School hasn't gotten off to a very good start this year.  I'm not sure why.  Some of it might have to do with the fact that Grace is too deeply involved in volunteer and club activities.  Those are great things, but I'm beginning to see them as terrible.  I know I probably shouldn't see it that way, but I want her to stay at home and learn the subjects she said she wanted to study this year.  Life has gotten so hectic since June.  First it was 4HU, then a trip to San Antonio, then school starts back up and her club activities start all over again.  And this time, like a whirlwind.  Will it ever STOP??!!!!  This probably sounds like the diary of a crazy white woman, and it is.  I am fed up with clubs and volunteer work.  Will someone please pray for me.  I'm not usually like this.  I love for Grace to be active in her clubs and in volunteer work, but not when it interferes with her schooling.  I haven't learned to say NO yet.  I wish I didn't have to.  I just want her to get a good education.  But what is a good education?  Is it book knowledge, is it learning to serve others, what?  Who am I to say what God has in store for her.  This love of volunteerism might be God's way of preparing her for the mission field.  Who knows.  But she still needs to be knowledgeable and educated.

Now, don't we feel better??  No.  Not really.  But it feels good to put my thoughts down in writing.