For those of you wondering how my weekend was,  I can’t emphasize enough how blessed I was.

I am convinced that the Lord led me to this homeschooling conference at just the right time.  Truths that He was speaking to my heart about were “brought home” and verified within my soul.  I am specifically thinking about family togetherness and keeping my child’s heart.

Today was spent buying Jacob’s entire curriculum for next year.  Also, I spent more time walking around the book tables and trying very hard to control my spending, with some success.  I did end up getting a couple of Bible workbooks and some reading books for all the children to use.

The two seminars that I went to today were: Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit, and Managers of Their Chores.  I will share my notes on those topics some other time.  They were both extremely helpful and even if I wasn’t homeschooling at all, I still needed to hear these 2 messages.

I am surprised at how excited I am.

Some of my new goals are:
Schedule, Schedule, Schedule
Continue on in my own personal Bible study and Prayer
Take away time from my lesser priorities in order to give more to my greater priorities.
Do things “Little by little, inch by inch” so that I don’t get overwhelmed.
Enjoy my family

In a nutshell this is what I did this weekend:

Bought curriculum, figured out violin lessons for Jacob, decided NOT to send J. to a Christian camp, learned so much from the Maxwells that my brain is tired, bought a membership to TEACH, joined the HSLDA (Homeschool Legal Defense Association), decided that we would give the public school a notice of intent to homeschool (it’s optional), and bought myself several good and helpful books.

And I told Rich and my mom all about it when I got home.