Day 108

I am in preparation for a group of "Spiritual Leaders" to descend upon my house tomorrow evening. 10 or 11 of the men and women from my church that are on a pilgrimage through this year on a quest for what makes a great spiritual leader. And this group is led by our Senior Pastor, Mark Martin. We meet every 2 or 3 weeks to discuss chapters in various books that we have read together. I volunteered our house for this meeting and then another time in August. 
So today I was on a different type of journey to make the house less cluttered, a little cleaner and not so full of animal hair. And with four animals, that's a pretty hard thing to do. This morning I tackled the bathroom first and that was pretty easy. I was very pleased with the outcome and even took a picture. Too bad that no one ever uses that bathroom - although once Wade comes home I will move back in there. 

 It's a nice little bathroom, but since Wade has been gone, I use it more for the laundry than anything else. 
I cleaned out the living room, vacuumed, shampooed the carpet, and did a general clean up. I kept the covers off the couch and the dogs (and I) have not been in there. I can watch tv in the bedroom if I really want. And I would like for there to not be dog hair or dog smell for one day. 

It's all set up with plenty of chairs and space. 
Tonight was Wednesday night. We didn't seem to have as many kids and we only had about 60% of the chaos we had last week - so overall that is a good week. It poured down rain while we were in there but was clearing up as we drove home. 
Tonight I need to finish up my homework in my Thursday morning Women's Bible Study and then finish my reading for tomorrow night's meeting. 
I don't have much else to do tomorrow in preparation for my guests. However, Jason worked like a crazy man this week (he's on vacation) and did so much outside that it is so beautiful right now. He and Peggy got everything looking great and even got the pond pump working today too. And they burned the big bonfire pile too. Very nice!! Thank you! 

 Good night!