Thursday Thoughts

I have a confession....  I don't have it all together.

Savannah's birthday is in three weeks.  Usually I am really excited about it by this time, but this year I haven't done a thing to plan for a birthday party....  and I don't think I am going to.  At one time I had bought some shirts to make it a tie dye birthday party, but then Savannah did tie dye at school...  So I guess I could still do it, but there is a lack of inspiration.... and a lack of energy.  Maybe just dinner at Grandmas will have to work for this year.

I started planning Wednesday night activities for the 2 year old kids at church last month...  We are in the middle of "God made me..." Next week is God made my body to move....  I thought about an obstacle course, but between space and age of kids, I am not sure how it would work...  It is tempting to just say "go to playground...." but that feels like the easy way out... Got any ideas?  I might do a version of freeze dance with each round being a different type of movement...

Savannah is in God's gang at church.  She was really enjoying it till they started making hand movements to go with all the songs.  Then she fell behind so fast, that now she just feels discouraged.  She asked last night to just go back to a regular Wednesday night class.  I don't know what to do really.  Help her overcome and learn the movements, or let it go and go back to regular class, which also requires more vision.  In the beginning, she was so excited about God's Gang music that she was signing herself up...  now she is saying "all we ever do is those songs..."

Zoe goes to the public school next Friday for the last part of the speech evaluation....  if they feel Zoe needs speech help, then Zoe would have a teacher that Savannah had the chance to get to know.  I really liked this teacher too, but we will have to wait and see.  In fact I really liked most of the teachers we met through the public school, we just were not sure that they could really provide what Savannah needed, or at least what we thought she needed.  She has mentioned next year going to regular public school...

Mom to mom (a mom's program at my church) was about cultivating a spirit that was open to learning, a spirit of thankfulness and keeping our minds on the long term outcomes. It's interesting cause the spirit of thanksgiving is what I have been getting challenged with for several weeks...
I might pull out more scriptures later and do a different post, but here is a question for you...  is a general feeling of discontentment caused by the Holy Spirit calling us back into God's truth or just part of the carnal self?

With the medical stuff I have been dealing with, I have noticed that the emotions both positive and negative are swayed greatly by the hormones in women...  How much of the emotions have a basis in physical issues verse will power and decisions....