Courageous Joy

Monday with PURPOSE

Ah finally, a Monday with purpose. I lived on adrenaline all day. I hadn’t felt that churning, gotta keep multi-tasking, feeling in months…and it was sort of fun. :::snort::: I quickly quelled the panic.

We got far more school done than expected. I ordered more stuff and researched the more obscure credits that Jamin wants to work on.

Comedy of errors today: the disc that has Josiah’s finished work to be printed for last year’s portfolio won’t print. The computers say it needs to be formatted – but it worked 1 minute before that message. He had to redo a bunch of work. THEN the printer won’t print. This affected handouts I wanted to make for my small group and for Bible Study tomorrow. Ah well – it will save me some time. LOL Tonight the printer says the black ink cartridge is installed wrong – but it’s BEEN working fine since I changed it. Josiah lost his daily log book. We have to send this to NARHS…..we were sick. He eventually found it. The copy machine will NOT work.

Accomplishments: What a great day! I can say I got SOMETHING done. Not only school and ordering…BUT….I cleaned the back yard. I realized tomorrow was garbage day and I had 2 big cans that were empty. We threw out enough stuff to fill both of them, swept, washed, reorganized….now I’m ready for fall.

Mom’s Night Out tonight was fun. We didn’t get home until 10:00 p.m and that isn’t going to work well with Mike being gone. BUT I enjoyed my evening. It turned out that there was no one in my small group so I got to go to the one on devotions. I enjoyed hearing some new ideas….well really being reminded of some old ideas. LOL Oh – when Adrienne introduced me she said something about me having homeschooled for years, having 9 children, 2 graduated and “one on the way”. I said, “One WHAT? Mike’s deployed”. OK I cracked myself up at least. :::snort:::

A funny is that I spent lots of time last night and the last few weeks really trying to find the right curriculum for a credit in “culinary art”. I happened to check the “High School Course Description” book that NARHS sends out…they HAVE a two page course written up…..even a few texts that we could use. I think I will still look for a textbook – but it was nice to find the write up if I end up going that route. LOL

I have to share this GOD THING. I’m totally excited. I think it is a good thing. I’m trying to pull together the info for a credit for Jamin that will consist of editing and trying to get his book published. It’s not HARD to come up with enough for a credit…it’s the publishing thing that had me stumped. I mean he doesn’t want to self-publish…he wants it published. I entered the world of markets, agents and such. . . and promptly felt overwhelmed. Mike gave me some suggestions that we will work on. AT our MNO we have a table of freebies and a table of things for sale each month. I mentioned that if someone saw a book on publishing a book – I NEEDED it. At the end of the evening, the lady who I had commented to came up to me and pointed out a lady I didn’t recognize. She said that she was about to or had published a book. I went up to her and we visited. She is NOT from our town. She was in town and came to MNO. She is willing to email and share what she has learned with me. The GOD thing is that she told me about a group for Christian Writers. They pair new authors with established authors so the established authors can mentor the new author. They LOVE to have teens join. It costs…but it doesn’t seem to be more than music lessons…and this is HIS DREAM. I always tell them “it’s your dream, make it as big as you want it”….so I don’t want to come back and say, “Never mind “. I think it may be called the Christian Writer’s Guild or something. I don’t know if participation in that alone would be a credit according to NARHS but I’ll look into it. Is that God or what? Well worth getting home at 10:00 p.m.

We are all really excited to be back in school. I guess we’re funny that way.