Day in the Life of Jessica

Today has been a crazy day for sure but not entirely out of the regular norm. So, I thought I would share with you about my day!

I would say my day started at 7:30 (it is Saturday) but in reality I didn't really go to sleep because we had a sleep over last night. I dozed off around 4:00 for a couple hours but one of the girls had to go home at 6:30 so I got up with her, dozed again till one of the other girls woke up at 7:30. We got up, made breakfast, watched some cartoons than her and her sister headed home.

I really wanted to take a nap then but alas, it was not meant to be. I had to do some laundry and clean up from the sleepover. I also baked some brownies because some of the teen boys were coming this afternoon to help make my garden.

Finished cleaning and hoped for a nap but the youth girls came over and so I had to stay up. While they were hanging out, I corrected the homework from all 40 of my students. That is about 120 pages of homework!

2:00 is here which is the time the neighbor kids are allowed to come over to play. Looks like my nap will have to wait until they go home at 4:30. The kids came over so I did some jewlery beading with some of the girls, cars and animals with some of the boys, read a couple books and one of the neighbor boys helped me bake an apple cake for my dinner guests later that evening.

4:30 rolls around and no nap is in sight! The youth boys show up early so we get to work on starting my garden. Trying to get six boys to get it together enough to help me dig and rake and build a border was quite a challenge. The dirt did feel great between my toes! 6:00 comes and we are finished. The boys get some brownies and are about to leave when Peter reminds me that I wanted to cut his hair and he had brought his razor along.

I take a turn at trimming Peter's hair and I mess up a little bit. I try on another boy, Isak, and that goes better. Time is running out so we give up on the haircuts and head to the kitchen. The boys are now enlisted to help me get dinner started. One is stirring the meat, another chopping onions, another cooking corn and the last washing the dishes as we go. Where would I be without my boys? :-)

It is 6:15 and I send the boys home and jump in the shower while the spaghetti sauce is simmering. I shower quickly and get dressed and finish dinner. 7:00 and the dinner guests arrive. The guest is Shama, a guy from my church who goes to college in the city and is in town for a visit. He helps me with the youth occasionally so I wanted to have him over before he went back to school. Along with him was his younger sister. We have a great visit, hanging out, eating, talking and joking around. Shama is a really nice guy and he has been a huge help working with the youth at church. It was a good visit but I am exhausted.

Shama leaves around nine and a little clean up happens. I change into pj's and dial up the internet. I haven't loaded pictures in awhile. As my pictures load, I clean up the kitchen from dinner and make some pie crust dough. It needs to chill overnight. I will be making an apple pie because a missionary family is coming for a visit tomorrow after church. This is where I currently am, sipping some tea and trying to catch my blog up. It is 11:30 Saturday night. Like I said, this is a little extreme due to the no sleep but other than that, it is a typical Saturday in my life at this point and I love it.

(first picture) - Beading with the girls. This is Bertha who lives next door to me. Her three sisters are also making jewlery.

(second picture) - Playing cars and animals with the neighbor boy Festus, Bertha's brother. We recieved the cars and animals as well as the beads for jewlery from my Aunt Lorna and Uncle Bob and my cousins Natalie and Sam. Thanks guys! :-)

(third picture) - Check out the lovely work!

(fourth picture) - I am attempting to cut Peter's hair. He was not amused at my efforts. Ha Ha!

(fifth picture) - My very first garden! I am so excited. We planted tomatoes, potatoes, squash, carrots and cantaloupe. I will also be planting beans, onions and cabbage. I hope everything actually grows now! :-)