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A Productive Saturday at the Maxwells’

Saturdays are wonderful family days! This last Saturday was perfect, and the whole neighborhood was out. Spring is a great time to get all sorts of odd jobs done. Isn’t it fantastic to soak up the warm sunshine once again?

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Dad was trying to save an old printer. It was a very intricate operation. Unfortunately, the patient didn’t recover. We tried almost everything, and sometimes it works: sometimes it doesn’t.

 “I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.” Psalms 7:17

Cabinet Polishing, Cleaning, and Other Projects

To begin our Christmas celebrations, we decided to do family projects on Monday, the 23rd. Our first project was to polish the cabinets at our house. Not very exciting, you might think? Well, we had a blast talking and laughing as we worked. I thought it would take us awhile, but we did the entire kitchen, which has a lot of cabinet surface area, in about thirty-five minutes. Fast progress!

After that, we girls dropped in at Melanie’s to clean their house. Each of the aunts got a helper (three aunties and three nieces!). Bethany was mine for awhile, and I enjoyed her enthusiasm. At one point, she was squirting the side of the bath tub and wiping it off. In her sweet voice, she asked me, “Do you like to clean with little children?” (Of course I told her I did.) So precious.

The afternoon’s project was to work at Joseph’s house. We cleaned, polished cabinets, installed shelving, painted, and hung temporary blinds. When we were through with that, we girls got busy with Christmas baking for the next day.

Many hands equal the Maxwell team!

Serving Jesus,
Sarah

One must begin with the necessary tools.
One must begin with the necessary tools.
Jesse and John
Jesse and John
Anna
Anna
Joseph
Joseph
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Dad
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Mom
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Mary
Anna and John
Some cabinets require more than being on a chair.

On to Nathan and Melanie’s:

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Bethany “cleaning” (no chemicals in her bottle).
Bethany and Sarah
Bethany and Sarah

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Abigail helping to dust.
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Anna, Bethany, and Abigail
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Abigail wanted to write a note for her daddy. She figured out what she wanted to write and did so. Very sweet.
Mary and Abigail
Mary and Abigail

Last, we went to Joseph’s house:

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Mary
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Jesse working on shelves.
Sarah polishing cabinets!
Sarah polishing cabinets!
Joseph, Anna, and Jesse
Joseph, Anna, and Jesse
Anna hanging temporary blinds
Anna hanging temporary blinds
Mom polishing the wood floor
Mom polishing the wood floor

“Trust in the LORD, and do good;
so shalt thou dwell in the land,
and verily thou shalt be fed.”
Psalms 37:3