joy in the Mornings

I’m not sure what a normal day at my house is. Today certainly wasn’t it!

We went into town to get groceries today. I combined our grocery outing with schooling by letting the kids keep track of the amount we were spending (to help keep me under my budgeted amount), read the shopping list, find the aisles where everything was located, etc.

That was sort of normal. I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in quite some time and we stood in the aisle playing catch up. She told me about some of the amazing things God has been doing in her life and I was really encouraged to hear everything she had to say.

We finished our shopping - going from Walmart to Save a Lot to Kroger then home under budget (what a wonderful surprise!) and with almost everything on my list. I was proud of the kids as they helped me do price and size comparisons.

Later in the afternoon, a friend came over with her two children and we let the kids have some free play time while we sat and visited.

Suddenly the dog started howling in pain - he had his leg caught in the fence. While I was trying to get him loosed, the other dogs got me filthy and knocked over their water.

I had to fix the fence while my friend watched and offered a hand here and there. Then I had to go grab the hose to refill the water bucket.

The only problem there was that the hose had finally decided to spring a leak - a really big one. Apparently a hole had worn through a weak spot and was causing a geyser in the middle of the yard - far from the dogs.

I turned the water back off and went to find duct tape. After taping the hole up really, really good - with lots and lots of duct tape - I went back to water the dogs.

I was able to get that finished, but then saw that the hose had sprung two more leaks and the spot I’d patched with the duct tape had blown open again. But I got the water bucket filled up.

Sigh. No normal day here. But it is always interesting!