~Serendipity!~
I love when homeschool days turn out much better than I think they will! Ty is here with us today, and he is cranky from a cold....clinging to my skirts, whining to be picked up..then wanting down right away...up, down, up, down....how I expected my day to go.I happen to have a small pocket of quiet right now...Ronnie finished his schoolwork in record time, without prompting from me (I was pleasantly AMAZED)...and is now reading a magic school house solar system book before being picked up to spend the rest of the day at his friend's house, before cubscouts tonight...busy boy.
Anna also did her schoolwork without complaining today...learning to add, writing her numbers....then she read 2 'bob books' for me....I'm so excited!
The girls are busily doing business math and algebra...American gov't, and lit....lots of papers being written around here.
Even though I thought that today would NOT be one of our better days....it's turning out quite nicely....dinner is simmering on the stove....20 quarts of homemade beef broth, to be made into beef soup, beef stew, french onion soup...and just to drink from a mug...we love this stuff!
I was able to have a rather nice quiet time today, read proverbs with the kids at breakfast, vacumn the livingroom, talk to a friend who just had her 4th baby...and have a hot breakfast and a hot lunch....when I didn't think I would get anything done today! LOL Serendipity....love that word....but, I love THE WORD even more...and I think God is blessing me today...I know I am blessed everyday, but seems when I put HIS priorities ahead of my own....at the end of the day, it all works out. I've really been trying to follow Elisabeth Elliot's advice...just 'do the next thing'.....and I've also been trying to PRAYERFULLY, do the next thing...actually stop and ask the Lord "what do YOU want me to do?" Some days are better than others...but I wouldn't trade my life for anything!
Now.....time to clean up the kitchen, strain the broth, do some laundry and make kefir smoothies...then....on to the next thing! Have a great day in the Lord! ~Sue~
