homeschooling through chaos and joy

My interesting day yesterday...

First, when I got up and was trying to find a diaper for Daniel, I opened the cupboard upstairs (empty) and said, out loud "Lord, I need a miracle." I went downstairs, got one of the few pullups I got off of freecycle out of downstairs bathroom and changed Daniel.

about.....maybe 15 minutes later....I go to check email...then another email comes in....I got a surprise $50   I was able to get diapers and the cardboard project thingys my kids needed for an upcoming homeschool association project.

Then I get a call from a lady that I met from the magazine, asking what I needed...she threw me off guard. She said they were going to be moving and had 13 years of clutter to get rid of.

I mentioned shoes. Then, she is really into couponing, she spent about 20 minutes trying to offer foods that I couldn't use because of Daniel's allergies and explained that was why I told her when I met her that, it's not that I don't do coupons, mostly I *can't* do coupons. (she does coupons for cancer)

I got off the phone and I felt God was laying on my heart - why DON'T you have a list of things you need/could use...

My TV is dying and I felt that I needed to tell her that and thought some more -I wrestled with the tv idea because that isn't something you think of people just giving away.....anyway, I said ok, I need a TV, a bigger Bread machine (I have a very small one that makes a loaf that gets eaten in one sitting around here- I have to make our bread because the only store bought breads that my corn allergic child can eat are quite expensive) and I thought of something else that I can't even think of right now.

In the evening, a dear teen that babysits for me and her mom come over for her geometry lesson and her mom says, "Could you use a bread machine?" well, I need a bigger bread machine.... yep that's what she has - she said the "baking pan" is  probably 2x as big as mine - it's the same round loaf which we don't mind....I'll get it next geometry lesson