This post is coming a little late today, but that's alright. It's been a busy day. I could have used naptime to do it, but instead I chose to eat lunch and wash the dishes. I know; I gotta get my priorities straight.
1. Last weekend was a sick weekend. I'm still surprised Nick came away unscathed. The flu hit Eliza and then it hit me. Not the vomiting-every-ten-minutes-kind, but still, there was some unpleasantness, and as for myself, it sapped any ounce of strength of energy I had. It took me a couple of days to recover, even after the symptoms went away. Gotta love being pregnant. So, though I made tremendous headway on my housework last Friday, I'm still catching up today. But it's looking better. Sort of.
2. It's been a busy week. "Busy" really seems to be the theme of the week: we had places to go, people to see, shots to endure, doctor's appointments, hair cut appointments, appointments, appointments, appointments. That's alright, though. It allowed us to get out of the house after we'd basically cooped ourselves up during a lot of the weather. For the past several weeks the majority of our time was spent with just Eliza and I in the living room. By the time Wednesday hit, we were supposed to go to the zoo but I was on the fence because of recent illness and the dense, damp fog and chilly temps outside. Eliza overruled it by banging on the door and insisting "bye-bye" until we actually went "bye-bye". If not for the company, it wouldn't have been a fun zoo trip. But we survived, and Eliza got to "go bye-bye".
3. We are T-minus seven weeks out and counting. It both seems very soon and very far away. This next week my mother-in-law will be bringing us a dresser and I can finally take Simon's things out of bins and put them in drawers. I'm also hoping that tomorrow will see us in their room getting things moved around, organized, and hopefully another bar set up in the closet for Simon's hanging things (or things that could be hanging things).
4. I'm still working away at the daily Bible reading blog. It's not been perfect attendance (or publishing, or writing, that's for sure!), but I'm glad to be continuing. I've lived through Leviticus; I'm almost done with Numbers, and then on to Deuteronomy. I have trepidations about Deuteronomy. For instance, it was the most quoted book by Jesus in the New Testament, which makes me very eager to reread it with that fact in mind; why did Deuteronomy have such weight with Christ? A well summarized version of the Law? Eloquence? I have no idea, but I'd like to know. I'm also intimidated to read through more "law". But it also has the blessings and cursings chapters, which a professor in Bible college convinced me that the rest of the Old Testament hinges on (and it does! It's so cool!). I know there's good stuff in Deuteronomy, in fact all of it is God-breathed, which means it's all good. Just, will I be able to appreciate it?
5. As well, I've got another iron in the fire, and I'm contemplating the intentional life. Not Dr. Randy Carlson's on Family Life Radio, exactly. I've looked through his site and it's got a lot of really good stuff. But more specifically, I'm thinking about how to intentionally live out my life in Christ, how do I put into action the things that He teaches? I know that is the general gist of Carlson's program, but I find much of his information on his website more oriented to family life. I haven't yet figured out how to articulate the difference to me, but I'm working on it. More on that to come.
That's it. Pretty much. My life really does revolve around housework, Eliza, and my expectant child, doesn't it? But here's an extra tidbit (so I guess that's six?). For Valentine's, which my husband and I don't normally celebrate, he surprised me with a beautiful necklace. But it deserves a post all it's own, really. So I think I will try to share that tomorrow, picture and all.
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