Our Daddy is a Pastor. Our Mommy is a SAHM, juggling the kids, homeschool preschool and preparing meals for our food allergy home:) Anna is 5 and loving homeschool as well as caring for her baby dolls, riding her bike and being a little girl! Christopher is 3 and is the definition of "all boy" although he does love the ABCs, dirt, trucks, anything BOY and playing with his sisters. Lydia is 2 and is very sweet, cuddly, silly and tough (she has to be with having her brother)!
We enjoyed our trip to the cotton gin this morning:)
Brian and I enjoyed the trip as well!! We've been wanting to go to a cotton gin for a while now, so it was fun for the whole family to go together!! Since it was soo loud Lydia pretty much stayed in Daddy's arms:)
Here is one of the machines that separates the seeds, hulls and waste/dirt from the cotton. The kids stayed WAY back... and it was very loud!!
One of the highlights was to feel the cleaned cotton! It was amazing how soft it was and even more amazing that all the cotton is used to make so many of the items we use everyday!!
I'm hoping to sit and talk about the trip with Anna. I'm also brainstorming ideas of how to extend the trip into an activity or "project" that will help her (and maybe Chris and Lydia) remember some of the information we learned!
I've never been so surrounded by crops and farm-life before living in our little county and town! I love learning about lives of our farmers and about the crops. One season though grips my heart, like no other....
The season where the cotton pops out of the "kernel" and the leaves are defoliated so the fields of cotton look like fields of snow.
But to me, it gives me a visual of a harvest!
Luke 10:2 comes to mind...
Ask the Lord of the harvest, to send out workers into his harvest field."
And this verse and sight reminds me not only to PRAY for workers (in foreign field and neighboring towns) but to BE a worker in my own home and town!!! Ahh, cotton season... the beautiful reminders!
I thought this was interesting, Brian thinks of THIS verse in relation to the cotton and it's color!!
Isaiah 1:18- "Come now, and let us reason together,"Says the
LORD," Though your sins are as scarlet,They will be as white as snow; Though
they are red like crimson,They will be like wool."
1. That I could be feeling the baby moving at almost 14 weeks??
It seems at night with a quiet house and some time to put my feet up, I get this strange feeling in my belly. I thought I felt Anna pretty early in my pregnancy... but of course the Dr blew it off as a crazy preggo lady idea... grrr
Anyway, for now I'll enjoy the time with my feet up:) And if it is Baby, I'll be glad to feel Baby's movements more strongly in the weeks to come:)
2. That my non-conformist is conforming??
Yes, my little Lydia decided to wear the Puggles shirt!! For 2 months she's been rejecting it but today was different, she actually agreed to wear it!! I'm totally biased, but she was the cutest little Puggle... with her little shirt, non matching little circly ribbon bow and her Dora backpack with her BIble and extra clothes:) Too cute:)
3. That we really did lose TWO library books??
So for the past 4+ weeks we have been ransacking the house - the bedrooms, closets, under the beds, and their backpacks.... everywhere it seems. Then we attacked the van and the car. But NOTHING!!
I'm usually super anal about library books... they are brought home in the libary bookbag, they sit in the library book bin, they are read in the living room (preferably on the couch) and returned to the bin after reading time (or sat on the end table if it's a good one to save for reading time after lunch).
But for weeks now... nothing! So this week I finally just paid the fine... as disappointing as it was. Do I get the "library book loser" badge now??
4. That my son is actually trying to redecorate??
Tonight in the girls' room I noticed some of their decor was a bit off... 
Chris must have noticed my puzzled look and offered the explanation, "I was trying to be a wall climber, but I broke that and this [pointing to the crooked pieces]. So then I fixed them, see [pointing again to the crooked pieces]?" Lovely:)
Daddy did restraighten them this evening.....
I was amused at the picture. Next to the "B" was 2 splotches on the wall. It's soo hard to see normally, but the camera picked it up.... that's where Christopher jumped into Lydia's crib one afternoon and decided to COVER her, himself and two places on the wall with Chapstick:) Lovely... I know:)
Thanks for sticking around for all the randomness today :)
You'll never meet a little girl who loves to paint her nails as much as my Bug!!
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