I guess that is what I can call it.  I have a whole week off this coming week from being a taxi driver for the family!  I am so excited, I just don't know where to begin having fun!  I finished up the sweater I was working on just this morning, and am starting on a matching hat to finish the skein of yarn.

I also finished the schedule for school this year.  I think I will have them start the week after next.  I can't wait to experience 10th grade all over again!

I have picked up a few new books over the summer that I would like to add not just for extra studies, but also to benefit the family.  I'm not so sure how it will be recieved.  Some are study books, some are just devotionals,  some are moral questions and values to be studied from a Christian perspective.  With teens,  I really would like to dive into that one.  

Studying and reading more myself is helping me overcome some of my faults....slowly.  Just this last week I had come face to face with a situation that at first knocked me off my feet,  and really made me angry!  Luckily with it being nice, I got to walk some of that anger off by mowing our yard.  I like mowing because it gives me time to think.  The more I mowed, the more I thought over the situation that occured earlier that day and the more I realized that what I was actually feeling was more an earthly anger.  Meaning, I wasn't happy with how the world had decided to handle the situation.  It just didn't seem fair!   I realized that the anger I felt wasn't making me any better than the ones that caused it.  

I stopped mowing and came in to try and find solence in my Bible.  Wa-la!  It didn't take me long to find a  verse.

Romans 9:15-17 (New International Version)

15For he says to Moses,    "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,  and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."^[a] 16It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy."

That might not seem fitting or make sense to you, but it spoke to me.   I am not responsible for the actions of anyone else.  I can't decide what is right or just in all actions.  I have to lay it down for the Lord.   It is a hard thing to do sometimes through gritted teeth, but as I search and read more,  I can learn to leave it at the altar.