I knew they would come...

The day after my last post I was already beginning to feel better. These days are getting so much better.

It's amazing how hard it is to "Let go, and let God". (I have magnet on my fridge that says that). It reminds me to let go of the things I can't control and let God take care of it.

I could drive myself crazy searching for the lost disc of curriculum and be frustrated each day that I don't find it, OR I can let it go and if I do find it some day, be grateful! I decided to do the latter because, quite frankly, I have a hard enough time being satisfied with each day.

I am feeling much more at peace, content, and happy with the kids, with homeschool (I changed Chases English), with my marriage, and with job-searching (for a legal job for Eric). I am enjoying the sunshine this morning and the prospect of spring weather for the rest of the week! I am grateful for Eric's help, support, and love.

I need to enjoy the good around me and stop trying to make it "ideal", that way I can limit comparisons and recognise progress. Then the kids will know that their efforts are not in vain. Perfection is not required but effort is.

I am grateful that I can teach my children that homosexuality is not okay and that tolerance doesn't mean giving in to people's ideas of making what they're doing wrong, seem right. I am grateful that I can teach my children about chastity without the opposite being flaunted in their faces in the bathroom stalls, hallways, conversations (heard or overheard), and even in classrooms. I am grateful to be able to teach them about being responsible (though it seems an impossible task, at times). I am grateful that they are smart, that they are growing and learning and that I get to be part of that. I am grateful that they get to learn about our great nation's beginnings and the faithful men and women (what good man doesn't have a good woman behind him?) that worked so hard to build it's Constitution. I am grateful that we get to have prayer in our school; it is necessary. I am grateful that perfection isn't required but effort is (in school).

Yay! for happy days!