.
This morning as we were walking out the door Ben pulled on the cover that I have on top of the washer and dryer and tipped over the liquid laundry soap. I was in the next room and as he hollered for help I couldn't figure out what he was saying, then as he took a breath I heard the gulp, gulp, gulp, of lots of laundry soap pouring out onto the floor, filling Daniel's church shoes. Ben offered to help clean it up and said, "I don't know HOW dat happened!" but I insisted I could handle it, no big deal, we were already running late for church. A roll of paper towels later the floor was nice and shiney, and we were ready to try this launch again.
We all pile in the Bomber (our big blue van) and take a quick head count, usually someone has to run back in because they forgot their bible or something else they were suppose to bring. Daniel then collects guesses of how long it will take us to get there, to the exact minute. (Jeff usually manipulates this to make sure he wins, but it's still fun!) We have 3 songs that we always sing on the way to church, and sometimes we'll sing other hymns or special music.
I know I should make it a habbit to stand at the door of the house for a final inspection, but usually the kids make it to the van before I do and they are all in the back and buckled, so my final inspection is usually as they are walking into church. It's a humbling experience really. We've had kids with their younger brother's pants on that look more like knickers, wrong shoes, muddy boots, sandals in winter, white socks with black dress pants, church shoes untied, shirts untucked, hair pretties falling out, and who knows what else. I'm sure it's highly entertaining to our church family, but they are very gracious about it.
We made it to church 2 minutes before it started.
After being fed the Word, and enjoying the fellowship, everyone is ready to be fed some food! We try to prepare Sunday dinner on Sat, but it just wasn't going to be done in time, so we had left overs for lunch and our big Sunday dinner for dinner, or supper, or whatever you call the evening meal. Usually it's the other way around, but variety is good!
After enjoying the afternoon outside playing and looking at the trees and garden everyone was very hungry. Ham, potatoes, corn, rolls, and topped it off with a root beer float! And can you believe it before Ben went to bed he asked if he could have a banana because he was hungry!
Joey's birthday was yesterday and Megan and Robbie had to go do farming chores for a friend so our Saturday was already out of the norm.
Shoes seem to be our biggest downfall. Even if we line them all up the night before, a little one will carry one off or it's fun for them to wear a bigger shoe and leave it somewhere, and we just don't have the man power to stand guard of the shoes.
We will sometimes have something other than our normal fruit breakfast, like cinnamon raisin toast or oatmeal. Everyone helps to get ready until we're all ready, and we can accomplish the routine in about an hour or less.
This morning as we were walking out the door Ben pulled on the cover that I have on top of the washer and dryer and tipped over the liquid laundry soap. I was in the next room and as he hollered for help I couldn't figure out what he was saying, then as he took a breath I heard the gulp, gulp, gulp, of lots of laundry soap pouring out onto the floor, filling Daniel's church shoes. Ben offered to help clean it up and said, "I don't know HOW dat happened!" but I insisted I could handle it, no big deal, we were already running late for church. A roll of paper towels later the floor was nice and shiney, and we were ready to try this launch again.
We all pile in the Bomber (our big blue van) and take a quick head count, usually someone has to run back in because they forgot their bible or something else they were suppose to bring. Daniel then collects guesses of how long it will take us to get there, to the exact minute. (Jeff usually manipulates this to make sure he wins, but it's still fun!) We have 3 songs that we always sing on the way to church, and sometimes we'll sing other hymns or special music.
I know I should make it a habbit to stand at the door of the house for a final inspection, but usually the kids make it to the van before I do and they are all in the back and buckled, so my final inspection is usually as they are walking into church. It's a humbling experience really. We've had kids with their younger brother's pants on that look more like knickers, wrong shoes, muddy boots, sandals in winter, white socks with black dress pants, church shoes untied, shirts untucked, hair pretties falling out, and who knows what else. I'm sure it's highly entertaining to our church family, but they are very gracious about it.
We made it to church 2 minutes before it started.
After being fed the Word, and enjoying the fellowship, everyone is ready to be fed some food! We try to prepare Sunday dinner on Sat, but it just wasn't going to be done in time, so we had left overs for lunch and our big Sunday dinner for dinner, or supper, or whatever you call the evening meal. Usually it's the other way around, but variety is good!
After enjoying the afternoon outside playing and looking at the trees and garden everyone was very hungry. Ham, potatoes, corn, rolls, and topped it off with a root beer float! And can you believe it before Ben went to bed he asked if he could have a banana because he was hungry!
Lydia in her church dress! 
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