I can not tell you how happy I am that it’s Friday!!! The only drawback today is that I have to take 2 hours out of my day, and go to a meeting at work!! Two hours may not seem like a lot of time to most of you, but for me, well, I have precious little time at home with my girls as it is (not counting when I’m sleeping)!! Something I find really annoying too is that this meeting is from 1-3pm…right in the middle of the day…I would have preferred it be this morning, and than it would be done and over, and I could enjoy the rest of my time off….but ahh, I guess this is the reason that the bosses don’t consult me…I’m just a lowly laborer….

More later!!

Without knowing for sure what exactly tsa locks are, it’s hard to say if they are locks for doors, or maybe safes, or filing cabinets, windows, or well, as you can see, there are quite a few different types of locks in todays society. Makes me kind of wish for simpler days, when people didn’t think of locking their doors, or having high tech security systems installed in their homes. The times I am thinking of people sometimes didn’t even have doors on their homes…*LOL* How’s that for trusting people not to rob you blind!

Okay, to start this off, my keyboard is malfunctioning….I hit a key, and it doesn’t come up on the screen, so I have to back-space and do it again….How annoying!! *LOL*

In any case, it seemed to be a busy week…..Did a fair amount of schooling the first three days…Plus Wednesday we had a lot of errands to run, so I didn’t get any sleep.

After I got off work Thursday morning, we headed up to Kansas City to have eye exams done. Des got new glasses, and after the exam we discovered that Meg needed glasses too, so went ahead and got those as well…I also got my contacts. All in all, it was an all day trip, and expensive as well…Thank God for tax refunds!! Thursday I got about 2 hours sleep….and off to work I went.

Friday morning I was lucky enough to get off work early!!! I came home, chatted with Jacque for a bit, for the first time in what seems like months. And than I went to bed for a few hours….Got about 5 hours sleep, and than my sister called, and asked if I wanted to do a bit of running around with her, and I said sure. After her running around, we went back to her place, and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening there. Got home at 10 something, and than I went to bed….I was up acouple of times during the night, but had a massive headache, so went back to bed almost immediately. Finally got rid of my headache at about 11am, so since then, I’ve been trying to place catch-up with housecleaning and other such things.

After speaking to the real estate agent, well it was all details now. After she had seen the house, she had known, deep down inside of her, that this was where she was meant to be. She had been searching for this place her whole life. Not this particular place mind you, but the place where she was meant to be, the place where she felt at home.

It was a place out in the country, where she could be alone. She liked her solitude. It brought her peace when she was alone.

Many people lately have commented on how strong I must be….to be a single parent, to work a full-time job outside the home, to do additional work at home things, to work overnights, and most especially to homeschool my girls. It is flattering I suppose, to hear them say that, it makes me feel good, but yet it makes me want to set the record straight as well!!

I am not angling this post to make anyone feel bad, or trying to offend anyone!! I don’t want anyone to have the wrong idea about me!!!

I am NOT a strong person!!! I am not Super Mom!!! I have made MILLIONS of mistakes, and continue to do so!! My house is a disaster, and rarely gets cleaned during the week!! I yell, sometimes at my girls!! I use bad words a lot more frequently than I would like to admit!! And I’m sure if given a few more moments, I could come up with a lot more faults, but I try not to dwell on them, and so will not take the time to list them here…

What I am is human…..Any strength I have comes from the Lord above!! It is He who gives me the strength to carry on day to day. It is He that has me homeschooling my girls, even though if they were in public school I might get more sleep, or more housecleaning done. It is His strength that has me going in to work every night, because without His strength I would have quit a long time ago…It is HE that will provide a way for me to stay home with my girls, which is my ultamate prayer!!

So please, as you chat with me, or read my blog, please remember that it is not me doing all these things, but it is the Lord!! I love the compliments, and encouragement, but please remember that I am only human!

The other day…yes I use that term a lot, blame it on bad memory…*LOL*….We were overjoyed to receive a package. Now, here lately I’ve been getting quite a few packages with books for me to review, and other things, but this one was special, because it was from some VERY dear friends!! I LOVE receiving packages like this!! I knew it was coming, but the girls didn’t and when I told them who it was that sent it, they were shrieking with excitement, before we ever opened the box!

Inside the box were a couple of books, which I pulled out on purpose, knowing that the girls wouldn’t be so excited about these…*LOL* Just had to make them wait in suspense a little longer for “the good stuff”….One was a phonics book, another was the unit study from HOW Adam to Abraham, and still one more was the Good and Evil book from No Greater Joy….

