Christmas time Meditations

I've been snuggled up to my sleeping daughter for a couple hours now this morning.  L's such a bundle of energy and life when she's awake that she always seems to shrink while asleep.  I'm giving her some time to sleep in on this frigid morning... the wind chills are well below zero, but her school is running its normal schedule.  Since she's so sleepy, I'm giving her her own delay!

  My baby will soon be 5yo, Christmas is only ten days away, and I'm carving out a few moments of peace.  I'm so delighted to see my children grow and mature, but it's so bittersweet as they grow away from me.  Yes, my 13yo and 11yo still need me, just not as much as they once did.  R took his first Challenge A blue book exams last week.  He did well, especially considering the two weeks that he missed early this fall to pneumonia! Challenge has been a great learning experience.  Seeing a whole hemisphere with countries, hand-drawn by my son, is amazing!  He's not struggling in the strands that I worried about; geography and Latin have been great.  Surprisingly, the writing strand has been the source of the greatest trouble for him.  Affirmative-Negative-Interesting charts are the issue.  Dad has a logical creative thinking methodology that he's introducing to R, so hopefully that will help! We love homeschooling!  We have our moments, but the togetherness has been wonderful.  Rewards like a long snow break are just icing on the cake!

  My peaceful moment has passed, and L is awake now.  It's time to move, get her to school, clean the house, bake, and dot all my Christmas i's/cross all the t's.  The coming weeks will hold lots of excitement.  I also wait on my referral about possible Ehlers-Danlos hypermobility syndrome.  Will that be good news?  I don't know, but knowing a name for my physical struggles would be nice.

May God bless you this Christmas!