Life returning to Normal......Whatever that is

We took last week off from school and just did stuff....played in the snow, went to the park, made crafts, stayed in our jammies and watched movies. Wow we are an exciting bunch of six!  This week we are getting back to normal, which means school and the joys and trials that come with home schooling!  I just love these four little people more than anyone will ever now, even them, but I do have my moments and this year I am not going to make silly resolutions that I can not keep instead I am going to go with some simple goal setting, or efforts to change in some areas so here goes.....

I will stop and smell flowers, or look at "scary bugs", and even watch the cars pass us by on our walks, more often than I do now just so that we can enjoy the moments and make more memories.

I will try and keep calm when those maddening things arise, and remember the quote THIS TO SHALL PASS, it always does and when it does I feel awful for making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Read scripture daily with the children, NOT SKIP ONE DAY in our devotionals and if some crisis makes us skip a day we WILL DO THE WORK TO CATCH UP, no excuse.

Stop being so hard on myself, this is going to be the tough one.  I know this about myself: I love order, I love for things to run smoothly, I love to be ahead, I love to plan, I love to know exactly what is going to happen and then make it happen.  So I will be working on letting go and LETTING GOD.

What I learned from my mother's death is that tomorrow is not promised to us, and I want to rediscover in myself the little things that make me a wonderful mother and most importantly a beautiful daughter of Our Lord!  I want to please Him in everything that I do and I know if that remains my focus, the rest will just fall into place!