Today, while the littlest napped and the big boys played the xbox, I ignored the call of my knitting and the emails from work (sorry guys – I already put in enough hours today – I’ll be back tonight!) and reworked our local homeschool group’s webpage.  Check it out and please tell me what you think:

Woodland Area Christian Home Eductors (WACHE)

We really have two sites – this public one and a Yahoogroup site for our members.  In a couple of weeks, I’ll be getting together with some other homeschoolers to work on both of our sites, but first I wanted to migrate us from an HTML/CSS site to a WordPress site.  Doing that allows for more people to update the site as needed.

Anyway, that’s how I spent my afternoon! It felt good to make some progress on this project that has been hanging over my head for so long!

I wrote this in 2003 after Joshua died.  At times I still feel this way but, praise the Lord, it’s less common than normal.

Blanket of Grief

Copyright, Amy Osborn

I can feel the blanket covering me…

it affects everything I hear…

everything I say…

everything I see.

The blanket makes it hard

for me to enjoy life…

hard for me to care…

hard to do the simplest things.

There are times I feel that

I will be able to get out

from under the blanket,

but then I realize there

are times I don’t want to.

Somedays it’s too hard

to go on…

to enjoy life…

to care.

Those days I pull

my blanket over my head

and let the tears flow.

This is one of those days.