Today was a great day though. We were up at the crack of dawn to put a brisket on the smoker. I bought my husband a new grill this spring (has both a charcoal and a propane side, along with an offset fire box to smoke meats) and I pretty much won Wife of the Year thanks to that one purchase. Anyway, brisket takes forever to smoke so by 6:30, we were up and had the grill going.
I did some errands, oversaw a chicken coop clean out, made breakfast and lunch, baked some cookies, swapped some recipes with friends and did a little gardening.
We also had a little impromptu church service in our living room. With the brisket going, we were pretty much house bound but the girls really wanted to have church. So they gathered up all their Bibles and books about God, some of their favorite stuffed animals, and had their youth pastor Daddy pull up some songs on YouTube to have a worship service.
I adored it. The girls were answering questions about God, who He is, and what He means to them. They sang "Deep and Wide" with gusto and then sang "Awesome God" and "How He Loves" with huge smiles on their faces. At the end, they chose SonicFlood's version of "Open the Eye of My Heart" (they call it "Holy, Holy, Holy") and dance around to the music.
When dinner came they gobbled up the food and thanked me for making it. They told me I was the best baker for the cookies made for dessert.
It's days like this I will think of to get me through days I'm away from them for work. Simple, ordinary days where, to an outsider, nothing special happened, but to me, everything perfect happened.
These are the days I will cherish. My girls singing praise to God, good food and great one-liner jokes from my teen boy.
School starts in a few days. There won't be many more of these simple days left this summer. I'm so happy I got this one.
I hope you all have the opportunity to have a day like this every now and then. I think it's perfect food for the soul!
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