Obiously I am still not on the computer regularly. In fact, it has been so long that it is hard to start again. It's embarassing to be so flakey. Life is just like that sometimes. We do enjoy hot cocoa in the mornings.
I have not been this busy for years, maybe never. For all of the time we've had children, and before, I was home with few options to leave. We have mostly had one vehicle and didn't try to find any other method of leaving. I like being home. Now things have changed. Our van is not working so we still only have the truck Greg is borrowing from his dad and he takes that to work everyday, but I can bike almost anywhere I need to go. I joined the YMCA for their cycle class (Greg wants to ride to the coast this summer) and I go 2 - 3 times a week. I began volunteering and the Pregnancy Resource Center down the street and teach their parenting class once a week. I've mentioned before that we go to the library every week (always walking now) and then to Greg's grandma's house (she's 98!) where we visit and have lunch before walking home. We buy raw milk from a farm in Washington, but I pick it up, on my bike, in Hillsboro once a week (14 miles round trip). All this between Monday and Friday.
The children are adjusting. Henry and Louis are both old enough to watch the younger children and they all hold each other accountable (maybe too accountable at times). Most often they have school work that has to be done while I'm gone so I know if they have been obedient. It is the way things are right now. I pity myself sometimes because I want to stay home all the time again, but that is not the place in which God has me. I know that I am being obedient to Him during this time of busyness; there are things we need to learn during this experience, all of us, and I'm confident that we are learning them. I've often said that God fills my life with things to do because without them I would sit around all day thinking about great things, but doing nothing. I will continue to work as I can and pray for peace as I feel a little stressed at times. I will obey and wait.
