An Unbalanced Day

Today was a totally good/bad day. It started early....very early. Lucy woke up at an unusual 5 AM. Seriously, the chica usually sleeps until at least 8 (sometimes even till 9:30). But since her bedroom is on the East side of the house, the morning sun just barely peeking over the horizon caught her sleepy attention. The first thing she said to me when I walked in her room after hearing her yelling for me (usually this just means she lost one of her "friends" and needs to be tucked back in then quickly falls back asleep), was "Mom, it's daytime out!" I looked over at her window...."No Lucy, the sun isn't up yet, it's not daytime." "Yes it is." *sigh* There was no fighting it. She was up.

Well things went down from there....mainly my attitude. I won't lie, the selfish part of me resides mostly in the morning, which I claim as MY TIME. Perhaps (most certainly) God is trying to skim off that ugly part of my fleshly being. Ugh. I hate tests....especially early in the AM. Even after my second vat of coffee I was still lingering in my self-centered mood. Grrr. Ok, repentance time....start with God's new mercies again tomorrow morning.

Then I realized I never heard Brenden get up to take a shower. I went downstairs to find him sleeping on the couch. He had gotten sick in the middle of the night. Poor guy. So, I just let him sleep. I enjoyed having him home today.

A common saying among homeschooling moms is, "A bad day of homeschooling is better than a good day at public school." ((please don't take offense...it's just something we say to make us feel better about those days in which we struggle)) Well, I think today our homeschooling was like.....ummm, a day that we should have made a snow day. When both teacher and student are crabby and very unmotivated....it just doesn't go well. Perhaps something stuck with Nick today as I read to him about the Oregon trail....or that two negatives always make a positive. Who knows.

The best part of the day was when my good friend Angela came to get a highlight & haircut. We had a good visit, in between keeping Lucy and her son Micaiah out of mischief (they are so darn cute together!). It's so nice to talk to a grown-up during the day!

So now I might go have a cup of tea.....then some laundry....but first, I need to dig into my Bible since I never got my quiet time this morning. Maybe that's what's been unbalanced in me today! Yes, God's very word spoken to me. Ok, gotta run. :)

"Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord." Lamentations 3:40