| | Tim left yesterday; we rushed back from the airport in time to be late for a mystery dinner party. So far today i've gone to Kohls and Sunflower, hung out with Mildred, and started some laundry. Next i will marinate tonight's dinner, finish the laundry, go to Wal*Mart, and get some other housework (and maybe some homework?) done before i have to pick up Jonathan from work. Tomorrow i make jam. Saturday we play with friends all day. Monday through Wednesday should be pretty low-key, and then on Thursday we leave to go backpacking. We come back on Monday and my Mom comes to visit on Tuesday. Then after she leaves the following Tuesday, we will have about three weeks of regular life, and then 'becca comes to play. Then we'll have another week of summer before Jonathan starts school.
i'm so glad we can have so many batches of people playing with us... and we are having a very fun summer! But i think that by the time fall comes i'll be quite ready for it.
What do i want to do right now? BAKE COOKIES. (It's over 80º here, so i think i won't.) And work on next year's birthday list (never mind that i have completed only 4-6 goals from this year's list). i need to be a bit more organized.
Do you know what i wish? i wish i had nothing to do but be a wife. i struggle enough as it is with being organized and keeping myself on track as far as cleaning goes; all these extra distractions are pretty distracting. But i LIKE the distractions-- the cafe, the library, our various outings and visitors. Sometimes i just wish i had nothing to do but keep our home all day long. And why do i not have that opportunity? During the summer, things get crazy-- they certainly are crazy this summer, anyway-- but for the most part during the year, i really could spend a lot more time, effort, energy, and focus on being Jonathan's wife. i just finished reading the Little House books, and i think that their lifestyle seems so simple and wonderful. Sure, they had hard, backbreaking work to do-- but they could do it without interruption, because that was their whole life. Gardening in summer, food preservation in fall, sewing in winter, cleaning and planting in spring. Wash on Monday, iron on Tuesday, mend on Wednesday, churn on Thursday, clean on Friday, bake on Saturday, rest on Sonday. i love the seasonal tasks, the rhythm of life and work. It's very Benedictine.
i MUST learn some discipline. |
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