Changes, or maybe not?

Oh, I really do not like plans changing.  I mean really, really, really do not like them changing.  I think it is a control thing (no rolling eyes or laughing from my family please!).  I want life to come in a nice little package all tied up neatly with a bow, a purple bow!  That would make me very happy!  But, alas, it is not like that. 

For about a year I have been thinking, talking about, and planning where we will go and when.  Ha, wouldn't you know it, I might not get to be in control of that!  What?!?  Oh yeah, I said I was allowing God to shape my life and go on His leading.  OOPS, forgot that part!  As with everything in life, and the military, it most likely won't happen on MY schedule. 

You'd think I would know this already.  Allow God to do His work and wait on Him.  He has a plan for our family and He is working it out in His timing. 

"Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.  Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."

James 4:13-15

Ok, ok.  Again, I give it back to the Lord and wait on Him.  Wow, I'm such a sheep!!

This homeschool year.

This year we are involved in a Classical Conversations Community.  I am so thankful for this new way of schooling.  I've always wanted to homeschool classically but I didn't really understand how.  This is my 10th year of homeschooling and most years I am totally burned out by mid October!  Not this year!  It is a lot of work but we are all having a good time and learning so much.  I only wish I had found CC sooner!

With CC, I have the flexibility to 'do school' the way it works for us yet have the accountability the kids and I both need to succeed!  I love love love the families in our community and am so blessed to be a part of this!