i thought i'd share the day with you….

1. 7 year old threw fit.  kept him home from montessori school and in his pj's in the bed all day as consequence.
2. 2 year old spent entire morning saying “no mama”
3. left poor hubbie with 7 year old meltdown and 2 year old screaming as i trudged off to yoga
4. had to call the montessori school to let them know why dear 7 year old wasn't at school
5. spent almost 2 hours in the dentist's office getting 7,6,4 year old's teeth clean (me too).  only one cavity in 7 year old.
6. handled new mousey with much success today (all of us did) but got pooped on too.

and overall a good day!  no broken bones, only two bloody body parts requiring bandaids on 4 year old, hubbie made most of our dinner and it's 10pm and i'm in the bed.

so nighty night.
sleep tight.
julie

Do you also realize the older you get the less you know?  Did you read my cactus story?  There's proof right there!

Things like that convince me that I know less and less with each passing year.  You know, when I was 16 I knew everything!!  Why am I getting dumber?

There are things I don't understand…

1. My daughter isn't even two yet and already she doesn't want one stitch of clothing on her babies.  Why?
2. Why is true surrender and submission sometimes easy and sometimes like knives in my heart?
3. Is there still One perfect will from the Father or are there just sometimes choices He gives us to make because He loves us and we're His kids. 
4. If so, why does HE think I have any idea whatsoever what will truly make me happy?
5. Why do boys seem to always want to beat the living daylights out of one another?  Even when they are brothers!
6. Can Jesus come back now?  I'm ready.

These are things I ponder.  Like the cactus seeds….so small, so tiny and yet I see pumpkins. 

Wondering in HIM tonight…
Julie

BLOG FIND OF THE DAY!
Yes, I stole this idea from here and I love it.  Go and welcome this new little one into our world.
Julie

Go check out Jennifer's new blog!  She's just written her first entry.  Help welcome her into the homeschoolblogosphere and leave her a comment.

IN HIM
julie

It thunderstormed here today.  I love thunderstorms.  God's majesty and all that.  But as I sit here checking email a thought comes to me as I watch the butterflies on the azaleas.  Where do butterflies go when it rains?  Do they have little butterfly condos or something?  Where are they safe that their precious little wings don't get damaged?  Do they smell the rain coming?

Anybody know???
Please comment if so.

Have a blessed and wonderfilled Jesus day.
JULIE

I need to look back over my blogs and see if Tuesday is my “muck” day.  I feel as if I'm having a lot of them lately.  Today I just wanted to crawl in a hole and sleep.  Someone feed me chocolate!!

I've done well on the diet.  Today wasn't as good but overall I'm doing well.  I need to go for some of that yummy asparagus tomorrow.  Mmmm, I didn't know what I was missing as a child.  I've even braved brocolli twice.  I hate that stuff. 

Hubbie's gone.  Oldest son took photos of his baptism to school today.  Too cool!!!!!  My middle and youngest son are still struggling getting along.  They are like oil and vinegar. 

Tomorrow I'm going shopping with a friend.  Hopefully it will be much needed rest and time away. 

Thursday will be painting and yoga.  And hopefully Friday we'll be able to move the guys up in the loft to their new room…YEA.
The bathroom was completed yesterday.  We have running water.  I was so excited.

I'm bushed.  See you tomorrow.  I'm hitting the hay.
IN HIM
julie

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Today was different.  Thank God!!!!
I decided I needed some time alone and went to a friend's house and sat in her back yard.  I knew she would be at work so I'd have the place to myself.  We swim there a lot in the summer and I love her place.  It's like a little piece of heaven on earth.  I had a card to write to a dear friend who delivered her baby girl, Andie, at 25 weeks.  Andie is doing well but her mommy is not.  She seems just so frazzled.  She isn't sleeping, spends 1/2 her life pumping and is in the middle of a move and a new job for her hubbie.  Talk about stress.  Andie was born at 1 lb. 13 oz.  and is up to 2 lbs.  From all I know about premmies she is doing really well.

So…..
After perusing the Christian bookstore for about an hour I set out with a fist full of cards to spend some time alone, with God, and enjoying the day.  It was beautiful today.  As I wrote I heard a cow mooing and a rooster crowing.  It was wonderfully peaceful.  Every once in a while the horses would neigh.  I could smell cut grass, flowers blooming and feel the cool breeze blowing.  The sky was bluer than blue.  Heaven on earth!!!

I just had to share.  (Pictures above)

I also had my morning Bible study this morning.  We discussed Jesus' death on the cross in the 18-19th chapter of John.  It was awesome.  I kept thinking about The Titanic and God's love for us.  I'm so thankful we have a God who chases after us, who loves us with a wild and unabandoned love.

Thank you Jesus!!!!

IN HIM
julie

Well, I've had another one of those LOVELY “feel bad” days AGAIN.  I don't know if the antibiotics I'm taking for my sinus infection have me feeling all wierd or what.  So feeling bad physically evolves into feeling bad emotionally, snapping at my kids and being on overall bear in desperate need of hybernation. 

We did manage to get some school work done today however.  I'm having such an attitude and behavior problem with my 6 year old right now.  He's always been my easy one yet turning six has evolved into a “momma's nightmare”.  His attitude just stinks right now and as I pray asking God what might be going on I try to rest in that it may be a stage.  Our oldest (a whopping 7 years) has traditionally been the most difficult one but since his salvation he's a jewel to be around. 

So please pray for this less than friendly homeschool mom.  And be glad you don't live near me lest you get bitten by the grizzly bear I've become.

GRRRRRR……….
julie

Boy has daylight savings messed me up.  I woke up at 4 am this morning wide awake.  Yesterday morning I couldn't drag myself from the bed.  Never has the time change affected me the way it has this year.  My body is tired but even lying down for a nap didn't work.  It's like my body jolts itself awake after lying down.  I have massage therapy tonight & hope that might help.  I need sleep!

It's been one of those days.  I woke up ill and stayed that way most of the day.  I've heard “MOM” 10,000 times today, or so it seems.  Even though I got 2 hours away for yoga this morning my mood today has been something akin to toilet water.  I don't like it when I feel like a grump.  So even though I don't want to dump all my whining and complaining on you I want you to know I've had one of those days.  School today consisted of karate tonight and that's all.  No writing, no math, no nothing. 
Guess there's always tomorrow…..
Ms. GrumpolaIneedtolose20pounds

More pictures from our beach trip……
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