it's saturday.  ahhh the day of sleeping in, doing projects and spending time with the people we love.  it's funny how saturday can mean so many different things to different people. for some it is all about football, for some it is all about preparing for sunday's sermon, some people feed the poor on saturdays while others sleep all day and party all night.  to be real honest-i think all those sound great.  how do you spend your saturdays?

today josh is spending his saturday paying respect to a coworker who lost his wife to cancer this week. they are not old.  in their 50's actually.  I think her name was Janet.  has grown children but never got to be a grandmother:(  so sad.  I hope she knew christ and that her husband can find peace at laying her to rest soon.

after he left i decided to get my butt outta bed and pamper myself.  throughout the week it's shower and throw on sweats and a t-shirt. luckily homeschooling does not require me to wear dress pants.  the kids were all still sleeping so i took a nice long shower with no interruptions.  i shaved my legs (but i had to use josh's razor shhh.  since we have moved i can't find mine!  and i am certainly not organized enough to keep an ongoing grocery list of the things i need) anyway-painted my nails, put on make-up did my hair-woohoo! i am even wearing jeans today! feeling like a woman!

i have actually started a consistent pattern of doing laundry on saturdays.  i admit, it's been great not running out of clean laundry mid-week but on the other hand, doing laundry every saturday for the sake of routine scares me.  it reminds me of something that you do when you "grow up".  I don't wanna grow up.  I am still content with my spontaneous, no rhyme or reason way of doing things.  so i might be rebellious and break the cycle.  no laundry today.  i am feeling frisky and it's just going to have to wait.

planning to rearrange the "family room" or "great room" or whatever the heck room it is that i keep putting off.  one wall has a fireplace, one wall has sliding glass doors and one wall is a half wall.  sounds fine but we have a sectional couch and giant media wall entertainment deal and we can't make it fit!  what i really want to do is sell the stuff and start over but Josh says...no.  So we are going to make it work.  Hopefully I can get the house in tip-top shape because my friends are coming tomorrow!  I can't wait!

Maybe we will go to church tomorrow.  We have not been to actual Sunday church yet.  OH that reminds me!  I went to the homeschool group and I was so glad I did.  Met lots of nice moms and kids. I was worried it would be a group of yuppy woman who stay home with their kids while their husbands are out making millions.  But it wasn't at all.  A nice group of down to Earth woman who are making sacrifices each day to stay home and care for their kids.  Typical families trying to survive on one income.  They were not sporting the latest fall wardrobes and texting on their smart phones.  Just plain women rich in spirit and love joined together by the same goal-to train their children to be compassionate followers of christ.

Someone was talking to Emma and admiring how precise she was with the project she was doing.  It got brought up somehow that she was an excellent reader.  The other mom's asked me how I got my kids to love reading and how they picked up on it so quickly.  What I wanted to say was that I breastfed them until they could walk and talk and slept with them in my bed so the constant skin to skin contact allowed their neurons in their brain to be stress free and able to absorb knowledge at all times.  But I didn't; thought I'd better save my quirky beliefs 'till next time or else I will never make friends hahahahaahhaha.

What can I say-I'm weird and proud of it!

Dare to stand up for what you  believe in, even it's it weird!

smell ya later