Monday's Making it a Home...37 minutes

What does making it a home look like? Today it looked like waking up at 6:09am. Today is the first day of a routine that Dustin and I started. Hoping it turns into a lifestyle for the 2 of us. We both set our alarm for 6:09 (we carefully calculated how much time we would need and went backwards and landed at that odd time. If we had calculated we needed one more minute we would have set the alarm for 6:08 but no point in doing it if we didn't need that time, huh?

We woke up and each had a few minutes of prayer time by ourselves. We then joined together for a time of prayer together, out loud, pouring our hearts to God for us, our marriage, our family, our church and our jobs. Then it was on to the family room. We did a 20 minute work out! Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred. We both need to get fit and this is the first time we did something like this together. Then it was on to showering, getting ready for the day and feeding a little baby.

After Dustin left, I was able to make some coffee and sit down and go over the bible study for this Wednesday's night small group. By the time Anna Beth was up and about, I was in a great place mentally to bring on the day. I felt confident that I could take today on and all that it brought. I think a huge part of that came from my prayers this morning asking God to order my steps and to PLEASE PLEASE guide me. Give me wisdom ad show me how to be the mom Anna Beth needs!

Its only 10:30 right now and we have had a wonderful morning. I made us banana waffles and we did an arts and crafts project she has been begging me to do. Its an annoying little craft that has 5,000,000 pieces and is for ages 5 and up. It is the kind where you put beads on a peg board and iron it so they fuse together. Her YaYa bought it for her and I was going to save it for a later day but she found it and has been begging to do it ever since. Today I surprised her with it. Poor thing probably thought she would never be able to do it based on the number of times I told her no last week. She was so very excited. Even though she wasn't able to do the craft all on her own because of the difficulty level, we used it as a chance to learn to sort colors and to count by actually touching objects instead of just pointing to pictures in a book.

I timed our bead project. Start to finish was 37 minutes. I probably spent 37 minutes last week saying no. Now we have an owl made of beads on our fridge. When she sees it she will probably remember being so excited to make it and remember how fun it was to sort all the beads. When I see it, I will be reminded not to say no all the time and that 37 minutes spent with my daughter making memories is priceless and when she is grown up and married I would give anything to have just another 37 minutes with her.