Nuggets Along the Trail: Labor Day Weekend

Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Labor Day Weekend

Jacob & Kate and a few others left Friday afternoon for a wonderful yg weekend in Silverton, OR.

Tori & Ben and a few others left Friday evening for a wonderful yg weekend in Peachtree City, GA. They got the excitement of watching our van flip to 100000. That’s a lot of miles!

In spite of the heat, we had a great time at Wildlife Prairie Park on Monday. We waited a few minutes so Kate could go with us. Jacob stayed home to work on his truck.

Always so fun to watch little ones’ eyes as they see new things like wild animals.

Bats!

This made us appreciate Dave’s pristine lake even more…

Henrietta the groundhog.

Elk to the left, buffalo to the right.

Lunchtime!

The kids thought the gollywhopper had gotten smaller, imagine that…

Home for naps, and then Levi’s came back for supper. Little Flint was so happy to lay and kick!

And that was it for Labor Day Weekend 2018. Which means summer is officially over…

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Mom-isms

When you've got a lot of irons in the fire, sometimes you're gonna get burnt.
Much gain comes to him who hustles while waiting.
Good intentions produce little.
Efficiency is utilizing effective but careful shortcuts for the sole purpose of making more time for the next productive pursuit or service to others.
Laziness is utilizing shortcuts, careful and effective or not, for the sole purpose of making more time for the next selfish or nonproductive pursuit or activity.
Never try to multi-task while giving haircuts.
Carelessness hurts.
I've never met a mess that can't be cleaned up.
God made dirt not to hurt.
When you go on a walk, take gloves and a bag for trash.
Shortcuts usually aren't.
A job done right has been done twice.
When sick children are almost better, we always regret taking them anywhere.
When sick children are almost better, we are always glad we kept them home.