Richardson Report

Today on my walk I listened to Jody Moore's "Brave New Mom" podcast and she said something really stunning.  She said, "you are the mom your children were meant to have.  You are one of their trials." Which sounds somewhat horrible but at the same time so, so reassuring.  Right?  So maybe your kids will need therapy (maybe you need therapy from your childhood experiences) but Heavenly Father must have thought it would all work out.  It's something to mull over a little bit more, but I had to share that while it was fresh in my brain. Find this podcast episode here:  https://boldnewmom.com/12-am-i-a-good-mom/ In other news, we have a birthday coming up in our family.  Faith has been counting down the days to her birthday since...well, probably since her last birthday.  But definitely she has been getting antsy since about August.  Which is a long time to wait.  And with that much lead-in time I'm wondering how I'm going to make it the birthday of

I thought it would be interesting to make a little record of some homeschool days.  It's just the stuff that makes up a day.  In between are questions, talking, nagging, lots and lots of driving, reading in small chunks, etc. MONDAY I woke up unusually early thanks to the time change and decided to go with it. Read Scriptures @ 5:30 and a family prayer with Logan before he leaves went for a walk @ 6 made breakfast family breakfast/scriptures/prayer about 7:00 Faith asked me to read so I read The Princess in Black and since I was in the mood, we also read two chapters from our current book, Farmer Boy I took a quick shower about 9am and got a load of laundry started. 9:30am - Got the girls working on music/math - have to pull them away from their books to do it. They each did a chore. Faith helped me clean the playroom and get it ready for uncle Nate. Rotate laundry 10:15am - did a quick history lesson on St. Patrick.  There's a recipe for Irish Soda Bread as part