What a delight last night. My favorite thing to do is get the mail. I love it! I even get my mothers mail for her each day. Something about getting mail just brightens my day.

And as normal I thumbed through the junk mail and got a letter! I felt like Joe on Blues clues. Wanting to sing "We just got a letter." Oye. You know you are a mom when daily things get you singing show tunes!

It was from Hannah! What a sweetheart she is. Hannah Graduated Homeschool last year. She is such a sweet girl and she reads along here every so often - I am not sure how often but I know she stops by. She sent me an article from her homeschool magazine "the Ohio Homes School Companion - March/April 2006" Called The Myth of Superwoman.(written by Jennie Chancey) (article linked behind the article name if you want to read it)

I read it before bed last night. What a great article. A few key things I took from the article that I thought I would share are as follows...  These are quotes are from her article you can read here.

• If you house is immaculate, but your children are worn down by outburst of anger, you do not have a home.
• The next generation is more important than anything you can put on your to-do list.  
•  The things that take up so much of our time will one day perish (and no one will miss them). But the people we train up and leave behind will affect the world for good or ill for generations to come. They are the only lasting legacy we can leave.
• If you meals stun people with their artfulness, yet your family sits around the table sullenly refusing to talk to one another, you might as well be eating Spam. (Proverbs 15:17 - Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted calf with hatred.")
• The truth is that the more we take on, the less we are able to do thoroughly and beautifully.
• Trying to be superwoman does not help anyone. It cannot be done. It is the sure path to failure and disappointment.
• Instead, work hard today on what is most important and what will make your home a love-filled place for your family and your community. Do it beautifully! Do it without guilt. Your are a keeper of the home, and that is sacred trust that requires an ordinary human being who loves others more than she loves herself.

But I thought this was a GREAT article and something worth blogging about so I can go back and think about it later. I am adding the print article to my homemakers binder that I keep at home. Thanks Hannah!

Oh and one silly little thing before I submit this entry for today. I was shopping last night and got new underware and bras. This morning when I was opening the pack I saved the cardboard inserts because they were cute flat pieces of cardboard - white on one side. Perfect for Alyssa to draw a picture on. I had to laugh at me and though, you might be a frugal homeschooling mom if you save packaging from your undies to give to your kids! I won't tell her where that came from! lol