Possibly the Longest School Day Ever

That's what we had around here. Did 25 pages with Sam, assisted Joe with all of the math that stumps him so terribly, and tutored Katie through way too many hours of work that was due days ago. I did one final load of laundry and hauled the ironing board next to the dining table so I could get caught up on that daunting chore while helping them. It took all... day... long. I'd make one or two strokes with the iron before being called by one child or another (sometimes two, on occasion all three) for assistance with whatever assignment was troubling them at the moment. I have no idea why they were all so high maintanance today, but it was crazy! I finished the ironing and the boys finished school at about 4:00 this afternoon. Katie, once again, worked right up until dinner time. Poor kid. She’ll get caught up one of these days—hopefully tomorrow.

But, of course, tomorrow we have a showing at 10:00 in the morning. Jason said that the young couple is bringing the wife’s parents with them as well as some friends of theirs who live up in this area. So there will be six of them total, plus Jason—who is serving as our realtor AND theirs, so it would be a sweet deal for him if they decided to buy this house. It seems like a really good thing that these folks are bringing a whole troop with them. It means they must be pretty serious about it, right??? But then, the more people who come the more eyes there will be to see any problems and brains to consider any possible negatives about purchasing this particular house. Or maybe there will just be that many more people to fall in love with it and insist that they MUST buy this house—this is “it”!!! Yeah, that’s probably what will happen. ;-)

I made enchilada casserole for dinner tonight and it was sooooo good. It was always my favorite meal when I was a kid aside from deer or elk—but then, I guess we used deer or elk burger IN the casserole back then, didn’t we?! :-) My kids have never been very fond of it (weird-o’s) so I very seldom make it anymore. Maybe that’s why it tasted so very good tonight. And I think the kids are enjoying it more now that they’re older, too. That makes me happy.

James is packing up some more of his office stuff and brought in “Kay Karls” for Katie to read. It’s an old fiction book that the Church put out through the Bethel Book Club years ago. I read it when we lived in Texas and I think it’ll be a great one for Kate. She loves fiction and there’s no way I can possibly preview everything anymore—they just go through too many books for that! I can’t remember very much about the plot of this book, but (being written by a Church of God author) I know that it’s about salvation and trusting in God come what may and that, at some point, the girl prays through to the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues, and somebody gets divinely healed and jumps up out of the wheelchair she’d been in for years. Wish there were more books like that for the kids to read! I think Joe would really enjoy “Priest of Dagon,” another Bethel Book Club book that we have out there.

~whew~ I’m going to have to stop blogging every day. There are just not enough things of interest to blog every single day. I’m boring myself. Ha! I’m done for the night though. Got some things I want to do around the house (bleach the kitchen sinks, CLR the faucets and fixtures, touch up the wood floors again, sweep up the wood chips from around the fireplace, etc.) so the house will be perfect tomorrow. Help us pray for God’s will! :-)