Blessings From Home

25 days and counting and other rambling on

The last few days I have not been my usual peppy self, ofcourse I don't know if I can ever say I have been peppy. The baby I am carrying makes my daily work doubly hard. My visit to the midwife bear no news of anything except that he could come at any time or wait on until his due date. Not very helpful, but true.

I've been spending the last several days getting things done, always praying that I'll be able to accomplish more the next day as my list is ever growing. We have only 8 days of school left until we begin our break from regular schooling, and admittedly I will likely jump for joy that day (possibly starting my impending labor, lol). Not that teaching the children hasn't been a joy, but it will be nice to have a bit more time for other preperations and some much needed rest.

Even though the next couple of months will be filled with a new baby and holidays, my mind can't help but wonder ahead to what the new year holds. So many things in our lives that need to change and do better at, some things not needing to wait until then, like some much needed discipline with my children. In my mind I know what needs doing, it's a matter of putting my thoughts into action. Things like following our daily routines, keeping the kids busy with things besides television and computer. Making sure that they have enough responsibility, but most importantly not letting that guilt seep in to my thoughts, when I hear from others how hard I am on my children, when I just began thinking I wasn't hard enough. Ofcourse these are the same people who's children are running a muck through the grocery stores and who's kids have cell phones at the tender age of 8 or 9, or even younger. Insanity....

In other areas, we are trying our best to prepare ourselves for my husband to possibly lose his job. Rumors are flying around that the doors will shut down after the first of the year. And although I know rumors do not always hold true, I'd like the chance to be prepared all the same, besides, most generally the rumors had to have gotten their start from somewhere.

Some of the things we're doing right now is making all of our Christmas gifts, cutting back on grocery expenses, keeping our thermostat turned down, and preparing our backyard for a garden, along with many other smaller things. I'm working on a list of seeds that I would like to begin in next year's garden, and will soon start stocking up on the needed seeds. I'm back and forth on how I would like my garden to be layed out. It seems that a raised square foot garden would be ideal, but at the same time more expensive than I want to spend on lumber and the building of boxes. All the same I am working on building up my compost and learning as much as I can about gardening in this hard, red Oklahoma dirt.

Well, I've rambled on enough. Lots to do today, and not enough time to do it all in. I pray you all are blessed in whatever you do today!

Blessings,

sara

Hang in there

{ 11:07, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 } { Posted by Shellie }

From reading your blog, I could have been reading mine at the end of any one of my pregnancies! I "let things go" as I near my due date, and one of the things that gets let go is the discipline for the kids. They know right from wrong, but they end up jumping on the couch anyway, and I would just be too exhausted to do anything about it. Then, 9 months later, you have to re-train them to stop it. The one thing I never allowed ( and it seems you are this way, too) is to be rowdy or disrespectful while out and about. I just cannot stand it when the kid is in one aisle knocking things over and the parent is in the other isle blissfully ignorant of what their child is doing. But I digress as usual. I pray that the rest of your pregnancy goes easy, and that the baby will come in God's time. And to help God's time along :-) I used castor oil. LOL
Shellie at onechristianmom.blogspot.com