So, you’ll remember that I took the 30 day New Testament challenge early in the year. Afterwards, I thought I’d read the Old Testament to round out the experience (the entire Bible in a year). There are some cool reading schedules out there (one I’d like to try some time has daily readings from the Old & New Testaments, as well as the Psalms) but I ended up modifying a chronological schedule, making it fit into 11 months instead of 12. So far, I’ve managed to stay on track, although I find myself having to catch up more than I did with the New Testament challenge. The daily readings for that program were so long that I NEVER wanted to get behind. The Old Testament readings average about 3-4 chapters (sometimes only 2) a day – not enough to scare me from skipping a day. Isn’t it funny how...
So, here it is, 1:30 am, and I’m awake and coughing and totally disgusted. I was sooo tired tonight, and of course the kids were up late because we were going to watch the fireworks (which didn’t apparently get rained out, but we went home before they started because it was POURING). Anyhow, the children FINALLY went to bed and I gratefully closed my eyes and conked out. Yet 15 minutes ago I came awake after that sleeping phase where your dreams are unsettled (I was in this loop where all my reading on bipolar disorder was somehow mixed in with this cough) and I was COUGHING. NOOOO! I was already sick the entire month of May. I’ve done my time coughing and coughing and not being able to sleep. This should not be happening. Yet, here I am – I lay down and I cough. Which leads me to a weird thing I have...
So it’s been almost a month since my last post and I’m not sure why. I had thoughts of blogging about our garden (and posting pictures, of course) but in the end I was too bored – it’s a garden and nothing is really doing much yet (except the bugs are eating all the leaves). June was busy – Spencer has been out of school but the littles were back in. The homeschooling was horrendous (I’m so glad Andrew’s going back to school for 5th grade – his new teacher can deal with all his weird tricks to get out of work). Andrew did a week of baseball camp (but I got no pictures and I’m not going to apologize! I dropped him off and ran each day!!). Haley has started horseback riding lessons (again, no pictures – but I AM going to take some soon. She looks cute in her helmet up...