Courageous Joy

LOL.

I woke up this a.m. (actually after 1 hour of sleep) and felt that I had not blogged “forever”…it’s only been ONE day! I’m not sure why it feels like it has been forever.

Thursday, after we picked up the van we went to the pool with Becky and her family. The kids had fun…Jared helped me watch Zander so that I could stay in the kiddy pool with Stacia and Becky and her kids. Near the end Michaela and Zander were having a blast in the big pool. Regardless, it was fun to get some Mom talk in. I’m sad when I think of them moving in September.

Friday began with produce co-op. What a hoot! I usually have so MUCH food and this time I have barely anything. I can see what a huge difference having young men in the home makes. Josiah and Jamin have called several times but I’m always at the pool or something and miss their call. Waaaa!!! The last update we got was “Porshe and Jamin are in the plane; I’m waiting to fly out”. This came via Jared. I said “Porshe and Jamin are in the plane? What does that mean?” Jared said he got the sense that they were flying out of Hoonah 2 at a time. He also said it seemed that the kids weren’t real excited about this and wished they had taken the ferry out. They loved the ferry ride in. The boys and Porshe will spend the next week in Anchorage. Porshe has lots of family to visit with and the boys are staying with their old youth leader. He has plans to take them Halibut fishing, Salmon fishing, overnight camping/fishing…are you seeing a theme here? I’m really, really hoping they get some Halibut to replenish my stock!

After produce co-op I headed to Albertsons to buy a few things that didn’t come in on the truck. Then Stacia, Nolan, Arielle and I headed over to Adrienne’s house to pick up some honey. We visited there a bit.

The rest of the day was spent receiving SAGE orders over the phone, researching organic chocolate/carob chips, doing some laundry, preparing for company and researching cloth diapers. These things have come a LONG way since I bought my first batch over 21 years ago. Shhhhh….don’t tell the boys and Mike but the organic diapers look really good to me….and they are sure to give me no end of teasing over this. I’ve been blessed with two friends that have let me see and borrow a couple of types. Adrienne loaned me a Bumpkins all in one…..I’ve been using it and washing it over and over and can see that more than one diaper will be needed to make this endeavor successful. Friends on line have been a great help as well – I had no CLUE there were so many really easy options available these days. Becky has some fuzzy bunz she’ll let me try. I hear of this brand quite a bit. I think I’ll get some variety. We’ll see…..

We had Ch. Candidate David Blevins over for dinner. The family watched *Secret of NIMH* while I slept…which was GOOD because Stacia woke up and didn’t go back down until 6 a.m. What is UP with this little one? I’d best see if she is cutting another tooth. I’ve heard Mom’s tales of her sleepless nights with me, and I’ve had sleepless nights with the other 8, but this one really does this quite often. LOL Maybe this was the “mothers curse” that Mom bestowed on me? I did spend a lot of time on eBay last night checking out diapers, and read some articles from a link a friend sent me from *Unless the Lord*….

That’s it for the past two days. The van hasn’t died since we got it back but we are dealing with Ford now to see what they are going to do about this. If they can’t say for SURE what is wrong and fix it; Mike thinks they need to give us a different vehicle. They seem to think extending our warranty would solve the problem????