Well, I'm sitting here eating
Moose Tracks ice cream.....okay, for the SECOND time today.....and
wondering what to type that would be of any interest. I have been at my
mom and dad's house for 8 days now, and will be here for another two. I
am here with Briana, and all of my other children are home. James
brought them over for 3 nights, and they left this morning. It has been
an interesting combination of really missing them all, and enjoying
quiet time with Briana. I know there are some of my blog friends who
will think that is horrible, but...... Anyway, it was their choice to
stay home so that they could go to AWANAS and Daniella to ballet. We've
had 2 pretty good snows while I've been here, and one of those I got to
enjoy with Marissa and Daniella this morning. They, James, my dad, and
I had a snowball fight.
It's the next morning now, and I
am looking forward to a day of scrapbooking. I have a table set up in
the living room, and have been able to keep everything spread out all
week. I do have a burden today for some of my old friends. One in
particular the Lord put on my heart in Dec., and it is deep last night
and this morning. He calls himself a Christian, but lives a lifestyle
of sin. The thing is that he does seem to really love God, but his
lifestyle is totally against scripture. It's so sad to me. Honestly,
this was not a burden I wanted. I told God that in Dec., and he very
clearly said to me, "You are the only person in this world who is
praying for him in this." And, that settled that. Somedays I don't
know what to pray, like last night, but we have a Father who hears the
cries of our hearts, even when those cries are not audible,
understandable words. And, so, I cry out for him, some days with words;
some days with nothing but an aching heart. And, then I see all of the
old friends who don't seem to mind or find any problem with his
lifestyle. Some are quite supportive. So, then, I have a burden for
them last night and today, too. I love my old friends, and it has been
so fun and great to catch up with them on Facebook. I am hopeful that a
friendship that was "lost" for 20 years, can be renewed. But, one
thing I didn't expect was that being on FB would ignite the prayers.
Isn't God good?
So, as you can see, I've given
you a break from Disney pictures. LOL. Unfortunately for you, there
are more to come when I get back home. : ) Just one more post, I
promise!
Our homeschooling has been
virtually non-existant since mid Dec! I was gone all but 12 days during
the month of Jan! When I get home, I've got my work cut out for me,
getting us back on some kind of schedule. Isn't homeschooling great?
We can take the the time to do things our family needs and wants. I am
not one to worry about missing lessons. There are lessons to be learned
everywhere. When I said "virtually non-existant", I was referring to
sit down learning. I, by no means, think we haven't learned. We had
great geography lessons while we traveled. We also had great talks
about orange groves, peanut and pine tree farms, photography, airplanes,
pecan trees, human nature, health, physical science, grammar, and much
more. They also read, were read to, and played some thinking and
observation games. LOL. This morning they learned some lessons as they
were trying to keep the sled under control and from crashing over a
little embankment while they were out sledding without their dad! We're
looking forward to digging back into our history lessons when I get
settled in, as well as picking our read aloud back up.
Tonight I am going to watch
Briana in her tap and modern classes. It just happened that parent week
hit while I was here for part of the week. Ballet and pointe got snowed
out last night, and I was disappointed to miss it. I think she was,
too. I have to leave before the next one. It's been great to spend the
week with her.
So, I'm off to my scrapbooking, and hope to accomplish a lot on it today.
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