Momma Bean in the Mountains

When I was in high school my procrastination was extreme. I would need to do dishes, for example, and I'd put it off and off an off I would stay up way too late and pull up a barstool to the sink and guess what? I'd FALL ASLEEP in front of the sink! Imagine my stepmother's frustration! I think this is perhaps why it bothers me so that my own children will wait until the night before school starts to finish their summer reading projects! I don't want them to do what I did - I want to help them have better habit/patterns/ways of doing things than I did.   My husband on the other hand backs off and allows them to do things the way they do them TRUSTING that they will learn from their mistakes. (Novel idea, right?) This frustrates me at times beyond words  I guess because I used to interpret my parents 'hands-off' approach to be a lack of concern. I always felt like they didn't care - so it probably makes me angrier then it *should* because I...

So in the past some of my entries have had 'points' or were meaningful in some way or another - this is just a head's up to any subscribers or those who stumble upon my page in blogoshpere that I will be posting days here. Jason Upton (my favorite musician) has a song entitled "Write Everyday Down" and in a way that's what I intend to do begin recording moments, days and seasons. Right now I am a homeschooling mother of five. I am only homeschooling our first grader and trying to do some preschool with our youngest. My children are 16 (11th grade boy), 14 (9th grade boy), 9 (4th grade boy) and at home are 6 (1st grade girl) and 5 (preK boy) I am happily married to the most amazing man I have ever met (truly I can say this) We live in Appalachia and we love it. Small town, lovely community and pockets of amazing people everywhere. I am currently in the Celebrate Recovery program of which I weekly say, "Hello, my name is Laura and I am a ...