Saturday Summary

There are times when we get such clarity in our goals, in our priorities, and our abilities.  This week has been one of those weeks for me.  I have been struggling with my decisions concerning many things.  For starters, whether we should add onto our house or not.  Second, I was trying to decide where to homeschool.  We were "home-educating" from our dining room this year for the first time instead of in our upstairs bonus room, which we made into a playroom. (mistake!)  My school had been chaotic this year as well as my schedule and my day!  I didn't seem to have a sincere handle of things.  Almost like a bolt of lightening, I had clarity last weekend. Number one, move school back upstairs, two, arrange desks including mine differently, third, a very different schedule for school, and last, not to add on to the house, just make changes to the rooms I have.  I am becoming more and more convicted to be a better steward of what I have than I am of getting something new.  All this clarity didn't come without inspiration.  I got inspiration of a new "schedule" or way I wanted my day to go from a dear friend at Classical Conversations.  I got my inspiration for how my desks should be arranged from a table I saw in Potterybarn Teen website.  All the other decisions just followed in suit. It was a huge relief.  I felt like singing, well I actually did sing, "I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone...I can see all obstacles in my way...It's going to be a bright bright sunshiny day!"  And it was!  Truthfully, it was a bright sunshiny week!  I can honestly say in my 7 years of homeschooling I have never had such a darn near perfect week of school.