My Magnificent Mundane Life

I am living a magnificent life and it’s anything but mundane! Right now, I’m thinking, “Somebody pinch me! Is this real? Can it be so? How long I’ve waited, prayed, believed and look, they’re here!”

In 2015, I began this particular blog because I thought WordPress was a ‘more grown-up’ place on the web than Blogger and that the name, “The Magnificent Mundane” was a great representation of my life at the time. Well, after five years here, I see it’s been a PERFECT description of my life.

Today it hit me that I need to be writing again because I want to record history as I did in my old blogs: “My Freedom In The Dance”, ‘The Twinners‘, ‘While Joshua Sleeps”, “Letters From Gramma“, and my very first blog, “Sunrise Cogitations”.

It seems silly now that I added one blog after another but I did. I have a recorded history that probably should be printed rather than on old unsecured sites, but nevertheless, I wrote.

So I begin again. New decade with some remarkable changes to write about.

Back in 2007 in “Letters From Gramma” I wrote my sweet Hailey:

“I miss you today, as I do every day. But I have confidence in our Heavenly Daddy that in His time we will be together-painting, watching the birds, collecting flowers and digging in the dirt.”

The culmination of twelve plus years of praying and yielding what I wanted for His will hasn’t been in vain because He saw fit to bring them here and as she stood next to me at church on Sunday, shoulder to shoulder, I could only give thanks again for this season of change.

I have to believe that housing family, strangers and those in need have all been stepping stones to opening our home again to our oldest, her love and their four kiddos.

The adjustment time has gone remarkably well and the joy they bring far outweigh the upheaval of an otherwise quiet life of doing just me and my recluse father-in-law.

My Love is delighted to know there is a menu! I can’t blame him. And the help I’ve gotten in less than a week with the yard has been amazing. Preston is the hardest five-year-old worker I’ve ever seen! He and I planted marigold and morning glory seeds today and he plans on helping me harvest my worm gold!

They’ve begun an art class with my dear friend who is pouring into them twice a week!..When they share that art class is their highlight then it’s been a great day!

I think my favorite time of each day is before the girls go to bed. They climb up next to me in our bed and ask questions about their mom as a girl or my childhood or they share games they’ve made up or silly things they’ve done in their life.

This is what I’ve prayed for. It’s not hard to let go of a neat, quiet home when I hear giggles from my bedroom window, where they’ve made a ‘secret hideout’ or I see them reading books on my leather couches that Patience says I can NEVER get rid of ‘cuz she loves them. Or when I hear Trinity in their bedroom practicing her violin or guitar that she voluntarily picked up and played.

Sir Winston is getting more attention now than he has since he moved in! Patience has a toy ‘vet kit’ so Trinity took Winston to see her yesterday. He was such a champ about having band-aids and all kinds of poking and prodding done to him. He’s always ready for bed by nine! If that doesn’t happen, he passes out on the couch! In the morning, he stares at me as if to say, ‘When are we leaving this room so I can see my kids?”! No joke. He loves them and is particularly excited about getting walked so much more!

Thank you, Daddy, for hearing my prayers, seeing my tears and taking our kids on the greatest adventure of serving you in a new place. May we love them like you would.

I’ve begun seeds with the girls and am teaching them to sew and crochet. And I thought I was finished teaching.

Papa designed and built three bunk beds in the closet of one of the bedrooms and the three youngest LOVE THEM! That’s given them much more space for Legos and room to play.