Monday, March 30, 2009

Reinforcements Have Arrived!

It's AMAZING what you can get accomplished with extra hands! Praise the Lord for our family--the first wave arrived Saturday evening and the second wave arrived this evening. Work started in earnest this morning . . . here's a glimpse of what we've accomplished:

Aunt Janie, the kids, and I spent the better part of the day preparing food to feed 8-9 hungry people. As you can see the kids were having a blast with Aunt Janie making Oatmeal Scotchies . . .

And Peter was quite pleased with his tower of baking products as well.

Here's our lunch crew:

The chimney is no longer . . . (Janie and I decided we much preferred baking and raking over brick removal!)

Got some extra engineering input . . .

Grandpa did wonders with the bedrooms, bath, and a mop! It's amazing what a good lemon cleaner can do for a musty smell!

Then after dinner this evening, we girls worked on leaf removal . . .

We raked and carried around fifteen loads of leaves! Ufff. (But I must say, it's WONDERFUL to have help and fellowship!)

More to come . . .

2 comments:

Marsel said...

All of those jobs become fun -- or at least pleasant -- when you get to share it with somebody, don't they?

That's something that appeals to me about the Amish life. :)

Robin said...

Janie is a very good cook!