Another late night last night, which is why my blog is late two weeks in a row. Please do forgive me, yesterday was a long day right from the get-go.
We started at church, where Eden sat fairly well the entire service, following along in the hymnal with the liturgy and hymns. Once we got to the readings, she stared at the insert for the OT and Epistle lesson. By the time the Gospel came around, she was done, handing me the insert and said, "Ok, I'm done listening". At least she's honest.
Lars, on the other hand, was a handful from the first hymn onward. He wasn't noisy, just busy. Really busy. And since our pew is so long without anybody at the other end (yes, it's OUR pew), it's hard to control both ends. However, sitting him on my lap is sometimes a curse, b/c he sees daddy and wants to go up and sit with him, which is what I fought from the sermon on. Thankfully, he was quiet and I had a hold of him for the most part. Standing during the last hymn, he finally wriggled free from my arms and landed in the pew in front of me. I would rather have busy than loud.
The preacher's folks left early Saturday morning on their Stallion trike for the long trek back to Michigan. They had been here the better part of two weeks, and Al & Dad were able to get many projects done around the house. As the photos show, they replaced heavy sod from the city's water project back into our front yard, they built a frame for the shade sail and put that up over the deck. They went for a truck load of gravel for the muddy space underneath the deck. Though it was a lot of work to wheelbarrow it in one at a time, that transformation was a huge benefit, and I wish we'd have done it sooner. The old sandbox was taken out and the rotten boards tossed out in the dumpster, while a new, much bigger box was built. It's now 9' x 5' and holds both kids, AND the dog, which was the major flaw with the old one. After it was built, we went to Gering for a load of sand and spent the rest of the day hauling sand. Since we'd had practice with the rock, the sand was nothing.
I hit a few garage sales on Friday & Saturday, looking for canning jars. I didn't exactly hit the jackpot, but did end up with about 25 quart jars, so that's a lot of tomatoes that I hope to fill in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, two of my plants toppled over in a light hail / heavy wind storm this past week and I spent an hour trying to tie them up to the fence and re-post them. While hammering in a wood post, my right arm got tired so I switched to my left. That was a mistake, I missed on the first hammering and it landed right on the top of my right hand. I have a very circular bruise there now. Just hope it was worth it in the end and that I have red tomatoes very soon.
Al & father took the trike to Sturgis on Thursday, since you can' t come this far with a bike and not go to Sturgis when it's the week of Sturgis. They left early in the morning and drove all around the Black Hills, hit Main St. of Sturgis, and drove home, arriving back around bedtime. They seemed to have a good time. I was really wanting to go with them and camp out, but it didn't work out that way.
Lars has had another crabby & fussy week. Went with Al yesterday after chruch to an Ordination/Installation in Morrill. While he was at the service, we went to the city park to play, but Lars was not in the mood and cried the whole time. Finally, he crawled back in the car and sat in his car seat until Eden was done. I had to stop at a store in Scottsbluff on the way home and that, too, was a mistake. Lars cried the whole time and tried to abandon cart several times while I had my back turned. Al was napping the car with sleeping Eden. Then, once we got home, Eden was wide awake and up until after 10:00 p.m. It was just 'one of those days' and I'm so thankful to be a stay-at-home Mom (more or less) so that I can accomodate my ornery children and get stuff done when they sleep in!
The rest of the week was pretty uneventful. I finally got a taste of driving the stallion around Bridgeport on Friday, chauffering the FIL (father-in-law for you who don't text) around the Lake, out to the rocks south of town, and to the grocery store, where we met several people who came over to check it out. I was cool for day. Well, part of a day anyway. It is very fun to drive and I told him not to wreck it b/c I wanted it in the inheritance. Apparently, Al told him the same thing a day before!
I have photos downloaded from the week and will get to uploading them right after I feed my kids breakfast. Eden has been wanting pancakes for three days, so I think today is the day. Now that the folks are gone, I have a lot of house work/ desk work that needs to get done and oddly enough, I have the ambition. Let's see if my children cooperate.
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