I've hesitated to begin a blog for a while for two reasons....1. I fear the addiction of it  and 2. I love journaling on PAPER.  There's something to putting pen to paper for me.  It's just not the same with the keys of a keyboard.  I love a great ink pen with a brand new journal. The blank pages seem to wait for me each day, eager to be filled.  But, I'm trying this.   Here goes...

I'll begin by explaining my username.... 

As I pondered what to "name" myself for this endeavor I couldn't help but thinking about the homeschooling part of it.  I am a former public school teacher, an only child, and someone who told my now-husband when we first talked about marriage that I didn't EVER plan to stay home with the children if we had any.  (I'm an only child of parents who both worked.  My mother seemed to balance work and motherhood wonderfully - and so would I!)  Oh, how the Lord would change my plans!  Mustn't He just sit back and laugh at our plans when we so smugly make exclamations.  Shortly after the birth of our first baby (like the first five minutes), I realized that could never leave her with anyone for very long.  How would I ever go back to work?  Well, long story short, I DID return to work, and it wasn't until after our second child was nine months old that I became a full-time mommy.  Even then, I felt the call to homeschool.  And now here I am, into my fourth year, with three children as my classroom. 

Having all of that flash in my mind, I stared at my computer thinking, "I never would have thought I'd be doing this."  So I typed in "ineverthought"  ("I never thought..."), but when I looked at it, it looked more like "in every thought".  One of the lessons God is teaching me lately (look for more blogs on this) is in taking every thought captive and checking it with the Word and the Truth.  That seemed more appropriate for my season in life, so I added a "y" in the middle and settled on it.  I can't promise that every thought on this blog will be God-honoring, but I'll certainly strive for that.  In every thought on this blog I'll be sharing my heart, my lessons from the Lord, and my road of homeschooling.

With those thoughts, I'm already loving this.  I just shared the last 9 years of my life in a nutshell!  ha. 

ineverythought....

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