Typical Day

Today is really a typical day at our house this summer. The boys got up before I did this morning and helped themselves to some cereal so that's what we all had. I tried to pick things up a bit in the kitchen before making my way outside to work in the yard. The kids floated around the yard a bit, worked on getting their daily jobs done and piano practice started. Today Jacob volunteered to mow the back yard so I helped him unload the bag. I turned the sprinklers on in the front yard and watered my grow boxes. Khora helped me out a bit before making her way to the neighbors yard and the comfort of their big shade trees.
Eventually the kids found their way to our other neighbors house to jump on their trampoline or playing out it the orchards with their friends. What is it with kids and tramps anyway? I've been trying to talk Dennis into letting us have one in our yard so I can at least monitor their play, especially the younger kids, namely Khora. Anyway, I did some organizing in our storage room and then cleaned the chinchilla pen. I put a bread mix in my bread maker. To me that counts as homemade, if it gets cooked at my house.
For lunch I fixed grilled cheese with a side of home canned peaches and pears. Then came my favorite part of the day, Quiet time. Everyone in a separate room doing something quiet. No screens on, just reading or resting, or playing quietly. I love it and it is never long enough. Today Jacob had piano lessons. After that the kids have free time doing what ever they want. Khora usually hangs out with me.
I hooked up the trailer to my bike and road down the block to get the mail. I prefer to ride my bike instead of walking or heaven forbid, running, because it gets me there faster. As I was thinking about this I realized that this is a typical thing for me because I tend to just focus on getting there instead of enjoying the journey.
Right now Isaac is playing with Khora outside for a while so here I am at my laptop blogging and watching episode IV of the Star Wars series. Dennis should get home in the next 30 minutes or so and this is a lucky Thursday, its free from city meetings. There is dinner to think about sooner than I'd like, then Pack meeting at the church I would like to get the kids to bed before 9:30 tonight.
At some point today I need to get to the grocery store since I didn't get there yesterday. and that's about it.