It is Finished...

Now, I don't claim to understand what God must have felt like to finish the creation of the world. No not at all. But, the satisfaction of putting yourself so deeply into a project and pushing yourself to keep at it, to not give in to temptation to do a little less, to finish with the knowledge that you've done the best you were able to do....it had to be a little taste of that great accomplishment.

Thursday morning, I felt that. I finished my daughters high school transcript. Now for some that start this record keeping process early (like before high school!), the process may not be as painful as say... mine was for waiting until the end to figure out how to compile it all together. That is not completely true. I had a plan in the beginning, but it changed each year. My record keeping also changed as I progressed through the past four years and I had to meld it all together to make sense... to be similar in format so that the information made sense to one reading it. I found that people get confused over homeschooler's transcripts, because they are different anyways... and to give them one that had differences within itself... well, I didn't want to do that. The feeling of having it done... completely done was like none other. It was better than finishing that first research paper I had to do in high school. It was better than organizing all the bills and creating a budget. It was simply done and all I could do was smile.

I've come upon a new plan for the coming girls. It is easy to change without creating a bunch of work. I have a new recording program that keeps track of grades, hours, activities, etc. It is fairly easy to change your grading scale, to include weighted grading, to rearrange assignments for courses, etc. So, should I change my mind down the road... I have a program that is ready to work with me.

I praise God for helping me to accomplish this goal. (so does my daughter!) I praise God for standing by my side when I felt so drained and totally exhausted from this project. I simply... Praise God!

Warmly, ~Melissa