sweet

You'll have to pass on to me tips regarding homeschooling as you go, I'm a few years off starting formally with E but would love to know of any websites etc that you find helpful. Plus, as you go with A I'd like to know if you end up doing stuff with E & K to prepare them for when they start.

I like your story of how it all came about. Isn't it cool how God works things out, His timing is always perfect.

In Australia children seem to start what's called prep when they are five. I don't entirely get it because then they go into grade one. I can't remember now, but what age do American children start school and what grade are they when they start?

I'm glad that your days without E went okay. I was praying heaps for you.

I think a lot about being a wife and mom. The past couple of days I've been thinking a lot more about the mom aspect of my life. I really want to enjoy these days with E and S and soon with the third addition. I'm not sure if it's that I'm pregnant, and just enormous, which is effecting me, but I often feel like I'm just maintaining. I want more than that. I remember my second summer as a camp counselor I decided before I arrived to camp that summer that I was going to go as hard as I could. The summer before I had spent too much time pitying myself in how hard it was, how hot it was, and how tired I was. That second summer, when I decided that I wanted to give everything my all, I continue to remember it as one of the best summers ever. I remember having so much energy, good quality experiences, and sweet moments. That's how I want to live out my life these days. To live it to the highest level, not complaining about being tired, or how it's hard, or feeling sorry for myself over things that I have no right to feel sorry for myself over. I'm not sure though what it would look like for me to live it all out to the hardest. Maybe after I'm not so huge pregnant, and not recovering from birth, I can be more physically engaged with the boys. But I'm processing how to live to the fullest even through this transition time. I don't want to look back on these days with the boys as ones where I say to myself, "I wish I had ... " I'd rather look back on it like I do the second summer as a camp counselor and feel that I made the most of the sweet opportunities that God gave me.