Welcome to my weekly post, Daybook Online Journal. This is a post where I gather all the ordinary things that happen or are happening in my day to day. Things like what I’m reading or listening to…eating and cleaning and learning…These are the small moments that make up my blessed daily life; and I want to remember them. If you blog, please link up below with your Daybook Online Journal post. If you don’t have a blog, no worries, just leave your “post” in the comments. You can use my prompts or make up your own to include items important to you; mine change depending on season and circumstance.
Hats off to you mommas single parenting through death, divorce, deployment or traveling for work. This is hard work with my husband in and out so much. Throw in end of year homeschooling, teens, toddlers and taking care of the farm…I’m pooped, overwhelmed, barely hanging on and treading water. Bear with me here: spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally.
Daybook Online Journal: Hats Off to You!
Thanking God for…
As hard as life feels right now, it could be worse. I am thankful for God’s loving hand evidenced through calling a friend and telling her “I need you” and 30 minutes later she’s at the gates to my driveway…even though she lives 45 minutes away.
I’ve gotten out of the habit of counting my blessings and I can tell. I need to pick this back up and I will have my children do it with me to help with my accountability.
Praying…
Jesus I trust in You.
Pondering…
So many deep and beautiful, at least to me, things. They will be fleshed out on the blog as I organize my thoughts. In the business of life right now, I’ve neglected myself by neglecting my creative space, my thinking place, my blog.
Listening to…
Until You Came Along by JJ Heller
Reading…
My Bible: Revised Standard Version Large Print
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Watching…
This was so much fun to watch. I shared it with my girls and they loved it as well.
Around the House…
Just trying to keep my head above water.
Captured…
We’ve been dealing with lots and lots of rain, some severe weather including tornado warnings and a power outage the other night.
Hats off to all mothers especially to those whose motherhood is under different or more difficult circumstances. Enjoyed that video. 🙂
How a wonderful weekend, dear!
I love what Sharon and Clare have shared and will take if for myself too. Also, remembering that when we are overwhelmed, to ~ just do the next, most important thing. Some things will most likely fall through the cracks, but when we put on our “death perception”, we see that they may not have been all that important anyway.
“Depth perception can be defined as the ability to perceive things and their spatial relationship in three dimensions. Death perception, on the other hand, can be defined as the ability to perceive things and their spiritual relationship in three dimensions. What are those three dimensions? Heaven, hell, and purgatory. Someone who has death perception sees all the events of this life in terms of the next.”
Trent Beattie, Catholics United for the Faith
I am praying for you all. God Bless.
Dear Jenny,
I wish I could pop round for a cup of tea! Just keep going little by little…and make sure that you are good to yourself as well as good to everyone else! Sending you love and keeping you in prayer…and all others who are busy taking care of loved ones…
I homeschooled 17 years and miss it, prayers for your year end. Catholic motherhood and homeschooling are Godly, and huge accomplishments-give yourself a good report card!