Always Something To Do

It seems there’s always something to do these days, but I feel less and less like I’m falling behind, and more and more like I’m catching up. Still, the pace remains the same. I haven’t been getting to bed as early as I should, but whenever I try, I start thinking about some people going through so much in our church right now. We go to such a tiny little church, by most people’s standards, and it seems like there are fewer and fewer people to hold up in prayer the people who are dealing with some serious issues. One woman, younger than me, still in her first year of marriage, just had a cancerous brain tumor removed this week. Another woman is trying to figure out her medication for MS, and seems to be getting similar treatment to that of a lab rat. Some are battling with severe, severe depression, and still others are mourning the death of close family, and then of course the celebration of countless new babies in the church. For such a small church, we are definitely growing in one age bracket: newborns! Not to mention, my brother and sister in law are never far from my thoughts as they are adjusting to life with 2 little boys. Neither is my sister as she’s not to far away from delivering her 2 little girls.

So at night, when everyone in the house is in bed, I feel like it’s my only time to really pray. Everything is so quiet, and peaceful. Lena falls asleep on my toes, and life gets a little clearer. It’s so easy to fall into worry, and praying is a way to get rid of all of that cluttering worry. God has such a way of calming us down, if we only bring to him our problems.

This week is only half done, and I still have so much left to do, I wish it would slow down. My brother is coming to visit us from California this weekend, which is a treat. (He’s really coming for a wedding, but it just so happens he gets to visit us too!) So when he’s at his friend’s wedding, I need to use every moment to tie up all the loose ends for all the new things going on Nerdy Gerdy on first. I’m trying to have everything done and ready for a photo shoot on Monday, so I have time to get all the website things done before the first.

Unfortunately, Knut has talked me into watching t.v. with him after the kids have gone to bed, and I did not get to sew a few nights that I was planning, so my whole wish list of things I wanted done might not get done. Something on my wish list will have to be postponed, and unfortunately, it might end up being replacing the diapers that sold this last month. There are only 5 single diapers to do, and would not take me long to do. However, I think the rest of the month will be dedicated to finishing all the projects that were started. All the buttercup bags need the last step completed, and I need to finish the snap in soakers for the bamboo diapers, but that’s about it. One of my knitting projects is just so close to completion, that I may try to push that through too.

So it looks as though I may be short a few pockets and AIOs for April, and I’m thinking about just putting 5 diapers in the store a week late. I probably will. I have a custom order going out soon, too, and that will be good to get done.

I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up this pace this summer, as I’ll have gardening and canning/freezing added to my plate. That’s kind of why I’ve tried to stuff the store a little extra this month. I was hoping to get some lead time with that. I keep reminding myself, though, that I have 3 sets of hands to work with in the garden this year (Mine, Silje’s and David’s) and I need to make good use of that.

This is all getting so rambley, but I think that’s what I needed right now. I’d love to share more, too, about some adjustments in parenting practices lately that have really helped David, especially. I’ll have to save that for another post, though.