My Week in Pictures

“ And then she realized she was replaceable in every area of her life except her home.  So she invested her time, her energy, and her heart wisely”

— Jillian Benfield 

Hello! 

Don't you just love that quote? I do. 

It's been a busy week, full of cleaning, birthday celebrations, grandkids and me being stuck on a project that I can't make progress on and it's driving me crazy!

I tried to remember to take pictures every day this week, so I could share my life a little more. Here's my week, in pictures...

Monday I cleaned and mopped the floors. It's my least favorite job to do around the house, but it has to be done, so I got right to it on Monday morning. All the chairs get piled into the living room until the floor dries. 

Our floors are in desperate need of being replaced, but time and money are dictating when these things will happen. So for now, it's trying to keep them clean and looking halfway decent, while we wait. 

Last week I bought a regular mop and decided to make my own mopping solution with vinegar and essential oils. I have a Swiffer mop, and I think those are good for spot cleaning, but I was starting to feel like all it does is skim over the surface and my floors never felt totally clean. I'll have to research some cleaning solutions, but this one worked for now. My floors felt clean after using this mop and of course the  vinegar was diluted with water, so the smell was actually refreshing. I used lemon oil for fragrance. 

Normally we don't have these two white stools at the table, unless it's family dinner night. This picture was taken on Tuesday, as I was getting everything ready for family dinner. We now have 6 adults, 5 kids, 2 highchairs, these two white stools and another stool (not shown) are all squeezed around the table. There are 11 of us now! As I always say...biggest family we've ever had and smallest house!

Our oldest granddaughter, Emmy, turned 8 on Monday, so Tuesday we celebrated. I didn't go all out on decorations, but used some things I had here. 

I mentioned earlier in the week that I would share her gift here. That very long gift is a set of boards that her PawPaw wanted to wrap in that manner to surprise her. It didn't go very well. She was a bit thrown off that Millie and PawPaw would buy her two sticks for her birthday.

Here's the real gift...a tool box (sorry for the blurry picture). This is what she wanted and asked me for recently. She wanted a real tool box "like PawPaw's" so she could work on things. So that's what we got her - completely filled with real sized tools. This is the girl who loves building and working and being helpful. 

The two boards were for a project that she and David will build very soon. So it all made sense after all.

On Wednesday, this little cutie came to visit for a few hours. This is Asa. He's playing in the extra car seat because he's a mover and a shaker and loves to be busy. I thought if I put this here, he would sit in it and watch cartoons for a bit, which he did...until he didn't 😂 Standing is more fun! I just love this little guy!

Friday was Millie Day, so I snapped a few pictures of the girls. Here's Addie (she's 4 years old) building something. She loves to build and she's getting really good at it!

This is Ella Joy...6 years old going on 15. She just got her hair cut into a cute little bob, so I snapped a picture. 

And here's Emmy doing a job with her tools. What 8 year old has her own set of tools? This one!

In between cooking, cleaning and playing with kids, I managed to read my Bible and Sunday school lesson for the week. 

It finally rained, so I took this picture through the screen on the back porch. You would think we've never seen rain before 😅 but it's been so long! It actually rained for two days in a row, which felt so good. 

One night I made David and myself some hot tea. We sometimes like to drink this after dinner. The honey is made right here in our town by some friends we know. It's delicious!

Recently...well for a long time, actually, I've been trying to get my pictures off my old laptop and moved onto my desktop computer, so I can clean the laptop and hand it off to the kids. But it's not going well.

Even though both computers are on the same cloud, the photos won't move over and none of us can figure out why.

I've worked on it several days this week and there have been a few times that I've been tempted to just delete everything and be done. But it's photos and you know it's not that easy.

Today David has to go to work for a few hours, so I haven't decided what I need to do yet. We have another birthday coming up this week, I need to make a grocery list and meal plan, wrap a few gifts and pay some bills. 

But first I need to finish my coffee and eat some breakfast. Nothing should be decided until those two things have been done 😀 Priorities.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Until Next Time...

Blessings!