I've just been on deedee's site to see I've got an award - which is great considering how bad I've been at blogging lately :-) You know though it has really lifted my spirit! I wasn't even feeling that down but I feel uplifted - isn't it great what a bit of encouragement can do, so thank you.

I was at a ladies breakfast this weekend and that was really encouraging too, all about how the media makes us feel dissatisfied with ourselves and yet we are daughters of the King - loved and beautiful from the inside out!! There is a verse (well a couple) that have always spoken to me in Psalms

 Ps 45:10-11
0 Listen, O daughter ,
Consider and incline your ear;
Forget your own people also, and your father's house;
11 So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
NKJV
Our God desires our beauty - sometimes we feel we want some romance, sometimes our husbands just don't fulfil that need and yet do you know, do you realise that your God loves you in every way - He desires to be close to you, His love for you is greater and better than any man on this earth could give you. But there is a price - we have to forget the past, put God before everyone else, which means making time for Him, reading His word, talking with Him, worshipping Him, not just slotting Him in on a Sunday we have to put Him in a place of priority in our lives to really experience that love He has for us.

Anyway, not sure where that came from but..... on a more academic note my eldest daughter is 5 and we still don't really do any official schooling - I do believe better late than early and she's not particularly advanced and interested academically but  I could do with some advice - should I invest in a maths program or just keep using stuff on the interenet? And how do  I know she's learning what she should be? Any advice or good websites to look at, books to read would be gratefully recieved thank you - and remember You're Beautiful!!!!