For this reason, I want to go back and capture all that I have missed in my blog, thus I was blogging Christmas 2014 in September 2015. I like order, I like chronological order and I want the story to be as complete as possible.
However, this blog has become important not only to document our lives and remember, but I have found an outlet for my voice. Being a stay at home mom with not a lot of personal time, sometimes writing is my way of finding my way and expressing where I am, which is important for me. I can take stock, organize my thoughts, refuel, be present once I know where I am, gain clarity, and find direction. I have many thoughts that fly in and out...I need to be able to document them and get them out of my head.
So this means, I will keep going back to catch up but with periodic "blurps" into our current life.
This morning I find myself in the house alone with Cambria. It is not often, I sit outside alone and eat my breakfast. It was peaceful. It takes me back to those "on my own" Saturdays in Maui. A morning run, a swim, eating breakfast, and reading a magazine on the lanai with a day outstretched for me...with few duties. How things change.
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| (Sweet baby in the background, still hard to believe...) |
My friend Kim, graciously said she wanted to take my two out for a fun breakfast and to the beach. Her two have left home and her third is graduating from high school this year. How things change.
Life is never static. It is constant flux. I find that we can either join in on the wave or resist it. There are times I miss those moments of that Saturday stretched before me, but would never trade the fullness of three. It is important for me to be able to be alone and feel the quiet and gain perspective through writing, reading, planning, and getting things done. And it is important for my friend to feel again those days with kiddos by your side, clamoring with both joy and well....clamor!
This year I feel I am called to the word, Flexible, in my days. We have just again begun school and I have a feeling if I don't live out that word, we will all have a miserable year. I had the stirring within me this year to trust the home school process and to reap more the benefits of what home school offers, instead of doing school at home. I am in my 4th year and I hope it shows this year and I trust the process more and we get "lost" in learning. Not only will the doorbell ring but a baby will be in our midst, this calls for flexibility, In my reading of other home school parents, being flexible is something we can teach our children. I want to ride the wave this year...and look over and see three kiddos beside me! This is my calling...for now.
Here we are riding waves on our first day of school 2015....
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| When I made it downstairs, Dev had written our welcome sign, lit our candle, and laid our circle time books..sometimes she really amazes me. |
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| Our new student |
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| Math turned into a football game. |
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| Answer to prayer, Cambria slept through the morning so I could focus on Dev and Bobo....she has not been sleeping during the day as well lately. Felt very blessed with this gift for our first day! |
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| Blessed by picked flowers! |
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| The assignment was to create their own country on their paper, they took it a step further and used a box to begin to draw on to create their country...letting them go...flexibility! |
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| These days give hope to the harder days that will come. |
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