Extending your hands

Hello all...  Life as always is crazy around here.  Last time I updated Cabinet Maker  was till slow with work.  Well the Lord has certainly changed that!!!  Cabinet Maker now has 2 more kitchens to work on with a possibility of another on the horizon.  He also has a custom bathroom vanity to build and then will start working with my dad again in May.  So lots to keep him busy.  

Teenager is still eating us out of house and home, and growing like a weed. 

I repaired a Storm Troopers Costume last week and will possibly be making a X wing fighter costume soon for someone.  Why do I get the strange sewing jobs? 

Life is chaotic at best around here most of the time and I am attempting to learn how to be a attentive child of God, housewife, mom, part-time nanny and seamstress.  This is not going very well for my part.  I am trying to be available to Cabinet Maker any time he wants to talk or whatever but am not getting anything else done because of it.  How do you balance the needs of your work from home husband, home responsibilities, mom stuff, and various other things and manage to get everything done?  I haven't figured this one out yet and if anyone has any suggestions I NEED them!!  Trying to find my study/devotional time in the midst of constant interruptions has equaled reading and no studying for the last few weeks. I need total peace and quiet to absorb anything and really get my focus on the Lord, reading is good but total devotion is better. 

Today's Ponderings:

Proverbs 31:20

She extends her hand to the poor, Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy. 

So how are you doing as we work through Proverbs?  Are you able to attempt to reflect this Virtuous wife and her characteristics? 

How often do we back away from someone in need because we are too buys?  Do we cut short that phone call to the friend just needing to chat?  Do we remember a friend that seemed down and search them out?  Do we drop off that box of food to a struggling family down the street, or better yet a prepared meal?   Even when this virtuous wife is doing everything else she does in a day she still takes the time to extend her hand to those who need a lift up.  Take the time to encourage, feed, fold some laundry or just visit with someone in need. 

Today's Doings:

~Trying to get a new schedule in place so I can focus on my FATHER and my family in the correct order
~Various laundry, dishes and sweeping
~Bible Study I am determined today!!!
~Homemade bagels and loaf of bread
~Finish up my Pj's I have had cut out for a month now
~Start cutting out a new dress pattern
~Start a prayer shawl for a friend
~Being unrealistic with all I want to get done today!

Have a beautiful day today!!

Keep your focus on HIM in all you do and say

Work Ethic?

I have been busy once again.  The little red-heads' mom had to work a few extra days over the last few weeks, which means I was working too.  The days spent with them are full of homeschooling, sewing, crochet teaching, wood stacking, snowball throwing, campfire building, diaper changing (eww), puppy chasing and baby chasing.  Lots of fun to be had, lots of naps needed (maybe I was the only one needing one) and lots of kleenex being needed.  So of course they all had bad colds when I started the extra days and by the second week I had one as well, which of course turns in to a bronchial thing for me, sigh.  But I am starting to be on the mend and getting my house back in order. 

We went out and got a new to us car this weekend and I am sitting here waiting for the Cabinet Maker to get home with it.  A 2002 Grand Prix SE, in girly terms it is a sparkly maroon sporty car.  I like it!  If you want the technical stuff don't ask me.  We traded in our current car and the Lord blessed us with a really good deal on it.  So Teenager will now have more leg room and Cabinet Maker is happy with a non-family looking car. 

I have been sewing a bit lately, I was asked to make clothes for a couple of friends going to a Ugly  Disco, which means I was wrist deep in ugly polyester for a couple of weeks.  But they turned out great if you could get past the big collars and cuffs. 

Ponderings:

Proverbs 31:19
She stretches out her hands to the disstaff; and her hand holds the spindle.  Ok first a disstaff is what they used to spin wool onto and the spindle is how they would turn it into thread.  She isn't afraid to reach in there and get her hands dirty so to speak.  She teaches those in her household how to work by example, not by doing things for them but by doing things with them.  Are you teaching your children how to work?  Or do you clean their rooms, and pick up their toys?  Are you going outside and helping your husband chop wood, or shovel the driveway?  Or is FB your constant companion? 

Think about how you can show your children even the little tiny ones how to be good stewards of what they have and how to take care of it.  Help your husband with whatever you can show your children and your husband that you aren't afraid to jump right in.