I awoke again this morning before any of the kids.  I just couldn’t sleep anymore.  The house is quiet.  I love a quiet house.  It’s noisy all day long, which is okay too with my four plus one more tromping around, but the quiet.  Oh how I love the quiet.  Sometimes I stay up too late at night just because it’s quiet.  It’s the time my soul rests, no one is pulling at me and I can just be me, with God and my cup of coffee.

So, bye for now.
No photos to post today.

We’re doing something different with school this year.  I’m excited and a little nervous.  We’re participating in Classical Conversations this year.  But I’m also super excited that my sister is homeschooling her youngest (who really isn’t young and can drive for pete’s sake)!

But my heart is still longing for the beach!!!!

She isn’t a baby anymore.
She’s growing up.  She fights with her brothers.  She wants to wear her hair in a pony tail if I’m wearing a pony tail.  She wants her sunglasses if I have mine.  She broke her arm.  I broke my foot.  My mom and dad say she’s the spitting image of me at that age.

She’s opinionated.  She knows what she wants.
She very much like me.

God gave us Danielle because Daniel was a prophet in the Bible.  She is named after him.
While I was pregnant with My third born son God told me my daughter would sing for him.  So I naturally thought I was carrying a girl.  Silly me. 

She came last.  She is the 4th born in our family.
But she sings all the time and she loves Jesus.  Her prayers will hush the loudest of rooms.

She’s not a baby anymore but she’s still my baby girl and I love her.

…so you know we’re not at the lake.

But we’ve had lots of fun there this summer.  Two days at the lake are enough to make me want two days at home to recover, sleep in my own bed, not deal with sand and not have as many stinky dirty clothes to wash.

Big news at our house this week…..Baby girl got a new (handed down) bike with training wheels and she’s riding away.  I’ve not taken any pictures of her yet.  The heat outside has been horrible and they usually ride in the evenings when my broken foot has begun to throb.

The older boys have begun a few short non-practices as they call them.  I think it’s just an excuse to get together and throw the football.  But before long I’ll be sweating while I watch them play.  Come Fall Come!

What began as beautiful spring grass that needed to be cut almost every other day has turned into nongrass with brown spot.  It happens every year.

The crepe myrtles haven’t bloomed yet.  We have late bloomers.

My stitches are out.  I’m still wearing what we call my Darth Vader boot.  Two more weeks of that and then back for another xray.  My foot still swells a lot and there is no walking without the boot.  Sometimes on my heel a bit but that won’t carry me far.

God continues to bless our family as we have been able to take advantage of one part of the economic stimulus package……a 35% Cobra payment.  Yippee!!  All the rest is scary but I’ll take what I can.

More later from the sunny and hot south.