Slowing the day down

So, while finishing up with these wedding planning details, I've been thinking about/ making moves toward finding a part-time job. In the meantime, my friend Christine asked if I could babysit her grandbaby. So, the past two days I've spent a significant amount of hours alone with this little baby. She crawls around, babbles, soils her diaper, usual baby stuff. I watch her, knit, drink tea, take her for walks. But, we don't really talk, and today I listened to classical music all day long on the tv. It was fun. But, mostly it was nice to just be in a totally calm, quiet, non-verbal environment. I mean, I love talking, but it was interesting to be able to experience just togetherness with this little fat-cheeked person who needs me to feed her and change her diaper, and whose biggest act of defiance is crawling toward the flower pot in the hopes of pulling up onto it and digging her fingers into the dirt. Darling, you're not going to beat me over there, might as well stop trying!

But, it has been a welcome little solace. That, and its given me time to make one of my first pair of socks. I think I like knitting socks even better than mittens! I shall post a picture soon when they are completed.

Down: cake, invitations, wedding bands
To go: make centerpieces & bouquets, order wine, probably lots of things I'm purposefully blocking out right now.

And now for some more Tim Keller's wisdom on Ephesians 5: that that last section.