What Did I Do with my Routine?

I’d certainly like to get back into the groove!  I can’t seem to organize my thoughts, let alone my activities.  There has been a lot going on in our mundane little lives, and it seems to have really gotten me off in my basic, overall timing.  I think it’s time I stop and re-sinc things for the sake of every one involved.

A good portion of the activity has been because of some really good and wonderful things!  One of those wonderful things is that my oldest son and his girlfriend have moved back to town, and they are staying with us!  I’m thrilled about that.  Not many parents get the chance to have their kids come back once they’ve gone, but we get to have one more opportunity to spend some time with them.  And, get ready for this… they got married a week ago today!  It was great!  We couldn’t be happier. We all loved her already, and we’re just glad they went ahead and did it.

They’ve been together for about seven years, and have been planning to get married for quite awhile.  They are getting involved in ministry with the youth at their church, and they decided to go ahead and get married now rather than wait any more.  They didn’t want anyone to make a big deal out of it, and we weren’t supposed to tell anyone.  They are still planning to have a wedding soon, and they want to invite all the friends and family to that event.  This event was more or less a formality.  So, for the sake of the wedding to come, and so as not to steal any of it’s thunder,  everything was very low key and quiet. That was hard!  I wanted to tell everyone!  I wanted to blog about it!  I wanted to post some pictures!

I did manage to get a few pictures.  Maybe they’ll let me post one.  I don’t know.  They wouldn’t really look like wedding pictures to anyone else.  No one dressed up, no cake, no gifts, just jeans and t-shirts and the parents, our boys, the bride, the groom, and their pastors.  We’ll take a bunch of pictures when they have their wedding, then I’ll post them and brag it up!

Some people I met on the internet posted pictures of their son’s wedding.  They got married on the SAME DAY as Dan and Sarrah got married, and I wanted to scream and tell them “Ours was just as wonderful!  Our son is more handsome than your son!  Our daughter in law is cuter than your daughter in law!”  I’m sure they think theirs are.  Sorry for them, though.  Only one of us is right.  LOL!  Jes kiddin’!  (Maybe!)

Another thing that’s been great is that I’ve been blessed and honored to be able to preach at my church a couple of times a month or so.  I hope that’s a trend.  I’d preach every Wednesday if they’d let me.  I’d preach any time they asked!  I am loving it!  I have been able to read and study more than I ever could before.  I think  it’s because the kids are older, and I can actually get a few minutes alone with only a few interruptions.  LOL!  My youngest boy is done with school for the summer, so I have a little free time in the mornings to do things, freeing up some study time later on in the day.

I think it’s going well.  I’ve had some positive feedback lately, but then again, I can’t imagine any of the folks at my church walking up and telling me that it was awful, or that I stunk.  I’m not a good judge of my own preaching.  I preach what I’m led to preach.  I am anointed to preach.  I am confident in that.  I guess I just have to get up there and do it in order to get better at it.  I sure appreciate my pastor’s faith in me.  I’m pretty sure he’d say something if I was just terrible, maybe give me pointers on what to do differently.  So far all he’s said to me is that I need to watch the clock.  I can be little bit long winded, and he likes to keep the time down.

I’m also pretty busy right now trying to get my home school stuff all done for the end of the school year.  I have finished up with Josiah, and he moves on to fourth grade!  Jonathan still has some literature and algebra left, but if he’ll knuckle down and work it, he aught to be done soon, too.  I’ll be glad.  I think I need the summer break as much as they do.  I’m busy trying to get the next school year’s curriculum ordered and ready.  I have most of it.  I’ll have to get a few more things, and after that it’s mostly the consumables I’ll have to order.  I guess that kind of puts me just a little ahead of the game!  Wow!  I’m ahead on something!  Nice.  I hadn’t even realized…

If Jonathan will work hard and finish up what he has left, and if I can get him to take one class over the summer, he will graduate when he’s sixteen!  That’s great!  He got nine and a half credits this year, and if he can get one over the summer, that will mean he only needs that same nine and a half this coming year to have enough to graduate.  We already have the books for five of his credits, and we’re planning on getting foreign language and Bible.  That leaves only two and a half, and they can be electives.  I’m really excited and happy for him.  He’s really worked hard and applied himself to it so far, and I know he’ll do it again.

Something else I’m supposed to be doing is some scheduling and price checking and stuff for the home school group before the new school year starts, but I have been so disorganized in my head that I haven’t done it yet.  I really need to start keeping a planner, or at the very least I need to start marking some of the main things I’m supposed to be doing on my kitchen calendar.  As I read over what I’ve written, I realize that I’m not doing as bad as I thought, but I think I’d still be doing myself a favor if I’d go back to writing things down.  At least I’d know I’m not as far off the mark as I feel like I am.  I used to keep a sort of a planner.  I don’t know when I stopped or why.  Maybe I’ll grab a small one and try again.

Another thing that keeps things hopping around here is my husband’s weird schedule.  He’s been getting a lot of work lately.  The last few weeks it’s been a job all by itself just keeping up with taking him to and from his truck at all weird hours of the day and night.  I won’t complain about it, though, because at least he’s finally getting the work again.  For the longest time he was only getting three days a week.  I guess It’s just a matter of getting back into that workaday saddle again.  I got kind of accustomed to having him around a little more and now he’s back to being gone a lot.  I’m glad he’s got the work again, but I miss him being around.

I have missed going to the gym for most of the last two weeks.  It’s altogether too easy to let that slide when I’m pressed for time, and it’s probably one of the things I need to keep up on the most.  It seems to keep me more clear headed and I just feel better in general when I go.  I wonder why I let it slip so easily?  I like to go.

This has been a rambling blog tonight.  It’s actually sort of cleared my head a bit.  I guess I’m not as far off the mark as I’d thought.  I just needed to see myself say it to realize that.  If I can square myself away and organize my thoughts a bit better, maybe I can get in here and write a little more.  I think I miss doing that.  Maybe I can even write something fun, or even interesting instead of just rambling on about nothing.

~ by representative on June 1, 2008.