Hi there... Welcome to the new blog. My hope for this blog is purely to support one another and bring dedicated homeschooling people together so we can chat about what's on our minds, our hearts, and our floors! I know that may sound incredibly weird at the moment, but let me explain.
I do NOT have a floor fetish or anything, but as all of you already know, there are not enough hours in the day sometimes. There are more demands on me than there
is a 'me' at times. I truly, TRULY love what I do, spending my days with the most fascinating, beautiful, sweet, little people that I am blessed to call my children. But it is very demanding in so many ways. I don't just mean the children, but when you are home all day, every day don't you feel like you should have a neat, clean house, well planned meals, you should feel relaxed and just bursting at the seams with J O Y !!! ??
Well, yes, those joyous moments do occur, but they are interspersed with piles of laundry, (both dirty and the clean that's not yet put away), dirty diapers, rushing to get the trash can down to the road, emergency trips to the veterinarian, etc... You get the point.
So I have found these things to be true:
When time allows, I look for encouragement and support online, in HS magazines or maybe from fellow homeschoolers in our area.
I find that most of the encouragement I have found is Biblical based - which is a GOOD thing. Most of what I read always encourages me to pray and stay in the Word. I know I can't do anything without Him and that He is faithful and will provide all that we need today.
And... I still find myself wishing I could find someone to have a dialog with about whatever is going on at the time. Someone who gets it. Someone who has been there and done that and can relate. Someone who is not my hubby, (he is such a patient man!). He's heard enough, really...
Whether I'm thinking of changing up how we are doing things, or if this week feels like it's 8 days long and it's only Tuesday, or how I haven't ironed for my hubby in (insert # of months here), I'm hoping to find a real person out there who can say, "I hear ya!"
So I wanted this to be a different kind of encouragement for myself and others. A place we can meet and comment on what's on our hearts, what's troubling us, or what we are celebrating. And we can be there to listen and encourage one another through the good, the bad and the ugly.
I believe we all want the very best for our kids and families. That's why we do what we do! But we need support and sometimes even an outlet to vent!
Ahhhh... then we feel better and we can focus on what's important.
So I hope you will stop by now and then and let us know what's going right for you or even what's pushing you to your limit. Hopefully we can find a way to encourage each other through our comments. Then we can keep putting on that smiling face and doing happy-dances with the kids no matter what the house looks like. Or if the ironing is done... Or we're not sure what's for dinner... Because we live in a real world where stuff happens and no matter how we plan, you never know how it's going to turn out.
And we realize that it's ok. We are doing all that we can today. We are doing our best and it is all worth it!
Keep on Keeping On!
