Busy, Busy, Busy

I can't believe how busy we've been this spring. Damien & I innocently thought that moving into a smaller place would simplify our lives, but although I may spend less time cleaning, everything else seems to be speeding 100 miles/hour. It seems that for the past 2 months we've been constantly going, going, going. The good thing is that I like (to an extent) being busy and having lots to do. But every once in a while I like to have a weekend of downtime. We've been trying to go out of town for the past couple of months just for the weekend but so far we haven't been successful. The following sums up the past couple of months:

4/20-5/1: Berean's Missions conference and visiting family. Although it was a whirlwind 10 days, it was so nice to visit with family and share our new ministry with family an friends. We went to the NO Aquarium, had a Crawfish Boil, celebrated Orin's 2nd and Pops birthday, spent time with extended family and spoke at multiple church groups.


5/2-5/13: Christina and Rob visited. It was great to have Aunt Christina in town for a couple of days all to ourselves. We ended up spending a lot of time running errands which is such a huge help for me (it's amazing how much an extra pair of hands makes trips to the store go more quickly). It also reminds me of how sad it is to live away from family. Orin so enjoys when family visits. He falls in love with them so quickly. It also makes me sad because or family is not having the privilege of enjoying our children.


5/13-5/26: We house-sat/dog-sat for some friends. It was sort of nice to have an entire house completely to ourselves. We cooked big breakfasts, had the kids sleeping in their own rooms and Damien had a much shorter commute to work. It was also nice for the boys to be able to take baths together before bed (at home I give baths during the day since the kids who live here go to bed very early). I had my last MOPS meeting of the year which was a little sad since I won't be on leadership next year (due to the fact that, Lord willing, that we won't be here for the entire MOPS year next year). We also spent these two weeks hunkering down and trying to get our Spring newsletter out and sending letters to some churches in the area. Micaiah was since for about 4 days with a pretty high fever (104) which Damien caught a few days later. We also had some missionary friends visit who we hadn't seen in a couple of years. With all of that on top of church activities/VBS meetings, we were busy, busy, busy.