Weekend

Saturday morning consisted of laundry (of course), a few windows, and some kitchen jobs for girls and me, taxes for Tori & Dad, and various and sundry repair jobs for all boys. Jesse took off and checked a fence line which I assume got the needed repairs. After Josh did a few cleaning jobs for me, he vamoosed with Jesse or Jacob to help with their more manly jobs. Let’s see, what all got repaired? Well, the dump trailer is finally working again. The kids’ swingset on the backyard playset is finally fixed and ready for spring. The back door handle which had cracked off has been replaced and nicely works again. Ben did some work on one of the four-wheelers and spent some time taking apart and cleaning up the grill a bit which is scheduled for repair this week. I think those were the main goals for the day; but with all those repair jobs came a few (3 or 4) trips to town to get supplies. Late afternoon Dad & I headed to Morton to do a few errands too; one of our stops was to get a personal pan pizza for Josh which was a prize for the reading program he’s doing. Good job Josh! Then while the other kids (minus two girls who left early to babysit for cousins) had frozen pizza, Josh got to have his own personal pizza. And chips. And Mountain Dew. Of course. Meanwhile, frozen pizza for kids means Dad & I were gone – we really enjoyed Kaiser Easter at U. Don’s which was Grandpa&Grandma and siblings only. This tradition started about three years ago and I for one really enjoy it. Don’t get me wrong – I love the full family gatherings too, where there’s all 60 or so of us and a lot of wonderful little greats running around, but this annual meal is kind of a special evening where we can visit without interruptions from littles. Blessed evening as usual. And Saturday was also Ben’s 15th birthday. Oh my how the years fly. Hard to believe he’s 15 already.

Sunday morning we had an excellent lesson in All Church Sunday School. Nate has horses and works with them often; he had many comparisons between horses and our spiritual walk. A couple nuggets to share. As every horse’s bridle looks a little different based on the horse’s needs, so every Christian’s walk looks a little different based on the Christian’s needs. No such thing as a cookie-cutter bridle or a cookie-cutter Christian. Also – as the hands holding the reins are the most important part of the horse’s bridle, so the hands holding the reins of our life are the most important part of our life. May we all put our reins in the hands of the One Who created us. Who better to guide us than our Creator, indeed?

Then also it was nice to have a visiting minister for the morning service. Dewayne’s reminder that ‘We have not because we ask not’ is still on my mind. Of course we all know that, but the reminder is always good because I for one can forget that so soon. Singing was beautiful, fellowship was sweet. How blessed we are to worship freely.

Home to get ready for a houseful of guests. Wonderful evening but only one picture to share.

And that was our weekend.