Get up. School. Home. Repeat.

Yes, another successful morning....successful because all my children went off to school with few hiccups.  I don't remember there being this much drama about going to school when I was growing up.  Maybe my brain has chosen to suppress such memories.
I am sure what happens in my house is somewhat typical of what goes on in many homes in the morning.  However, my heart is wrenched almost every morning.  My son, who has autism, sends me through the wringer.  He would much rather stay at home with his momma!  And does he know how to work me over.  There is protesting...."Don't send me back to school!" and all sorts of excuses.  I have to take a deep breath, say a prayer and remind myself that it is good for him to be at school.   Good for him to be in an environment where he has to engage in social situations, to be challenged by other people outside his family.  Remind myself that this is benefitting him for life....to learn to be independent and social!  Oh but how I wish to wrap him up in my arms and protect him and make life easy for him....both our hearts and souls will be calmer.  But life is not easy and warm and cuddly.  We must preserve.  One day at a time....and my heart will survive.  It will.  When he jumps off the bus and says, "I'm home!"...my heart can rest and rejuvenate back to its normal state.  Until the next morning...

Here we go!!!!!

We are all on a journey.  I feel like I am at a crossroads on my journey.  We are living in a new city.  The kids are now all settled in school and my husband settled and loving his new job!  It has taken months to get to this point.  Now I have time on my hands to think and process...scary thought!  I am trying to figure out what my next step is...back to school?  look for work?  stay at home? What to do?  What to do?  This is the first tangent of my journey.

I am also on a journey with trying to live with a minimalist mindset.  I became intrigued with this when we moved.  We moved from a suburban home with a huge backyard to an urban townhouse with a patio for a backyard!  We purged and purged.  This was a fun process....especially with the kids!  We have four kids ranging from 7 years to 10 years old.  Twins at the end.  I have been reading several blogs on minimalism and have been challenged with the things that I still have.  We have continued with the purging!  I still feel like we have so much but slowly and surely we will continue this journey.  I believe too that it is making wise choices in what we bring into our home.  Again, a challenge with four kids.  And one of those beautiful children was diagnosed with autism years ago....this adds more of a challenge to trying to live minimally!

Join me on my journey of living minimally in my beautiful chaos with four children!