It's been a good day today.  I have spent alot of time talking through Christianity with my children, and finding out their thoughts and beliefs.  We have said many prayers together, and started memorising scripture, which we have never tried before.  I have already typed up what we have done today on the homeschool record blog (including a demonstration with "bread bibles"), you can see today's entry here.

I have been enjoying my quiet time in prayer each evening, but still failed to rise from my bed early enough this morning.  I hope that I will be able to break that lazy cycle soon, but for now I am using baby Callum still waking throughout the night as my excuse and not being too hard on myself. 

I think it has done me the world of good talking through things with my children.  They have such an innocent perspective on things, and I have enjoyed seeing things through their eyes today.  Answering their questions has kind of sorted out things for me in my head too, so it feels that I have now got a good grounding on which to start building from.

I know that I am going to really benefit from discussing the bible and refreshing it's stories and praying alongside the children, as well as keeping up with my own personal quiet time. After just a few days I am already feeling much more positive about things.

I have received an email from the pastor of the church I had made enquiries about.  It seems as if is a very small congregation (I think that 10 or so was the figure mentioned), and it mainly consists of older people although there is a lady around my age who has just recently starting attending and is new to the faith with a non-believing husband so that sounds promising.   Sadly there is no 'extra' provision for the children, so I think they will be disappointed with that because although they enjoy being in the main service, they do also like the option of attending their own groups too.  I may well give it a go though as I quite like the idea of being a 'small family' (our current church has a weekly congregation of at least 100 +, which is fantastic in terms of worship, but not so good for building relationships as you tend not to see many familiar faces week in week out.)  Another thing in favour of the smaller church is the chance to become really involved, particularly in the area of children's ministry as that is something that is lacking there.  I will pray for guidance.