My second little duckling got his first job. Yay! He’ll be working full time in a technical department, helping people with their computers and programing. We are thankful for the opportunity and experience he’ll be gaining and for the friend from church who helped him get the job and who will be mentoring him.
Only thing is that now I have to go through the separation anxiety that most moms go through when their kids go to their first day of kindergarden. Homeschooling is great about postponing things like that. His first day of work I’ll be dropping him off at 7 am, I will probably cry, and I’ll praying that he’ll do well, be a light for Jesus, and be protected in the big bad world.
I think James is feeling it, too. He’s been giving me lots of hugs. I’d never tell any of my kids that I cried when I dropped them off.. or blogged about their new job at 3 am. They would probably laugh at me (and mostly I wouldn’t want them to worry).
I am so thankful for all the years of homeschooling that God has walked me through, for all the time I’ve had with my children, for the spiritual and personal growth homeschooling caused in me, and especially that I all four love the Lord (and me) despite all my faults and shortcomings.
Soon, I’ll be in new, uncharted territory (for me).. I won’t have any left in homeschool and they will all be living their own lives, but my job won’t be finished.. I will still be praying that they will continue to choose to live them for the Lord, that they will find Him their constant helper and guide, that they will choose and be blessed with full and happy lives, and that they will continue to grow and mature and be a well pleasing fragrance for the Lord.
And and for much more..
