thursday morning thoughts

point form thoughts for your Thursday morning, or whenever you are reading this, enjoyment.

-after having a rough few days i think i am finally coming out of the funk i was in. I took some time off and made myself stay at home. This is not easy to do because having a little boy who is in a special needs preschool 4 days a week, as well as my little sister who has weekly appointments (it seems like), sometimes half of my days are driving around. As it ended up, little boy got sick, and little sister had no appointments for a few days, so i was able to recuperate. Also got lots of love and encouragement from the hubby, so that always gets me revitalized faster.

-I LOVE MY LLAMAS. seriously... love them. It's been so great to go out into the pasture and really get to know them and have them get to know me. We named the baby llama Shiloh, and the teenage llama (that is the other new llama) Gwen. Gwen was quite feisty at first, but now she has really warmed up and I think she will be a great addition to our family. She is gentle and curious and eager to please. Training is going very well. It's amazing how i can go and spend 5 minutes with them and my mood is lifted. They really are great therapy animals for me!



-Since we have new llamas we are going to be finding a home for our alpaca. We originally thought we would take her along on packing trips but she isn't able to handle distances or weight, so we were just keeping her for a pasture mate for kady, the llama. Molly (the alpaca) gets upset when we leave with kady. Llamas and alpacas tend to get lonely if they are on their own, so we found Molly a new home (she is leaving our place today!!!!) where she will always be around other animals and her fiber will get used. whew.. that was a long winded explanation that I'm sure you really don't care about, but i like sharing my simple loves.

- currently reading " The well-adjusted child: the social benefits of homeschooling" by Rachel Gathercole. fantastic read so far...

-currently on the stack to read next -
"educating the whole hearted child" - by sally and clay clarkson.
"apraxia uncovered- seven stages of phoneme development" - by pam marshalla

-my youngest has brought so much joy lately. He is a little light in our family. He walks around the house checking on everybody and wanting to be with them, humming little songs to himself while he plays through the day. The other day i grabbed some coffee in a travel cup and he insisted that he get his own cup and drink his coffee (which was just an empty cup) . Man was he cute... i had to snap of picture of him "drinking his coffee".

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I hope that today you find a glimmer of peace and joy in the everyday simple. And I'll end with this quote by A. Einstein for you...

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid