feeling good

We have been observing lent this year again, and we are almost finished with the first full week.  It has actually been much easier this time, but I have been so tired every day this week...until today!  We have been doing a few fast days, and although I haven't actually felt crazy hungry on those days or anything, I have been completely drained of energy and fatigued and ready for bed at like 8PM.  I must have finally caught up (and gotten over my caffeine withdrawals), because today I have felt so so so good - much better than I have in a while.

Even in the midst of being tired, this week has been full and good.  I have had to spend a little bit more time up at the church doing bookkeeper duties, because the treasurer is still out of town, and apparently not getting back until April 1st now.  I didn't realize I would be doing as much for so long, but it has been okay.  Wednesday we had preschool in the morning and then ended up going to Wise Acres (a sort of intentional community in Indianola where some friends of ours live) for a last minute invitation to their weekly shared meal, and then we rushed home for youth group at our house again.  Two girls came, so we ended up just playing balderdash and chatting.  It was nice and relaxed.

Thursday morning I dropped the kids off with Jeremy's mom and then drove out to Bremerton to get more school stuff sorted out.  I'm registered for classes and ordered my books yesterday.  I stopped in the childcare area to talk with someone to see if there were any options I may have not heard about.  Turns out I spoke with the right person and it looks like as long as their is space, the kids will be able to be in a preschool class during the hours I need afterall.  I reworked my schedule again for that campus and it if it works out, they will only have to be there for just over 3 hours 4 days a week in the fall.  We are on the waitlist, so hopefully I don't have to come up with an alternative.

The other day, Jeremy came home with 4 garbage bags FULL of beautiful fabric samples from a lady he met washing her windows.  I called and thanked the lady and she actually has a ton more for me.  She works in some kind of embellishing business and these were all of her old samples she used for clients.  She is moving to Texas and was just getting rid of them.  Super high quality and beautiful stuff.  I can make soooo many things from this.  Some time next week I am going to go out and get the rest.  I just have to figure out where to store it.

I got inspired to clean out our office a little bit.  It has finally gotten warm enough the last few days that it's tolerable to be in there without freezing to death.  I did some purging and organizing and we moved a bookshelf.  I also finished up some projects that have been laying on my desk for months.  Hemmed some pants for Jeremy, and made up some more cloth wipes and diapers for Hailey.  One diaper I had to fix and two others (one shown in the picture below) have been cut out I just hadn't put them together.  They turned out really nice and I'm glad to be able to stretch how often I do the diaper laundry by another day now.

This morning we went out to Silverdale and ran a few errands.  We stopped by Goodwill and Shea found these awesome Buzz Lightyear wings for a few bucks!  Couldn't say no to that.  He was running around all night in them and when he found them he was so excited, he was almost crying.  At dinner he prayed, "I am very, very, VERY Thankful for my new buzz costume!".  Hailey had to try them out for a minute, so here is buzz and woody sort of posing.

With sunnier, longer days, we have been enjoying taking a walk after dinner each night.  The beach is always gorgeous no matter when we are there, but I love it just before sunset.  It's always so calm and quiet.  I am getting excited for summer!

And of course we have been out in the yard a lot!  I took out this old sweater that Shea used to wear when he was Hailey's age for fun and put it on her.  Its fun to see her in some of Shea's old clothes.  Hailey loves to be outside now and is constantly watering things with her little watering can.  She keeps herself very busy while I'm out gardening.

I moved 10 or 12 rose bushes this week to the other garden bed.  I cleared out where the roses used to be and treated the soil with lime and some organic fertilizer.  In a couple of weeks I can plant our peas!