Seeking God Knows What

I was up early today, 5 AM early, just because I woke up and could not fall back to sleep. And, apparently my self doesn’t seem to care since it is now 11 PM and I’m awake. At least, getting up early, I managed to get some laundry done and I also decided since I was awake and in the basement doing laundry, I might as well start sorting and organizing the piles of accumulated stuff. But I only got halfway done. So that room is now quite disorganized and I probably won’t get back to it until Tuesday at the earliest, when it is 900 million degrees outside and we are sweltering in our non a/c house and the only refuge is our basement rec room, which I find slightly creepy. Don’t ask me why, maybe it is because there are no daylight windows and it has dark paneling and bad fluorescent lighting, I do not like to be in there for long. Plus it never feels clean even if I’ve vacuumed it. Hmmm… maybe I’ll paint it white and then I might feel less claustrophobic and dirty from being in there. Then again, I’d probably get high on paint fumes

Of course, our house is entirely in chaos as it seems that when one area is “under construction”, I think oh, forget it, I’ll tidy up/clean when that project is done. But the bathroom floor is coming along. T has finally replaced the nasty subfloor problems and started laying the new floor, which looks very nice. I do hope that the humidity doesn’t prove to be a problem in getting the floor to stay adhered. Some tricky trimming is ahead to get it to lay right around the tub. And then we need to sand and repaint all the trim work, and cauk (or is it caulk?) around the tub. At the rate, we are going, it’ll be another two weeks before we are fully back in business. Fortunately, we also have a half bath on the main floor, and this shower stall oddly located in the laundry/storage room in the basement- next to the furnace. Trust me, everyone asks, “Why do you have a shower stall there?” when they see it.

I also got my walk in (see I AM trying ) before getting ready to leave for church at 8:15, so I could be in the nursery for the 9 AM service. T took Widget to the park and then came to church, so we could go to the later service together. I do not, unless absolutely necessary, like having Widget in the nursery with me, as she doesn’t want me to help take care of the other kids and she is needier when I am there than she is otherwise. So I do nursery and they come to church later.

Today was VBS Sunday, which made the service rather wild and crazy but fun. Last year, VBS Sunday was the second time we had gone to church there. And let’s just say seeing the pastor with a supersoaker spraying the kids up front and the congregation made rather an impression. The passion this church has for impacting the lives of the nearly 750 kids that attend their VBS program is amazing. I stood in church today watching those kids celebrate the love of God and the difference a belief in Christ can make in people’s lives and seriously felt almost overwhelmed by it, in a good way though. I pray that as Widget grows, she will celebrate and be strong in her faith from the get go. I never want her to lose sight of God and His love and grace as I did.