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 I have started preparing for the renovations! I have packed up almost everything except the furniture, in our lounge. So pictures on the wall? Gone. Knick knacks on top of the rimu chest, mantle-pieces, hearth, piano and china cabinet? Gone. Albums out of the small cabinet and all two hundred books out of the floor to ceiling bookcase? Gone. Just the china cabinet in the lounge to do. I brought more cardboard cartons home and plan to do it in the next day or so.

 

Then I move on to the dining room. Last of all, I will have to empty all the cupboards in the kitchen. I am not looking forward to that!

 

So I have firmly told my husband and brother that we start to strip wallpaper NEXT WEEK. They are so far compliant but we will see what happens when the time comes.

 

I am looking at my diary and wondering how I will get everything done while packing up and stripping wallpaper. I have the household chores which will continue as washing and ironing still need to be done. Shopping for groceries needs to be done. A certain amount of housework still needs to be done. I have volunteer commitments that need to be honoured.

 

Add to this my service on a committee to celebrate our church’s 140 years in this city and my personal goal of finishing editing my book by September this year, I am going to be very busy.

 

I am also trying to be really disciplined about time in the Word and in prayer throughout the day and do not want this to be the one thing that suffers.

 

Oh Lord, please give me heaps of energy to do all that is necessary every day, and a few extra hours in the day wouldn’t go amiss!

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