Happy New Year!

It’s a New Year!

Get out the noise-makers and pop the cork of the champagne! …. And turn down the air conditioner and lather the sun screen! It’s a new year!

Here it is, folks, my new year’s resolutions vision for 9/1/2018 to 9/1/2019 in 500 words or less.

Book List

WANTs: No surprise here, I’m returning to my tried-and-true authors: Kim Vogel Sawyer, Denise Hunter, Francine Rivers, Susan May Warren, Randy Ingermanson and some new ones, Margaret Brownley, Betsie St. Amant, Jerry Jenkins (of course!) and Cynthia Ruchti.

SHOULDs: (Nonfiction. Yuck.) Leigh Bortin’s Books on homeschooling “Echo in Celebration,” “The Core,” and “Classical Education Made Approachable.” Also, a resource from Abeka. And another one from Cindy West.

*yawn*

The time is now 3:48pm. I woke up about twenty minutes ago. That’s right, it’s the EVENING and I just got out of bed. I worked last night and retired for the day at 7:30 am or so. (Read all that again if you’re confused. The A.M. and P.M. are correctly placed!)

We live in a condo. In other words: no backyard. And I can’t drag my weary body to walk across the street to the park. And then SIT there like a slug who’d rather tuck into bed than try to keep track of a 3- and 6-year-old. And PLEASE let there not be another homeschool mom there. I don’t want to talk. I want to sleep.

I live an uphill battle.

I work so ComEd won’t shut off our lights.

I’m also 36 years-old. No longer a hopeful 25-year-old. Not mid-age, technically. But life is passing by at an alarming rate. Adam, my husband of 12 years, turns 40 in October! Oh, that reminds me: I still have to organize his birthday bash.

Like I said, life is passing me by.

I have stuff I want to do: watch a caterpillar slink along the ground, tickle my kids senseless, track what books Barnabas reads, draw with them…. And then snack on ants on a log when Adam comes home.

But instead I just want to sleep.

Homeschool

I’m two weeks in. Which means I’m two weeks behind my homeschool curriculum with Classical Conversations.

I’m getting rid of my smartphone and going back to the flip phone. It’s just too easy to give the kids the handheld YouTube and go back to bed.

Homeschool curriculum in the Kramarczyk house (if I ever get my act together): Teach Barnabas handwriting (it’s an artform), set chores (clear off the table, pick up toys), weekly allowance ($2/week for Barnabas and $0.50/week for Silas). In other words, civil training.

Bible Verse (for 2019)

Matthew 6:9 reads, “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…”

First, Jesus teaches me I SHOULD pray. Secondly, God is Abba Father. He is loving. God, help me to believe this! Third, my mission is to glorify the awesome name of God. Amen.

Happy New Year!

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