I am convinced...

I woke up thinking about a Scripture today. It's been walking softly through my thoughts all day.


"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 8:38,39

Workin' 9-5

....except it was more like 12-12.. Who says SAHM's don't work?!

Last week I pretty much blew off homeschooling for a few days. What did we do instead?

To start off we all 3 overslept. (sound familiar?) It seems to always happen on Tuesdays. Then I've got to force everyone to hurry and eat breakfast and get dressed when they'd rather lounge and loaf. ( I guess Mondays are just too much for us.)

I looked around and realized that our house looked like a national disaster area, and was in desperate need of attention. Amazing how that happens with the addition of just 1 extra person being around.

So I laced up my shoes and jumped right in. But I'm like the Pig and the Pancake or the Mouse and the Cookie...

"If you give The Momma a chore she'll noticec that something else needs to be put away. When she goes to put it way, she'll see that where it belongs needs to be reorganized. When she goes to reorganize she finds not everything fits in it's old home.

She will then decide to move the furniture in order to give it all a fresh look, only to find it didn't fit that way and needs to be moved again. Which will lead her to discover that although the room looked clean, indeed it was not.

So she'll dump everything out of the drawers-clothes toys and everything in between, and sort it all out. Which will make her realize that the living room is now messier than she could go to bed and not think about.

She will then totally dig everything out of it. And realize she is hungry.

When she goes to fix something to eat she'll see that she had not washed dishes from lunch, so..."

I just pretty much kept going until it was so late that all of us should have been in bed. Nothing was spared. I even did a few loads of laundry.

It was fully 2am before I could even shut off the light beside the bed to try and sleep. Somewhere in the middle of a medical mystery show I finally nodded off.

The next day I almost got right back at it, except I knew the phone man was coming and I just couldn't rest thinking that I blew off 2 whole days of homeschooling( Mondays are often a wash because Daddy is home for his weekly day off)

I should have taken pictures of the bedroom looking like a puzzle, but I was trapped behind some bunk beds for quite a while! I think I pulled a muscle. I NEVER know when I'm over doing it until it's too late.

The not so happy ending to this story....It's a week later, and I can barely tell I did anything.

Happy Monday

We slept in...again...this morning. It feels so good to sleep as long as I want, but when I wake up and it's ...too late...I feel irritated with myself. I feel so behind as soon as I wake up!

Hubs was not home yesterday and will not be today either. He's working a half day for a friend, and then will spend the rest of the day in the city. I'm okay with him not coming. With the Holiday later this week we can use today as a catch up day. Although, since we slept in I'm wondering how much we'll actually get accomplished!

I need to plan the weekly menu and write a grocery list. I also want to wrap up homeschool Term 1. I don't really have any exam stuff ready, but I think I'll just go over what we've studied and see if she remembers any of it.

Now I'm off to check...I think 5yo went back to sleep!!!!!!!

Drought

I think I'm in a bloggy drought. I just spent a few moments going back over some of the archives, and I gotta say, I was very interested in what I was writing.

Oh, I know that comes off as prideful or vain (and that's not what I intended), but really, some of the stuff I wrote about made me chew before I swallowed. I was going through some personal something somethings at the time, so that was the inspiration. I can read how I was processing things. Free therapy indeed.

Maybe that's the problem with me right now.I don't have enough angst. I'm too happy?! 8?

nah... One can NEVER be too happy! 8D

I know the posts have been lighter and fluffier, filler for what I don't have words to say. Maybe I just don't have it in me any more to ponder the meaning of life. Maybe right now I'm just in a season of recipes...? ? ?

Quiz corner

you are aquamarine #7FFFD4

Your dominant hues are cyan and green. Although you definately strive to be logical you care about people and know there's a time and place for thinking emotionally. Your head rules most things but your heart rules others, and getting them to meet in the middle takes a lot of your energy some days. Your saturation level is medium - You're not the most decisive go-getter, but you can get a job done when it's required of you. You probably don't think the world can change for you and don't want to spend too much effort trying to force it. Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

Thankful

It might be something in the air. It may be that it's almost the holidays, or it may be that there are countless blog carnivals about it. Whatever it is, I've been really pondering the things I am most thankful for. Thoughts of love and life and laughter swirl and swirl round and round. How does one narrow it down to one specific thing to write about?

This morning as my hands were deep in the soap bubbles and my girls sat..er.. rather.. danced their way through breakfast it hit me!

The one constant in my life for as long as I can remember.

Music.

Music is in me and all around me. I hear it in the drip of the faucet, the click click of the keyboard, and the rustle of the leaves.

His voice becomes clear in the words of a song learned long ago. Comfort, peace, joy. Praise over flowing.

Swelling from within it speaks of the love I'm feeling, the loneliness soon to pass, or the wonders of His creation.

It causes my head to bop, my hips to shake, and my toes to tap.

God has so blessed me through music. As I stood with my fingers in the sudsy water and watched my children, I see it alive within them. They can't sit still when the peppy disco starts to play and find it impossible to keep silent during the moving crescendo's of our favorite songs. They, too, feel it, breath it, and sense it.

It's the gift He gave, and the one that continues to give and bless. What a wonderful Father we have!
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Busy, busy busy

I spent yesterday working my tale off. Today I'm paying for it, but at least all in my world is organized.

Oh, how I love the organizing!!! People truly think I'm a little kooky. Sometimes I hyperventilate from looking at cluttery messes. Really.

Today I had to spend the day getting everything else that got pushed aside back into shape.

Homeschool was first on the list. We covered a good bit. I feel so accomplished!!

I have yet to do my Monday meal planning. I guess I'll just go without a plan for the rest of the week. It usually makes for a few meals of whatever I can dig up out of the fridge, freezer and cupboard-not necessarily a bad thing.

I have a few posts brewing but not enough time to make them coherent. Check back later.

Words to Live By

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore will not we fear,
though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Selah.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,
the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early.

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:
he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;
he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Be still, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted in the earth.

The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah."
-Psalm 46

Too Cute not to include!!

We love this Bocelli Performance too!

What's Playing

Currently I'm listening to Andrea Bocelli on my windows media player. His voice is so soothing. It's also a nice change. I don't care that I don't speak Italian. I like it anyway.

Mostly we listen to Christian music, but I do like more secular music too ( I just get sooo offended by most of what's played). Sometimes I'm in the mood for a little Ella Fitzgerald or Billy Holiday. Today it's Andrea Bocelli.