Good Morning! My name is Abel Zechariah and I am going to take you through my day. You may remember Alden doing a few of these, and wow, are they a fun time capsule to look back on! So mom decided this day to just start taking pictures. The day started with the big boys bringing in two lambs to the butcher. They loaded up easily, and even though these are sad mornings, we also know they had the happiest lives. We feel the tug of sadness, with a big swell of gratitude.
When they were gone, Hattie got inspired to make a pancake breakfast. She had found a recipe in the Millers book, and had been wanting to make these pancakes for weeks. Plus, she really likes to play cooking show and tell her viewing audience all that she is doing as she does it. She’s very gracious as she talks, “And that’s okay if one pancake flips on another. That will happen. Just scootch it back to its spot…” Mom likes tuning into her show.
You’ll notice I’m not awake yet! We had been to dinner at a friend’s house the night before and we stayed so late! We never stay late anywhere, but I didn’t go to sleep until ten pm! Can you imagine?!! This is why I missed breakfast.
Elsie had gotten all her chores done as fast as she could so that she could warp her loom before school began. Her 8/2 Cotton had finally arrived for making dish towels. She was so excited!
And then I started hollering up in my crib to let the world know I was ready to start my day. And the world really cares! It had been a long sleep not to see each other!
Mom decided she would try to give me a haircut while I ate my pancakes. I wiggled my head all around trying to see those scissors. You know, I am 18 months old now, and not really into sitting still, ever. The pancakes didn’t help as much as mom thought they would but Mom persevered and as she told my dad, “it looks like a free haircut…”
Dad thought it looked good enough. And he liked the price.
School was delayed until Elsie was done warping her loom, and these two brothers of mine had so much energy! Mom told Dad, “you need to wrestle the wiggles out of these boys before school. And he was happy to help!
Finally Elsie’s loom was warped and ready to weave. It was time for morning prayer.
Dad prays over our day and then we pray the Lord’s Prayer. I love holding hands for one second, and then I stand in the middle and then I weave through legs. Ivar missed prayer this morning because was out in the barn getting hay for everyone.
Our friend Joel stopped by and brought us so many wonderful gifts: new homesteading books, warm socks, work gloves, utility knives and a huge tub of m&ms! Everyone was so excited!
Finally we all settled into homeschool. It had been quite the morning already! Ivar goes upstairs to his desk in the closet to do his school work. I LOVE visiting him and bringing him the treasures I find in the bathroom drawers. On this day I brought him my special sleeping blanket and told him nigh nigh, and so Ivar changed my diaper and put me down for my nap. Mom was so impressed!
Then mom tried to get some pictures of the rest of us doing homeschool, but as you can see, some are less interested in their picture being taken. On this day we read Prudence with the Millers (the book with the pancake recipe!), read through our science lesson and then Mom listened to Alden read while Hattie read to Elias. Then Elias worked on writing his letters, and Hattie and Alden did two English lessons with mom. Elsie works at a little desk next to her loom and mom helps her when she needs it too. It’s a very busy time, and by the grace of God, these kids keep growing in knowledge and wisdom.
We ate lunch and then Hattie was inspired to do another cooking show.
Hattie made the monster cookies while Mom and Dad had a zoom meeting. When the meeting was over, she told mom she was “mortified. All the cookies are slightly burned.” And they were! All four trays! Mom asked how long she had them in the oven, and she said, “I didn’t really want to use the timer…”
After the meeting mom took Elsie to her violin lesson, and when we got home we had more friends stop by who brought a huge bag of dog food for us. They had read in our newsletter that we got a puppy and wanted to meet Mayflower. We all enjoyed the lovely spring day with the puppy outside. Mom is sorry she didn’t get a picture!
We had brats for dinner and everybody helped clean up. And if you could hear the audio, you could hear Psalm 34 by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir on repeat. They all love that song right now.
Then it was time for family worship! I love this part, because I can pray! I love to fold my hands and show everyone that I know how! And then to go around and find snuggles…
What a day! Finally it was time to go bed with my nah nee’s. That’s what I call my two farm blankets that I sleep with. I love them so much. Thanks for coming along on my day. Here’s Alden’s day when he was just a baby and then a year later in 2018. They are fun to read!
