Courageous Joy

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

It was COLD this a.m. Stacia woke up at 4 a.m. and didn't go back down until 6 a.m. I thought about going for my bike ride. It was time. It was also 50* outside. Thanks to nature - or thyroid disease to be exact - I'm always COLDER than the rest of the family. I was FREEZING!!! I decided to climb back into bed. Zander had climbed into my bed and I took full advantage of his warm, little body to warm up my ice cube feet. :::snort:::

We zipped through school.

We went to the park! I'm trying to load pictures but for some reason none of the park ones will work. I will try to download firefox on this computer "soon". Yes, Adrienne, my kids are burned and so am I. I can't believe it. It was a gorgeous 75*....but we got burned. This was a newer park in town and we had a blast. It was our first time to play with Adrienne's kids since they've been locked in their house with hand, foot and mouth for a couple of weeks.

BIG NEWS, our town has recently opened a new "super Walmart" - which I've stayed out of just fine. {G} Turns out it is the "3rd largest" supermarket in the world and the largest super walmart in TX. Or so the line goes.

I wonder why my font changed colors and more importantly why I can't change it back. LOL

I realized (there it went - back to normal) yesterday that it stresses me out big time to have to be somewhere at a certain time. I need the freedom to take 40 minutes on reading if we are enjoying it and not feel like we have to rush so that we can be out the door by a certain time. I KNOW this is why God impressed on me last year not to plan things during the school hours. Thursdays are House of Faith and I find myself rushing to make it in time (1:15). For this reason, I decided that I can't take on the science co-op that I was invited to join. It sounded SO FUN!!! I WANTED to do it...but I didn't want to be rushing through school on both Thursday and Friday every other week....and soon Nolan should have speech again.

Yes, I called the school. They have a new therapist there and they'd simply lost him in the transition. They thought rehab was calling and who knows what rehab thought. They told me on Tuesday or Wednesday that rehab would be calling the next day. I guess I better call them on Monday. LOL Anyway - that is always a rush, rush day too. I've become a homebody....I love to have the time for us to linger over an interesting topic, project or even play.

I got home and began the deep dish pizza while Jamin and Josiah ran out to pick up our new Pampered Chef Pizza Stone. We had pizza....said goodbye to Rascal...went to the car wash and watched a netflix movie. We got SIX discs today...turns out that two of the movies we chose for school are over 3 hours long....I'm not sure which one to watch....we can't watch 2 2 hour films and 2 3 hour films in the same week.