Dec. 18, 2007
Posted in family life
I miss blogging.  Mostly I am not, because I just do not have much positive things to say in my life right now. We are all healthy, we all still love each other, I guess life is not that bad. But...with my husband away for the past six months with only visits here and there, that has been difficult. Add a couple more difficulties, and I have been personally struggling. On the positives: This has been a time of increased scripture study for me, as that is what brings me peace. That and frequent long conversations with my Heavenly Father. That has grounded me and helped me find safe ground amidst the storm. I was looking over the past year recently and I realized that I have found more time this year to do some things I have always wanted, like traveling, planting a herb garden and cooking from it, spending quality time with my family, making friendships. I truly am entering a different phase of my life, where everything is not about being pregnant, carrying for a newborn, being pregnant, carrying for a newborn. Some days I miss that cycle very badly and then I think....you greedy girl! you have nine for goodness sakes!.... I think this next year I will be able to find even more time to get my life both in order and live it creatively and there is joy in that. Well, it is early in the morning and our water is shut off until the plumber can come at 8:30 so that is the best I can do for positives this morning. This next year is either going to go very well or be very difficult. I guess in some ways the choice is up to me. We are about to move, been thinking we were about to move for several months now. There will be a temporary move for a short term job, probably sunny southern Florida, which sounds so good right now. And then, a longer move, about two years this time, to Texas. I have truly fallen in love with the corner of Nebraska we live in. I think I will always think of this as "my place". I have had eighteen months here, which is a good long stay for us. It has been a restful place for me, in the midst of a difficult time in my life. I thank God for knowing I would need this, right now. So, now we are packing and putting up Christmas decorations at the same time. And having many other incidents nearly every day...just annoyances, nothing devastating. The pipes have burst twice in one week, the washing machine went out two days before Thanksgiving. One of the cars may be about to die. Deer in the road last weekend resulted in us in the ditch, after a scary couple of spins. I guess I could complain good and hard about all the "annoyances" that occur daily, but then....washing machines went on sale the Friday after Thanksgiving. I have a brand new washing machine, my first one ever and it was only $200. That accident or near accident....after a couple of scary spins, our car did not tip over even though it was at a 45 degree angle for a minute. It suddenly righted itself and stopped. Hand of God, I am telling you. It was that abrupt...it righted itself and stopped spinning and we were all fine. My husband has a good job, we have the means to provide warmth,food and comfort to our nine children and have me be home with them. Part of that is living simply over the years, but a good portion of that is pure blessing. And last night, with the water turned off, my only ps daughter had a school concert. Bathrooms and water fountains! Wahoo! As for homeschooling, well, we started off well, stellar in fact, but it is just eeking by at the moment. Thus my lack of posts.  Life has been about coping lately and that does not make interesting writing. But...with us staying in a hotel for 4 to 6 weeks....I guess our homeschooling is about to become stellar again. I will not have any other distractions, my children will be my life. There is a sweet feeling about that actually. I plan on having 4 weeks of school work ready and put together (I mean the worksheet type stuff), a project each week with all the supplies together, and some field trips planned. This might even be fun! Some great books for reading together. Since my daughter has a lap top, I might even be able to blog more often. I am starting to feel we might survive this. |
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