Family Alive

I’m so far behind on blogging, I might as well just start from today. Maybe I should take that same approach with scrapbooking… hmm, another subject completely!

Anyway, it’s a lovely rainy winter (well, not winter-cold at 63degrees and 100% humidity, but winter-month!) day. We enjoyed being at church (Clearwater Community Church – our new snazzy website!) for the first time in 3 weeks. And to make it even more lovely, we didn’t have to work in the nursery or Sunday School classroom, and we caught the opening message of Chris’s new series, Optical Illusion (sometime this week you should be able to listen to or download the message).

We had our usual Sunday lunch with Brian’s family of baked beans and hotdogs. Then, as usual, my kiddos were ready to nap, thankfully. Josiah’s been a little fighter about sleeping lately, so when he fell deeply asleep on the way home, we left him sleeping in the car parked in the basement garage with the windows down and door to the house open. He and Analise napped for 2 hours, and I got lots done in my quest to get organzied. His room is finally getting settled, starting with a new comfy crib (particularly bought hoping he’d feel compelled to actually sleep in it, which he hasn’t yet, at least not for stretches longer than 4-5 hours), moving all the "extra" stuff out of room, and making it look like a little boy’s room, finally. When it’s really done, I’ll take some pictures, but right now, it’s still a work-in-progress.

Yesterday, I got my closet cleaned out, which feels quite good. It was a great feeling to pull out maternity clothes, and larger sizes from between pregnancies, and move in some nice new things I got for Christmas. I got rid of plenty of things that I haven’t worn in a long time, and it looks so organized. Ah, feels nice. Analise is awake now, so I’m going to tackle another little project for today – thank you cards for Christmas gifts. Maybe I’ll be back later tonight for some more blog catch-up.

Hope your weekend has been as relaxing as ours!