recent events

This was my profile until today.  I am deeply grateful for the many who have "prayed us through." You held up our arms!
I miss teaching but love mothering, have lost all semblance of organization in my home since the baby arrived. I love God's word and am really trying hard to follow Him, but He loves me in spite of my efforts. My husband has been unemployed for several months now, and we really aren't sure what happens next. We are currently dwelling in a figurative tent in the Texas Panhandle, occupying all the spare bedrooms in my gracious parents' home. 
My family begins with my husband, truly the only man I will ever love and who really gets me. A total gift from God. I also have a devastatingly handsome and intelligent 8th grade son, who thinks about the world in a different way than a lot of people, and that's a very good thing. I am thankful for my two daughters. My  creative, beautiful, smart 5th grade girl is navigating the minefields of early puberty with grace and savoir faire. And then there is our spoiled rotten, late-arriving toddler who sleeps wherever she wants and enjoys life to the fullest. Oh, and she likes tunafish salad, so you must hide it. She has been know to lick plates left behind on the floor by older siblings.
Update on Texas students-
My writing students all passed their state exam with THEIR story.  Yay!  My reading students all passed save one, and she was very close.   Yahoo!  And I know she will get it, she just needs a little more time to figure out how it works.  Next year, she will get commended, I know.  I will really miss working alongside them.