Oh I don’t mind your posts in my comments 🙂

It isn’t so much homeschool mums that I miss, nor even adults really. I’ve realised that I miss my hubby. Whilst I can talk to my eldest daughter, and that is much like talking to another sister in the Lord, she is also my daughter. There are things that I want/need to process in my mind that I wouldn’t discuss with her only because I would hate to see her stumble because of something I’ve said in my ‘need to process’. Does that make any sense? Whereas I can waffle on and on with John: I’m not even sure he really listens half the time but he has learned that talking is how I process information, thoughts and ideas: he is older and more mature in God. My daughter isn’t.

Having said that, I don’t know why I don’t. Maybe I’m scared. Maybe I’m lazy. I know I used to be the one who did all the organising of such things…and now I don’t even attend any! I have a gut feeling of why I’ve developed this way…but it’s not a good enough excuse.

Thanks lovely ladies!

The little bundle of ladies I meet with in the park are what keeps me sane from week to week. If we miss a week or two because of school holidays we are all desperate to get together again. I know as the children get older, schedules become more hectic (this is just starting for me – can’t say I like it!) but I imagine it would take a lot to make me give that particular activity. Those ladies are like church for me! (I do go to church, but the park ladies all love each other, help each other, sharpen each other and… just be what is lovely and good!)

I don’t (honestly) know how you get by without meeting up regularly with other homeschoolers. I know that not just any homeschoolers will do: I have been in hot water socially more times than I can count for saying our little group is invitation only 😛 But Oh, Susan, why don’t you organize a coffee night for homeschoolers in your area and find the nice ones, lol!

‘Round here there are coffee nights roughly by terms, and just mothers, or mothers and teenagers (who all go to some other part of the restaurant and yabber among themselves) go along for purely social reasons. I know it takes a while to get to know people just meeting occasionally, but with a bunch of desperate women together, it kind of fast tracks the process 😉

Anyway, I didn’t mean to write a whole post in your comments!

xx

Hi Ruby,
Oh yes, I know that feeling…not comparison with the ‘perfect family’ even but just because my 10yo child may not be reading or is still struggling with handwriting or basic maths [insert relevant concept here]. But I am comforted by the fact that God is The Master Chef and He has a plan for all of us, our children included. And I’m seeing that lived out as I observe and parent our 18yodd. Teaching learning skills is far more beneficial than trying to teach every concept.

Blessings,

Now, if only my loneliness drove me to clean the house…

Thanks Sarah, for stopping by my site. I notice you are really getting around the AH blogs and it’s fantastic!

Thank you dear Cathy, yes there is a balance between truth and Christian reality and I believe it’s found in Him, but sometimes, in the midst of potholes and muck we lose sight of it eh? Thanks for your encouragement. 🙂

Hiya Amanda, yep for sure. tehee, my site looks quite like my real life- never perfect, a work in progress, patchy, full of holes, inconsistent yet hopefully others see it pointing toward the gospel of Christ- in good times and in bad.

Ah Ruby: Thanks! Actually I’m with you- give us a break! However we differ in that I don’t get the ‘guilts’ I now get quite angry…Angry at how I now others can be affected by it all and the pressure and even bondage that some get themselves into because of this insane striving towards perfection. (When true perfection only comes from and through God, not of our works or efforts to control everything). But I guess I’ll get over it and continue to speak out against it- maybe one day, some dear woman will hear the words and not feel compelled to join the current’ ‘popular hs mythology’.

Thanks all 🙂

I am a little over pouring my heart out into my blog… as what I have to say would cause me to be too vulnerable to those of whom I don’t wish to be naked before. Hence, lots of photos as of late.

“Don’t give me a throw away line from the Bible. Tell me what it really means to you. Tell me what you learned from it or how it impacted your life. Don’t just shove it in at the end of a post and think that you’ve written an encouraging blog post! Sometimes I wonder if some Christians aren’t so overly spiritual that they’re of no earthly use!”

Yes yes guilty guilty as charged!!

You (I am generalising here) must be a brave person to admit that weakness and frustration are part of everyday Christian life….Craig Hill speaks about sin and probs that are just stuffed “under the cork” (picture of waiting to explode kinda thing) and not truly under the blood and dealt with properly!! Brave? Why? The walk of faith? The living right thing??

I reckon we live in a realm of unreality sometimes in the Christian circles…..however faith and the spiritual lends and errs on the side of “unreality” at times (from the unbelievers perspective anyway!!) We are on a tightrope baby!! Where do we let go of the real world and embrace the world of faith……dunno…….I think it is diff for everyone too, We gotta walk/ believe / live where God tells us too. Diff levels diff dynamics.

There is a quote by Shakespeare “This above all: to thine own self be true” I think that this is a reality……you gotta be true to you….this is a constant Christian or not, fake Christian or not, pretending Christian too??

When there is a untruth there is unreality, and a falseness/ fakeness……somehow there needs to be a balance between truth and Christian reality.

Keep your spirit sweet, no bitter roots, eyes on Jesus not on others…….I speak to myself not just you! I am thinking so much about you…..circumstances are hard, but not impossible yet??@@@!!@@^^&& No bloodshed yet???

In your weakness He is strong, praying for you and lifting the arms that hang down…..you cyber friend Cathy