After a very awful 15 minutes of trying to get this post right, it's finally here. Sometimes I dislike blogger, the Internet and everything that has a plug SO MUCH that I could throw it all out the window. Grrrrr!!!
Like, yeah. Wow....it seems like nothing much was accomplished on my part today, but for some reason, at a little after 4, I'm ready for dinner and the evening to get on with itself! Again, I woke up this morning, ready to get my school work done, ready to file another lesson away, and do you think I get around to it? Nope. Not even close. Actually, the thing that I did get around to doing today was something that somebody else was supposed to do. And that was cleaning the basement....you know, the part that everyone walks through. For some reason or another, that's probably the messiest part of our whole entire house, and for another reason or another (why do we say that?!), it never seems to stay clean for more than a day. If that. Alas, enjoy it while it looks like it does. Actually, I think that if I just spent 5 minutes or less down there each day picking up the clothes and toys that find there way onto the floor there, it would stay cleaner a lot easier. Enough talk about the basement. Let's get on with things.
I'm having a bad hair day. Not that that really matters, but it's been bugging me up the wall to the ceiling the whole afternoon. Thankfully, I'll be able to go to bed 7 or 8 hours and I won't have to deal with it anymore. It's always good to look at things from the good side. You know--like the cup is half full, rather than half empty. I could have said that that I still have 1/2 the day to live before I can go to bed, but I didn't. Therefore, I am an optimist. And hence, I shall simply ignore my hair and concentrate on the important things of life. Like......
Dinner, cleaning the house, calling the people that I was supposed to call 3 months ago, e-mailing the people about good news club, and getting the table set so the kiddos can eat. Need I say more? Yes? Alright then.....I also have to practice with Mackenna for our speech and debate duo, work really hard on memorizing 1 Peter 3:8-18, prepare the next Bright Lights Bible study, and pray that the Lord would help me to keep Him as the focus of my life. Yes, I, we, need to keep Christ as the focus....
Last Wednesday at the BL meeting, we talked about being totally dedicated to God. TOTALLY. Not just half way, not just a little bit, but totally, fully, wonderfully, completely all the way given over to Him, for His purposes, for His calling, for His will. This isn't an easy thing, as we also discussed at BL. No, in fact, it's not easy at all. Because of our flesh, we desire the other way of doing things, we would rather live life for selfish reasons. And as hard as it is sometimes to turn out lives over to the Lord to do and use us as He will, we must. Because that's what God wants us to do. If we seek the Lord's will in all that we do, it will be much easier to be fully dedicated to Him. I encourage each of you to rededicate yourselves to the Lord (and if you have not accepted Him as Savior, I encourage you to do that first!!). Ask the Lord to give you a heart that is willing and ready to serve, a heart that will be conformed to the Father's will without strife, pray that God would give you shining eyes, a beautiful attitude, a heart and hands that are ready to serve others--all for the glory and praise of our great God. We have been called, as Christians, to a life of service. Not for ourselves, and merely others, but for GOD. And because we are serving God, others are going to be something that we will be doing a lot of serving towards. And praise the Lord for this! Jesus was sent to the earth to serve, and what higher calling could we, as followers of Jesus, ask for? May Christ be magnified through you and me!
As it happens, speech and debate was canceled for tomorrow because we are going to (supposedly) be getting a few inches of snow.....I say! A few inches! Goodness! What changes we have had to endure moving from Michigan to this lovely state we now reside in. Alas, where we come from, a foot of snow would have been 'nothing', much less a few inches. **grin** It is absolutely amazing to see and to live in the midst of a different kind of weather. Usually, by Thanksgiving (or a tad after) we would have had our fill of snow in Michigan, and just now, in the beginning of Feb. we have finally got something that we can even call snow!! God's creation is magnificent. And the diversity of weather He has made between different parts of the world is none other than amazing!
Tomorrow, I'm going to start an Olympic study with the little girlies. They are so excited, and I'm so glad. In cleaning the basement up this afternoon, I set up a homeschool table down there almost smack dab in the middle of the floor. That's where we are planning on setting up our study each day. Mom got this little neat-o book all about the Olympics back when they first started, and I think we'll have tons of fun printing things out of there and letting the kiddos color them and glue them into their notebooks. I remember when I was a wee one, mom sat down with me and did a unit study on the Olympics. I still have my notebook and folder jam packed with paper goodies from years ago. It's so much fun to look back on things like that! Montana and Willow are really looking forward to it, and, thanks to handy dandy YouTube, we'll be able to watch many of the Olympic sports. If you want to take a look at the Olympic website, you can by clicking here. They have some very neat videos on the site, also.
Tomorrow is also Mackenna's birthday. Happy 15th Mackenna dear! Mac is such a great brother, and I have been so blessed by him. Over the past couple of years, our relationship has really been strengthened. I remember when we were little, we would take the crib mattress (you know, those kind that are covered in tough plastic?) and we would set it up at the top of the basement stairs. THEN we would sit on it and slide all the way down the stairs to the concrete bottom. Thankfully, we never got hurt, but it sure was tons of fun. I think we'd both do it again if mom would let us. :-)
Pot pies are sooooo yummy. And I'm so sad that my tummy is all full, because I can't finish my little pie so full of yummy carrots, chicken and broccoli. Tis so sad, indeed. The rest of the kiddos are finishing up their din din while they are listening to an Adventure In Odyssey, and I suppose I should head off to the kitchen and finish cleaning up. I think the girls are gunna pull me into a movie here pretty soon....and my duty is to make popcorn for the ever-hungry tummies that are in this house. So, I leave you with the lovely verses from 1 Peter that I'm trying to hard to memorize.
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear, Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit: 1 Peter 3:8-18
Today, many people came out early this morning to see if a certain clever little groundhog would see his shadow as he arose out of his hole in the ground. Legend has it that if Mr. Phil (the groundhog, of course) sees his shadow, there will be 6 more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see his shadow, there is supposed to be an early spring. So, as many eager viewers came to watch Punxsutawney Phil come out of his hibernation, braving the freezing temperatures, they were greeted with news that, yes, indeed, there would be 6 more l-o-n-g weeks of winter left.
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