Friday!!!

My wonderful day got off to a rocky start. After staying up for WAY too long last night blogging, I didn't wake up this morning until about 7:20. :( (And I hadn't meant to wake up then.) ;) Well, before I ate breakfast, I fried a few eggs for breakfast. I felt proud of my own breakfast. I toasted an English muffin with cheese on one side, put my egg on that, broke the yoke and spread it over the entire egg, and topped it with the other half of a muffin! It was quite delicious! As of today, I have officially learned how to fry an egg with a soft middle. I have tried it in the past, but without much luck. :) I like them that way as long as you eat them hot. Anyway, after breakfast I finally got to see the pictures of my sisters' livestock show! They and their animals looked fantastic! I am proud of them. Eastin, Baby, and Roger enjoyed looking at them too. (Aidan had already left for school.) Soon after we finished those, I took Eastin to school. Although the temperature was about the same today as it was yesterday, there was not the cool breeze today. Getting out before 9:00 and taking that short walk with Eastin and Baby was refreshing, though. After I came back and put Baby down for a nap I decided to go for a walk myself. I walked down the stairs again from the 28th floor to the 1st floor. Then I went for about a 40 minute walk along the river. This was probably not the best idea since the river overflowed onto the path just day before yesterday... It was not clean... After I got back, I only made it up the stairs to the 10th floor. I took the elevator the rest of the way. When I got back, Abi and I decided that we should have peach cobbler for dessert tonight, and we needed bread for communion on Sunday. So I set about to accomplish those two things. First I mixed up the bread and set it aside to rise. Then I made the peach cobbler and baked it. It was just finished by the time the bread was ready to go in the oven. While that was in the oven, I had a quick lunch and watched part of an Andy Griffith episode since I was alone for the 20 min. it took me to eat. After I finished lunch I washed the dishes, since I had gotten most of them dirty earlier. Then I cleaned the mirrors and counters in both bathrooms and the foyer (called genkan in Japanese - it's where you leave your shoes). By this time I had already gathered my supplies for my English lesson with Hinako and Eastin. When I finished cleaning mirrors I had 45 min. before Hinako came. So I lay down in my room to rest, and I think I dozed off... I ended up only lying down for about 35 minutes. Then we did the lesson, and the three of us played soccer downstairs for almost half an hour. Then Eastin and I came back up and I did a few more chores before guests came for dinner. We had tacos for supper. They were really good!!! It was good to have real American style Mexican food rather than 'taco rice'. :) The family who came spoke English. The man is American and his wife is Japanese. They have one son Eastin's age. Hikari (the Japanese lady) brought homemade tuna sushi. It was really good! Everyone liked the peach cobbler, too. I told them it was a gluten free version of my Grandfather's recipe! :) Poppa's recipes are now internationally famous! The guests left around 9:45, and now the kitchen is cleaned and nearly everyone is in bed.

I was very blessed today. I prayed this morning for a productive day, and the Lord granted my request. I have decided that part of the reason I feel tired sometimes is that I don't necessarily feel productive. I feel like I stay busy most of the time, but I don't feel productive... I don't know why that is. Perhaps I'll figure that out some day too. :)

I'm not sure what I'll do tomorrow.. According to the weather forecast the highs for tomorrow are back up in the 90's, but it's likely there will be more wind. I'll go ahead and admit that I probably won't wake up before 7:30! But now I think I will go to bed.

All my love,

Hannah