we had a WONDERFUL school day today-just love the freedom to be able to homeschool. i have been out of touch over that last couple weeks with doing a devotional with the kids so last night before bed, with all the kids snuggled close, we prayed aloud together that God would help us focus on Him today. By morning, I had forgotten that I asked God for Him to help us but something made me grab our daily devotional at breakfast and read from it. I read the kids a Bible story from Genesis about trusting God. It wasn't until after we read that I remembered I had asked God to help us focus on him. Whether you believe or not, things like this happen in my life often. He is on my side. He is here.

We have not had this productive of a school day in a while, so it makes me wonder too if we had an angel near us while we studied to help me realize how much I am meant to be home with my kids, teaching and building them up. While school takes most of my time, I realize it is more important for me to sit and truly listen to my daughter read to me than be nodding and saying "mmm hmm good job" from a distance while I try to do the dishes or toss one quick load of laundry in. Kids are smart, they need our undivided attention. If you are interested, they won't be either.

After we completed our lessons, we all agreed that some housework needed done before we could play. We were in disagreement on which room to clean so I taught the kids how a coin toss works today. Heads was the family room and tails was the family bedroom. It landed on tails so we worked together on tidying our room. We all were smiling, laughing and joking while cleaning and before we knew it, it was done!

Feeling accomplished, we were all energized from this! Had a great evening picking out some more seeds for our garden and watching movies. My son, who is all boy, loves mowers and as I mentioned yesterday, we just got a new-to-us push mower so him and Dad got to do some mowing. My son is paralyzed from his waist down so he could not push a mower, but he desperately wanted to help Dad. We don't have a baby wrap (wish I did!) so my husband wore him in a back pack and put safety goggles on him so he could help Dad mow. You shoulda seen the pride in my little boys face, in my husband's face, in my face. Love those boys, love this life.

Why me? Am I deserving of this? Dunno. Thank you, God for today, it was pretty great.