Craving quiet

I am going to start this post by saying I love my kids. I do. I love them.

Even when they are acting like trolls and driving me crazy.

Which they have been, quite a bit over the last few days. And it's never all of them at once, thank heavens, or I'd certainly be done for. It's just when you have nine children, and even two or three of them are being bratty, it feels like a lot. Although I suppose it's really only about one third of them. It's all perspective, isn't it?

I've been craving time alone is really what it is. As you can imagine, that's hard to come by here. I used to stay up quite late just because all the kids were in bed and I could write or read more than sentence without five trillion interruptions. I don't do that very often anymore because as much as I want the quiet I need the sleep more.

Sometimes I do stay in my bed after I've woken up and pretend I'm still sleeping when the kids start opening the door to see if I'm awake. Okay, so I do that almost every day. In my defense, most of my littler kids wake up the roosters. It's ridiculous.

I'd like to spend sometime journaling my spiritual journey. I feel like God is teaching me so many new things and I don't want to forget them or lose them in the hectic every day quotidian.

We made pumpkin swirl eggnog French toast for supper. With bacon. We are cleaned up and ready for bible study tonight. Had a lovely morning with a new friend who I enjoy immensely. I'm so grateful for those relationships that are easy and low maintenance, where personalities just click and you can feel yourself unwind and breathe when you're together. Isn't that lovely?

Unsure about plans for the weekend. I have a couple of things I'm considering but haven't made up my mind just yet.

And I splurged and bought a hideously expensive pair of alpaca socks. They're supposed to be uber warm and no matter what I try I simply can not keep my feet warm. A good deal of it is because of my Raynaud's, but I'm getting desperate for warmth and it's just getting colder outside... And honestly if they work well, I will buy more of them, even though they are almost THIRTY DOLLARS. A PAIR.

Well, our friends are beginning to arrive so I'm off.


{The online course I am taking is through Www.frankviola.org  It is called Living By The Indwelling Christ. I'm about 3 sessions in. Fabulous.}