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it's friday!!

now i am usually quite organized and structured and our home life runs on routine, but it is the end of our first week of summer break and i'm exhausted!!! for whatever reason i can't seem to get much accomplished by the end of the day. it seems like this week has been utter chaos!!!!! the kids have played really well, for the most part, but i'm struggling to maintain order in the other areas. my to-do list just keeps getting longer. whenever i cross something off, 2 things get added! can i just say it is really getting to me?!?! IT IS GETTING TO ME!!!!

so i decided to take a few minutes to stop and smell my roses. i have 2 of them blooming in my back yard. this allowed me some time to consider the chaos around me. i learned that although i'm left handed and my organization is not the norm to most right handed people (a whole other post) i crave order in my life. i also am a party girl, but definitely got used to some time of quiet in my life. having mapboy around all day to challenge my mind is consuming. i love his thirst for knowledge, but really, does it matter which county in iowa is the biggest. i mean we live in indiana. and then it is a matter of which one is bigger in area and which one is bigger in population! come on, who reads up on this stuff when they are 6!!!!?!!?!?!?

then there is princess....now she is usually quite content to play on her own, but for whatever reason has turned into a needy child. i have never undressed so many polly pockets in 10 minutes! my fingers ache from trying to squeeze the size 2 clothes onto a size 6 polly. hmmm...maybe that is from the size 6 clothes i keep trying to squeeze into!

so while i was smelling my roses i tried to figure out why that stuff doesn't bring me joy. i mean all my life this is what i wanted. i'm glad God only allowed us to have 2 kids instead of the 5 i thought i wanted! wait a minute....that' s not true! i love my kids and i love playing polly and learning all the geography i should have learned my sr. year of high school when i took that class. i think what it all comes down to is satan. he has allowed me to wallow in my week of chaos. summer will not always be like this. i took a 10 day vacation and came home with 1 week to finish vbs preparations. along with that i'm working on other aspects of children's minsitry which have my mind occupied. add to that the fact that hubby is trying to figure out what God has in store for him. satan has allowed the chaos to keep me from spending time with God. he convinced me that since my kids were home all day now i would have no time to myself. i used to take time each day to be with God, exercise, eat right, play with the kids, clean the house - basically make our home a haven. this week i've been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off and getting nowhere.

so with new determination i will be the girl God created me to be - one with creative order. maybe then my to do list will all stay on my desk and i will continue to cross stuff off! and of course next friday, the madness will be over!!!!!!!! atleast vbs will be over!!!! and maybe my strawberries will be done!!!!!!

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