A NEW Direction

I woke up at 5am this morning wide awake, and wondering what the day would bring. There are a lot of new things happening and some issues that are coming to light. I spent some time in prayer and asked God to give me some inspiration on how to deal with everything and it was placed upon my heart to use my blog. I know I haven't written anything since January, but that is about to change.

Our family made it through this winter with more than our share of illnesses. It wasn't the kids bringing it home from school because we home school. I'm crazy about hand sanitizer on grocery carts. The only place it could have come from was my poor husband. He would tell us what the bug going around work was and a few days later I would be sick. My immune system could never seem to catch up. After 2 months and 3 bottles of Sambucus, I think I'm finally over everything.

During this time we still commenced with school, but at a slower pace. My oldest at 13 is 2 years ahead of what I was studying at his age in all subjects. He's finally hit a wall where he actually has to work to get good grades. He isn't happy about it, but he needs to learn to work for what he has and that hard work will always get you farther than  brains.

To add to the insanity that is my life we are going to try, square foot gardening. It is a raised bed garden, but taken to another level. Later today we will be starting the last of our seeds to plant in a few weeks once Stephen has everything built. I will be taking pictures and adding them here and on facebook as we progress with this.

Some thing else that has happened is that my favorite menu mailer is no longer free. I was thinking that maybe it is time to start something like that myself. I LOVE to cook and try new recipes. It has become a tradition for me to bring a recipe I have NEVER tried before to a gathering even for a family holiday. Some have gone over better than others, but none of them have even turned out horrible.  I seem to have a knack for finding recipes that my family will like.

I have also in my "spare time" crocheting baby afghans that I hope to be able to sell on Etsy.com. Stephen has been my photographer and has done an amazing job. I'm hoping that my hobby will make me enough of a profit to offset my yarn obsession. My yarn collection is building, but I'm using it almost as fast as I buy it. Also being able to sell what I make will relieve the guilt of the money I spend.

Lastly at night I've been trying to do some reading before I go to sleep. Right now I'm reading Family Driven Faith Doing what it takes to raise sons and daughters who walk with GOD. by: Voddie Baucham Jr. I'm only on chapter 2, but so far I've found the book to be amazing and exactly what I needed.  It has reaffirmed what I already believe about parenting and my place in my children's lives and also given me the courage to continue down this path.

These are just a few of the things I'll be talking about. I know some of you may not like me being so candid, but if I can encourage just one person then I will be happy.

Happy Monday to you all and may the wind of change bring blessings to your life.