Monday at Home

Well, okay, the title is getting a little used-up at this point... We haven't had so many days at home since... well, we've NEVER had this many days at home! It has been wonderful to be able to just spend time getting to know each other as a family, though. What a wonderful blessing to BOTH be on "m-/p-aternity break" this month. Not many young families get to spend so much time together. (Actually, most couples don't get to spend as much time together as we do, anyway-- Work, play, and rest are ALL just the two of us, so sometimes we feel pretty blessed to not have killed each other yet!)

But we digress... Today was, as the title suggests, spent mostly at home with Isaac. Daddy worked still more in the courtyard, and visited another nursery in a nearby town to see if they had more goodies for the garden. That turned out to be a bust of a trip, but he did get the grass seed planted. The rain is currently watering it for us, which is indeed the wonderful thing about the rainy season.

Mommy took care of some more preparatory work at the Hospital for the team coming in this weekend. Although they have known since January about it, it is always good to refresh their memories (sometimes daily!) as the time approaches to be sure that they remember to be ready. This team has a lot of potential to get some great (and greatly needed) surgeries done, with all of the experience and relationships that they have down here already, so we want to be sure to help that along as much as possible. Please pray that things continue to go smoothly for the Wichita Falls team. We are looking so forward to seeing them again!

Isaac's big chore of the day was having his picture made... a few times, as you might imagine. The outfit he is wearing is one that Matt's mom hand-made for Matt to be baptized in. Matt was bigger than Isaac when he wore it, and we will probably try to get better pictures later when it fits better. But today Isaac is the same age as Matt (19 days) when he wore it, so we thought it would be neat to compare. We'll have to get Mom/Grandma Bell to send the pics from Matt's baptism sometime to look at.

The other picture is, of course, after the rain started this afternoon... Which often leads to "siesta" time around here lately! Daddy was up early this morning taking care of Isaac so that Mommy could sleep in, and this picture being posted is the thanks he gets for that?! Hmmm... (Or maybe it has more to do with him declaring that Mommy is now officially in charge of making sure we keep taking new pictures to post... either way!)