April 2020

OK, so it’s almost 9:40pm, and I’m just now starting today’s post. So it’ll be heavy on the photos (there are definitely a lot today), and light on the chit-chat…

Emerson woke up at 5:50am today, and that was terrible. I went to Publix right at 8am (looking for plenty of meats for the next couple of weeks), I wore my mask the whole time (which was not so fun), and Jeff and Emerson went through the drive-thru at Wendy’s and got us breakfast for when I got back home.

Jeff then went to Home Depot for a few more yard tools and some weed killer and ant killer, so Emmie and I did laundry, and then played in the front yard.

Oh, and she got a letter in the mail from her Sunday school teach today, with a page of stickers in it, that she loved!

This goofball, laying down while coloring! She kills me.

Then her face and hair looked like this 🙂

She took her own jeans off, because she didn’t like them…

Lunch for the littlest one, followed by Emmie’s nap time.

Then Jeff and I got busy doing more chores. I did a whole bunch of stuff inside, and Jeff did a whole bunch of stuff outside. I also set up just a few things for Easter decor, since it kinda snuck up out of nowhere this year… Jeff and I also forgot to eat lunch today, we were working so hard.

Emerson slept for two hours, and we got a lot done during that time. And then we all worked outside in the yard for just a little bit. And this is just two weeks after we cut down the banana plants (and I had to get stitches), and look how much they’ve grown already! They’re gonna be sooo pretty in another few weeks. These are one of my favorite things in our yard!

We found a second bird’s nest today, and this one the tiny little birdies have already hatched! These naked little things must only be a day or two old. So we made sure not to mess with this part of the bushes while we were working.

She loved watching Daddy dump the yard trash from the wheel barrow.

This crazy kid was eating this little poppable chips using Moana’s leaf to scoop them from the bag and into her mouth. What a goofball!

Then we went back over to Jeff’s parents’ house for “Easter dinner.” And Emmie did about 10 egg hunts through the night!

Bath time, turned her into a little monster-baby.

Followed by one more indoor egg hunt, and strawberry shortcake for dessert.

We almost always take Pretzel over to their house when we go, and look at him falling asleep in the car on the way home. So cute!

And I was DYING over the sky tonight guys!!! It kept changing every minute or two and I wanted to take like 10 pictures on our 20-minute drive across town, but this one I got at the Tennessee & Monroe intersection was gorgeous!

We read the Easter story at nap time and at bedtime today, and she was really sweet, asking good questions about where is Jesus and where is heaven. I told her there would be no sadness or crying or boo-boo’s in heaven, and her little eyes widened and she just honestly looked in awe. It was precious.

Tomorrow, during our church’s livestream, we are all taking the Lord’s Supper from home. So today at Publix I bought some cran-grape juice (figured I’d get something yummy we’d actually drink), and tonight I attempted to make some unleavened bread, based on a recipe our church shared.

I’ve never done anything like this before, and I had no idea what I was doing with the kneading, so my hands got super messy & sticky, and I had to have Jeff come over and keep sprinkling flour on my hands as I worked. And you can see I clearly made a mess all over myself too…

I think I had a little too much flour on them by the time I finished with all of that, because they were still pretty flour-y after baking. I literally wiped some of it off with a paper towel, but this is what they look like.

Oh well, that’s fine. It doesn’t have t be perfect, because it’s not about the bread, it’s about our hearts as we take Communion tomorrow.

Today was a great day, and I’m so thankful for my family!