• Sep. 27, 2009
Weekly Wrap-Up
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From the Heart: Today I have realized that I am just sad. I am so thankful that God orchestrated a wonderful assisted living place for my dad, but I’m just sad. Sad because of where his anxiety and/or depression is leading him -- a dark place. So hard to dig out of once you’re there. I am praying and working at finding peace with the situation instead of the sadness, but I’m struggling.
With the Lord: I have been faithful to my daily Bible reading and am enjoying the Chronological Bible very much. I have not devoted the time that I want to for the Wednesday Bible study and have not begun my Kay Arthur study, but there were so many pulls on my time this past week. No excuse. Just a fact.
I am still so thankful to God for His provisions with dad and am standing amazed of His faithfulness to me even though my dad is not a practicing believer. I don’t know what’s in his heart as far as God is concerned so I’m not going to say that God hasn’t been working on him because I know He is able.
As Wife/Mom: I am so happy that more time is being spent at home with the kids and my husband instead of being pulled so much to care centers and dealing with my dad’s “stuff.”
My daily devotion time with Punkin’ has been a blessing. We began this together little over a week ago and it has been a wonderful time of just spending time together and guiding her thoughts about living a life pleasing to Christ.
Both kids have chosen to have little colds so much time spent handing out the Tylenol. Also has made me step up my Neti-Pot to keep those germs away! I do not want to be sick for Women of Faith on Oct. 9!
Went with Sweetie Boy to his Kindergarten class at church this morning. We’ve held him out since mid-summer due to several things. A couple of our reasons: emotional readiness (such a follower and he barely turned 5) and the other the behaviors that were coming home because he is a follower. Our plan is to allow him to go to class once each month and I will stay in as a helper so I can see any changes with him. Today we had a long couple of hours as he tried on some of the behaviors. We hadn’t missed that the past month or so!
In the Schoolroom: I could begin with all the things that haven’t been accomplished yet, but there was so much that was so I’m choosing to dwell there today.
Other than the routine math, reading, spelling and writing work we finished up our construction segment regarding sequencing and moved on to the calendar and seasons. Our first “must do” was create our Tree for all Seasons. We found some tree branches from the black walnut that looked like they would work and then we mixed plaster and got the branches secured. We began with January so had to make snowflakes! This will be a fun project to keep up as we study events and people that have something to do with each month.
We had a great time at the field trip on Wednesday with other home school families and it was definitely worth the effort on my part to coordinate. One particularly fun thing I learned later from my dh is that the guide who had the two older groups said they pushed him with their questions. There were some he really had to dig for answers as he just couldn’t remember!
Friday School was just another social day for my kids. They had fun playing and eating lunch together as did the mom’s! We begin classes this coming Friday. I still don’t have my outline for what I’m going to do regarding the K-3 Shark class! I’ve been trying to dig up a video that dh can assist in showing during the second day of classes as I will be gone to Women of Faith.
