Getting Order Back

I truly appreciate my parents and in laws sacrificing their time to be with us! Because of their help, I was able to COMPLETELY rest before and after Nia's arrival! It is a great task to go into someone's home to take care of it, including 4 children, and for all that my parents and in laws did, they truly deserve HUGE praise!!!

While I was given time to rest, many tasks got overlooked, tasks I didn't expect to get done. The girls and I have been slowly working through these tasks and we are slowly getting order back in our home. Today we purged out everything in our main living space that did not belong. There was a lot of stuff that were accumulated in a month's time! I also took the time to clear out our refrigerator. We had food about a month old in there too! Tomorrow's task, which will probably run into next week is to tackle the girl's room, my bedroom, and laundry room. My goal is to just have all in order again by Christmas. I'm not even talking about decorating for Christmas, just getting order back.

Lastly, while I had the privilege to be completely cared for, I was able to observe my children from the outside and I realized that we have some heart issues that I need to address. Therefore, Hubby and I have decided that for the rest of the school year, my main focus with the girls will be on godly character training, first on my heart and then the girls. We will not completely ignore Academic training, but we think at this time working on these heart issues are more important. We can always catch up with Academics. I am praying about how implementing that godly training will look like.

Our hope is that within a few months we'll have order back in our home, both the inward and outward works...Just to clarify, I am not expecting perfection, but I am expecting a turn for sanctification and a learning on my part to learn about giving grace and yet still being able to stay firm in discipling and correcting. "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. You are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me." I would like my children to understand how the rods and staff is a gesture of our love and protection over them and I want to learn to be that loving shepherd as the Lord is towards us.