Making my home a haven

It is abundantly clear to me that I need to get back on some kind of schedule! If you read this post, you will have no doubt as to why!

Last week I dusted off my housekeeping notebook, and then decided to play along with Crystal's Making Your Home a Haven series.

However, our living room was in good shape as we had just had company for brunch Saturday!

So I looked at our days and realized that with being pregnant and not feeling good we were watching way too much television, and were just not doing well at getting important things done!

This morning I printed our new daily schedule and put it on the fridge, all gung ho.....

We had our breakfast and Bible reading.

We got our supper in the slow cooker.

And then got horrible low blood pressure - pregnancy related, and much better than the alternative, but I only felt good sitting or lying down.

We had to cancel our park trip with friends, which I felt horrible about. But could not help.

And I refused to turn on the TV to help me.

So I took the water table, put some of the free dish soap I have stockpiled (I have about 10 bottles, so I think I can spare some!), maybe about 1/2 an ounce. And let Miss Pear hold the hose and filled 'er up. She thought it was great, and all the water got in the table.

When the bubbles were no longer earth shatteringly fascinating, I dumped our ice cube bin in - I like to dump it every once in a while so that the ice on the bottom does not get old, and this is also a great way to keep little ones cool on a hot day, which we are having, hence the blood pressure problem. The ice made it all completely fascinating again!

While Miss Pear very happily played, I read to her. We finished off one Beverly Cleary book, and started another. It was clear to me that she was listening while she played, so I was thrilled! This was a land mark occasion because so far doing read aloud with chapter books has not gone well. The book we finished today was the second one....since before Thanksgiving. And getting read aloud going is a huge goal of mine as we see it as one of the keys to starting our homeschooling!

And when it was time to come in Miss Pear helped me make lunch (okay, she played at one counter standing on her stool while I worked at the other), and she set the table - insisting I sit right next to her - and carefully put everything on the table I gave her.

When I was putting Miss Pear down for her nap I realized that even though I had felt so horrible, our morning had gone very well! I had found a great way to handle low blood pressure, and we had figured out a great way to read aloud!

It definitely made me feel like I was in a sweet haven.