Day one
This evening I write day one of a much dreaded five day journey for me. At the end of the five days I will disclose what this journey was and why so dreaded.
Today I got up with a hopeful spirit of a beautiful peaceful day with my children. It started off a bit rough with late beginnings and a very hungry boy, but soon bellies were filled with muffins and milk and we were off to do our morning jobs. Animals to be fed, beds to be made, floors to be vacuumed...this was Monday...whew we didn't miss trash pickup - a normal around here. We finished up and got right on to lessons. While nursing the babe I had the pleasure :/ of catching up the two littles on their math and reading that they decided to work on ahead of schedule. Many things left undone and guessed at...oh my...this will take two days! I'm happy for their enthusiasm, but not so much at the mess of fixing.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful aside from a few tantrums from a couple young boys and one very pestery girl. We read books, ate cookies, went on a walk on the road(freezing wind), decided to go to the woods instead. It was so peaceful and actually quite comfortable.
Reflecting on my post about hearts and our days, something I wanted to work back into our days was a quiet time. Just a time where everyone can go to their own space and relax and enjoy being without anybody. How'd it go?? Not so good~we will have to work on this maybe a little each day until we can all be fully into quiet time. I would like to work up to at least an hour and would be pleased if it were actually quiet :) this is a very new thing for a certain girl and boy. They will get it, it will just take time.
I was able to start a tiny knitting project. I didn't have the right needles so I improvised and am doing it a different way. We'll see how it turns out.
Our evening consisted of some yummy pizza made by Doc, more cookies, moving the craft/sewing area downstairs, more reading and the the littles off to an unusually early bed time. All in all we had a pretty good day, which I am grateful for!
Blessings this night,
JM
Today I got up with a hopeful spirit of a beautiful peaceful day with my children. It started off a bit rough with late beginnings and a very hungry boy, but soon bellies were filled with muffins and milk and we were off to do our morning jobs. Animals to be fed, beds to be made, floors to be vacuumed...this was Monday...whew we didn't miss trash pickup - a normal around here. We finished up and got right on to lessons. While nursing the babe I had the pleasure :/ of catching up the two littles on their math and reading that they decided to work on ahead of schedule. Many things left undone and guessed at...oh my...this will take two days! I'm happy for their enthusiasm, but not so much at the mess of fixing.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful aside from a few tantrums from a couple young boys and one very pestery girl. We read books, ate cookies, went on a walk on the road(freezing wind), decided to go to the woods instead. It was so peaceful and actually quite comfortable.
Reflecting on my post about hearts and our days, something I wanted to work back into our days was a quiet time. Just a time where everyone can go to their own space and relax and enjoy being without anybody. How'd it go?? Not so good~we will have to work on this maybe a little each day until we can all be fully into quiet time. I would like to work up to at least an hour and would be pleased if it were actually quiet :) this is a very new thing for a certain girl and boy. They will get it, it will just take time.
Our evening consisted of some yummy pizza made by Doc, more cookies, moving the craft/sewing area downstairs, more reading and the the littles off to an unusually early bed time. All in all we had a pretty good day, which I am grateful for!
Blessings this night,
JM
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