Gideon starts school early in the morning - he meets the bus at 7 am! Glory and Scarlett don't have to catch the bus for an hour and a half later. By the time that Carlie gets them out the door she has already put in a full days' work!
She baby sat for a friend for a couple of hours after the girls had gone to school. Then, shortly after lunch Levi got ready to go to school...he goes four days a week and when I asked him what the best part of school was he told me, "coming home!" *grin*
Levi has a friend that broke his femor and is in a full leg cast and cannot put any weight on it at all. His Momma carries him to the car and into the classroom. So, they pick up Levi so that he can help carry things in to school for them while his Mom is getting him into school. However, his mom has a little girl Reah's age so Carlie watches her while everyone gets to school.
After everyone was situated Carlie and I took her car in to the WalMart so that she could get a new tire on her van and then she and I went to Costco down in Cinncinati. Joey had requested some chocolate caramel macademia nuts and mini oreos. I promised him that when I got here I would buy some. However, they didn't have any oreos so we got Cheese-its instead. He'll enjoy that too - gratefully he was able to call and talk to Carlie while we walked through Costco and he could tell me what he wanted - LOL.
We raced back to pick up the car and Carlie had to get to the circus with the kids and then she barely got home in time to get Gideon and head out for his court of honor. He received his Star rank tonight and three merit badges. He hopes to have his Life rank before his Daddy comes home from Iraq.
Carlie and the kids seem to be doing pretty darn good, considering. As with most deployments, things seem to always break down - and that certainly happened this week. Her lawnmower died, the Neon died, and she had to have a wheel alignment and two new tires on the van...all in a day or two! Ugh!!! And, to top that off the timer on her dryer is going out and she often finds that a load of laundry has been drying all night long...but...she has pruned bushes and hedges, is drying strawberries and other fruit, preparing to raise bunnies, and is busy, busy, busy. I am grateful that things are busy for them...it makes the time go so much faster.... There seems to be a serenity here and I can often hear Carlie singing and humming as she goes about her day. It isn't easy being and doing what they are all doing - but they are doing it with grace and love...surely more of the Lord's tender mercies..as is the technology that allows them to see and talk to one another on the other side of the world each day!
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| Gideon receiving his merit badges |
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| Reah |
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| Gideon receiving his Star Rank with Carlie at his side and Scoutmaster Bennett |
Love that you are learning to post pictures. Glad you are able to travel and be with the kids. Hope your having a blast. Get some rest also.
ReplyDeleteCute update on Joey's family!
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