Sugar Bend Farm

Saturday morning

6:56 AM, 2006-Oct-28 .. 1 comments .. Link

I just read a wonderful post on a friends blog, go here to read it. It is a great reminder of what our priorities in life should be. Many times with obligations, family responsibilities, jobs and other things pulling at us, we neglect the very thing that is most important.

Well, the upcoming week is going to be something of a challenge to me. Both of my girls are leaving Sunday to go home with my parents for two weeks. So it will just be my husband, myself and Noah here. And my husband will be working long hours this coming week and next weekend is his weekend to work, so Noah and I will have some long, lonely days on the homestead. I know it will be difficult for me. Lauren was just at my parents for two weeks, then they came for a visit last Friday and will be going back Sunday, taking both back with them. Megan had planned to go with them, but at the last minute we decided due to some things going on here, to allow her to go back with them also. I know she is excited, because...well she has a special friend that lives not to far from her grandparents. I hesitate to say boyfriend, because, well, because I don't want to think about that yet, but anyway. He was in Arkansas Thursday and Friday with his grandparents visiting a church about 2 hours from here. So I drove with her over there on Thursday night to see him and meet him myself. She was very happy and is excited that she will be seeing more of him while at her grandparents. His father just became the pastor of a church near my parents. He was the pastor of a church in Southern California for 12 years, then moving to Missouri to work in the home office of the church organization. Now he has taken the church in Louisiana. The young man that Lauren is "talking" to, also feels the call to the ministery. Lauren has herself always felt a calling to the ministery and possibly the mission field. So I am praying that God will move for her, and direct her in the right way. She told me the other day that she had decided when she graduates next year that she wants to go to school to get a two year rad tech degree. I was thrilled, because I have been hoping that she would chose something in the medical field. So we are praying that God continues to direct her in His ways.

My Meggie; oh my Meggie. I will miss her so. She is my spunky red head! She has never been away from me for very long. I have had to leave her with my parents a couple of times when my husbands job was moving us and we had to go look for a new place to live in the town we were moving to, but not two weeks!!!I don't know how I will stand two weeks without her exuberance and energy to fill my days. She is such a wonderful child that enjoyes to the fullest but also gets feels each emotion so deeply. So when she is upset, she is very upset. When she found out that her sister was going also, she got very upset. This was suppose to be "her" trip and she wanted to do it alone this time. So we had to talk to her and try to get her to understand that it wouldn't take away anything from her if her sister went with them also. That her sister would be to busy with friends and other things and she would still be able to enjoy the trip even with her going. I am not sure that she is convienced yet. Although it is going to be a long lonely time without the girls, I am going to try to use the time creatively and do some writing that I have been wanting to do. Since I won't have to do school everyday, then my task will just involve Noah and household and animal chores, I can let my mind run free and work on some of the stories that have been growing in the back of my mind. Hopefully I won't get a case of creativity block and not be able to accomplish much.

Well, I see the sun coming up and I am still lying in bed typing on this laptop. So I suppose I should get up and start my day. I had planned for the family to take a ride through the hill to see the color changes, but my parents and the girls will be trying to get packed and ready for the trip tomorrow. So we will be busy with laundry and packing. Please be in prayer for me over the next week or so. I will need it.

Don't forget Day light savings time for those of you that it applies to. Tonight is the night to fall back. So enjoy the extra hour tonight.