DAY 2

Expectations

It's 10 PM.

I hope you find it as entertaining as I do that I'm just now sitting down to blog. Today was a day on my feet, chasing after my ball of energy Asaph and soothing a very fussy baby... and I'm exhausted about ready to hit the hay. So this will be a short entry (and I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to find the time to blog these 100 days after all...haha!!)

I have a few expectations when it comes to this stay-at-home endeavor. I guess we will see if they hold true:

1) I expect that I will have higher expectations for myself than my husband will. I say this because I have the mind of Martha (Luke 10:38-42) and I constantly busy myself with a to-do list. My greatest challenge here is that I learn rather to be Mary; content to wait, content to sit, content to let laundry pile up, content in the small things. "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him," Psalm 37:7.

2) I expect that my children will expect me to be present. Again, busying myself with household chores, or school work, or a blog! defeats the purpose of being at home. My children will expect me to read with them, participate, pay attention, play games, and be a mentor and leader to them.

3) I expect my heart to be transformed, I expect to increasingly know my Savior better, I expect to be tried and challenged in ways that will strengthen my faith.

These are just a few things I'm mightily looking forward to!

Tomorrow is a new day, new adventures. For now, I'm pooped and both kids are sleeping, which means I've gotta get to bed!! Until the next...