Sundays and other meanderings of the mind...

So far Sundays have been the hardest days to be away from friends and family. The rest of the week we are busy with daily tasks of working and two kids. On Sunday we have a slower pace. The blessing is that we can stay in our jammies until 9:30 if we want (church doesn't start until 11) and we have a slow breakfast together. This morning both kids slept in until 8 (it was heavenly as Jo has been getting up by 6:15 all week). It is also fabulous to have LK home on Sunday mornings. No more madly rushing to get two kids to church on time by myself. Although he is not working there, he does play at church on occasion to help out. So we don't always sit in the pew together as a family. There aren't pews either...

The down side is that we have spent Sundays with our TO family for 6 years and we miss their company on Sundays the most. This Sunday was better. I think it was because LK went out shooting early this morning (with his camera) and Fi has two friends over this afternoon. Jo thinks they are here to play with him, too, and keeps trailing around after them. The house feels busy and active rather than mopey. So the key is to keep busy.

We also stayed home yesterday instead of doing the run into town filled with errands that are no fun for the kids. It was really nice to just putter here. We are planning to try and limit our town trips to once a week. Now that the roads are covered with snow and ice what was a one hour trip has stretched to 1.5 each way. That's a lot of gas!