When I was given Saturday as my “day-in-the-life” to write about, I thought it would be easy. Saturdays generally follow a fairly simple pattern: chores, breakfast, housecleaning…but ever since Saturday became my day to write about, they have all been out of the ordinary. I haven’t had a typical Saturday for the last eight weeks! [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
I just love Mondays. Call me crazy, but I really do. There is just something about the sense of order that it brings, the reigning in after the comparative slackness of the weekend, that motivates me afresh every week. I like to bring my house back into order, and with it, myself, [...]
When a reader wrote and asked for a glimpse into the daily lives and weekly routines of the YLCF team members, we all agreed we wanted to give a realistic picture while yet casting a vision of a happy, productive home life. When I chose Thursday as my day of the week, I wasn’t so [...]
Tuesday morning, 8 am. It’s pouring down rain, and I mean buckets. Little rivers of water are running down the driveway. I can’t complain, because we’ve been praying for rain for weeks, but it is Farmer’s Market day, and none of the produce is picked yet. Not only is it hard to harvest lettuce in [...]
We were suppose to start out early for the orchards, but it was near 8 in the morning before we pulled up the hill and over to Nelsons’ Orchards. Already there were quite a few people there, and the sun was getting hot, but as we pulled into the cherry orchard itself, all I could [...]
