Life… How does one do it all?

So, the question now is: How does one homeschool three boys, tend to 5 1/2 month old twins, help out on the place w/all the new spring babies – goats & chickens galore – and do laundry, dishes, vacuuming, etc. and… you know… do the whole Proverbs 31 thing? As a few friends and I discussed the life of mom’s one evening, I brought up the Proverbs 31 woman, wondering if she was as much a monumental (or shall I say, insurmountable) challenge for everyone else as she is for myself.  A girlfriend of mine didn’t skip a beat, she said, “Well, if I had maidservants, I could probably manage all that too!” Now that’s a thought…

This isn’t a post with the answer to that question. I still don’t know how one does it all – sans maidservants. If there ever was a time in my life where I am leaning on the Lord moment by moment, day by day, calling on Him each and every morning to show me the way – this is definitely it! He’s been amazing! I just have to sing His praises.

On a particularly crazy morning when 100 meat chickens arrived, Jonathan was running late for work and needed my help, I’d been up throughout the night with the babies, goats had to be milked, kids fed, etc., etc., etc. – I stood in front of the coffee maker, bleery-eyed while my fingers fumbled desperately w/the coffee filters and all I could think was, “Just need coffee!!!” Jonathan was whisking one way, then the other way, running circles all around me doing what he needed to do to get out the door while everything in me screamed, “This isn’t fair! I can’t do it all!” Then, this calming, soothing voice from within me said, “It’s okay Ronda. We can do this. Do this first… do this next…” He then assured me, “it’ll all fit.” And all the sudden, I could see it really would be okay and it would really all fit and my day wasn’t sabotaged from the moment I stepped out of my bed. And it was actually a really good day. Full, but good.

So, there it is I guess. My precious Heavenly Father, in His tender, loving mercies, lifts me up as I spend time with Him each morning and He says to me, “This is the way, walk in it.” And when I do – and not strive to do one ounce more – I guess that’s when I can say, “That’s how one does it.”