enrollment

My family will be enrolled as catechumens this Sunday, September 26. Please pray for us all.

submit

I just clicked submit on a task for my language and communications class. It feels a bit familiar now, a few months in, "going to college" online. I don't think I'm getting the best education the world has to offer. But it's certainly not the worst.

I don't have great aspirations to be a career woman. My finishing college is simply a recognition that I want this as a child of parents who never went to college, and I want my children to know that higher education is important and set an example for them. I also concede that in today's workforce, it's sadly required that you have some sort of degree. It doesn't really matter if it's in under water basket weaving. This is how the world judges how good a person is going to be as an employee. I don't agree with it, but in order to prepare myself to provide for my childen in the event that the worst happens and I have to work I accept this law.

I'll take an average education, since I can meet these impossibly silly standards of judging the worth of an applicant and stay at home with my kids. I embrace this form of education that enables me to sit on the edge of my son's bed and sing him a lullaby while I revise a research presentation outline. That is, if you'll allow me a phrase of my relatively recent teens, hella cool.

Thank God that I am with my children all day. I spent this morning walking and talking with a friend, watching our children run ahead together and stare at the world in amazement. Then I held a dear almost one month old baby boy and watched him working on a social smile. I went home and talked to my wonderful husband and cooked a peach cobbler to share with family, and another for my friend's great little girl's name day. My husband and I played with our four kids for an hour tonight past bedtime and it was so much fun.

Glory to Christ! Glory to her! Life is good.

Birth

Glory be to Her!

Saw this icon on a Russian website and thought it was particularly lovely.

Pickin' peaches

I took the kids to Jones Orchard today, a locally owned farm about 15 minutes from my house. We did not get apples or pears, but got a bushel at least of peaches. The kids had a lot of fun, and so did I. We couldn't see anything in any direction other than orchard and soybean fields. What a refreshing sight! Besides it was a beautiful day and the heat of summer has let up.

I have plans to make a peach pie, and a cobbler. We certainly have enough peaches. I loved showing the kids how to figure out which peaches were good and ready to be picked. My littlest was delighted to reach up and pull down fruit. She called every fruit "appbull". I looked at the pear orchard but they were all canning pears and I do not have a canner. Jones Orchard also has apples, which we got a few of but they are also for cooking.

We explored through the orchard grounds and saw a few huge hogs in their pens. Our truck was charged by a gorgeous rooster, which the kids found hilarious. He actually blocked the gravel road so we couldn't pass by for a few minutes.

speaking of celebrating the new year...

My family is going to be enrolled in September as catechumens! I am very happy.

Thanks be to God!