It has been a challenging few days....and I must admit I have not been focusing on counting it all as gifts. I have been laid low by a cold...and not out of my pajamas for two days. I have felt physically horrible and not sleeping well. My kids have been good little troopers...and caring for momma. I have had some hard lessons this week, as well. Has not been fun, in the least bit, which for my sanguine personality is a real rub, but it has been right. And this too shall pass. I want to learn His lessons well, and embrace the mercy and grace He has for me when he shines his light on things I need to change.
It is funny that I have let myself get stressed over the fact that I am behind in the read-along of 1000 Gifts...now how silly is that! But I noticed I actually let it bother me. sigh....
On other notes this week...we had a busy, intense and fun week with the kids at school. Cowboy day, where both the Jr highers and first graders dressed up (and this momma made a horse cake...sorry no pictures), we had two book reports due (Helen Keller and Ben Franklin), duct tape day, where Nick's entire outfit was made from 8 rolls of duct tape, and school color day, where all my kids looked great in blue, yellow and white.
Being ill and confined to bed I have watched quite a few Jane Austen movies: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibilities and topped it off with Becoming Jane. I have so longed to wear dresses like Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice...but I can't quite see them blending in the cubicles of work, or pushing a shopping cart around Safeway. sigh..... then I had this idea. Nightgowns! I can make EB dresses as nightgowns and who cares what I look like at home.
Such a silly, hard, mixed up few days....I will be glad when this little season is over, and I am feeling better....and time as distanced the last few days a bit.
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I can relate. The past two weeks were tough ones. Picking myself up and beginning again. Feel better.
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