"A wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands." Proverbs 14:1
With a beautiful sun shining this morning, the kids and I packed a "picinic" lunch and headed out over the fields with a fuzzy blanket and camera. Everything is mostly dry thanks to sunny weather and mostly green thanks to some recent rain.


After eating, the children took such joy in running across the fields, stopping to find me itty bitty flowers and bring them to me. They know how much I love flowers.



While they ran about, I sat on the blanket with Catherine close by and peeled oranges. The sun and fresh air are great for thinking. I tried to think of ways to be more practical in "building my home" in this season of life. I don't consider myself wise but I strive and pray for wisdom and know that God cares enough about the little stuff to give me wisdom in keeping a home.
Isn't it much easier to build something when you can first eliminate as much of the chaos and confusion as possible? I've been turning more and more to organization lately in building our home.

Recently, I took a good hour and printed off a simple daily chore chart for the kids with each day divided into thirds: morning, noon, and evening chores. Using this more specific chart has been an immense help this past week as they are becoming aware of who is responsible for what task and when.


Yesterday was the master bedroom day. I took a before photo. I don't think I'll share it. Really, it was that bad. Why does the master bedroom become the drop all room in our home? Must figure that out.
Sean's dresser and mine have been sorted and heavy winter clothing put away and a pile for charity set aside as well. I have come to love getting rid of stuff.

In Walmart the other day five year old Douglas wanted to know why the Mama bleeds after having a baby. Generally, we give th kids the simplest answer first and if that suffices, leave it be. He was satisfied to know that there is a lot of extra blood left inside from growing a baby that needs to come out and happy to know that it doesn't hurt when the blood comes out.
(should have labeled this post as having TMI? Sorry...)

All the bizzarre places in our home have been or are being cleaned. For some reason I think the midwife might just have to look for something in between the washer and dryer and I don't want her seeing the five mismatched socks that have fallen there with the empty mousetrap or maybe she'll have to use the back kitchen door and I don't want her to see that we still have all the mittens and snow pants out from winter even though the snow is long gone. (Bagged and put away this morning!)


Besides the practical ways we build our homes, there is also an imperative spiritual side that we cannot neglect. We've been having family worship and prayer each morning for a few months before Sean leaves for work and it is such a blessing to our family.


Psalm 139:1-6 has been conquered by the majority of our children and now we'll move on to verses 7-12. Helping the kids memorize scripture brings as much benefit to me as it does to them, except that they get a dollar each time they memorize the verses we give them!

3 comments:
I try to use scripture in my folk art paintings and this one is perfect for the one I'm working on next.
God bless you and your family and the new little one soon to come.
Catherine
Oh, Hannah.... It doesn't sound like its going to be long now! You are nesting the nth degree. What a good momma you are!
beautiful pictures...and another to cherish coming along soon now!
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