Well, what a productive weekend. Wil and I painted. The computer room is done, Tiana's room is done except for the polka dots, and the family room is 3/4 done. I couldn't finish it because there are areas of drywall that they guys are still working on. So if it could be painted..it is painted. I am fairly happy with the colors. Wil picked a gray for the computer room and it is a little dark...the girls call it the dungeon room but we will set everything up and go from there. Tiana's room is funky and fun, just like her. The family room started a bit iffy. I wanted a dark red contrast against a taupey red but the taupey pink that I picked looked a little like a pencil eraser when I put it on but now that the red is on...it looks much better. The red is gorgeous. Tabitha is already picking out colors for her room. That will be next after we unpack.
They are supposed to be putting the floors in this week so we are coming closer and closer to the end of construction. So hopefully next week I will be busy unpacking.
We all got in the hot tub on Saturday...it was very nice. It looks like we have some jets that aren't working but that should be fixed when we put our claim in so I am not worried. It is heating and it sure was nice and relaxing. That is going to be one of my favorite places.
After painting, Wil started clearing land again. We have 2.1 acres but when we got here, there was only about 1 acre cleared, the rest is au natural. The weeds are 6+ feet tall. We can't use the lawn tractor because it seems that there are pockets of huge rocks and other trash so we are using a huge weed eater that we are borrowing with a steel blade and cutting it down. So one of my projects for this week is to walk the areas that he cleared, clear out the rocks and then use the push mower to mow it shorter so that we can see what is there for the lawn tractor. While he was doing that I was push mowing some of the areas we cleared last week. I started without gloves and now I have a large hole in my thumb from a blister that I didn't feel happening that ripped open.
We went to a Baptist church yesterday. It was a beautiful old building and I really enjoyed the pastor. But what I enjoyed most was it was their traditional service so we sang a bunch of old hyms including Jesus Loves Even Me. At one point I swear I heard my dads voice singing...what memories. I don't think Wil and the girls liked it as much...they didn't know any of the songs but we will see. They have a very active youth group it seems so it has a lot of promise in my opinion.
Hopefully I will have a new refrigerator tomorrow and then Wednesday is Wil's birthday so we will celebrate that. He has asked for lasagne and cheesy garlic bread so I will add that to my grocery list for today and order him a DQ cake. I am hoping to go swimming at least once or twice this week. We will see what the girls have planned.
Until next time, I will share the poem that I have framed that I found while unpacking. It really is so true of how I give things to God many times.
LET GO AND LET GOD
As children bring their broken toys,
with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God,
because He is my friend.
But then instead of leaving Him in
peace to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help,
with ways that were my own.
At last, I snatched it back again and cried,
"How can you be so slow?"
"My child" He said, "What could I do?
You never let it go."
Lauretta P Burns is the author and wrote the poem in 1957
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