And than we pulled out the note notes that Jocelyn had so wonderfully wrote for each one of us. The girls were excited about these, because they love getting “mail” just for them…And than the best part of all..inside the box, wrapped in tissue paper, were skirts for all three of us. Jocelyn had made them, and oh, they were wonderful!! The girls screamed (literally) in delight!! I was happy too, as I, through much encouragement from the Dixons, have begun to let the girls wear skirts more, and I have even started as well.

Hmm, I’m trying to think of what else was in the box, but it seems to have slipped my mind at the moment. Please forgive me for my absentmindedness!! Everything was lovely!!

There was also a card inside with yet another gift…of which I’m not supposed to thank them for, but I will anyway…Thank you so much my dear friends!! You are a true blessing in my life, and I thank God every day for you!!

Now, onto the other big news…Saturday we, the girls and I, drove to a nearby town to meet and have lunch with a friend…(you know you are a country girl when an hour and a half drive is classified nearby!!!) *LOL*….I have only been chatting with Jeannie for a few weeks, having met her on the Homeschool Lounge, but when she told me that she and her family were heading up this way to visit relatives, well I just had to ask if she wanted to meet for lunch. I was overjoyed when she excepted the invitation!! Saturday morning I was nervous, and almost called it off, but am glad that I didn’t!! She and her family are great!! The girls and I had a great time!! The time passed too quickly!!

Well, I guess that’s about all for now…Thank Jeannie and family for meeting us!! Hope you had as much fun as the girls and I did!!

Thank you again Dixons, for the wonderful package!! Special thanks goes out to Jocelyn for the skirts!! They are much loved, and will be much worn as well!!

Who’s got time for fitness equipment? I would love to have time to go for a workout, or better yet to have some equipment here at home, but I doubt it would be used much. It’s a sad thing to admitt to, but it’s also simple fact!

I always feel so good after a good workout, and I love to see my muscles firming up, and even though we have a recreation center here in this town that has a wide range of equipment, I rarely find the time to go. Such is the life of a single mother I expect. I realized this too, being a single mother, the other day when having lunch with a friend, that I could not just go out to a resturant and have an alcoholic drink either, because of having to drive home.

How can a weekend be so busy, and yet not get anything accomplished??

Friday we went to Walmart, and spent entirely too much money!! *LOL* Did get a Digital Camera, which is something I’ve been wanting for awhile. Quite a bit of other stuff as well. Still don’t know how we spent so much money though!!

I did get acouple of boxes of stuff gone through, and sorted out, with lots of it going in the trash!! However that is about all we got done this weekend!! I have a huge moutain of laundry in my livingroom to be folded and put away, plus a growing mountain in my laundry room to be washed. I really don’t want to wash anymore until the girls and I get some of this folded though. Girls worked on getting dishes done, and should finish them up today. We were doing well at getting them done most every day, but than we got sick, and the dishes have mounded again…So much for my resolution to do better at housecleaning!

The basement was dark and cool, with wine racks lining the walls. It was a peaceful place, or at least it was to me. So quiet down here. I could finally hear myself think, not that I was sure that I wanted to hear what I was thinking. Life was not turning out as I had hoped, but perhaps this wasn’t a bad thing…That was one of the things I needed to think about, and yet wasn’t sure I wanted to. Isn’t it a strange feeling wanting to think, but not sure you want to?

You’ll have to excuse the quick entry this morning…It’s 6:40am here on a Saturday morning, and I imagine most of you are wondering what I am doing up so early this morning. Well actually I hadn’t planned to get up so early, but I was tired last night that I went to bed at 9pm, knowing that I had to get up this morning….

Today is the day that I make my trip to Newton Kansas to meet and have lunch with Jeannie. Jeannie is someone that I met on The Homeschool Lounge, and we really connected…It’s been great…and than I found out that she was making a trip from where she lives in OK up through Kansas, well, I asked if she wanted to have lunch…to which she agreed. So off the girls and I go, on a two hour trip to have lunch…

I guess it seems kind of silly driving two hours for lunch, to have lunch with someone I’ve never met before, especially with the price of gas up to $3.25 per gallon, but I look at it this way…it could be the only opportunity to meet Jeannie face to face.

Well, I guess I better head off to the shower…I was too tired last night to get one taken, and I’ll have to get the girls up soon, so they can get ready…