I just realized that my blog page and my home look very much like eachother. They both have lots of books and no frills. But my blog is neater than my home. We have been putting school slightly on the back burner while trying to establish a system that will keep our home in some sort of order. My children have not been taught to work like they should have been. They are still very young; 6,4,and 1, so I am hoping that my lapse in discipline (meaning discipline of myself) will be able to be corrected. I've made the mistake of cleaning most things myself, and sending them off to do something else, which makes another mess, and keeps me overwhelmed. Like many of my generation, I was perhaps not taught all of the homemaking skills that I needed in order to run a home. Routine is something that I struggle with. I do well for awhile, then slack off again in a seeming never ending cycle. The thing is I know how to make a schedule, I know how to access priorities, and keep things charted until they become a habit, I guess I am just lazy. My dream, like so many others, is to have acreage and a small farm, but I am realizing that even if it were financially possible, I am not ready for it. If I can't even manage a 1300 sq. ft. townhouse with no yard that we have to take care of, and stay on schedule with school, how could I even consider adding so much else. So, I am praying that I will be guided in getting my home and training of children in order. So that when it is God's time, I will be ready to add more.

Lisa