Walking Out Faith

So I had these grand plans for homeschooling today. Plans for hands learning about the brain and skeletal system. Grand plans, I tell you!! A life size human body with anatomically correct proportions and sections where the kids could write about the important features of each system/body part. I don't know which one of us was more excited. But the kids started whining and coloring on each others poster board and ....well, that idea went out the window. So back to our regularly scheduled homeschool day. ok, we actually started it! As an aside, I LOVE SCIENCE. and I love learning all over again. My husband and I joke that we could both go to school forever and never have a real job again. Lifelong students, sounds fabulous, I know. But it's a pipe dream. And really, all you ever need to know you learned in kindergarten. Right? Be kind, take turns, treat others with respect, pay attention, etc. The rest comes with time, it's a process. You learn as you live and you "go...

Sometimes my mind is so flooded with thoughts I'm not exactly sure where to begin. Sometimes, I feel so bogged down by responsibilities that I'm almost paralyzed into indecision and inaction.  So, I will take a momentary lapse from life and try to clear my thoughts through writing them down. Lucky you! We are in our 6th week of homeschooling and I feel like, yes we've made progress and are on a roll,..... somedays, and somedays it's simply a struggle to keep my bigs from constantly fighting with each other. Then you throw in my unrealistic image of the "Mrs. Brady" ideal of what a mom and wife should look like and do, the pressure to exercise because the benefits really do help manage life,  and I feel like I'm chasing my metaphorical tail.  Belly aches, incessant complaining, scrapes and bruises from bike rides and the constant barrage of "he said, she said" or "he did it, she did it" has almost broke me to the end of myself. Whi...

October Hiccups So here we are in October. Our baby #4 is in China and we are waiting. It feels strangely similar to the waiting game of being pregnant ; where the anticipation of something great and the unknown of all things new are mixed together in a bag of life.  So to date, we have submitted all of our paperwork (except pictures and course work) to our agency and are waiting for them to process it and then send it all off to the Chinese Consulate to be processed...Our agency is giving us a timeframe of 6 to 8 weeks and then the time the Consulate takes to process is roughly the same...unfortunately, that puts this Mama's due date somewhere in February. What a great birthday present that would be for me, to bring home our baby somewhere near my birthday! Of course, we'd love to bring him home sooner but God holds time in his hands. So we will patiently wait.  School has started and we are currently in our 5th, 5th week of homeschooling our big kids this year. This...