Some Days...
Some days are just harder than others...
some days seem like a beginning to climb out of a dreary place and start seeing the sunshine....
then there are days like yesterday and today. I haven't given up on today yet....but boy is it tempting to just crawl into bed and put the burdons of the day on whoever will take it....
but that wouldn't be real fair since the only other people to lay it on are 17, 13 and 2.
So I find myself drawn here to write....but write what? I"m not sure. Just another post of babbling that won't really make sense. I apologize to all the new people I have friended here. These recent posts are anything but my usual.... When I started out on here it certainly wasn't to be a sounding board for my depressing days.... It was to write about writing (my long time dream of writing children's books - I have two finished manuscripts...and many that are started but quite dusty), about homeschooling ( I have 3 children---- a beautiful girl who is a senior in high school, a 8th grade boy...and a toddler- who may not be officially homeschooled yet but somehow without any formal teaching has already learned his colors, ABC's including all capitals and most lower case letters by site and can count to 24 with only a few numbers skipped and he loves to sing), about my faith (Orthodox Christianity) and our health (We having been living as close to a whole foods diet as we can get for the past 6 years or more eliminating MSG and other horrible additives and toxins from the food we consume and have eliminated the need for all medications for illnesses/disorders of what western conservative medicine claims to be incurable.....ha.
But I haven't exactly done a good job of writing about those things. Well.....maybe me just getting on here once in a while to vent or babble is a start...or at least I hope it is. And I apologize to anyone who has taken the time to read my babble and be quite bored with it. It may not be beneficial to you....but in some way is beneficial to me. And will hopefully eventually lead to those other posts I want to make.
In the meantime.... let me share some things from my gratitude journal....things I will try to think about today when the other things on my mind are gloomy and frustrating and seem to hard to endure.
Things from my Gratitude Journal:
#15 Glimmers of sunlight peering through the darkest of clouds
#25 The Theotokas (Mary, Mother of God) - for saying yes
# 27 Birds walking across my back porch, sharing their music.
#43 Hot showers
#33 My teenage son bending over to smell the tulips
#77 My daughter saying "I Love You" in the morning when I wake her up
#187 My toddler saying "I'm prepis Mamma" (precious)
What are you grateful for today?
some days seem like a beginning to climb out of a dreary place and start seeing the sunshine....
then there are days like yesterday and today. I haven't given up on today yet....but boy is it tempting to just crawl into bed and put the burdons of the day on whoever will take it....
but that wouldn't be real fair since the only other people to lay it on are 17, 13 and 2.
So I find myself drawn here to write....but write what? I"m not sure. Just another post of babbling that won't really make sense. I apologize to all the new people I have friended here. These recent posts are anything but my usual.... When I started out on here it certainly wasn't to be a sounding board for my depressing days.... It was to write about writing (my long time dream of writing children's books - I have two finished manuscripts...and many that are started but quite dusty), about homeschooling ( I have 3 children---- a beautiful girl who is a senior in high school, a 8th grade boy...and a toddler- who may not be officially homeschooled yet but somehow without any formal teaching has already learned his colors, ABC's including all capitals and most lower case letters by site and can count to 24 with only a few numbers skipped and he loves to sing), about my faith (Orthodox Christianity) and our health (We having been living as close to a whole foods diet as we can get for the past 6 years or more eliminating MSG and other horrible additives and toxins from the food we consume and have eliminated the need for all medications for illnesses/disorders of what western conservative medicine claims to be incurable.....ha.
But I haven't exactly done a good job of writing about those things. Well.....maybe me just getting on here once in a while to vent or babble is a start...or at least I hope it is. And I apologize to anyone who has taken the time to read my babble and be quite bored with it. It may not be beneficial to you....but in some way is beneficial to me. And will hopefully eventually lead to those other posts I want to make.
In the meantime.... let me share some things from my gratitude journal....things I will try to think about today when the other things on my mind are gloomy and frustrating and seem to hard to endure.
Things from my Gratitude Journal:
#15 Glimmers of sunlight peering through the darkest of clouds
#25 The Theotokas (Mary, Mother of God) - for saying yes
# 27 Birds walking across my back porch, sharing their music.
#43 Hot showers
#33 My teenage son bending over to smell the tulips
#77 My daughter saying "I Love You" in the morning when I wake her up
#187 My toddler saying "I'm prepis Mamma" (precious)
What are you grateful for today?