I don't know about the kids, but the MAMA has learned a lot this week. Like:

1. My 5 yr old is a workaholic and wants workbooks!!  She isn't the abstract concepts learner at all.  I knew she liked to do workbooks. I didn't know that NOT doing them left her feeling like she wasn't learning anything. Go figure?

2.My 4 yr old LOVES abstract learning. She is an observer and loves stumbling upon a lesson. 

3. All of my planning may as well be fire starter now, because I need to gear things more toward my 5 yr old's learning style (not to totally replace, but to include her more too.)

4. After three trips to the ER this week for what felt like a massive heart attack (or a 400 lb man sitting on my chest), I  am under a lot more stress than I thought during this pregnancy.  I thought I was fine. I thought I could handle this. I can't apparently and my body is telling me loud and clear.  After getting diagnosed with severe, non-esophic Reflux (meaning: no feeling of heartburn, just extreme pressure). I left feeling 100% sure that my pain was from anxiety.  Ever since we came back from GA, I have been having the same nightmares I had after Ella's abruption. I die in all of them. I think that I am anxious and stressed regardless of how I THINK I am. Somewhere inside, I am holding it in and it is now finding its way out via these chest pains. 

5. I need to spend more time with God. That is where this anxiety is coming from.  My NEED for Him is the same, but I know have a little more of a window for Satan to use to attack me (and my family) through the fears and anxiety associated with the trauma I experienced. I need to spend MORE TIME in God's Word; in my refuge. That will be the only way we will all survive these stressful days.

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in all things, with prayer and petition, with thanksgiving present your request to God. The peace of God which transcends all understanding will guide your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

6. I have been affirmed that my Nathan is the best husband in the world.  He had to start his workday late today, so that I could go to the Dr and then tot he ER.  HE is still working now at nearly 8pm.  Yet, he just called to tell me that he reserved me a room for the night at a nice hotel with a JACUZZI for me to soak in :D We don't have a tub here in NC (only shower and a sad attempt at a cleaning basin) and I have SO missed my tub during this pregnancy. Also, my neighbor just called him and asked if she could come stay the night here so he could join me :D

So, all in all, it was a good first week of school. I feel like learning was accomplished. It just may not have been in the way I had planned. If I have learned one thing from all of you though it is that flexibility is important :D