Refreshed!

 

     How are you adjusting?  Work or no work? School or no school? In the office or at home? Seeing friends or not seeing friends? We continue to weigh the risks vs. benefits each in our own way. My husband and I have a four-day weekend beginning tomorrow! A time for refreshment and rejuvenation.

     Yes, we are adjusting to being back on full-time grandkid duty. Our youngest daughter is back to teaching. Talk about adjusting! They are distance teaching. She is a special-ed teacher in Bloomington and she and her team are working hard with new computer programs, figuring out teaching plans from afar and meeting with extended team members including co-teachers, speech pathologists, occupational therapists and their special ed leads and will try to meet the needs of these wonderful kids without seeing them physically. Whew!

     It is frustrating to say the least when all they want to do is be with these kids in person. Our 2 ½ year old sweetie Gavin is also adjusting to a new 3-month old baby brother, Grayson. He calls him, “that baby.” When one of us is holding him and Gavin wants to play, he says, “Put that baby down!” When he wants to tell Grayson something, he says, “Tell that baby I am playing with my dump truck.”

     We’re not sure he wants that baby hanging around. Exhaustion, chaos, fun and so much love surround us each day. What a privilege and we know this opportunity won’t last long. Soon enough they will be off to school (hopefully in class full-time!)

     In the meantime, we smile at their antics, try to get up off the floor after playing or asking for help off of a chair when holding the baby. We aren’t 30 anymore.  I pray you are adjusting as well as you can. I also pray you have a wonderful weekend. God insists that we have times of refreshing. After all He gave us Sundays for a day of rest.

     Take some times of refreshing and I will see you here on Tuesday.

So that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company. Romans 15:32

You give abundant showers, O God, You refreshed Your weary inheritance. Psalm 68:9

Sweet friends refresh the soul…Proverbs 27:9a