Daily grace

From yesterday...

- Adrianna practicing for our church's international evening (she carried the flag for Kenya -- the closest one we could get to Ethiopia)
- Taking Adrianna to a women's luncheon at church -- the first time she's been old enough to go with me
- Making almond milk from scratch







- Abel coloring in the car and realizing he accidentally (I think!) wrote an "A," and shouting, "A!  Mommy, A!"
- Adrianna writing in her Father's Day card during her rest time

 - Adrianna working in her National Geographic Kids magazine while waiting for the international show
- Adrianna asking if she looked Ethiopia... "Umm, not all the way."  :)
- Abel looking so Ethiopian
- Adrianna asking me to sit down and not attend her while she carried the flag on her own

And from today...
- Adrianna and Abel bringing their breakfast table and chairs over to the rug all by themselves this morning
 - Having smaller loads of laundry because summer clothes do not take up as much space as winter ones
- Taking the kids to yard sales and buying snow cones for them at a fundraiser sale

 - Abel choosing pajama bottoms to wear when his shorts got dirty
 - Finding Abel a trucks puzzle at a sale

 - Making a bridge with Adrianna using K'Nex
 - Abel making himself jump when Pooh Bear popped up from the Jack-in-the-box
 - Abel claiming the curly Gears toy was, "Pasta!"
- Surprising Scott by hiring a babysitter and taking him to dinner out for Father's Day

- Grocery shopping with just Scott

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