My blog is such a tattletale.
It's the first to tell when I have become busy...too busy to blog.
I try not to let my life--my family's life--become too busy.
In fact, I have the word "Simplify" above my calendar as a reminder to not become too busy.
It reminds me of what my mom used to do. She would tape a notecard with the word "NO" above the telephone as a reminder not to say "YES" to everything she was asked to do. The funny thing is, I remember her standing there, talking on the telephone, with her hand covering the "NO" card and saying, "Sure! I'll do it."
You know...we are busy.
But it's a good kind of busy.
I love this time of my life very much.
I love the endless activity that comes with teenagers
and young children.
I love falling into bed at night completely exhausted.
I also love this reminder...this command...from Scripture.
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. (Titus 2:3-5)
So, enough about where I've been and why.
Now...let me tell you about this little bundle of pure sweetness!
I refilled my bird feeder last weekend and have found
this little guy out there several times a day.
He still has his baby bird fluff!
What I love about him is that he sits there and eats--
totally unafraid.
Usually, when the birds hear me at the sink inside this window, they scatter.
But not this one!
He just sits there and keeps on eating.
I just love him!
I will be sad when he loses his fluff and becomes more wary of me and my noise.
Even Charlie, with her noisy puppy-doggedness, doesn't scare this little one away.
Speaking of Charlie...I hear her moving around in her crate.
I think that it's time to put her outside.
And it's time to go shake William. He has an orthodontist appointment today. Then it's off to Walmart, back home to finish up our schoolwork for the week, and then out to clean up the yard a bit. Our homeschool group's youth group is coming over for an afternoon of recreation between our yard and our neighbor's yard (what a blessing to have them as neighbors, fellow homeschoolers--and in the same support group!).
Enjoying the pure sweetness of baby bird fluff...and the busyness of my life,