Today was a long work day – but mostly by choice, because I was working hard to plan out the rest of the year for history and other things, to pace us out a little better. I now understand the value of a curriculum person at a school if they want everyone in the same place in a curriculum!
But I feel good about the plan – I think it can be carried out with all of us getting done each day at a good hour of the afternoon, so the kids can go play, and I can get us ready for the following day. We make plans, but the Lord directs our steps. I will trust His leading with the kids – I am trying hard to seek Him in school matters, and use our class time to point the kids towards Him through our doings in the day. It doesn’t cease to amaze me how hard that can be in any situation, which is a blessing since it points us to Him, and reminds us how much we need Him.
This evening, I got to do something new for me! Two of the rabbits from the rabbit project have a habit of getting out. The Baka are always able to bring them back to the cages, though. Recently, on one of their rabbit searches, they found that the female had babies! They had to wait and leave her for some time, to let the babies get bigger. (Rabbits are completely helpless when born, and if they are handled, the mother often will eat them. This has already happened with this mother.) So, since then, all the rabbits were brought back. Only two babies are still alive, but the mother is not caring well for them. So they are in an improvised nesting box in the Conrod house. They haven’t eaten a whole lot, but I got the chance to feed them tonight, and they ate pretty well. They are a little bigger (now) than newborn kittens! They each easily fit in my palm, and I fed them with an eye dropper. It was a cool experience. :-)
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