ShenanINGRAMS

We started our full home school schedule August 18th.  We do math and reading all year so that we don't have to review those skills.  The first day went fabulously.  The kids finished their work in record time (before lunch) and were happy to play outside most of the afternoon.  Day 2 proved to be a little more difficult.  You see, I was waking them up early to get going, and they're not used to that.  Since it gets dark so late here, we've been letting them stay up until 930 or 10 at night playing games with us, etc, then sleep in until 730 or 8.  My "don't want to be lazy" genes kicked in and said I HAD to get them up at 7, HAD to have them in bed by 830 or 9, but life just doesn't always go as planned.  We are hospitable.  People come over several times a month, sometimes 2-3 times a week.  We have church activities that keep us out late.  The kids have so much fun doing that stuff, but it's sometimes 9 by the time we get home, then we have to bathe...

Last week Jana accepted Christ in our bathroom.  She and Caylea were getting ready for bed and, according to Caylea, Jana started asking all kinds of questions.  She has been asking TONS of questions the entire 2 months she's been here and we've answered them all, even the tough ones like, "Will the horses in heaven be white or brown?" :)  She asked Caylea how to be saved and Caylea told her that she had to ask Jesus into her heart.  She then stopped and said the sweetest prayer, "Dear God, Please help everybody who is sick and everybody who isn't sick to be saved and help there to be no more sin in the world and help You to come in and save my heart.  Amen."  I know, it's not the most eloquent prayer, but she's not quite 5 yet, and the change in her was immediate.  I walked in on the tail end of the conversation and she said, "Auntie, I asked Jesus into my heart."  I hugged her up and told her how happy I was, then went to finish laund...