Jet lag isn't going away very quickly. My nights want to be days and my days want to be nights. I forced myself to stay up all day yesterday and went to bed early. It didn't help as I was awake from 11 pm until 3:30 and felt terrible at 6 am! We are just a bunch of zombies. It could get really depressing if it lasts very long. Part of the trouble is it is so cold outside I haven't ventured one foot out side the door since arriving home. We have several inches of snow and not a whole lot of sunshine. We caught the kids sledding at 2 am a night or two ago... We dragged them back in, gave them a melatonin and sent them back to bed. We have to get over this soon~!
Christina is in the Christmas mode. She is secretly crafting away and I feel bad for the kid. She's only 11 and I have zero plans for Christmas. I really need to get crafting myself so she isn't totally disappointed. Eventually I will need to visit a store or two as she doesn't have a winter coat or snowpants, but I thought I would look for something during the after Christmas sales.
I am two entries shy of 200 and I am kind of not sure where to go with this blog. Originally it was intended to record my garden experiments and it worked out well for that. Then along came the preparation of the big trip to Africa and then the trip itself. I aquired quite an audience while we were in Africa. Sometimes I had up to 200 hits per day and that is not counting page views, but we are home now and there is no reason for our friends to read about us when they are very much a part of our lives. I can't imagine I am still a popular, much sought after author .
I still have family to think of and it's a good way to keep in touch. We left Jason and Antionette and the girls far away in Africa, my sister and her family live in the Yukon, and my folks in Colorado/ Africa. How much do they want to hear "today I made bread" or "today we did school"? LOL! Not that I feel everything has to be exciting... but it was fun to have unusual material to write about. I guess I just need a goal or some direction. I might wander around for a bit until growing season comes around again. Actually, that's sort of how I feel about life at the moment... not sure where to go with it. Jason mentioned that they also felt the let-down of a whole year's worth of build-up to the trip... and two months later it's over. Now what?
Mmmmm...You're home!
Posted by mulberrylane on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 12:00 - Link
I am so happy for you guys to be home! Ah yes, jet lag... but soon you will be back to normal! I'm sure there is a wee bit of post trip blah's to be expected.
As for your blog, I enjoy just hearing about your life... as boring as you may seem it to be. Just the warm posts of the girls growing and maturing. The fun adventures you go on, your pictures that you enjoy sharing... I enjoy them all.
As for life... I can't really guide you on that one. Only God knows what you are meant to do. I'm sure this trip touched your hearts in many ways and you saw things that many don't normally see... now what? Why did God want you to go on this trip? Was it more than seeing family? If so, ponder that. Was there some character building going on? Sometimes experiences are just that... a way to build us, to be better people, so we can walk our path just a bit better than before.
I know when Kate got back from her Ecuador trip and then from working at camp, she had some downer days... she felt purpose with her life at those times, yet at home, she wallowed in despair thinking life isn't going to begin until she meets someone and how is she going to meet someone way in the boonies of Iowa? She has prayed for direction and has pondered Adventist education more than a dozen times, but it is never right, it never feels right to take that big step... she has no interest in areas where the education would take her and to go into debt to find a nice boy seems a bit untrustworthy of our Heavenly Father that He can't arrange it so she ought to spend $80,000+ on college to find that "man". Your bummers will walk themselves out, as will my daughters! *grin*
I am trying to find my way in my personal life as well. Seems to be a place where I am treading water and not really getting anywhere with any of the ministries I am doing. I realize that sometimes regularity is needed to be there for other people, but sometimes it appears that the ministry seems stagnant and filling time that should be spent doing something else. It is something I am pondering as of late. Each week SS seems more and more despondent. The lessons don't reach these kids... they joke and talk the entire way through the class. I'm going back to the basics... teaching books of the Bible and such so they can participate in a study together without such upheaval of our study direction just to find one text.
Well, I'd say more, but really need to get back to the books... I also have lots of sewing to do. When ???
Welcome home!
Warmly,
Melissa
What to write?
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 08:30 - Link
We sure don't mind hearing more about Africa and seeing a whole lot more pictures. You've just given us a glimps so far, I'm sure!
Julie
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 07:49 - Link
Please keep blogging. You are an inspiration to me. I am stuck, spiritually as a wife and mother. Please don't stop writing. Please.
Blogging
Posted by Kristy on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 02:05 - Link
Angela,
I do hope you will continue. Your blog so inspired me, that I set up one of my own, right here on the homesteadblogger. I haven't written anything yet, as like you, it seems somewhat redundant to say we got all our schoolwork done, or we had another litter of puppies today. But I think we as mothers are all on the same journey, and perhaps it is nice to know that someone else's day looks much like my own. I want to read about your garden experiments now. We just got our first seed catalog in the mail yesterday, so gardening is already in our minds! Keep writing! Kristy
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