It is Monday morning and it is a rare thing for me to be blogging at this time.  But, then, it is an unusual Monday morning.

We had a wonderful weekend. Doing nothing. Positively nothing. I love it that way.  It seems that from September to December, we were  on such high speed, that I found myself praying, "Lord, please slow things down for me."    Answered prayer. For the past month, it seems that weekends have come to almost a halt. It feels soooo good. We sit by the fireplace, we watch a little of the history channel or a movie that my husband turns on, we play computer games, read books, or work on projects. For the most part, we all stay in the same room. Sometimes my little ones will want to go into the adjoining room that has a t.v. set in it and ask to watch a video. I rarely do this because when dad is home, I want us all to be in the same room. If they don't like what dad has on t.v., fine, play with your toys, but were all together.

Usually we have company on Sunday morning as we have church in our home, just like the first New Testament Church, when they met in their homes. I love the informality and the intimacy of such a setting. There is so much more fellowship and unity in spirit, so much abounding love. There is no facade, no 'put-on' act.  There is nothing fancy here, just reading of the Bible, prayer, sometimes singing hymns (we used to do this every Sunday, but it's not been as often lately - maybe it's my piano playing that's discouraging this), and lots of fellowship. But this Sunday, the roads were icy and hazardous, so no one came.  Again, we had a very slow and quiet Sunday.

Now, it's Monday morning. My husband has always been adamant about getting the kids up for school, ever since we started this adventure, a decade and a half ago. But this morning, as he was leaving for work, I realized there was no one stirring yet. I asked him, "Did you wake the kids up, yet? "

"No,"  he replied, "I thought I'd give you some extra time to pray". He said this, I guess, because I had not gotten up early to pray, as my custom generally is. So, after he left, I went and prayed. When I finished, I thought, well, I could get the kids up. Or, I could just let them sleep some more and get my exercise out of the way.

Now, exercise is something that's really been on the decline. I used to be so fanatic about it.  But the year of 2007 I have seriously backslidden in this area.  I have been getting to it about once or twice a week, but, at my age, I sometimes worry that if I don't stay continually faithful, I'm going to just 'lose it'. So, I decided, why let another day get so busy that I don't exercise again? Let's just do it, right now, and then, towards the end of the day, if I have time, I might fit another one in. So, I did one of my favorite routines, a video called, Callanetics, by Calley Pickney.

By the way, these are awesome exercises (Callanetics) that you can purchase by video off the internet for very, very cheap prices.   They are positively awesome in what they do for you. They don't take too long, either.

After exercising, I thought about waking the kids up again. Now, my daughter (15) has been reading other blogs and telling me that not all homeschoolers get their families up early in the morning. She said that some she read got up around 9 and even 10.  So, with that thought in my head this morning, I thought, why not?  It's cold and icy outside, and maybe they need a little extra sleep. So I turned on my computer.

Who knows what else I might get done this morning before they ever wake up. My only huge concern here is that tonight when it's time to go to bed, they may not be remotely sleepy!  The good news is that I have plenty of time to get our school work done as I think my dh may be home later than usual this morning.