Catching-up ramblings

We have been so busy that I hardly know where to start. Scott and Lynn (brother and his wife) moved last weekend!!! Now they will be 5 minutes from my parents and about an hour and 15 minutes from us. That is going to be such a blessing! Especially for my parents, with my mom healing from all her broken bones. Mom is getting to go home today. I'm sure she is looking forward to being back in her own home, and no more hospital food.

I am missing 2 of my kiddos. Nick is helping Scott get the last stuff from their old house and clean up, etc., and Cara is on loan to Lynn to help her this week. Danny went down last night to help unload a trailer load, but is back now. He came home bearing peaches and cherries for the family. He is a thoughtful kinda guy. It's kinda weird without Cara and Nick, but I have noticed less laundry and food consumption. :-) (I would rather have them than those things though, just to make that clear). Danny has been working so it has mainly just been me and the 4 littles. After morning chores and Math, we have played games, gone to the pool alot, and rented 2 movies. So I think they are having a fun week. We have also been reading out of a Bible story book. Usually we all read straight from the Bible, which is a very good thing, but the littles never really had alot of kid Bible story books read to them, because we usually gear Bible time for the older kids. So that is kinda neat that we are getting to do that. Even when the big kids come home, I think we will finish up the Bible story book before we go back to our normal Bible-time routine.

Samantha's birthday is coming up next week. She will be 11, so I guess I can't really keep calling her a little. She is sort of an "in-between". :-)

The kids are hoping for another pool trip today, but I think we will wait til after Jackson's naptime.

On another note, we are supposed to be leaving for a week-long camping trip on Saturday, but that is not gonna happen, due to Ralph not being able to get off of work now. Kinda sad, since Danny has the week off, but barring a miracle, it's not happening. But I guess I'm not really all that sad, because I know that God is in control and He is looking out for us, and it must not be in His plans for us to go at this time. I know Ralph really wanted to go though, so I'm sorry for him.

I guess that is enough ramblin' for now.