working at home....

these last two days have been one of those times where i have been going going going and haven't even left my house! so i thought i would give you a little peak into our house this season and see how busy it can be to stay at home! ha! :)

lots of pumpkin bread making (i think total i am making about 30 mini loafs - its been busy!) 

lots of pumpkin bread wrapping....

present wrapping....

laundry that has been folded and still needs to be put away....

diapers washed, stuffed and put away - ready to be dirtied again by a sweet little boy....

and this project i have been working on for hubby... i can't wait to share more about it later this week, but it is quickly becoming a favorite tradition!

i know there are days when my hubby comes home and asked me how my day went and what i have been up to and i have a hard time thinking of what i did all day. you know those days, when you never expected whatever you did to take the entire day but yet it does and you feel like you have nothing to show for it.  thats another post all in itself.  i've been there... but the last few days have NOT been one of those days. and the rest of the week will not be one of those days either, it's a busy season friends.

BUT, let's not get so wrapped up in all of our doing that we forget the purpose for this advent season - we await with eager expectation the baby born on Christmas, who was born to die. to die for the sins of all who put their trust and hope in him. that we may live for him all the days of our life and one day live with him in perfect peace.

i have a notecard hanging above malachi's changing table with Isaiah 26:3-4 written on it and i have been meditating on it the last several weeks.  "You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.  Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock."  may we have peace this christmas season because of the work done for us on the cross. and may that peace permeate our homes in a very real way this december.

how is YOUR mind stayed on Christ this december?

love from the Mixon house!