Ludus

I am in school up to my ears and over.  I am enrolled in one class, plus an online course I have been trying forever to finish.  Five of my children are also in school, and my baby is always chasing me with books.  She says she isn't a baby anymore.  She is probably right, but she is my last and I tend to want to hold on to those baby years.

I have been trying online school for my children also.  My oldest is a good girl who likes to manage her own life; schoolwork, laundry, you name it.  Piles and piles of chores stack up around me, and I can never get anything completed it seems, but I hear from other people sometimes that life does slow down after a while.

Every time some progress is made, I am truly grateful.  Every time I clean even one thing at home, or get a lesson done, or mend something, or make something useful, no matter how small, it seems like a major accomplishment.

There are many things I am grateful for in my efforts.  I am always grateful for my family.  I am grateful for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  I am grateful for my neighbors, and for the wonderful teachers, principals, and other people of the system who have done many things to help me and my family.I am grateful for anything that makes my life less complicated.  I am grateful for every moment of peace and quiet I can get.  I am grateful that I am not young anymore, and that I am closer to the end of my life than to the beginning of it.  Life has a way of wearing a person down and making one feel like a wadded up tissue in a trash bin somewhere.

I take my classes slow.  I have learned that I can't go any faster without causing my own failure.  Eventually the schools will end.  What then?

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutantur in illis
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Times change and we change with them