My week so far…. June 22, 2007

I feel like I have been going all week and I am already exhausted. And it’s not over! This weekend, we are going to Paul’s parents house because he has a softball tournament in a town near them. I am excited for this and not so excited at the same time. I know after the 2nd or 3rd day, I am going to be pooped and ready to go home. Today I spent most of my day cleaning and organizing my basement. I cleaned upstaires as well and had to make a trip to the store. I made taco salad for dinner tonight and it was sooo good. The last two nights, Austin my older son, grilled out so I didn’t have to do much except nurse my 5 year olds foot because he stepped on a hot coal and got a blister. Ouch! I was blessed with a couch. Well actually a love seat and we will be getting the couch next week. My sister is buying a new living room set and is giving us her old one. When we moved, we put our old furniture on the curb because it was not worth moving. We were going to buy new stuff when we moved in here. We even went as far as going and picking out the stuff and they were going to deliver it but Paul cancelled it because he didnt have good feelings about paying 2ooo.oo dollars on furniture and having it on credit as well. I wasn’t so happy to say the least and had some bitter feelings having to sit on this one crummy chair in my living room or the floor if someone else was occupying the chair. He kept saying pray for some furniture because God has always blessed us and answered our prayers in the past. Still being angry with him, I wasn’t sure if he was just being sarcastic. Well since praying, waiting and obeying my husband, we were blessed with two chairs from our good friends from Illinois, a table from someone my dad works with and now this furniture from my sister. God is good!!!!! Austin is going to his dads tomorrow for two weeks. I will miss him dearly. I hope he has alot of fun. He usually does. In the summer, his dad and their family camp every weekend. He likes it. I forgot all about VBS at Community Church this week. The kids would have loved to go to that to. First Baptist Temple is having VBS in July so I will have to make sure I write the dates on the calendar this time. I have been having a bible study with the ladies at First Baptist Temple and it is so nice. The ladies are all so sweet and fun! We  just started a book from Kay Arthur called Lord I want to know you.It’s a really good book so far and we are only on our second week. I can’t wait for the next few weeks to come. I will keep you posted on what I am learning and what God is showing me. The kids and I are trying to finish a book we started called Little House in the Big Woods. I want to finish this up so that we can start something else. I’m not quite sure what yet. I am still praying and waiting for some conformation from God on this homeschooling issue. My questions that keep entering my mind are should I homeschool or go with this public school via internet thing called Virtual Academy. My heart says to homeschool but my brain says to do Virtual Academy for the extra push to make sure things get done. Please pray for me that I make the right decision and the decision that God want’s for me and my family. If I do stay with the homeschooling, I would love to get involved with a co-op. The two years I have homeschooled, I wasn’t involved in one but I hear good things about them. I don’t even know of any around. Maybe I should just start one myself. That’s an option for the future. Something to think and pray about. Dylan says today “it’s bored”. Yes he said “it’s bored” instead of “I’m bored”. He finally gets to have a taste of what being bored really is like. His dad grounded him to the house for a day a few days ago.Dad told Dylan he had to stay in the house and when dads back was turned he  difiantly left anyway. So he was grounded the next day but decided he wanted to go outside when I was tied up on the phone. So instead of being grounded one day, I grounded him for an additional three days. He is not liking it! Especially seeing brothers and sister go outside to play and seeing his buddies out there. I hope that he has learned his lesson after this. We are experiencing some garbage around here with the kids that are around our area. As I have stated in a previous blog, the kids are naughty. I think my kids have heard every swear word in the book now and see things like kids taking other kids possessions and name calling, swearing etc. We no longer allow the kids to ride their bikes around the building. Just right in front of our door on our side of the building. I can’t see what is going on on the other side and the kids were riding there bikes where they were not suppose to be. Paul and I are in the process of trying to figure out how to live here in this place and still keep sane. Our neighbors shouldn’t be the ones driving us out. We just need to put our feet down and set rules and guidelines and parent the kids according to Gods ways. What does God want us to do about the situation? I am still waiting for some answers. Well, I am going to do some reading before bed. I just wanted to blog and keep updated on how we are doing.

Sweet dreams,

 Tanya