So hot lately

 Our weather has been crazy lately.  SO hot!!  Excessive heat warnings and watches quite often this summer.  

Today we will be helping with our church's monthly Food Pantry.  We love to minister to others in this way - it's such a blessing.  We will need to purposely stay hydrated due to the heat.  

Tonight we will be helping with a backpack distribution at our local elementary school - through our church.  We are trying to reach out more to our small community here.  This is one way that we hope will be effective.  After we finish there we will be headed out to eat with another couple.  We try to meet up with them each Tuesday.  We know them from our church down south... they attended there for a number of years before we all moved up here.  Great friends/good times.

Our day is actually quite busy, I realize as I'm sitting here typing this!!  WOW!  The rest of the week will be busy some days, not so much others.  Tomorrow I have some bookkeeping I need to catch up on- - - :( - necessary but not fun.  I have sewing and such to do also.  I'm making memory items for one lady at our church.  I have a memory quilt to make also - out of the shirts of the Dad of two girls I went to school with back a million years ago.  And then - family quilts that desperately need to get done.  I will be doing that on Thursday morning.  And then all day Friday and Saturday can be spent in my sewing room.  I love spending time there.

I'm going to be more intentional of taking pictures for this blog.  Then you can have a visual of my days. 

For now, I'll close and go about my busy day.  Hope to take pictures along the way.

Life

Today, I remembered I'm to be keeping up with this blog world... :)  Far too often I've begun only to forget and not return until so much time has passed.  

I set my alarm for everything else in my life - I will set me alarm for regularly coming here and updating my thoughts/life.  Not that anyone really wants to read what I have to say but it will give me an outlet for posting things that keep us busy.  

I've been busy since last posting.  We had two of our 13 grandchildren spend some time with us in May.  Then June 10-13 we had a small family reunion (us, our children and grandchildren) in the town where we raised our kids.  It was so much fun!  Pictures will be included here.  June 13 we were back home and getting back to our lives.  June 13 the first of four Snowchildren was dropped off as her family continued North to their home.  She stayed for 1.5 weeks and then we switched her for her sister - and etc until all four had been here by him/herself with us.  It was so fun!  The last 5 days of their summer break was with all four of them here at the same time!!  We slowed down this summer for them to be here and loved every minute of it.  Learning their personalities a bit better as there were here individually was interesting.  Much of it we knew but some was new.  They've been gone one week now and the house is so quiet. Empty nest all over again.  We've continued to spend more time just being - evenings on the porch may be our new thing... so relaxing.

Ellie is the youngest Snow - she's going into second grade this year - and is NOT looking forward to school this year.  Praying that she has a good year!

Kari is the oldest Snow.  She's entering 7th grade this year. She loves school and excels in most everything she does

Layla is our third oldest grandchild.  She is going into 6th grade this year.  She has always loved learning.  

Levi is Layla's brother - he is his own little guy.  Likes what he likes and doesn't likew what he doesn't like.  Hope he has a great year, too!

Amara is the second oldest Snow.  She is a pleasure to have around... a strong personality and she too likes what she likes and doesn't like what she doesn't like, but will usually come around.

Micah is the only Snow boy.  He constantly says he wants a brother... that'd be nice, but most likely will not be happening.  He loves school and does very well.  His vocabulary is beyond his years and he will go far in life.

I will be busy today.  I'm spending some time in my sewing room today - trying to organize and get my projects I've begun through the years all finished and out of the way - so I can begin new ones :).  I have some bookkeeping to do and some house work.  I'll stay busy.