Routines

Here are a few of our favorite: Trying to get up early, setting the alarm, then turning it off and going back to sleep. That's a must. We lead music every Sunday, play volleyball every Monday and generally do the same things over and over again. It's not boring, it's just life.

Interesting how the smallest chores become important elements in the daily routine. Watering plants outside is one of our favorite activities, perhaps because it is so easy, yet so necessary. We've rehabilitated our lawn back to health, we've watched our little mango tree grow and we've enjoyed eating blackberries and grapes from the vines along the walkway back to our little house.

We love living in a little garden of sorts, except for the spiders. They love our yard, too, and during the summer we routinely walk through webs spun face-high over the aforementioned walkway. See? There's another routine, wiping the spider webs out of our eyebrows.

All told, though, we enjoy the yard. God made people to live in gardens. Try it some time.