Alexander Family's Big Adventure: Full but pleasing weekend

I like to be busy. I do, and I know it. This busyness is often a source of frustration for my husband. I know that, too. Although knowing that doesn't always prevent me from making a busy schedule, it does cause me to slow down sometimes.

This weekend I had a "glow dance party" for Alex, and a "glow skin party" for the parents. It was small but so much fun. But no matter how few or how many people showed up, we had a lot of work to do to get the house ready. My kitchen has not been so clean and clutter free since I've been here! It's wonderful, and good timing since I'm getting my first guest of the season in only about two weeks (and I can't wait!!)!!

But with our trip to the Netherlands last weekend, and getting ready for the party this weekend, when yesterday came around, I hated the thought of cutting 3.5 hours out of my one day of rest in about three weeks to go to church. Church is not that long, nor far, but for us at this point, it is about a 3.5 hour ordeal by the time it's all said and done. So I decided to have a true day of rest.

What a blessed day it was! First thing we did was talk about Jesus and read the Bible. There is not enough of that in our house, so it was good to make a point of it. We also had bacon and eggs for breakfast, cleaned up from the party, painted with Crayola paints, put together two Lego trucks, baked banana bread muffins, played outside, blew bubbles for Lilly, read The Chronicles of Narnia, and generally hung out together, while David helped a friend with some technology and went to a festival with a different friend.

All of that! I know it sounds busy, but I really got to hang out with the children with no other agenda, and it was so nice. How blessed I am!

What do you do on your day of rest? Do you make a point to take one every now and then?