Staurday Chores and Lazy Mornings

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I love Saturdays. Wake up late, little feet pitter pattering down the hallway way to early, cooked breakfast together, kids playing, and snuggle time. Summers usually consist of mowing on Friday afternoons or Saturday morning, and the boys love to go out with Daddy. They love to follow him and pretend they are working just as hard, And when the work is all done, Logan always says, "I worked so hard. Man, I am so tired. I want to go to bed." Not sure if I posted this earlier or not, but a couple of weeks ago David offered to take Logan to work with him on a Friday morning because I had a lot of errands and appointments that morning. Well, he offered to take both boys, but I only sent Logan. That night after he had been to work, Logan said, "Daddy, I worked so hard today. I worked all day. I am tired. Let's go to bed when we get home." He is such a homebody for his bed. Poor guy, what will he do when he really has to work. Carson thinks he has to do what everyone else is doing. We are having to work on him being his own person. For example, yesterday we were eating lunch and Logan accidentally got his elbow in his ketchup; Carson saw and immediately rubbed his arm all in his food on purpose....sigh.

They have their moments. It usually consists of everyone whining that someone wronged them or looked at them off in some way. But, then there are these moments when they are all snuggled in bed together laughing and loving each other. Beautiful, even if it only for 5 minute intervals.

Olivia is in love with her little sister. Like I have said so many times before, she adores her and sees to her every need. She dresses her up like a princess, holds her up, and dances away to music (just so happens it was "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman). Leia loves her big sister and brothers. She scoots all over the house to wherever they are at. So cute.

We are still waiting for our house to sell. The market is nonexistent I think. I remind myself daily to have the faith that God is my realtor and will sell it to the right person when he sees fit. We sold the Yukon, and yes, I am now a Honda minivan owner and I love it. It was CHEAP!!! And I love it even more for that. Christmas can't come fast enough....No MORE car payments. I will strive to never have another car payment. They are unnecessary. We are so anxious to move to Costa Rica. We look at the pictures from our trip often and the memories flood back just like if we were there. We are wanting to return for a visit after the first of the year sometime so we can remain a consistent relationship with the contacts we met on our first trip. We do not have any idea when exactly this will occur, as none of us have the means at this time to book flights. I have been brainstorming for some ideas to raise some extra money. I have come up with a few and hopefully in the next couple 2-3 weeks will be able to post some things that maybe some of my readers and friends would like to purchase. This next trip will be more costly, as we want to take Logan and Olivia so their little hearts can experience a portion of what we did on our last trip. David and I feel they need to see where we might be moving if it is the Lord's will. They are really excited about it. All Logan can talk about is flying on a plane and going to see the crocodiles.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend filled with family time that will pull at your heart in wonderful ways when you think back and remember these memories in the future.

One of my favorite verses ever:

"This is the DAY that the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalms 118:24