Dirt, British Accents, And Other Wonders Of The Bricker Household!

In this post I am going to give you a tour of what goes on at my house in the evenings, using last night as an example!

Here are some things you need to know before we get started. Three of my brothers live with us, one of my brothers is constantly here. One of the brothers who live here has a wife and three daughters- who also live here. My cousin from Indiana just moved here, and while yes he isn't living with us, he too is constantly over (It's a joy having him here might I add.) I have two hardworking wonderful parents, and a gorgeous sister. Moral of this paragraph is our house is never void of people! Especially on Monday nights.

 My mother likes to garden you see, and this year I have taken a liking to helping her. Not because I feel inclined to assist her, or because she even needs my help. But I enjoy the feeling of soil between my fingers and under my nails, I enjoy picking rocks out of the garden, and I even enjoy the tedious work of weeding! I think it’s all fun! But my favorite part is spending time with my mother! We talk about things like "What's your favorite flower" "upcoming vacations" and "graduation parties.”

My brother Caleb and my father are the hard workers, what they consider a project, or just the fun of it, or even just hanging out, everyone else in the world calls it work. Like building a mega awesome three story playground for the grandkids, or fixing up cars! They are always working, and I respect them for that.

Last night my cousin John and brother Simeon and I, threw a soccer ball around the front yard for a while, we didn't kick a soccer ball around, we threw it to each other as if it were a quibble, we tried to get it to go through narrow spaces between trees, and so on. it was so fun!

My sister and I made dinner and we all ate it together and watched the special features from Harry Potter. Some of us went to dollar general and stopped by McDonalds for a milkshake afterwards. We talked, laughed, and teased. Now that the tour is coming to an end you can plainly see, we live quite simply here, there's nothing about us that sticks out very much, we are just a big homeschooled family who lives in the country, and loves the Lord God. We rest in His promises, and hope in His glory!

Now as we come to the very end of the tour I beg you look back and notice something, over half our conversations come about with British accents! My brother Simeon and I hardly speak a word to each other if it isn't British said. My mother and I speak British while gardening, and when play we yell British exclamations. Don't ask me why or how we do it. . . We just do!