One of those weeks...

Are we having a good time?  Sometimes but the boys don't get excited about Math, French, English...at all.  They do it because they have to get it done.  I never was good at Math and now I get all excited cause I'm getting a second chance to appreciate why God 'bothered' with Math.  We are busy with multiplication  for grade 3 and addition with my first grader and I've always loved learning it but now with all the 'tricks' we have from the program...I'm loving it even more.  At their ages the boys don't see the point of why they need to bother with their various subjects but they do seem to get that they are important.  They sure get excited about History which would make sense since they come from parents who love History and have aunts & uncles and grandparents who just LOVE to study History.  They aren't crazy about French but nor was their father till he met ME and well the rest is History (see why we love it). :-)

They can't see in to the future but my husband keeps saying... they will thank you some day for swimming lessons, piano lessons, etc... Maybe not for teaching them cursive but who knows (my husband is convinced they'll appreciate that too).  We have been so richly blessed and they can't begin to understand to what extent. I do get those weeks where like a lady said to me at the library today... " You have 4 boys?"  You must have nerves of steel... I answered, "No, I just pray a lot".  Which is something I should do even more instead of relying on my own strength and then falling flat on my face and lying there thinking...I know why this happened... I wasn't paying attention and tripped yet again.   So  I got up yesterday all excited about my newest niece thinking "Today is just an awesome day, I have so much planned and it is going to be great and my boys will love it!"  Then I heard fighting and the word 'mine' mentioned often.  Once that was over...why do we have to do this, etc.... Well, grumbling doesn't go over so well and nor does lack of appreciation/positive attitude.  I felt selfish since I was intending to have a good day....Big mistake..."The Joy of The Lord is My Strength" was not on my mind.  So, I fell flat on my face (yep...was not a happy camper Mom moments) and had to send myself in to my room for a 'time out'.  Nothing like mutual forgiveness to mend and bring restoration in a day and in a mother & her sons hearts.

Today was a lovely day...only because the Lord put a song in my heart this morning:  This is the Day...that the Lord has made...and I listened, obeying, failing at times but I didn't fall flat on my face since I spent a good part of it already 'on my knees'.   Can we spend at least 1 minute of our day really meditating on God's word and living our lives for Christ.  I wonder if we can even go 5 seconds without sinning...or needing to be carried.♥