Today, September 15th, marks almost two months of being back home in Columbia. What does our post-mission life look like? Well, let me tell you....
Monday - Friday
5:15 - wake up, pray, stretch (this is 15 minutes of yoga-type stretching that we do as we listen to a conference talk)
6:00 - individual scripture study. Steve likes the dining room table. I like the couch.
6:45 - work in the yard
7:15 - Steve stops and goes in to shower. I continue until 7:30
7:30 - 8:30 showering, eating breakfast
8:30 - 9:00 walk. We have two routes - east on Blueridge that takes us to the middle school or west on Blueridge that takes us to Derby Ridge. We each have a grabber and a trash bag and we collect trash along the way. My bag is for aluminum cans and Steve's is for all other trash. On Friday, we have to set out our garbage and recycling right after we wake up and stretch and so that pushes our times for everything else back giving us only about 20 minutes to walk so we just circle around our neighborhood streets on that day.
9:00 - 10:00 Steve works on his journal and email. I practice for 30 minutes (rotating between piano, cello, and violin) and sew for 30 minutes - usually on Days for Girls items
10:00-12:00 Here is where our schedule varies depending on the day:
Monday - we volunteer at the Food Bank from 10:30 - 12:30
Tuesday - every other Tuesday, we go to St. Louis to the temple and to visit Emily and Beckie. I give Lucy and Noah a piano lesson. On the Tuesdays we are here at home, I do some painting
Wednesday - we clean house. Steve does bathrooms and the kitchen. I do floors and dust.
Thursday - I do finances, Steve does laundry
Friday - we go grocery shopping
12:00 - 1:30 eat lunch and take a nap
1:30 - 2:30 we work on family history
2:30 - 4:00 open to whatever
4:00 - 5:00 Steve watched Jeopardy and I do email and work on dinner. Steve cooks one day a week so he does dinner during that time.
5:00 - eat dinner
6:00 - 6:30 ride bikes.
6:30 - open to whatever. We often watch a DVD
9:00 - we do our joint Come Follow Me scripture study
9:20 - start getting ready for bed
10:15- lights out
Of course, this is the "ideal" schedule. I usually never works that way. But, it is something to work towards. Below are some photos from our morning walks this week and from the Food Bank. We have only worked there two times and, so far, we come home just wiped out. Mostly because we are on our feet for two hours. So far, the work we do is repackaging items for redistribution.
We went to St. Louis twice this week - Tuesday and again yesterday. Joe turned 40 on Monday and Emily threw a birthday party for him Saturday evening. She hired Beckie and Micah to cook the food (delicious Mexican dishes). We brought Elise with us and had a great afternoon/evening with family and friends. Steven and Tamara had to stay back in Columbia and help host a ward picnic so we missed them.
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