Well, my Tuesday lessons were actually a little easier to bear this week.  4 of the 7 had practiced.  What a refreshing change.  Plus it's the first of the month, so I got paid.  I came home feeling like maybe I will survive another week.  Don't know whether it's the money or the practice.... probably the money. 

Wednesday bible study was good.  We just finished the chapter on radical depravity in J.M. Boices book The Doctrines of Grace.  He talks about Jonathon Edwards treatis on the will.  Really interesting.  Edwards defines the will as the mind choosing what it thinks is best and that our sinful nature will choose the evil over the good.   I need to read the chapter again for my own solidification.   Think, Think, Think as  Pooh says.  Then again, Pooh is probably in Rick Warren's fluff and stuff camp.  Much as I love the old bear, he isn't exactly a spokesperson for the intellectual camp. 

Now, as for family matters.... Gabby is making me INSANE.  She is such a girl and drama queen.  I am perfectly willing to do and let her do all manner of girly things, but the snotty little attitude and tears over absolutely NOTHING make me want to ship her to boarding pre-school.  I really am hoping for either boy or another Nat, as naughty as she is..... I have no idea how families with a whole slug of girls deal with all the emotion.  GAG.  Suck it up, move on, get over it. I am sure that God has some grand plan for my sanctification to get me to be more compassionate and merciful by giving me these girls.