School Daze

Today we had a full, complete day of school and I am mentally exhausted. It was a good day and all 3 kids did well in balancing out their work vs. need to get help. We made a written schedule last week, complete with lunch menus and everyone was thrilled and skipping around with delight at starting school. I too like the new year routines of new books, new supplies, new schedules and the hope and promise of great things to happen in the year. Yet, as a jaded adult I know that disillusionment with the "thrill" is just around the corner in maybe Oct or Nov if we can slide past that far. That is when the daily grind becomes obedience and discipline for all of us.

Add into that equation the mental gymnastics I did today trying to see how I am going to fit our fourth daughter into this school house and still get everyone to stay on task when I am doing therapy with her. Bigger than that how are we going to float when all of them no longer want to toe the line and I am otherwise occupied with behavioral issues with any one of them but most likely our newest? On top of that is my great desire to do all this with a godly heart and with patience, kindness and righteousness....I'll get back to you on how that might be working out later.

Then the Lord gave me a few moments of time with Him and encouraged me greatly with these thoughts:

Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31 (esv)

I am so mindful as we walk toward this adoption that God is leading the way and that I will be cared for by Him as much as this precious little one we seek to care for.

More to do this week as we go to meet with a possible specialist to see if they will take her on as a patient when she comes home, and then the wonderful fingerprinting for the federal clearances.

Please pray for us as we have begun to be burdened by the financial onus of this endeavor. We know that God has always taken care of this but looking those numbers in the face is a scary thing and shakes my faith a bit. We just don't have time to do any fundraising, it has to fall like pennies from heaven.