Getting Renewed

These precious things:

Have gone to spend the week in Crossett with these wonderful grandparents:
Leaving mommy and daddy to a QUIET house. Yes, I was sad to send them off, but feel blessed that Gran-gran and Poppa don't live too far away and they can enjoy them for a week! (and that they are happily willing to take on the challenge!!!).

So today, I woke up restful...but quickly made myself "busy" around the house cleaning, laundry, taking out trash, etc...

And ironically, the whole time, I had popped on a Mark Driscoll sermon (which happened to be his Mary/Martha sermon) and became highly convicted while brushing/scrubbing/folding/cleaning that I needed to write "Martha" on a nametag and stick it right in the middle of y dirtied t-shirt. Yes. And, as he discussed, while Martha is not bad, I needed to be Mary first.

So I stopped, got my Mary on, and now I'm back to my day feeling fully refreshed. :)

So far on the kid-less week list???

1. Clean the house (check)
2. Watch basketball tonight with Bethany (kid-free!!!!!)
3. Get the Lincoln tagged/insured
4. Christmas shop with Jason tomorrow night
5. Go on a dinner date with Jason Wednesday night
6. Go ice-skating at the new outdoor rink with Jason (his request actually!)
7. Lunch with my neighbor tomorrow
8. Sleep in a bit more
9. Bible study Wednesday
10. Grocery shopping without kids
11. Help my little sis continue to get ready for baby Tucker's arrival!
12. Watch a movie with Jason
13. Celebrate my 29th birthday this week!
14. Oh - and of course call to check up on the darlings :)