We woke up to snow this morning covering the grass but fortunately nothing on the road or sidewalks. It snowed until about 11am or so but by noon, all evidence of the snow was completely gone.
The morning was very good and peaceful. I was brave enough to get back on the scales and found I have lost 5 pounds (6 total) - of course that always puts a smile on your face! I let the girls sleep in while I went out to the garage to get in a good run - it was quite chilly in the garage at first but felt pretty good later on. After a good run, I turned on the oven and got breakfast going. This morning was bacon, eggs and cinnamon rolls with a glass of milk.
I had an appointment this morning with the tax preparer - the girls weren't interested in going so they lounged around the house. I did give both of them something to do while I was gone including giving the dog a bath - that is always a fun chore! The time at the tax office was good, the lady doing our taxes this year is very good and has been doing taxes for 24 years. I need to find a couple of answers for her, but we'll finish up Wednesday afternoon.
Driving from the tax office to home in the snow, I had the chance to talk with my wife before she went to class. She sounds so much better and said she had a decent night sleep - that is hard to do in an open bay barracks so she must have been really tired. A friend at church last night mentioned they had giant ladybug pillows at WalMart - she knew our youngest daughter really likes ladybugs - so I stopped there and picked up one giant ladybug pillow, one giant heart pillow, one Wii game (Redneck Games - it is very cute) and one Nintendo DS game (Chicken Shoot - it was funny as well) - these were for Valentine's Day for the girls and I gave them to each of them while they were talking with their mom on the phone this afternoon. I figured they could use the giant pillows at movie nights at church - those hard seats get rough on your backside! Maybe we can talk the pastor into moving the movie into the church where at least the seats are padded.
The rest of the day was spent in various household chores and lounging around. I did three loads of laundry and we got that put away, cleaned up the garage a little bit, cleaned the hardwood floors, had lunch (we cheated and went to Sonic) and ran the vacuum. After lunch, we watched Coraline - well, more accurately the girls watched Coraline and I took a nap in my chair!
The church has a nice program for the ladies called "Secret Pals." Those that are interested let the pastor's wife know and they trade information - you don't know who your secret pal is (hence the name Secret Pal - duh) and once per month you discretely leave a bag or gift in a special area of the church - the pastor's wife then distributes the gifts. All three of my girls have someone so we took care of that today as well and have them ready for tomorrow. My desktop computer also caught a bug three weeks ago and I'm taking it over to a young man at church - I hope he can get it working but if he can't, I'll stick with my wife's laptop for a little while - while I understand the need and applaud the convenience of a laptop, I still like a desktop computer best for typing and working on. I will make sure I do a daily backup somewhere with all of my stuff though - the pastor was telling me about mozy.com last night - they appear to be a little better than other online storage locations because it does an automated backup during idle times on your computer. I'm going to do a small 2GB test for a few weeks to see if it something I like or not. You can go unlimited, which is greater than 2GB for $4.95 a month with the automated feature. When I was searching for all of our tax papers, I realized we have a ton of necessary stuff (not terribly important but would be a real pain to be without) in our files - I think I might start slowly scanning some of that stuff in and storing it on an external drive or on a site like mozy.com.
Supper was very good if I must say so myself!! We had white rice, sweet and sour chicken, peas and corn. I combined the chicken with the sweet/sour sauce after the chicken had baked - it turned out quite well.
The girls devotion today was "Melissa's Valentines" and referenced Micah 6:6-8 - it talked about the best way for kids to show love was through obeying. My devotion was "The Devotion of Hearing" and referenced 1 Samuel 3:10. I had to read this one three separate times to get an understanding of the reading - Chambers talked about the obtuseness of the heart and mind; he (Chambers) wants us to have the attitude of a child and always say "speak Lord, for thy servant heareth" without allowing outside things to interfere.
We have laid out everyone's clothes for tomorrow morning, I just need to review the Sunday School class assignment again. I spend a few minutes with it each day as well but the night before teaching I go over the entire section, add my speaker notes and highlight some areas to keep me on task. I'm really thankful for the way Dr. Woodard has laid this book out.
I'm wrapping this one up a little early tonight - the Kentucky basketball game comes on a 9pm so I'd like to relax and enjoy a little of that. At 9:30pm MLB TV has a 30 minute preview of the Reds on tonight and I'll probably flip between ESPN and MLB TV to catch those. We did turn on FoodTV for a few minutes today - when my wife was home, I could always tell where she had been watching TV at last because that was the channel it was on!
A little early but Day Thirteen is done; here's looking forward to Day Fourteen!
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