- I'm really enjoying my very part-time job at Lincoln Perk, especially this last Saturday. Two, not one, but two college students who came in at different times during the day asked me what I was studying (MEANING AT COLLEGE)! I truly savored their shock as I revealed my true stats. Now, after I shared this with my dear hubby (granted with plenty of gloating), he nonchalantly replied with, "Of course you don't have to be twenty-something to be in college, you can be fifty-something; I had a lot of those folks in my classes." Appreciated that so much, I came really close to throwing my sudsy toothbrush at him.
- We started school this week; the day after Grace was up all night with a stomach virus(didn't know about that when we planned our first day...). We're going to San Antonio for a two week vacation in September, so I'm not actually ahead of the game; it just temporarily looks that way. But, for any of you home school moms reading this, we've actually had a stellar first couple of days. It is so unusual for us to actually start a first week of school well that it has never happened. :) Here's the secret so far: A SCHEDULE! Really, I've never truly tried a real-live school schedule with times and everything before. I've always been terribly scared of them; but we had also been having trouble with grumpiness (including ALL of us), managing Grace instead of spending quality time with her, spending way too much of our day trying to finish things... It seems the more I base on a do-able schedule, the more we get done. All of you time management people are thinking, "Duh, Kelly- this is not a new concept." But this is my small personal epiphany.
- I am going through Beth Moore's Bible Study entitled Breaking Free. It's wonderful! I'm sure some of you have been through it already, but I am enjoying it immensely. Definitely an intimacy-builder in my relationship with the Lord.
Current favorite Bible verse:
O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. -Isaiah 33:2
I want to grow into the wife, mom, friend, woman who lives this prayer.
3 comments:
Kelly I so appreciate your openness with sharing the things you're learning. Being cut from the "Clayworth cloth" like you, concepts like keeping a schedule scare me too but I've also been realizing the value of organizing/managing my time and how freeing it really can be!
please, please share the joys of scheduling with my wife.
this is a cry for help.
=:o
Regarding your sister's comment about being cut from the Clayworth cloth - "I have no response to that."
I did the Beth Moore Breaking Free Study years ago and loved it, as I believe you know. Erika will probably remember me grabbing my study guide and reading her long excerpts from it over the phone when she was in college. I probably did the same to you and you'll probably find things you'll want to share with your girls when they are older if not now.
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