Just life

I love homeschooling and would not trade it, but I have to admit this school year has been a challenge with educating a middle school student and now a high school student as well. When I look back at my days not only this week but over the past 8 weeks of school, I definitely find that I am spreading myself a bit too thin these days. I love to volunteer and be involved in all aspects of my children's lives and feel that to properly parent and be in control of your children it is necessary to be involved. However, it is important to not get your priorities out of whack and I think at some point in time we all do. I am thankful that I have a wonderful husband that is always there to help me see when I start to do this and he helps me get things back on track. I have done some serious thinking and praying and am re-evaluating my priorities to find the areas that I can cut back in. There comes a time in our lives when we have to stop and get things back into perspective and I have just gotten myself too deep in volunteering in several areas and I am taking baby steps to keep my primary focus where it needs to be and that is my family and educating my kids! What an exhilarating feeling to slowly be letting things go and put my primary focus on my family and my home! I do love to help people and be there and be the one "you can always count on to get things done" but I have come to realize that there are a lot of "those kinds of people" and a lot of time to be "that kind of person" but there is only 1 person that can be a mom to my kids and that's me and we only get one chance and starting today I am not going to miss my chance!