...therefore, I hope to blog more than once per quarter. I don't know how some people have time to blog and upload a gazillion pictures and still manage to school their children and keep up with everything. Well, no one ever said they were keeping up with everything did they? I guess I'm making assumptions.

I made no resolutions this year, as I have had many things that have been on my heart lately to change and I just need to do them and not relate them to New Years. Though there's nothing wrong with making that "fresh start". I have been wanting to get back to exercising and it just so happened that I started that after all the holiday busy-ness (and the cookies!) settled down. I started doing Beachbody's Power 90 and let's just say that I haven't been walking with much grace this week. Any kind of movement is followed by grunts and groans. Belle keeps saying, "Mom, why are you doing this to yourself!? Just stop already." :)

This year, and from now on, I'm definitely going to learn more of God's Word and teach it to my children. It's so important and God has been putting it on my heart for a long time. I have such a poor ability to retain anything that I've been making excuses, but He's not buying it. So I'm starting out in baby steps and I'm just going to keep doing my verses until I truly know them and not just remember them for a week. I've been reading my verse during my quite time in the morning and really meditating on it. Then when I go to take care of the animals and take the dog for a walk I use that time to pray and then practice repeating the verse over and over. Thankfully we have some land so the neighbors don't see me and think I'm just talking to myself. Then again, they know I'm a homeschool mom of four, so they'd probably expect it. :)

Well, I really just wanted to say Hi. It's been so long.

Jennifer :)