Courageous Joy

Hmmm…the days are blurring together.

Friday: Mike had the afternoon off (it was his day off). I think I already blogged about that day.

Saturday: I spent the majority of the a.m. working on “my” co-op order. I have to order on Monday. “MY” order came to $497.99 and so I had to do some rethinking and tweaking of said order.

Arielle had a birthday tea party. (Pictures to follow). While she, Stacia and I went to the tea party the boys and Mike went Mother’s Day shopping. It turned out that they were all starving so they went out to eat instead. They went to Chick-Fil-A and bothered Josiah. The big joke of the day is that Josiah asked for (and received) Mike’s ID. Oh yes…and Josiah got a big kick out of some “looser” stealing the flowers off the table to give his mother on Mother’s Day.

A local friend – John and family – plowed up 2 acres of his property. He had invited us to come plant a garden. We went out Sat. evening with corn, watermelon, red potatoes, cantaloupe and carrot seed. The guys strung out very straight rows (my gardens are always more free-spirited but I guess this looks nice). They then laid out and installed drip tape. John has a well and this will drip water to all the hungry seeds. After they got it all laid out John went in to dinner. We planted. We ended up with 8 rows of corn. John commented to me, “De’Etta – after this all produces someone has to EAT it all”. I don’t think he has a clue how much young men eat…and I currently have 3 of them. We ended up with 3 rows of cantaloupe, squash and watermelon, 8 rows of corn, 2 rows of red potatoes and 2 rows of russets….John has some cooler stuff planted closer to his house and plans to plant carrots and such closer to the home. I finally assured John and Mike that if we couldn’t eat it all we could either 1. visit the farmer’s market, 2. give it away at chapel, 3. open a stand or 4. contact Heather (produce co-op organizer) and offer it free to the produce co-op.

I lost “my” co-op order 3 times. ARGH. I finally got my order down to $700. Hmmm…that seems to have been going the wrong way. I finally realized that I had about $250.00 of splits on my order. I still haven’t downloaded group orders because I know one lady was putting in an order but it doesn’t show up on the web. I’ll have to call her this a.m. and see what she wants and then put together the group order early this a.m. That is not the way I plan to do this – but it’s the way it will work this time. {G} I plan to have our order done on the weekend before it is due.

Sunday: I spent most the day on the phone it seems. Nah, we had church. We had lunch. THEN I spent the day on the phone (my dad, my mom, Mike’s sister Rebecca, Bre, Krista and Mike’s mom – though by the time Mike reached her I was comatose and didn’t talk). We watched Chicken Little – I discovered that we’d eaten nearly 5#’s of popcorn and I need to add that to my co-op order. I was thinking about getting the 25# bag but for $ reasons will get the 5# bag again. Mother’s Day pictures to follow. I finished up Bible Study for the week. Now I need time to compose notes and thoughts for Tuesday night.

It’s now 4:30 a.m. on Monday. I finally got Stacia back down and I’m going to see if I can catch a couple of hours of sleep before I try to get a bike ride in. I have a ton of random thoughts I’d like to develop and share…but I think I’d better get some sleep. This many sleepless nights in a row tend to lead me to migraines.

Today at 1:30 I have a meeting with the school district about future care for Nolan. Pray that it all goes well. I’d love to hear that we need no more therapy but I suspect we’ll need more. I’m not sure if I want him to continue through the summer or take the time off…please pray that whatever is best for him is accomplished at the meeting.