Showing posts with label Five Minute Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Five Minute Friday. Show all posts
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Friday, March 6, 2015
Thor's Hammer!
March 6 - mid-Atlantic states normally starting to look at the Washington DC cherry trees to bloom soon, but no, not this year.
March 6. When I got to the kitchen at 7:00 a.m. the thermometer read 4.1 degrees F. WHAT? Sheesh. I need a vacation.
Thor's Hammer - What's that about? Well, they called this storm Thor, and we got hammered.
March 6. When I got to the kitchen at 7:00 a.m. the thermometer read 4.1 degrees F. WHAT? Sheesh. I need a vacation.
Thor's Hammer - What's that about? Well, they called this storm Thor, and we got hammered.
Monday, August 4, 2014
Five-Minute-Friday: Begin!
I planned to write this post on Friday, but I couldn't. The issue was that when I thought of all the things I needed to do on Friday, and I thought about the 5-minute-Friday word of the day, "Begin", I had to just get off my computer and begin.
I left my computer, made my bed, took my shower and dressed, started a load of laundry, worked on the review I had due, and began working on my lesson planning for the new school year.
The difficult thing for me and "Begin" is that there often seems to be so much to do that I can feel overwhelmed. When I feel like beginning the tasks set before me, I feel like what I will be able to accomplish towards all that needs to be done is so little that I can't even make a dent, so why bother.
But my friend FlyLady (www.FlyLady.net) says every task can be broken down into 15 minute intervals, and when you do that 15 minutes every day it all adds up and it makes a real difference.
So I have to pull myself up by my boot straps, take a big breath, and just dig in. So that's what I did Friday, and that's what I will do today as soon as my five minutes is finished.
So have a great day and remember, don't get overwhelmed. What you are doing seems small at times, but you are making a difference. Take a deep breath, gird yourself (with prayer, too), and begin!
Friday, July 25, 2014
Five Minute Friday - Finish
For some time now I have been receiving emails about 5-Minute Friday, a project designed to encourage women and moms to participate in "free writing". Each week is a new word (topic). You set a timer for five minutes, and you just go. I have decided to try to do this when I can. My timer is never handy at my computer, but rather than continue to procrastinate I have decided to keep track of the five minutes using my sweep-second hand clock that sits in front of me.
Here we go.
Today's word: Finish
It started in 1992, this little home school I started. She was just-turned 5, and the state said she was too young for kindergarten because she was born one day late. Bah!
She was home schooled the whole way. Her sister joined the party three years later. Then a ten year gap, and a brother was born. Sister 1 was graduated and Sister 2 in 11th grade when child 3 began home school. And now the Boy is starting 9th grade.
You may have days when you ask yourself, "Why did I start this?" and "Will this ever end?" Will my laundry always be washed in loads and loads at a time? Will my refrigerator always be bursting at the seams? Will I EVER be able to use the bathroom without being interrupted?
I am not yet to the finish line, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am working on my last four-year high school plan, and my last set of Algebra I-Geometry-Algebra II-Pre-Calc and Biology-Chemistry-Physics-whatever, and I'm here to tell you...
The finish line will come. And already I miss those 2-minute bathroom breaks where tiny fingers are reaching under the door begging me to come back to them. I miss being able to gather my chickies on the couch as I read aloud. I miss having my daughters knit and crochet or color while I read from the latest fiction or history.
I even miss the boy building happily with Legos while I read Blueberries for Sal.
Savor the moments. Don't look too longingly for the finish. It will come. Savor today, and strive to do your best moment by moment.
And He will one day say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." But I beg you, don't focus on "finish". Focus on today.
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That's my five.
Here we go.
Today's word: Finish
It started in 1992, this little home school I started. She was just-turned 5, and the state said she was too young for kindergarten because she was born one day late. Bah!
She was home schooled the whole way. Her sister joined the party three years later. Then a ten year gap, and a brother was born. Sister 1 was graduated and Sister 2 in 11th grade when child 3 began home school. And now the Boy is starting 9th grade.
You may have days when you ask yourself, "Why did I start this?" and "Will this ever end?" Will my laundry always be washed in loads and loads at a time? Will my refrigerator always be bursting at the seams? Will I EVER be able to use the bathroom without being interrupted?
I am not yet to the finish line, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am working on my last four-year high school plan, and my last set of Algebra I-Geometry-Algebra II-Pre-Calc and Biology-Chemistry-Physics-whatever, and I'm here to tell you...
The finish line will come. And already I miss those 2-minute bathroom breaks where tiny fingers are reaching under the door begging me to come back to them. I miss being able to gather my chickies on the couch as I read aloud. I miss having my daughters knit and crochet or color while I read from the latest fiction or history.
I even miss the boy building happily with Legos while I read Blueberries for Sal.
Savor the moments. Don't look too longingly for the finish. It will come. Savor today, and strive to do your best moment by moment.
And He will one day say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." But I beg you, don't focus on "finish". Focus on today.
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That's my five.
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