New Blog

Sorry to switch on everyone, but since I am no longer going crazy at the B&B I thought it was time for a change!

You can find me here: thepachamama.blogspot.com

No Impact Man

Are you familiar with No Impact Man? I check his blog regularly and I find it inspiring and also a little frustrating (because I feel like I'm not doing enough). Anyways, I loved this post and started my gratitude journal last night. I hope he inspires you, too!

Loving the Kids

Mr. Innkeeper has been waking up with Delia at night and getting her back to sleep for the past week. I hadn't slept through the night in over four years and it showed! Delia had a couple of rough nights at the beginning of last week, but now settles right down with Mr. Innkeeper and I have gotten to sleep! Glorious sleep!


This past week I have been able to enjoy my kids and family so much more and the business goes way smoother! As I was putting Joshua to bed tonight I was thinking about how much I love him and enjoy him, instead of "please go to bed so I can have one minute to myself!" I love being a well-rested mom! And I love Mr. Innkeeper!

Flowers from my Garden

I am grateful this week to have found someone to help me on Sundays. I have been struggling at trying to get everything done before church and then rush home to try and finish cleaning rooms before guests arrive. And I was having a hard time to find someone who could work on Sundays, truth be told, I didn't even want to ask anyone. I don't want to be a Sunday employer, but I just couldn't get it all done and retain my sanity. My friend's mother's name kept coming to my mind as I would reflect on my problem and I dismissed it several times thinking that she wouldn't want to clean all day Sunday. But finally I called her and she was willing to come. Today was her first day and she did an excellent job (she even said she enjoyed it). I am so glad that the house was clean when I came home today, because church has already put me on the verge and I definitely don't feel like scrubbing toilets today!



Delia was not happy in Sacrament Meeting, so I took her out for that hour. The next hour I taught Sunday School to three 12 and 13 year olds. And the next hour I stayed with Joshua, who is still having issues with his new Sunbeam teacher. Joshua had some pretty big tantrums in the hall and there was plenty of stress to go around. Thankfully, Delia had a good time in Nursery. Sometimes I feel that the only reason I am going to Church is to obey!

Happy Canada Day! We're having a big barbeque tomorrow to celebrate, and we're hoping for sunshine! I don't think there are many places more beautiful than Nova Scotia when the sun is shining!

THANK YOU!

Sundays are usually my busiest days. Church is at 11:00, and I haven't found anyone to help on Sundays. Since we were full last night, things were even more hectic than the normal hectic Sunday morning pace. Mr. Innkeeper and I got up to make breakfast and the kids slept in until about 8:20 which makes things a little lot easier!

I stayed in my grubbies this morning because I was going to clean while Mr. Innkeeper did breakfast. I was heading upstairs to clean a room when four of our guests came down and just when Joshua and Delia were waking up. Mr. Innkeeper went in to take care of the kids, and I was left there in my pajamas (gasp!) to welcome the guests to breakfast. Hopefully no one could tell they were my pajamas! I made eggs for all four of our guests (which brings me to another question - if I were to offer you eggs in the morning, would you ever say "I think I'll have pancakes... No, I mean, uh... Oh, I don't know what I was thinking... I'll have french toast, thanks?" - Well, it happened. Two mornings in a row.).

Mr. Innkeeper got the kids calmed down, and I cleaned one of the rooms upstairs, then tried to clean up breakfast, prepare a lesson for Sunday school, take a shower and get ready for church, and be out the door by 10:30. Oh, and Mr. Innkeeper had a lesson to prepare as well. (Luckily, he was up at 5:30 this morning to shower and shave.) We were on time for church, my lesson went well, Delia went to Nursery (it was her first week), Joshua had some issues with his new Sunbeam teacher (Mr. Innkeeper was his teacher, but was recently called to be YM President), Mr. Innkeeper had a great lesson with the YM, but I actually attended a portion of the Relief Society Meeting today!

Anyways, the point of the post is thank you to Dad and Ellen. When we came home from church the house was much cleaner than when we left it due to the efforts of my father and his sweet wife. It was so nice to come home to a clean, clean house!

Our clean kitchen and Joshua

There were a couple of American Sailors visiting at church today and Mr. Innkeeper wanted to invite them over for dinner, I said of course, but wasn't sure how I was going to get the house clean, clean the other room that had to be done by 4:00 pm and make dinner. We feel truly blessed to have such great helpers in our lives. I also called to invite my neighbor and her family over for dinner, and she said that she had already made dinner and dessert and that there would be enough for everybody, so she would bring it over! Delia fell asleep on the way home from church, so Mr. Innkeeper, Joshua, and I cleaned the green room in record time and I had enough time to post before dinner. What an incredibly good day!

And thanks to my wonderful neighbor for the delicious chicken and

the yummy cake!