It's been a good day

Nothing spectacular- but its just been nice.

1. Getting errands done. I have an hour and a half twice a week while Josh in preschool to go and run little errands and only have to worry about unloading, hauling around, and reloding ONE kid instead of two. Plus it gives me a little one on one time with Dekker.

2. New fence going in. Saturday we tore down our old cedar fence along the back (which bumps up agains a pretty busy road) and this week we're having a cement fence put in. We're starting to get an idea of what its going to look like and it'll be such a huge improvement! Not only will it look nicer, but it will be safer (protect agains any cars that might go off the road), and should help absorb some of the traffic noise.

3. My FHE lesson. We did FHE tonight instead of last night because last night we had people over for "family dinner" since Sunday we went over to the Barrand's for dinner. I was proud of myself because I actually prepared a pretty good lesson. We've been really trying to make it more meaningful, yet still fun for Josh lately. Tonight we talked about working as a family to keep a house of order. I cut out pictures of each of us and put them in columns on a white board. Than I cut out pictures to represent some of our different jobs (Jaime- dinners, laundry, grocery shopping etc. Jake- working/earning money, fixing things with tools, taking out the trash etc. Josh- Letting Roxy out each morning, making his bed, putting toys away. Dekker- learning to take care of toys, saying prayers, learning to share.) Josh would help decide who the task primarily belonged to and then stick it in their column. Then we talked about fulfilling our tasks and helping others with theirs and how this is how we help keep a house of order. Josh liked and seemed to get something out of it.