"If at first you don't succeed, try try again."
Yesterday was rough. I mean, ROUGH! Between me feeling overwhelmed, Joy refusing to nap at the right times, Judah whining and a whirlwind of a mess post-getaway this past weekend, nothing went smoothly. But we did complete "school" for the day, and made it today, which went MUCH better.
We're still figuring things out, but the kids practically demand school now, and they're eager to begin once the babes are sleeping (oh I hope that never wears off!) Today, we learned about the letter "B" and it was more of a struggle than A, but they still did well.
They're now asking for craft time. They have it in their head (probably from church/VBS/MOPS/etc,) that you have a Bible story, lesson, craft time, play time and then "go home" time. Well, after 45 minutes of "lesson" time, they had had enough, so I let them have "play" time, to which Jesslyn exclaimed, "But Mommy! We didn't do a craft!" Guess what I've been looking up tonight?! For "C" day, we'll be making a cute little pom pom caterpillar. That'd better be good enough. :)
Tomorrow is busy, as I'll be at "training" for CBS, since I'm teaching some of the kids this year. I'm starting to feel like I'm in my sophomore year of high school again. Why? Well, in my freshman year, I got my yearbook and noticed there were pics for EVERY activity at the school. So I was determined to get in as many group pics as possible. I signed up for the Yearbook team (ha ha!,) chorus, drama, and a couple other things that I just can't remember (my yearbooks are downstairs... I guess I could go look. But I'm quite happy here in my chair for now.) They did all the group photos on the same day, and you were called out of class to take them. After the 3rd or 4th time, the photographer joked that I should just stay there the rest of the day. I did not repeat that busyness in my Junior/Senior years.
So yeah, why is this year like my sophomore year? Because, boy do I have a lot of pics to take! Between MOPS leadership, Preparing for Marriage Coaching, CBS teaching, helping out with 2nd Saturday at our campus, and, oh, raising and homeschooling four kids, I've got barely enough time to breathe! Oh, and I forgot, volunteering in preschool once a month at church. :/ Something's gotta give. They're all GOOD things to be doing, but I dunno. And the crazy thing is... there's so much more I still wanted to do! Someone put a leash on me!
My prayer lately is that I would be able to juggle it all while still glorifying God. Yes, all those things are good things, but if they're distracting from Him, than it's not worth it. Thankfully, I've actually been able to find a little bit of time for quiet time lately. I figured out that it's [usually] pretty quiet when I put Joy to bed, and it's just her and me (and she's sleeping most of the time!) So in that regard, I'm better than I was when I started all this craziness. I'm still working on the "be still" part, though. I have a hard time just shutting off me and really listening, y'know? I think the next step will be waking up early and having my quiet time at some ghastly hour, like 7 a.m. (oh the horror!)
Anyway! Yeah, busy day tomorrow, and I've got lunches to pack. Gonna try my hand at "bento boxes" for them! I will post pics, if they're anything to get excited about. :)
