Author Archives: admin Oh my…I almost forgot I had a blog;). I’ve been busy schooling the kiddos–full days over here…and doing my best to run this race well. Most days it seems this mommma is completely wiped before the sun even goes down—and my days are filled with little things (I mean very important things) like exchanging a […] Sorrow and Joy–these are the two feelings that often stir a tornado in my heart…keeping me want to stay forever close to Jesus. When you walk with Jesus, you learn quickly that much of His ways do not make sense. The path of following Him is often paved with both sorrow and joy–many times not […] Andrea, I can’t wait to see how God leads you in the days ahead. This post is amazing, and so is the journey that you are on. Thanks for being such an encouraging voice to so many of us. Blessings to you and your family! I just read your blog and forwarded it to a friend. Her bestie just did the same thing last year. They saw a picture of a 15 year old girl who was about to age out, and likely forced into a sex trafficking situation. They made a stand and brought Juliana home. She is stunning, and just said her oath of citezenship to be a proud American. They did the same 5 wk program, and it helped with bringing her home permanently. There is also an awesome church there Hillson Kiev that is trying to put an end to sex trafficking in the Ukraine! Blessings!! We, too, hosted a young man from the Ukraine through a similar program about 5 years ago. Some friends ended up adopting him. It was a fabulous journey of faith and although he wasn’t to be ours forever ( he was older than my oldest child), he was used by the Lord to open our hearts to adopt our little treasure from Russia.  Sooo…we started our day by loading up the mini-van…just me and 5 kids {added my best friend’s son to our crew last night for a boys slumber party} and we took off to Tanglewood Farm. It wasn’t just me and my crew of 5…I met up with 2 other of my dearest mommy friends. And […] sounds and looks like such a fun day!!! cracking up at the llama snacking on some puffs! haha  I grew up with two sisters. One just 14 months older than me–and one three years younger. Can you guess which one is me??? We played Barbies, curled our hair and danced 24-7 whether we were any good or not. We would play wedding–where one of us would marry Luke–and another would marry Duke. OR […] I love your days…..they remind me a lot of mine! I too wouldn’t trade them for anything!!!! Growing up – I had 2 brothers…so yep toads, caterpillars, and all those things. Loved this post. So reminded of my life. I grew up with one sister in an all girl house! And now, I have one daughter growing up with four big brothers. On Monday, Lucy insisted on taking her weekend collection of “rolly pollies” to school. Too cute! At least I hope her Kindergarten teacher thought so! As we’ve gone to and fro about what is best for our children for next year (we of course re-evaluate every year what will be best for each child for the year ahead), I’ve been reflecting on WHY we homeschool and really WHY it’s a hard option to top. We’ve had our experiences with all […] Girl, you need to write that book! Your description was beautiful and really connected with my heart in so many ways! Would love to hear more about your testing you had done to determine strengths/learning styles. Homeschooling is a beautiful thing and you reminded me of that once again and of how blessed we are to have the setup we do. Think I need to print this off for the hard days! (or at least until it’s in hardback) 🙂 Love this! I was also in the “I’d never homeschool” group–and this is our 4th year now. I’ve applied for school the past two years and each year, we’ve decided to continue homeschooling. We’ve experienced huge blessing with it especially with our three daughters who came home from Ethiopia at ages 3, 5, and 9. So much good bonding time that I would have missed and their siblings would have missed if they were gone most of the day. It has it’s challenges, but I’m so glad that we said yes to bringing our children up in this way. Jessica My oldest starts school next year and I don’t know what we are going to do. How long can you live in the land of indecision? Thank you for this. Beautifully put. I homeschooled our 4 daughters for 12 years and outside of my marriage it is one of my greatest accomplishments in life. We always gave the girls the option to go back to school, but they always chose homeschooling each year. All 4 are now grown women and all married – 3 with children. The oldest is homeschooling her 3 children and loving it. She’s a born teacher. Daughter #2’s son is just 2 years old, but she’s already looking forward to homeschooling him. Daughter #3 has her son in a christian umbrella school/homeschool situation where she teaches him at home 3 days a week and he goes to school 2 days a week. All 4 girls are so well-rounded and have always gotten along well with any age group. Their work ethics are wonderful and when they have worked, they are in high demand. I can’t say enough about the values of homeschooling your children if that is what God leads you to do. One thing I always said growing up was that I was NEVER going to be a teacher. HA! |
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Fun times, for sure! What’s your favorite sweet tea recipe? I need to make my own more often!
How could your home be anything but fun and exciting!!!! 🙂
your top purple flower is a clemantis…and i bet it climbs your mailbox!