I've been thinking a lot about life lately.  I've been thinging a lot about my place in it.  I've been pondering who I am and what I'm about, and.....well, maybe it's a brain mid-life crisis, so to speak.  I've been sensing a shift in my life and everything in it.  We're entering a new phase here in our household, and it's cause for reflection.  But, don't worry.....it's all good.

What invariably follows closely behind all these contemplations is the intense desire to write more.  Perhaps I've said that before on this blog.  If I haven't, well, I meant to.  I need to release these thoughts, and I really have no other place to do this.  I don't keep a journal (perhaps I should???), and for obvious reasons, Facebook isn't the venue for my ruminations.

So, Folks, it's gotta be here.  If you visit this blog to get updated on our homeschooling life, you'll have to endure an occasional non-homeschooling entry.  I directly apologize to my friend Jenny for this; I know for a fact that she reads my blog, so she gets a personal "I'm sorry you have to suffer through this!"  A more general "I'm sorry" to you faceless readers.

I've been thinking about why I DON'T write more.  I have a lot to say (just ask my poor husband!), and unlike Jenny, I do desire to write more.  I need to be less uptight about the formalities of writing, and just get down and dirty and do it.  Everything else will fall into place.

And as I sit here and think about wrapping this up, I'm hit by the fact that you, the reader, will indeed be getting a glimpse into our homeschooling life, even though the most current blog entry may have nothing to do with the latest science project or what score the kids got on their spelling test for the day.  Who I am and how I live my life and "all that jazz" is, in fact, shaped and infuenced by being a homeschooling mama (I was going to write "mom", but I've never been called that in the 11 years that I have been one.  I am a Mama.).  Homeschooling is the screen through which I see life now.  Besides God and His Word, it is the Truth I live by.  It is the engine that drives this family forward.  

And again I say, It's all good.