Today is the 2nd day of homeschool. I just love new beginnings. I feel so fresh and organized.....tell me about this come January....LOL
I also like the more structured day. I accomplish so much more when I am busier...How can that be??
While Amy is starting her math, I have been surfing the net and found this .... I thought it quite good....what are you thoughts ??????
Home is the true wife's kingdom. There, first of all places, she must be strong and beautiful. She may touch life outside in many ways, if she can do it without slighting the duties that are hers within her own doors. But if any calls for her service must be declined, they should not be the duties of her home. These are hers, and no other one's. Very largely does the wife hold in her hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness and the highest good of the hearts that nestle there. The best husband—the truest, the noblest, the gentlest, the richest-hearted—cannot make his home happy if his wife be not, in every reasonable sense, a helpmate to him.
In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife. Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty. Her heart makes its love. And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be the light, the joy, the blessing, the inspiration of a home.
Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a few songs which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men. But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.
~ J.R. Miller Secrets of Happy Home Life 1874
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I love that! Especially the part about filling the home with love & prayer & purity!
Have a wonderful Tues!
Today is our second day of homeschool, also. A more structured day is a big plus!
That quote goes against so much in our culture today. Even in church, if a mother tries to say that she can't get involved in various church ministries because she has children to raise, she's seen as making excuses so she doesn't have to "do her part" to support the church. If only God's people could get back to accepting this mindset stated here.
Sounds delightful.
I will agree that there is nothing more important than doing the job that God has given you.
It is scary that the whole atmosphere of the house is riding on the Mom. I hope not.
But, it took me a long time to realize that I could be content to be the Mom and Wife that God had called me to be.
Oh yay, Susan! I'm glad it's going well for you both.
Today is the first day of school for us, but my 14th year of homeschooling.
Only one (of my four) is at home for school now: my 7th grade son. We are enjoying our days though! 
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