Ramblings . . .

As I sit here this morning and recall the past 7 days of 2009 . . .

We drove home from vacation on the 2nd only to receive a phone call from a church member whose mother had just gone to be with Jesus, I was reminded once again the chaotic life we live in. We were no longer home than an hour and Mike and I had just commented that we liked the past 2 weeks of being with family and the relaxed schedule we were on when the call came in and Mike was a Pastor again. Saturday was taking all the Christmas decorations down (which my kids and hubby surprised me and did most of the work themselves while I went grocery shopping) and cleaning quite a bit. Sunday was the Lord's day and back teaching Sunday School and taking the kids to Childrens Choir and Bible Drill and lunch out with the family whose mother passed away. I did squeeze in my nap though. Monday, with the kids pitching in, we cleaned all the bedrooms, bathrooms, vacuumed all the floors, swept and mopped the tile floors, and assimilated Christmas presents to their new found storage places. Tuesday was the eye doctor for me and getting school ready for the next several weeks and the last nine weeks report cards. They all did well with all of them making all A's and one B! They did great and they earned some more time on their Wii. A friend came over to fix some computer problems and then Gammi and Poppi came in too! Gammi and Poppi stayed through this morning and they are finally headed home from their long vacation up north. -16 degrees was the normal temperature where they were. Brrr. . . . they are glad to be headed south again. We also started back to school yesterday and it was a lot like beating my kids heads against the wall with the fact they haven't touched anything schoolwise in 2 weeks. However they did and did great. We Wii fitness tested ourselves yesterday with Sarah being 39, mom being 47, Isabella being 70, and Zech 73! That was way too much fun. Now all of us have sore right arms from playing the Wii everyday! So the last 7 days in a nutshell and the next few, well let's just say we are back to our chaotic lifestyle again. More school, basketball game, another funeral, the doctorate paper is still being written, house to still clean, more laundry that never gets finished, and much, much more!