Serious Multitasking

Sunrise:
What a difference more hours of sleep makes!  I feel so refreshed today after going to bed before 10pm.  


I get such a laugh most days from these lil' campers of mine.  Gigi is a resourceful child with a spiritual gift of hospitality and helps.  How do we know that, you ask, since it's hard to discern what an adult's gifts are?  Well, when she was 2 1/2, she would get out of bed before we did and get orange juice out of the fridge and pour all of us a morning drink.  She would get the kid cups out of the drawer and somehow pour juice into those awkward small openings without spilling.  Yep...not even 3 years old.  We would come downstairs not knowing what we would find!  When visitors come to the house, she barrages you with questions like, "Can I get you something to drink, to eat....what can I get you?"  So sweet since I am still developing that gift!  


Gigi is developing some serious multitasking skills at the moment.  After breakfast, Adam and Alysse were off to work and school.  I asked her to put the Cheerio boxes away in the pantry.   I had a feeling this would be funny so I grabbed the phone to capture this for the record.  This is my silly Gigi...  

Notice she has her stuffed hamster, two boxes of Cheerios and her wallet is at her feet since it was the only thing that fell!  Now that is some serious multitasking!  Wonder where she learns that from????  


Sunset:
So let's see if you can play along with this one.  What do you call a small book where usually girls write down their private thoughts and then lock it up? A blog...no...it doesn't have a lock... A journal...no...you're close.  Well if you are Gigi after she found the little silver heart lock loose in the minivan you would say, "ohhh I found the lock to my diarrhea!"  Alysse tries to correct her..."Gigi it's not diarrhea, it's diary!"  Oh, we had a great laugh with that one!


May the Son be in your Eyes today,
Jen  


*meaning of the blog name found on the first entry*

Sunrise and Sunset

I noticed that my post yesterday started one way and ended another.  I said a few things in the morning and later in the day added more of what happened throughout the day.  It occurred to me that this theme of "sun" has its very own natural beginning and end too.  So,  I will have two parts to my daily blog entries:  Sunrise and Sunset.  


I have the best and worst memory so this will help me when I am 80 years old to remember the sweet everyday things that happen throughout the day.  


SUNRISE:
I woke up thinking about how last night ended and how gracious the Lord is and hears our prayers.  We always pray at meals and usually we throw in a request for God to protect us.  Sometimes it feels a little mechanical in nature but it's an important request.


Dinner time was a little late last night since we had probably a few too many snacks and Adam was working off our vacation at the gym.  


In order to be able to cook, I keep all 4 kids busy playing.  I put Blake in the living room with the new barn animal set and the girls were playing hide and go seek.  Earlier in the evening, the girls were all playing with money.  The night before they were warned sternly to keep it put away since it could be a choking hazard for Blake.  They obviously forgot the warning and they were hiding it and placing it all over the house without me knowing it.


After getting the food started, I went in to play with Blake.  I like to surprise them often by jumping out of places like a tiger but something in my spirit told me not to this time.  I crawled up to Blake from a distance and he smiled at me.  I was making goofy noises and such and noticed he was chewing on something.  Looked  like he had gum which I knew he didn't but as I approached I reached to get what he had and it was a PENNY!  AHHHH....  I could not believe it!  


Confusion, anger, gratefulness, and that sinking feeling in your stomach washed over me.  


In the midst of getting down to the bottom of how it ended up there, Adam called saying he ran out of gas in his car!  Ahhhh....  The day can end much differently than it began.  Maybe yours did too.  


But I can tell you that the verse on our kitchen table that gets read every morning was a sweet reminder today.  Psalm 90:14 MSG version "Surprise us with love at daybreak; then we'll skip and dance all the day long."  It's a love that the Lord gives us one more day to live for Him and take care of what He has entrusted us with.  


With it being cloudy today, I think I may have subconsciously dressed my Gigi like sunshine today.  She said she was daydreaming...

I pray for your protection and ours until we meet again at "Sunset".... check back later.


SUNSET:


It was a much nicer finish to the day than yesterday!  Smooth sailing to bedtime before 8pm.  


Seriously funny blog here: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/  I am laughing so hard right now.


I am actually off to bed before midnight....  

May the Son be in your Eyes, 


Jen
*the meaning of the blog title "Sun in my Guys" is on the very first post*

The Sun is in My Guys

Is the sun in your guys? What? Yes, that happens to be my favorite phrase at the moment and the name of my new personal blog.

It's a saying I hear from my loving and darling 3 year old Ellie. She has this little Southern accent of sorts and she obviously says things a little wrong. But who has the heart to correct her?

What she is really saying is, "the sun is in my eyes."

It's sunny today. So the sun has been in her guys this morning.

What it means to me is literal and figurative for me... I look into meaning in everything, even it it is a stretch by all accounts! So to me it's a reminder if the "Son is in my eyes." Yes, I love the Son that saved me and has brought me so far. I woke up singing a praise song to Him and so the Son has been in my eyes even before they were open.

I wanted a place to capture everyday Jen life. Not serious (maybe sometimes)...all annoying, fun, crazy, break neck speed of a life. One life I owe all to Jesus.

Stream of conscious writing which means it makes sense to me and hardly to others.

I think like a spider making a spiderweb. If you can follow then you are most likely a fellow spider. A web of thoughts that cross over at various places and you can keep on one thread forever going round and round or you can jump off to another strand too. You just just have to know how to weave and follow.

Now, I sit across the room with my rearranged couch (which took 2 years to accomplish) facing the front room, as we say. I can see Gigi playing on their computer, Ellie making playdough ice cream and hamburgers. Here she comes with a masterpiece ice cream that looks like a mess of cuteness for me but I have to save it for dinner she says. We have treats around here but "after dinner." She says it's "milla" which I assume is vanilla. Reminds me of Milly Vanilly?

Anyway, now I must jump........onto another task like cleaning up.

Loved this cute clean up today... That's an Oreo gotee for sure!

I also was a very repentant mommy after I lost my marbles when that inspirational 3 yr old got too busy playing and got to the bathroom on time but in her lengthy process of trying not to touch the toilet basically flooded the place.  Ohhhh.....cleanups good and bad.

Did you clean up anything good today? What small thing made you smile?


I hope the "sun will be in your guys"......always.

Blessings, Jen