Monday Musings

Well actually I am a few hours late on this post. It's actually Tues. morning ( but I won't tell if you won't.) I was busy last night trying to reorganize and "weed out" some kids stuff upstairs. Again. I feel like that's all I do is go through and reorganize to try and make it work so that everything doesn't get to be such a mess all the time. You can only do so much with what the space you have. We are 9 in a 1750 sq. ft. home. with no garage. Last night dh suggested "just get rid of stuff" and the kids don't want to clean it up anyway. Okay. I'm not a pack rat by any means but it is hard for me to "get rid" of perfectly good stuff just because we don't have room. So I get a little down about it and think we need a bigger home. However, I am choosing to be grateful for what we do have, and I just went up there and got rid of stuff. Seven winter outfits, 2 pairs of shoes, 2 pairs of jammies, 1 coat and 1 jacket per child. That's it. I went through all the toys and for every 5 they kept, they had to get rid of 5. Well, that' s just the way it'll have to be.
Anyway, on to the musings part. Timothy, my 3rd child, is well, he's just Timothy. He's very easy going, social and friendly, and also very sensitive. When he was around 2, he was a handful. If there was a situation to get in, he was sure to get in it. So, one day (while I was pregnant with #5 and dh was deployed) I took the kids to the state museum. We were looking at an exhibit that had a railing around it. Timothy couldn't see so he asked me to hold him, which I couldn't because he was very heavy and I was pregnant and already holding Bethany who was a baby at the time. So, I told him to just look through the railing. Well, he stuck his whole head through the railing, and we couldn't get it out. After visions of museum staff hack sawing the exhibit to free my child, we kneeled and I told the kids to pray. After much manipulating, praise God, his head came free with no damage to him or the exhibit, and without drawing much attention. (When you are pregnant with your 5th, and have four other kids under the age of 7, trust me, you don't need any extra attention!)