but I am glad that Daddy L went back to work today.  I think he was glad too, though.

It was just really hard for us to have school yesterday with him here. When he is home my heart tells me that *everything* should revolve around him...and his desires. That's *one* of the reasons that we have gotten behind, and stayed behind.

We have boys, and he wants to get work done. Our farm needs a LOT of work...it has been completely neglected for 10 years (before we owned it) and somewhat neglected before that. He's anxious to get started on it, and he wants/needs the help of our boys.

The boys want to help! They love working on the farm, and they LOVE being with their daddy. They are torn...we all are. In his heart he wants to just tell them to skip school and come work, but he knows from what I have told him that we cannot do that and be done with certain things by June...as we need to be.

DaddyL works a very odd shift, or at least to us it seems odd. He works 12hour days, 2-3 days in a row with 2-3 days in a row off between. He has every other Sat., Sun., and Mon. off...which is very nice. That means that every other week he is home Mon, Thur., and Fri. (this week it's this way) We just cannot stop having school, and doing indoor chores on those days.

I'm really going to have to pray about this. Yesterday the boys were not completely done with indoor chores and school until 2pm...which didn't leave them long to work outside. It's winter now, so there isn't a lot that they can do...but spring is fast approaching, and we will begin our garden. We are also going to be clearing the land, and building fences and such because we want to add sheep to our farm. We really need to take advantage of DaddyL's days off...which means the boys would really need to work on those days.

I guess I could look at it like this, if they were in public school they wouldn't even be home until 4pm. They aren't though, and that's one more benefit of hs'ing.

OH well, much to think on...if you have any suggestions please share them with me.