Back to work!

After a nice vacation over Christmas, we came home on Monday. Kevin had the rest of the week off so he got right to work on collecting more fire wood. We are a little worried that we don't have enough for this year, and we can always start collecting for next year. The four oldest kids are his little helpers so they have been busy as well. They probably only worked the last three mornings, and then Kevin goes out after lunch to cut up more so it's ready to pick up the next morning. Today, when they got home, Ben said, "Dad's working the heart and soul out of us." It made me smile. I know they are hard workers and their Dad keeps them going. It was just funny how Ben decided to phrase it. Fortunately, the weather has warmed up again (relatively - high 40s instead of low 20s, for this time of year) so the kids were actually a little too warm and ended up taking off their coats to stack the wood they collected. I'm so thankful that the snow hasn't come yet because it really would be awful to do this kind of work in the snow or wind or rain. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for the beautiful week we have had!