Time Marches On

I think one of the things that is most helpful in my process of grieving is the fact that no matter what, time just keeps on going. You kinda just get pulled back into the flow of things or else you get left behind. Our life has definitely just kept right on going these past few weeks.

Case in Point....

One week after Bella's birthday, my bathroom looked like this.

and my bedroom looked like this. 

Yes, sane people might have called off the remodel in light of our current situation. But we have never been accused of being sane. Hopefully, by the end of next week, we will be done to the point where we can dig our bed out of this mess and move back into our room. Hopefully. Because the week after that, we are hosting a dinner party for 30 or so people. 

After a brief hiatus, we also have gotten back on schedule for our home-preschooling. This week we are learning about the letter B and the color Blue. Brother has really enjoyed our lessons and is doing so well. he makes a momma proud!

This is a ziplock bag filled with hairgel. You can use it to practice writing letters on with your finger. Much more fun than paper!

This is our Blue aquarium that we made. 

If you shake it like this...

...the little fishies swim around and around. I never got around to getting some little rocks to put in the bottom. Those would help complete the "aquarium" effect. 

We made a "B" book. We looked through old magazines and he found things that started with the letter B. Then we glued them in our book and learned how to spell the words. 

This is what our fridge is destined to look like for quite a while. We have started memorizing a scripture verse for each letter that we are studying. I forgot to do letter A last time, so we are doing A and B verses this week. I wasn't sure what to expect as far as memorization from a 3 year old, but this morning, I was about to go over the verses with him when we started our lesson and he said, "no momma, I can do them by myself!" and he did!! I was very proud. 

This is quickly becoming one of his favorite "games." Our little color scavenger hunt for Blue things around the house. 

So that is what we've been doing in between everything else. It is nice to have other projects and goals to keep us moving. Otherwise, it would be very easy to fall into a rut of self-pity. Because time keeps moving and we just try to keep up.