75 Hard Challenge Update

Day #1 the 2nd time

Well, I do not want to say I failed again, but I did not succeed again. So, to be clear:

Sickness = 2

75 Hard challenge = 0

The first time I did the challenge I lasted 5 days before I had to stop. You can read that update here.

This time I was on day 29 when I had to admit defeat, 29!!! 😭😭

Writing Challenge

You all know that I have said that I should and will be doing my best to write more frequently for this blog. It is something that I want to do, but when I sit down to actually do it, my voice gets silenced. I am really struggling with it. So, I decided to do something about it.

Share Four Somethings-September 2021

Happy Fall!! Is anyone else having a hard time believing it is almost October? I feel like this month has flown by, even though we haven't done a ton of stuff (mostly school and work)! Welcome back to the monthly post of Share Four Somethings. It is a monthly link-up hosted by Heather Gerwing (thank you Heather!) where you literally share four somethings on the fourth Saturday of the month. The categories are Something Loved, Something Read (or Said), Something Treasured, and Something Ahead.

Rules for dating my kids

 

Matt was not quite ready for Kayla to go back to college this year because he is afraid this will be the year she gets a boyfriend. Now, obviously, he is not afraid, but more like not ready for his "little" girl to grow up. I see it more as a natural progression, she will eventually date, and God willing get married.

One of our friends has a shirt that says, "Rules for dating my daughters-DON'T!" and while I would like to agree and think it is funny every time he wears it, I really do want my kids to eventually date and find their future spouses. 

Thursday Encouragement-Distractions in prayer

I don't know about you but sometimes I start praying and before I know it my mind has wandered and I am no longer praying, but thinking about other things. There have been times that I have started to pray and then a laundry list of things that I need to do will flood my mind. What do you do during these times of distractions? When the list starts going through my head I will stop praying and take the time to write them down so I can go back to praying distraction free.

Plans

 I remember toward the end of 2019 being super excited for the next year to come. I was hopeful that it was going to be better than 2019 and figured it couldn't be any worse. This was one of those times that I was super thankful that we can't see what is ahead. No one could have predicted that 2020 was going to usher in a pandemic that left us reeling, that it would be super divisive, and bring out the ugly in us. However, it taught us at least two things.

Thursday Encouragement

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think (dwell on) about such things. Philippians 4:8

Graduate early?

 Last year when Elijah was in 10th grade I would get this stray thought about graduating him early...and then I would dismiss it. We started 11th grade last week and I broached the subject with him because I started having thoughts about it again. I told him to think about it and he is. This is one of the beautiful things that homeschooling, we can consider graduating early or graduating later to let our kiddos do some community college work while still technically in high school. If we do decide to graduate him early we would do it at the end of the school year.

Reasons why I am thinking about graduating him early:

1. By the end of this semester he will have the credit hours he needs to be eligible to graduate high school

2. He hates school

It's a new car!

 The past month or so we were car shopping for Kayla. We knew we wanted her to have a car with her at college this year so she could get around as needed. She knew she did not want a car (they are too small and she feels safer sitting higher), but she couldn't decide exactly what she wanted. She really wanted a mini-van, but our Silver Van is not safe enough for her to take and I was not giving her my red van. So, she narrowed it down to a couple of SUV's. As it was getting closer for her to leave she still had not figured out what she wanted. So, Matt and I finally went and test drove a couple of her top picks and got something we thought she would like. I felt like she was overwhelmed by too many decisions and decided she could pick between what we had just bought and my red van. We had 30 days that we could return the vehicle as long as we did not put more than 1500 miles on it.

Thursday Encouragement- Giants fall

Giants Ahead - RachelWojo.com

 Happy Thursday! I hope you are doing well. Thursdays are one of the hardest days of the week for me. We always get to bed later on Wednesday nights because of Church and then still have to get up early on Thursday. While we are on the downside of the week I am always so tired. Today I am feeling a little off and in need of encouragement. What better way to encourage myself than to try and share encouragement with others 😊