Some of the best advice my mother ever gave me was, "Julie, you can do anything, but you can't do everything." This, mind you, was coming from the lips of a woman who knows me well. She has seen my enthusiasm cyclically wax and wane over a new idea or project since I was old enough to articulate what I was excited about. She wisely knew that my chief temptation in life would be to "do it all" but not do anything particularly well or even to completion. I'm trying to take her advice. Even though I have an insatiatible hunger to learn more about anything and everything (no pun intended) that interests me, God is helping me see that I need to finish well those projects He has given me and not go running off in another direction whenever something new catches my fancy. Aren't children the perfect cure for this? They aren't going anywhere for a long time. I think mine were given to me to teach me (among a plethora of other things) perserverance. And because of our commitment to homeschool, training them up takes on a whole new level of commitment. Thankfully, homeschooling brings with it new challenges (projects?) regularly so on some level I'm still getting  to try new things. But if I'm going to do anything that contributes to my children's education I'm going to need lots of my mother's encouragement, God's grace, and the perserverance to complete everthing from the math curriculum to cleaning the kitchen, which, by the way, is something I'm never interested in doing.