rain rain rain

This has been one of the rainiest summers EVER! It is pouring and pouring. But as a blessing, it seems that the rain always lets up on Sunday mornings so we can walk to church without getting too wet.

Chris just got back from home teaching, he was wearing a hunting vest. I wonder what the Joneses thought about that?

Jefferson has been drawing a lot lately. His drawings are starting to look like something. And earlier today he took some of our address labels and used them to form letters on our wood chest. He made an 'F', 'M', and a 'Z', it looks like. Not too bad.

The highlight of my week was on Wednesday when I helped one of the nursery workers clean out the nursery at church. It was such a mess, packed full of broken and inappropriate toys (like loud Sesame Street Electric Guitars, no thank you). It was great, we got rid of three huge garbage bags of toys, plus the broken plastic kitchen and doll house. I helped out in nursery today and it was so nice in there, so organized and peaceful. The three hours we spent there was well worth it!

On the way home from the church on Wednesday, I put the kids in the double stroller. Lola was tired and leaned over and fell asleep with her head on Jefferson's lap. It used to really bug Jefferson when Lola invaded his space, so I didn't put them in the double stroller together very often. But now they are getting used to being together in there. Instead of complaining when Lola fell asleep on him, Jefferson began to gently stroke her hair. When we arrived home, I tried to pick up Lola to put her up in bed, but Jefferson looked up at me and said, "No, Mom, she's sleeping on me!" It was so cute and I should have gotten a picture. But alas, I didn't think of it at the moment.

Well, I better get my bare feet back into the kitchen now. I need to wash more dishes. And Chris is insisting that he NEEDS a cake. I'm trying to quit using chocolate, white flour, and refined white sugar. I guess I better look up a recipe for whole wheat honey carob cake. We'll see how it turns out, I'll try to post a picture if it turns out. And a picture of Chris eating it so you can see by the look on his face if it is good or not.