B Week

So, I finally decided what to do with Alyssa for school this year. It has been working out great, it keeps her busy, and she enjoys it.

Each week we will be doing a new letter. This past week was B week. Our Bible story was about Baby Moses, we sang 'Be a Missionary', 'The B-I-B-L-E', learned our "B" Bible verse, made Brownies, wore Blue one day (with some pink-Alyssa has to have pink), made a Butterfly mask, traced the letter B, colored pictures with B sounds, and read "I love you, Little Bunny".

We were supposed to go on a field trip on Friday with some homeschoolers from another church, but Alyssa and I got sick, so we had to cancel. However, the possibility of future field trips was a blessing for all of us. I had just been talking to our pastor's wife, asking if she knew of anyone we could get together with. She didn't at the time and we talked a little while about homeschooling. She homeschooled her son all the way through 12th grade and knew how lonely it could be at times.

She encouraged me, but I guess it wasn't enough. The next day, Monday, I just cried and cried. I wasn't going to complain and knew that I needed to go to God. I never dreamed I would homeschool the kids, but I would also never dream of putting them in a public school since we have no Christian school to put them in. With Aaron being a public school teacher and going to a public school all his life we just knew it wasn't what the Lord would have us do. Yes, it would be an easy route, freeing me up to work and make some more money for us, but it would also create the wrong influences in our children. I think giving this over to the Lord was the hardest for me when I first started.

So, Monday came and I prayed and prayed to the Lord to encourage me and allow me to find some other mothers with kids to do things with. I cried to Aaron when he came home and knew he was praying for us.

Tuesday, the mail came. There was a letter addressed to Aaron and me from a couple who used to go to our former church and had moved on to another church in which the pastor is good friends with our pastor. In the letter, the woman said she had planned some field trips and was asking us if we would like to go along. She had no idea I had just talked to our pastor's wife, what my Monday was just like, and didn't even know if we were still homeschooling. THAT WAS GOD!!! I cried thanking Him and called Aaron right away.

This week would have been Drew's first field trip. He was so excited to get to go. He had given a praise in church about it and was thanking the Lord all week during devotions that this opportunity came up. There were supposed to be more boys in the group than girls, so he was looking forward to meeting them and making new friends. I got sick on Wednesday and Alyssa came down with it that night. Unfortunately, we had to make the tough call to cancel. Drew was quite upset and asked me why Jesus would allow us this opportunity and then we get sick. I didn't know the answer to that; little did Drew know, I had asked Aaron the same question. We did tell Drew that maybe the Lord is trying to teach us something or has something better for us down the road. I do know this: even though we didn't get to go, it WAS an answer to prayer and no coincidence we received that letter. Maybe the Lord was trying to teach me to have more faith in Him and continue to seek Him for the needs I have.