We successfully stayed home today! We saw no one, went nowhere, and the one job we needed to do didn’t get done, as the back wheels broke off of our mower. Nice, I know. We did accomplish one thing! Brady and i chopped up a ton of veggies and fruit, and I made a new recipe for supper. The plan was honey mustard chicken, shredded, and thrown into wraps with lots of veggies. Yummy, right? We love salad with honey mustard dressing in it, and often add chicken, so we figured it was just a yummy staple salad of ours rolled into a wrap. However, the honey mustard chicken was NOT honey mustardy AT ALL. I’m pretty disappointed, actually. It cooked up nicely, and it was a very nice, tangy teriyaki chicken recipe, but it was not the fresh honey mustard I was going for. C’est la vie. Everyone liked it, even the kids, so I’ll likely make it again. But I won’t give up on the honey mustard chicken I’m actually going for.
We ended the evening with a bath for the kids. They hated the hair washing, as usual, but the playing got super rowdy, and splashy, and messy, and LOUD. When it was over, bedtime was about a half hour away, and they were just FLYING through the house. We worked for the next half hour to calm them down a bit so bedtime wouldn’t be so hard, but they were SO happy, and so playful TOGETHER!!, which isn’t always the case. They were rushing at each other with their arms spread wide, catching each other in hugs and tickles and loud piercing squeals. It was SO wonderful to witness. After that, bedtime got a little bit hard, but not too terribly bad. They’re laying in bed now, talking away, but I can’t blame. I love hearing them talk about how great their day was.
Now, as I blog, I’m getting mildly apprehensive about the week to come. I have a really nice amount of stuff going on. I say this with genuine warmth in my heart. I LOVE this pace!! LOVE! Its saving me from the cabin fever that I sometimes feel in summer, and its keeping my mind busy while I wait for our house to sell. But on that subject, THAT is why I am stressed! We are having an official appraisal tomorrow, and then we have to severely deep clean the house and get it beautified for new listing pictures. It was so good so recently, but I feel like everything has run amuck and we have to start all the way back at the beginning. Sigh. not my favorite place to be more than once. But so that is feeling a bit overwhelming, mostly because I just don’t want to do it. I’m not a fan of cleaning, in case you didn’t already know. If you’ve been over, you know this. BUT anywho, I’m sure we’ll get it done, even if that means cleaning into the night every evening.
Ro is almost done his milk and then we’ll run a bath and maybe clean something? Probably not tho. Maybe we’ll go sit in the wading pool in the backyard instead. That would help our weary bodies rest and relax before the upcoming week!
Lastly, if those of you who pray would like to pray for us specifically, please pray for our upcoming appraisal and new steps we’re taking to sell our house. Its been incredibly overwhelming and difficult, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. But I know there is an end up ahead, whether its in sight yet or not. It will come.
Promised land, baby!!