We're at the half way point for our current ministry trip!!!! Five weeks down, five to go. Paul has been very busy in preaching six days a week, but the kids and I get a lot of time to ourselves so we tend to bring projects on trips to try to get them accomplished. Some of things we have at home like piano lessons, youth group, Joy Club, and close friend visit, are missing, so this is a good time to find satisfaction in projects and never have we had so many interesting ones going on as on this trip.
Exercise is one of our daily priorities. At the moment we are staying on top of hill, and it is about 4 kilometers down the hill to the nearest shop. The kilometers are even marked! So each day since Monday we have trotted down the hill to do our shopping, and then we catch a ride back up with Paul.
Today we went down, and then hiked back up, carrying the groceries. Tim carried most of them, bless him, so we had a good workout. That uphill part will make you breathe deep!
I found this kit, this rumpled, well-traveled-looking kit in a second hand shop years ago in America, but I finally got started when we went to Zimbabwe earlier this year. I mostly only work on this during our family Bible reading time. It's going to say "The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make his face shine upon you." from Numbers 6 24, 25. If I can finish it by March, it'll be done in a year, but I have my doubts.
Josh has made two Lego movies recently. Those can be huge projects. One of his has 900 pictures and is 4 minutes long. A mom admires a kid with that kind of patience.
More in the exercise department. Sorry I look goony, but we have really enjoyed tennis when we stay places where it is available.
Our kids miss a lot of team sports with all our traveling, so I was delighted that they have been delighted with tennis.
Josh and Evangel have also tackled unicycling together. In the beginning they had to hold each other up, and/or use the tennis court fence, but now they can do it alone.
It was rough in the beginning, but they are better now.
Some of our biggest projects are not so
picturesque, but they deserve a mention. Evangel is working for hours each day on her movie, editing it. It's exciting to see it coming together.
While waiting for a ride from someone who was late, we were just hanging around so she was editing again, using Tim's jacket to block out the light.
Tim is writing another book, and loves reading about his time period and all things involved
With Sword and Saber. Josh is also writing a book, but his is a school assignment. He loves the research part of writing a book. I'm also writing a book. We're getting to be a booky family.
In the sewing department, Evangel pieced together an old skirt with a top of some jeans to make a new skirt. My goal is to get the cutting done for a quilt, but I don't want to start sticking it together til we are at a machine.
Evangel's got a whole stack of books she wants to finish reading, including the daunting
History of the Irish Race. She's half done with her stack, as far as books, but not half done the pages.
She also has a blog called Proverbial Womanhood www.proverbialwomanhood.blogspot.com which she is growing with worthwhile pictures and verses. That's not a project to be finished.
I am just pleased to list these for myself. It's better to focus on what we can do than on what we are missing, and this has been a busy, profitable trip. The paper part of school happens 5 days a week, and these other learning experiences will be helpful for us and others.
"Whatsoever your hand findeth to do, do it with all of your might!" Your hands find more to do if you go looking for profitable projects.
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