Quite the Cook

I FINALLY made dinner again! I feel like it's been months. I did well at the beginning. But things got crazy and stressful and it just seemed like an overwhelming task. (I'm sure you can tell by my lack of blog posts since the spring.) My problem is that cooking real meals requires me to sit down at the beginning of the week and plan the menu. That way I can buy the proper ingredients. I finally did that and made dinner tonight. I was afraid that after a long, hard day (ha! It was a day of babysitting; having school when roads are bad means there are a billion absences and you can't teach anything.) I would be too tired to stand in the kitchen a cook. However, I found myself enjoying cooking. And after I ate, I even enjoyed cleaning the kitchen, especially because I got to use my new homemade nontoxic cleaner! I liked the feeling of industriousness. After I cleaned, I didn't stop there. I came upstairs to my "quiet place" and wrote in my prayer journal--something I have a difficult time "squeezing in". And then I thought that it would be a great idea to add a post to my long lost blog.

Being productive makes me joyful. I hope I remember this when I start feeling like a bum. This morning I prayed about this evening and asked God to help me be productive. I truly believe that God took a simple evening at home and blessed it beyond measure.