Well, what a treat…I came to post an entry in my neglected blog!!! So sorry blog and anyone who might be interested in my ramblings and musings. It has been a while…too long since I have posted anything and shared anything that we were doing. Well I got involved in this home-based business and it seemed to have taken my life over for a while but I do miss my blog and I miss sharing the many precious thoughts that the Lord gives/shows me and I do miss the fellowship with my fellow homeschool moms. So here I am, back again….

My life for the past 2+ months has seemed to be on fast forward with seemingly no time to just stop and enjoy the journey. I’m tired of the hustle and bustle I’ve been in and I’m tired of only thinking about 1 thing..making money with this business and I’m tired of trying to do it myself!!! So I’ve determined to give the whole kit-n-kaboodle to God and let Him increase and multiply it. That then frees me up to enjoy my children again and enjoy keeping house again and enjoy homeschooling again and regain the satisfaction of my “former life” all the while trusting the Lord with our finances, etc. which is how it should have been in the first place.

I MUST share what we have done(if I can remember) what we did in our 2nd quarter of school. Our quarter ended last week so we are on break from now(Nov. 26) until Jan 8, 2007!! Yeah!!!! Since I was so busy with the business I ended up relying more heavily on our workbooks and really drilling the math facts also. Although I don’t want that to comprise the bulk of our schooling it served it’s purpose for these past 2 months when I really could not ‘concentrate’ on our lessons and the principles behind such. We covered what I call ‘Core’ subjects with our workbooks and do History using the Principle Approach mostly. So I plan on using this ‘vacation’ for delving into ‘fun’ things like studying more Art…dd7 has proclaimed that she is an artist and wants to learn more about Art so we will. My precious ds5 has not seen a lesson book consistently in a while so I need to sure up his foundation…and all the while having to keep up with a very active and determined 2 year old boy who has learned to exercise his ability to say NO and mean it!!!!

I don’t see how people with more than 3 children do it all(homeschool and such!) Maybe this too is just a phase. I so look forward to the days when all 3 children can sit down for lessons and read alouds and no one is tearing the pages out of books and constantly interrupting and banging on closed doors while I’m trying to give dd7 a math test in her room so we won’t be disturbed.

I guess I should cherish these times…I have found them to be very stressful and stress-filled…to the point where I stopped enjoying what I was doing.but I pressed on thru the unhappiness and tiredness and threatening tears..thinking somehow that I could not do it all..all that was required was just too much for me…emotionallly that is (and even at times physically). I got so tired of running after my toddler and correcting him only to have him do it again and again to where I just had to stop lessons altogether. Many times me and dd7 would get our lessons done after the boys went to bed and we would spend 2 quiet hours together working, even thru my exhaustion, working from about 9-11 or 9-10:30pm

So all of that seems to be behind me now. I decided to just lighten up on what I was expecting of myself and get realistic about what I could actually accomplish in a day and I ended up lightening up on our homeschool schedule…just getting the ‘necessary’ subjects done…math, reading, spelling , grammar…yes even bible study slid out of first place. Many days I was in such an attitude I did not feel ‘right’ about sitting down talking about our responsiblities as Christians and how we are to live our lives…..I just was not the example to look to for the fruit of the Spirit..or so I felt at the time.

I’ve also decided to get back to doing what I have found much enjoyment in the past and that is blogging, writing/studying for lessons, letting my children BE children and relaxing and trusting God.

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