One Day
May 7, 2007 by Sarah
Filed under Read These!
For today’s Get Real Monday, the topic is One Day. Sharing one day in your life in pictures or words. I know you all will be waiting with bated breath to see what my exciting life holds, so here goes.
“Well, today I got up and went to the grocery store. Can you believe the price of water chestnuts!” Just kidding. That is for one of my blogger friends, you know who you are!
OK, really. I chose Sunday because I forgot to take any pictures on the other days. No, I mean we learned a great lesson at church that I wanted to share with everyone. So, we got up and got ready for church rather uneventfully. This is what it looks like many Sunday Mornings:
We were actually on time to the service. Here’s the fam going in:
My four-year Old Princess just had to wear a “beautiful dress,” my six (going on sixteen)year old had to wear her hip new outfit from the Gap (clearance of course) including hanging her ballcap on her belt loop. And my 18 month old wore the first clean thing we could find in the laundry basket. (poor third child)
The important lesson I learned? How to stay awake during the sermon when you’re on allergy medicine that’s making you sleepy.
- Chew gum
- Bite your lip
- Draw in the program, but make it look like you’re taking notes.
- Aw, forget it, just bow your head and look like your praying.
After church we went to this hole-in-the-wall looking Chinese restaurant with some friends.
You should have seen me explaining why I was taking a picture of it!
So, I took the girls back to the house for a nap, while my husband went to work on our new house, which will be ready “next week” (sure!)
It will not be getting a porch or a garage before we move in, but at this point, I’ll settle for electricity and running water.
Then, we went to our small group meeting from church, and learned more deep spiritual truths. In all actuality, it was great. A friend who has been battling breast cancer is almost done with radiation, and very close to beating the disease. Praise God!
After this, my husband went back to Monster House to work some more, and I gave the kids baths, read with my Kindergartener, and put them to bed. I happily left the dishes and the laundry for today. Maybe Pea will help me with the laundry.
Phew, it was tiring just telling you about it!
I hope you had a few laughs at a typical day in our lives. I think there is definitely value in sharing our daily lives with each other, because we can get caught up in the eloquent and deep writings on our blogs (well, yours anyway) and forget to be real with each other.
For more Get Real Monday posts, visit Randi at I Have To Say…
Hmmm… I will have to try this one! I think our life is pretty boring, but maybe I can get some funny things like you did. Pretty house, by the way!
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The funniest thing about this whole post is that in the first picture of the youngest crying, she’s holding a cell phone! Did her call get dropped? Or did she just learn that the Tetris game on the phone is just a demo and not the full version?
I can picture you in my mind at church, nodding off, head dipping and bobbing in rhythmic dance, throwing in an occasional “amen”. Very funny.
Tell Judd, to get back to work!
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I remember those days–my youngest is now 5.
Have done the allergy medicine thing. Ack! Sounds like a wonderful day.
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Your house is beautiful! I hope you get into it soon.
We have a hole-in-the-wall Chinese place here too and it is great. We go there quite often for Sesame Chicken and War Won Ton Soup.
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Thanks for visiting me! I enjoyed reading about your day too. You seem to be making time for the most important things in life!
Your new house is beautiful and you must be so excited!
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I’m always falling asleep on my jumpseat at work. Maybe those tricks will work for me, too!
Thanks for your comment and for stopping by my blog!
Kailani
An Island Life
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Hey Nice house looks good. Kids are something else aren’t they?
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I enjoyed your post, I’ll have to try doing a day like this. Maybe I’ll try to remember to take pictures tomorrow. It will be a crazy day…it’s funny listening to someone else’s story. I love your house…we hopefully will be getting into our new house the end of the month.
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I am so glad you stopped by to visit me, because I absolutely loved “meeting” you and seeing a day in the life of your sweet family!
Seeing your two oldest was so much like my two last year when they were 4 and 6…and my six year old sometimes seemed like 6 going on 16, too! (But now, she’s not trying to be so cool and being more like a little girl…interesting!)
I loved the picture of your littlest one waking up…
And how exciting about your new house being built! What a blessing!
I will be back to visit for sure…God bless!
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Looks like our Sundays start in a similar fashion;)
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I had to come see your Ava too!
She’s a cutie….love that first picture!
I had only heard the name Ava a couple of months before I had my baby. I guess it was one of the most popular names for 2007! Oh well! I still love it!
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Thanks for sharing a day in your life! It’s fun to see what other people regularly do–not too different from my life.
We’ve got a hole in the wall Chinese place that we enjoy, too.
XO,
Jill
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