Monday, June 30, 2008
What to write...
...Summer is a strange time for me, with the children being back and forth between homes so much of the time. There is much more alone time for me. Sometimes I feel like a very strange breed of parent in our culture of individualism. Parents seems to parent in the context of meeting their own needs first and foremost, thinking this will be in everyone's best interest. Before having children, I got to do so much of what I wanted to do: advanced degrees and training, career advancements.... So...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
The night camping...
...in our backyard went well for both my son and our large half shephard dog.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Feeling much better and more hopeful...
I think venting here and to one or two people today helped, although I don't like to even give some of the struggles the dignity of words.... Lot's of things went wrong today, but my balance is back...in part, through venting, and through prayer and just keeping on keeping on....The day is ending well. The two children with me worked well all afternoon accomplishing a lot. Then my son and I inaugurated the grill he built by cooking hamburgers and corn on it. I had never cooked corn that way, and...
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Summer...
The back and forth between homes goes on and on....such a balancing act to have some semblance of normal in this crazy world where one spouse can throw life into an endless chaos of trips to court and his new relationships complete with potential stepsiblings and explanations that all the crashed relationships and lost jobs and financial hardship are never his fault....and there is so little I can say without being perceived as a dung mongerer, so I try to live on the high road walking in...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Sometimes...
...I feel past knowing what to write in this blog. For years it has been a life saver, a place to spill my thoughts and emotions and experiences. Now I am in a phase where the children are old enough to begin making their own choices...some are choosing to heed the lessons I have taught, others are not..... For this entire journey, yet especially now in the culture we live in, I can't imagine not having my faith in Christ with the hope of the Word and prayer.... The children were never really...
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