Andrew went to our house today - and BROUGHT ME BOOKS!!!!

SCREEEE!  SO EXCITED!

i am trying to get my books moved here before summer hits

we do have a/c at our old house, but the house needs work

and i worry about my books and my pictures.

so i am trying to get them here.

i don't really have a place to put them right now

but i will just have to work on that

they still make me happy to have them

i need to go through and get rid of what i won't use

went out to check on the kids

hoping they were reading the new books

they weren't, but if i change the wifi password i bet they will

cocoa and toast sounded good

and i can't stand to just stand and wait while things cook

so i was cleaning. the kids helped.

Zee said, "do you just like cleaning or something?"

and i told her i do. i really do love to clean!

and i love to bless my family with neat tidy peaceful spaces

i just don't have the energy i used to have

not only to clean, but to hold them to standards also

esp when the 3 boys were teens - it was so crazy

and i was so sick!

but now they are twenty somethings

and delightful twenty somethings!

often they clean more than i do

some have initiative

others will do whatever i ask whenever i ask w/o any attitude

or so much as a sigh!

its a combination of things i think

they appreciate it more

and they now realize how much work it is

i do miss having my whole house clean

my pace is so slow now and my thinking often so muddled

that by the time i get it all done, the first part is dirty again

and it's time to start over

but now and then Holly will come for a day

and take care of gram

and clean the whole house!!

not the bedrooms, but kitchen, LR, hall, bathroom, and gram's

and boy is that nice to come home to!!

i pay her handsomely of course!

so, i guess God meets us where we are

if we can adjust with grace to limitations,

maybe he has a special blessing for us

that we might miss out on otherwise

i once heard it said "if you don't share your hard times,

you don't give those who love you a chance to love you enough."

it has kind of stuck with me

some people just hate to ask for help

but honestly, as a helper, i know. . .

it blesses others when you let them help you!!

I believe God created us as a needy people

for a reason.

If we were islands and enough alone,

we would all live far apart and alone.

it is our need which calls us to close in

and share

and care

and provide

and exchange.

God kinda knows what he is doing.