I admit this week has been a little more challenging on the homeschooling front.  We are still doing well, but it's been more about behavioral management lately than anything!  I'm simply amazed at how negatively big changes can affect a family.  We are still, since coming home, trying to find discipline and rhythm in our days again, it seems more chaotic than anything.  But we are inching, maybe even centimetering, our way forward!  So even though we are spending a great deal of time each day just focusing on the control of undesirable bad behaviors, I feel we are still being successful, at least in God's eyes which is all that really matters.

Despite icky behavior, we are still managing to have some sweet moments.  Here are some pictures from yesterday:

1 bored toddler with an insatiable curiosity

 + 1 desperate to entertain mother

= ticket to enter into cookie cutter heaven

Using those Cookie Cutters to Make Valentine Cookies with Big Sister

Here are pictures of some beautiful moments from today:

You can't see it real well, but in this picture the snow is ever so gently falling (has been most of the day).  And our creek had just started freely flowing again after being frozen over.

This morning I was reading an email that was forwarded by a good friend, and the story was one that brought me to complete awe of God and spoke directly to me, just at that very moment, through the window above me, the sun broke loose for just a few minutes (the only time it has today) and landed directly upon my face.  Don't you just love God's warm touch.  I'd been feeling so down about myself, like I was failing God again, so I really needed that warm reminder that He still loves me and always will.