I skipped out on this last week as we had family in for Thanksgiving. Catholic Mom celebrates our small successes each Thursday.
This season can be hectic for a lot of people. It shouldn’t be though. The true focus needs to be on Christ, not the cookies that need baked, the presents that need purchased and wrapped, or the feast to prepare.
1. Though I have got my decorations out and started the cookie baking, our family has kept Christ in it. We started having the boys hunt for the wisemen who are on a journey to find Jesus. Each day the wisemen do something nice to get closer to Jesus. Those cookies we baked are getting donated to our student troops and to Children’s Miracle Network. The wisemen had us do it. 🙂 Today, they stood before the picture Bible opened up to Mary visiting Elizabeth.
2. A wonderful member of our family is on his journey to Heaven. Most of the family could have been torn up and very sad. Instead, we were thankful. He had been fighting cancer this past year and had been doing pretty poorly. My cousin took his last breath yesterday.
3. Our homeschool schedule is all out of whack, but I am not stressing about it. December is pretty much slated as off time. We had company last week, appointments this week, company coming next week, and then Christmas. The boys do dig into their manipulatives and spare workbooks each day for fun, but I have zero lessons planned and they are ok with that. We are ahead of schedule anyway, so this will bring them to where their public schooled counter parts are.
What are your small successes?
God bless!!
Tales of a Mom 