The Fall breeze blows
our bedroom lace curtains inward, and as I wake in the morning to see this, I think it is such a peaceful scene. Like something out of a Beatrix Potter book. My favorite time of the morning is when I go around the house and pull all the blinds…I cannot help but thank our good Lord for the simple blessings in our lives. The view is glorious right now with the hills peppered with Autumn colors in the tree line. There is a soy field across our little road that runs in front of the house and it is like a sea of yellow and green.
Landon is ready to do his
morning chores with me. We head outside to feed and water the animals, which just increased today by two more. Our Momma cat Autumn, just had her second litter of kittens. We may see one or two more by tomorrow, but she was happily nursing two dark little striped tinies last we looked in the nesting box. We enjoy the quiet here immensely. I say it’s quiet until Landon starts hollering for Gracie and Bella (our two chocolate lab/boxer mix dogs) to come and get their breakfast. I breathe in one more scent of the fresh morning air before heading inside to start our day off with Matins. (Our morning prayers) After breakfast, Landon is ready for school, which is in a spare room that we designed like a classroom. While other children start their day with the pledge to the American flag, we are able to start our school day with an opening prayer that God would be in our school work that day, in our conversation with each other, and we pray that God would be in all learning in all schools worldwide and that all children will have the opportunity to come to know the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We pray for our families, for our country, and for all those that are sick and in need. Then, the school work begins.
Landon is a noisy little boy. He must hum, or constantly be speaking or acting out stories even while working on his papers. His brother Joshua was just like that! It’s rather annoying, and I know he doesn’t work well doing that, so today I turned on the digital piano we have onto auto play for all the recorded classical songs. It played very softly while he worked, and do you know what? He did not make a sound with his mouth! He diligently worked for 30 minutes and finished all his papers with barely a word. And only one correction needed to be made. I’ve decided to put this into practice every day! He also read his first little reader by himself today. I think he felt pretty proud of himself when all was said and done. We finished the day with a Christian story about a little boy in Africa named Mwangi, and then read about St. Andrew of Crete, who was martyred for the Faith. I was given another simple blessing…Landon hugged me before heading out to play and said, “This was a very good day, wasn’t it Mommy? You’re the best Mommy that ever was and ever will be again on this whole earth!”…Ah, the simple blessings that God gives us every day. They tend to build a strong foundation that help us prepare for the tribulations that we know we must go through also. I have come to realize and be thankful for each small thing in life that most would take for granted. In doing so, my husband and I have complained less, we love more and are humbled by just about everything. Thanks be to God!
Have a good week, and enjoy your blessings…and don’t forget to praise God for them!
