Mercy was playing on the table (yes, I know, I said on, because she was) with the potato heads and some rubber duckies, when I heard a concerned “Mom, get your coffee off the table!”
Seconds before, I had noticed how close she was to my 3/4ths full cup of morning coffee. I was already moving in for the save.
I ever-so-deftly swooped up the cup before any knocking over could occur, thinking how sweet it was that she had warned me, that she was concerned about my coffee, that she knows how much I need it.
“I can smell it!”
Yeah. Or that.
Life is back to relatively normal around here. Gracie is done with her oral steroid burst and back to her low-dose inhaled steroid controller medication. She is still getting several Albuterol nebs a day along with regular allergy meds, which she will continue to get for a while, perhaps through the rest of the summer, depending on her allergy symptoms and asthma flare-ups. Only time will tell.
We started our new school year today, baby stepping our way back into a semi-scheduled learning lifestyle. There is still plenty of time to play, morning “lessons” for the 4 youngest were done by 10 am (there will be a bit more after lunch for the youngers), and the others are able to take breaks between subjects. We may school year round, but things are usually pretty laid-back and low-pressure.
I have no desire to run an institution, but rather a household, one where learning takes place.
421. her shortest hospital stay- only 2 nights! (previously, her shortest stay was 3 nights)
422. 2 sisters, only miles away, with open hearts, open arms, and open homes for our other 6 children to have a place to be while mom was at the hospital with Grace, and Mr. Extraordinary was working long hours into the night…
423. starting some new books this morning
424. little girls building number lines
425. overhearing 9 & 10 yr olds quizzing each other on memory verses during the ride home from church yesterday, pretty sure they’ll know more verses by heart than I do any day now…
426. catching up on my reading in Proverbs
427. being done with a round of steroids
428. a night with an ice pack to help my hurting neck
429. another paycheck and time to catch up on some bills
430. the very Words of the living God to read and study to learn more of the Author, more of His plans, more of His ways, more of His heart
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You guys don’t start school in the fall? Why in June? How does this work better?
We never really stopped schooling… we have days off when there is a lot going on, but we never actually stop…
We just happen to have wrapped up some things and are ready to start some new books, so we’re calling it the start of a new school year, but it’s all kind of arbitrary when we school all year…
Why June? ‘Cause our big book order came in
When we homechooled full-time I kept “light” school going through the summer as well. It really helped with retention, and it gave us the ability to take more breaks throughout the school year. If we wanted to go visit grandparents for week in September, we went! Rather than having one long summer break, we had lots of shorter ones.
Exactly!
Lots of beauty in that life of yours, for sure.
Hopefully, hospital stays will become less necessary and necks will find comfort, and thankful that through it all, you find beauty.