Boy, time sure does fly!
I have lots on my mind but nothing really to say so I have no idea how this post is going to go!
We’re trying to finish up a few things with school so haven’t really started Christmas break. Usually we wind up taking off the whole month of December so I’m really proud of us for sticking with it this year. Travis has to finish a report on reptiles… yesterday while he lay across his chair crying and throwing a hissy fit over having to write 10-15 sentences I threatened to send him to school, I think the boy would benefit from a little peer pressure! Anyone want to send their kids over to laugh at him for me when he’s throwing fits?? Between that and Jacob’s deciding he’s had enough and asking for a break every two minutes I’m really looking forward to some time off. At least Cade’s being agreeable right now!!
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Sometime today we’re going to decorate sugar cookies. I’m hoping if I give each kid their own thing of each color frosting it will cut down on the chaos… we’ll see how that goes. Worst case scenario they eat all the frosting and we have plain cookies!
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My Bible fell open to Psalm 40 this morning, I love how God knows just what I need to read…
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:
Today I’m thankful for His ever present help.
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Kind of a funny… several months back we were having a horrible day. I think people have this idea that homeschooled children are always agreeable and easy to be with and homeschooling mothers are always patient and calm… yeah, not so much!! Most days are good, most of the time I enjoy being with my kids, most of the time they are wonderful to be around, but there are times. Times when I’m just one whine, one scream, one pee on the commode seat, one spilled anything away from running screaming down the street like a crazy person. The only thing that stops me is they’d probably think it was great fun and come screaming after me!!
So we were having one of those days and I went and locked myself in the bathroom for a few minutes of peace. I keep a Bible in there because that’s usually the most uninterrupted time I have during the day, so I decided to read some from Psalms to calm down. I opened it up and the first thing I read was “LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.” After my little pity of “yes Lord, they are!!” I had to laugh. I guess when you consider that David’s son was trying to kill him when he wrote that my days don’t look so bad.
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Wednesday night we had a great message. I don’t have a cd because we’re remodeling right now and all the sound stuff is put away but the text was from I Peter 5:6-10, Luke 22:31-32, and James 1:2-4 if you want to read it.
