So Keep Watch

Here's a screen shot of Madison, helping some of the staff and Miss Halston as they teach the kids the memory verse for this series.  It goes like this:

"So keep watch! You do not know when the owner of the house will come back. It may be in the evening or at midnight." Mark 13:35 NIrV

Madison already had it memorized on weekend #1, as noted here earlier.  I also have to note here that I myself had not memorized the thing yet, so she in fact had it committed to memory a full week and a half before I did.  And I'm the guy who determined this would be the memory verse in the first place!  Don't worry - I've got it down now, and in fact had plans to go over it with the older kids tonight.

Today was obviously a big work day for Daddy.  We did get the "armor of God" outfit together, by the way.  The Roman shield arrived this afternoon, and we assembled it all.  The armor alone is heavier than Madison is.  Here's our friend Chris again, acting as a shield bearer:

Mommy did a fantastic job putting all of this together, didn't she?  It was used in an illustration tonight, and put together under extremely short notice.  But after a lot of research and travel, we got the thing together just in time.

Daddy did go home for a bit this afternoon - it was there that Mommy made this delicious soup.  It was a chicken and vegetable soup, using some vegetables from our garden!  We have squash out there growing, and though Daddy has never been a huge fan of it, this squash tastes pretty decent!  The soup was just the thing for a rainy, cool day like today.  Yes, that's right - we're in rainy weather again.  It's certainly a theme of the summer, isn't it?  Farmers here were grateful to begin with, happy about getting rain.  Now though, there doesn't seem to be time to harvest, and some of the harvest is coming later because of the rain.  Take for example - and a tiny one at that - our blueberries.  These should have been ready by now.  But the rain has delayed that harvest.  We've been walking by our blueberry bushes for a while now, waiting for the berries to turn blue.  And waiting.  And waiting.  Same could be said for other vegetables in our garden.  Wait, wait, wait.  Fortunately, the tomatoes seem to be doing well.

While home, we wrestled for a bit on the couch after eating.  Daddy brought home a warhead for Madison.  She has no problem whatsoever with these sour candies.  She has a blue mouth though - a blue tooth for sure.  Also, her mattress arrived in the mail today, right when Daddy got home too.  It was packed into this tiny box, vacuum-sealed so that when we cut open the airtight packaging, the thing was suddenly exposed to air, expanding right there on the spot.  This may be fairly common, but the three of us were pretty impressed by it all.  Tomorrow, Daddy plans to work on the framework, so that perhaps by tomorrow night Madison will be in her new bed.  She's excited, obviously.

It's been a full day, but tomorrow promises to be a good one too.  Read on to find out what happens next!