Lovely Day

QUICK NOTE: This title is in memory of Korea. 

Today was one of the best Valentine’s Day I have had in awhile. I went to bed disgruntled with the Littles attitudes and annoyed and frustrated at myself and my reactions to them—the fact that it bothered me internally so much. I think outwardly I maintained my cool.

I have been asking the Lord to show me ways to show my love for the Littles outside of consistency in consequencing. Yesterday, when I realized Valentine’s Day was nearly here, I snuck off to Walmart and bought flowers and cute heart cups to put them in. My daddy always used to give all of his girls flowers on Valentine’s Day and I loved it. Also, I just love flowers and figure other girls do as well.

So I got up this morning to get the flowers ready. As I battled in my head the best way to give them to the girls, the Lord gave me the brilliant idea of placing them on the tables for the girls at breakfast. Chelsie, a Big, and one of my Littles, were already making pink heart pancakes for breakfast as a surprise for everyone. They even made the milk pink. It was fun. I could tell several of the girls felt loved and special. Thank you Lord for the ideas and the means!

We do a Saturday morning devotion as a house every Saturday after breakfast. This morning we went into the woods on property a bit and then sat and spent a little time with the Lord. For the last few minutes we broke into pairs and prayed with each other. I was in a triplet with Chelsie and Megan. I was blessed to be able to pray for these two incredible ladies and was ministered to through Megan’s prayer for me.

After devo is always work project. This week I was assigned to clean the school with Megan and three Littles. It started off a little rough with a little bit of attitude. My work projects often start this way. AIGOO! Anyhow, I ended up working with one of the Littles, we will call her Ruth, for the next couple of hours trying to fix our vacuum. We did several things and at one point even got my screwdriver from my lock box and was taking the bottom apart. We were not completely successful, though by the end it did vacuum better and at least got us through deep cleans. I just really enjoyed the time with Ruth and I really loved trouble shooting. It was just a fun work project.

After lunch, I had lunch clean-up with Megan and a few Littles. After that it is room and house deep cleans and then serving consequences. This is always a crazy busy time and today was no different. However, after an hour or so things calm down as everyone finishes deep cleans and settles into various pursuits. I was schedule to serve the five o’clock work hour but it ended up that no Littles were available to serve at that time. Instead I played Skipbo in the living room for about an hour with one of the Littles in my room. My sisters and I used to play Skipbo all the time and I had tons of fun.We played Skipbo up until dinner.

After dinner, Wendy, myself, and three Littles were chilling in the house waiting for dinner clean-up to be over so room night (where your room does something fun together for the night) could begin. In this time I was able to visit with Lindsey (house director), take a shower, prepare meds, and have a one-on-one conversation with one of the Littles who I could tell was just really frustrated.

For room night, we made dinner and dessert. We got a couple really good pictures that I wish I could share with you guys. Wendy and one of our Littles made dessert, while myself and our other Little made dinner. I made Pancit (Filipino dish). It was so yummy and then started watching Forrest Gump. It was just a good time with our girls. Dessert needed more chill time so we will partake of it tomorrow!

The Lord loved on me in ALL sorts of ways today! Also today, I had a few good interactions with Grace (see previous post/e-mail), I got a Valentine’s greeting from my Mommie, a phone call from my grandmother, card from Lindsey, and a fun-dip from Wendy. Yesterday, I received a Valentine’s card from my parents with messages inside and a gift card to Target. 

I just wanted to share with you this day where God showered His love on me in so many ways and through so many different people. 

Happy Valentine’s Day.