Plans :)

 

Kaitlyn's 

1st time helping make something with mommy.

I think she most enjoyed eating them :)

" Upon arriving at such besides after a late-night awakening, mothers have found anything from coughing mouths, to runny or bloody noses, to dirty daipers, to wet beds. to vomit-soaked sheets, to tear filled faces. This motherhood can be very messy business.....

Proverbs 14:4 "when no oxen are, the manger is clean, but much increase comes by the strength of the ox." In a nutshell proverbs 14:4 teaches that enduring and worthwhile gain comes only at the cost of draining upheaval.... This proverb is not a plea for slovenliness, physical or moral, but for the readiness to accept upheaval, and a mess to clear up, as the price of growth.... Oh, I suppose a mother could keep things "neat as a pin" if her goal was to have just one of two "low maintenance" children of the "sheltered" variety to whom she selfishly communicated, "Just go to your room and don't bother us." But if a mother is bent on raising up mighty children, capable children, bold, brave, daring, adventuresome, God-fearing, dominion minded children who go out and turn the world upside down, MAKE MESSES. But the woman of dominion is willing to pay the price of domestic upheaval for the prospect of kingdom profit. There will be more corner cobwebs than you's like, because instead of obsessively cleaning, you'll be nursing, teaching to read and ride bikes, and telling bedtime stories." by Mark Chanski Womanly Dominion

Game Night

 This has been another week of sickness in the Petit household meaning lack of sleep, to-do lists not getting completed, schedules changed, and homeschooling interrupted. So basically not going as I had planned!!! After reading the above quote in Womanly Dominion I am reminded that it is the messes, the times of  stopping what your doing to give a hug of comfort, the fun game night that made such a mess of crumbs afterwards, the cooking with your 1 yr old and watching while she tries to put the flour in the bowl but ends up dumping the whole thing on the kitchen floor and the soping up of water after your husbands games with the boys leaves them laughting hysterically because daddy tricked them and put them in the bath with all their clothes on!!!! It is those things that makes my job so amazingly wonderful... 

So as I sit here a reflect on all that GOD had planned for me this week I can say thank you.. for changing my plans!!!

Yeah you never know what crazy thing us Petit's will do on any given day...  :)