You’d think I’d be used to it now, but it still hits me hard. Last Saturday we moved the “baby” to a “big bed”. Somehow a baby looks so much more grown up when he’s not sleeping in his crib any more. Little Judah still isn’t quite sure what’s going on, but whether he likes it or not, he is officially in a regular bed.

It all started with a brainstorm to make our house a bit more efficient. I suggested that perhaps we could move Laura into the nursery with the three youngest children. Michael liked the idea, so that’s what we did on Saturday. Well, we didn’t really DO it all on Saturday, but we got part way there. We took down the crib and set up a second set of bunkbeds, then assigned Laura and Amelia the new set of beds, and Mike and Judah are in the “toddler” bunk beds. (Three years ago, a friend custom-built a smaller set of bunk beds that holds crib-size mattresses.)

It’s been a good exercise for me to think through exactly what clothes and items are needed for each child. I keep reminding myself that we don’t need lots of things… just enough to keep people clothed between loads of laundry. It’s so hard for a clutterbug like me to prioritize and simplify, but it’s a good exercise.

In other news… this week is VBS week at church. So every morning we will need to get up early and get out the door in time to be at church by 9:00 a.m. This morning we needed to be early in order to help with registration, so it was an extra scramble. But in spite of the tighter schedule, I still managed to make sandwiches ahead of time for our lunch. (Sure was nice to walk in the door at lunchtime and have everything ready to serve!) Much to my surprise, our neighbor accepted our invitation to attend VBS, and she sent along SEVEN children! Today was the first time that we’ve filled every seat in our 15-passenger van. I’m eager to see if they’re going to come every day this week.

This afternoon, as I was trying to juggle baby and laundry and organizing and supper, I felt a little stressed and I said aloud, “I just can’t DO everything!” Right away I felt the Spirit of God whispering, “You’re right. You can’t. So rely on Me. And don’t take the credit for what you DO accomplish.”

It’s a deal! I’ll do my best this week, get to VBS every morning, try to get lunch made and maybe even supper, see if I can catch up on laundry, keep working on all the organizing and rearranging, and through it all, l’ll keep pointing to my Heavenly Father. Cuz’ He’s right… I can’t DO this by myself!