Grateful thursday

Here we are again......another grateful thursday. My kids have had their bath and gone to bed for the night and all is quiet in the house. Yet even while they sleep thoughts are still running through my head about the day, the week, the month. I can't help thinking about their education. Cody has been having a rough time at school lately, bullies, having his stuff stolen all the time, learning "new, colorful" words and phrases (and even some nice gestures to go along with those words). And so we are faced once again with the dilemma of homeschooling. But I am also grateful tonight that we live in a country where there are too many choices when it comes to our kids education. Public, private, homeschool? I don't know if many of you saw the Oprah special the other night about the school that she built in Africa but I was so moved by the strength and determination of those girls. How they are able to overcome so many obstacles in their life. Most of us would give up or blame our circumstances for our problems, maybe we would say that it wasn't God's plan for us, but not these wonderful young women. We take so much for granted in our lives. So today I am grateful to God that he has put us in this place at this time. And that we have choices and that we have SO MUCH, we are some of the wealthiest people on the planet, we just need to recognize it more. (by the way if anyone is wondering we are 95% positive we are homeschooling next year. It is so great, they learned so much and so did we. And they are learning about life, not by reading books but by actually experiencing it)