~Rachel and Family~: Jan 19, 2009

Monday, January 19, 2009

monday

Home all day! Wonderful! I'm usually at the office monday mornings but the kids are out for MLK day. I just didn't feel like taking them to the Corps and I honestly had more to do at home than there!

Paul is at the Corps all day to make up for our Caseworker who is on vacation and fill in the Thrift Store in which our manager has the day off. Mondays are a bear for Paul, so I try to make sure the kids are bathed and in their jammies, rooms cleaned up and dinner on the table when he gets home close to 6pm. (Wednesdays are my draining days... thank God for crockpots!)

The kids and I did a short study on MLK over the internet. I did 9 loads of laundry, (sort, wash, dry, fold, put away). The boys read books to the girls, Ann and I cleaned out and organized her room. Hannah just kept getting into stuff, so I put her in front of a Dora movie. I tackled the kids' momento boxes and finally got caught up on that. They each have a medium sized plastic tub with baby momentos and other special things. Over the last year, I think, I've just piled up the stuff on top of the closet thinking... "I'll get to it later". Well today must've been a year later because I found stuff from Elijah in Kindergarten and David in 3rd grade! How pathetic, Rachel! But now it is more rewarding to be done!! The kids and I played the Wi for an hour. It is so FUN! Even Hannah can swing the remote for baseball.

Fish (hake), brown rice and peas for dinner. I want to stay up tonight and watch John and Kate plus 8 at 9pm. It looked like a good episode. Paul can't believe I like to "chill" by watching another big, crazy family, but I love it!

Ann will finally get her bandages off tomorrow morning . She has been real good with them, but desperately wants it off. I think I'll just take her back to the Corps with me and Hannah can be at school by herself until we pick her up at lunch. Ann likes to use the chalkboard in my office to teach school to all her baby doll and stuffed animal students. She has a stick and everything to point to the alphabet that I write up there. She takes it so seriously! Hannah likes to teach school too, but she mostly likes to beat her students with the stick.

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Love the LORD Your God. These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers, thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."
Deuteronomy 6
-Jehovah God