Here we are in the house doing a very relaxed schooling today while the sound of rain is our background music. It has been a steady soothing cool rain. Right now we are enjoying a hot cup of cocoa. We are also guilty of watching Christmas shows on TV tonight. I can't believe that they are showing them before Thanksgiving. Also we went to town last night and they have all the Christmas lights up already. What's the rush? If you have noticed all of the holidays have overlapped each other. Most of the public has a need for constant shopping because of it and have lost the original meaning for the holidays.
I'm so glad that thru HSing we can slow things down a little for our families and search out history to find our true orgins for holidays and moumental figures in history. We know the real reasons for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and all the other holidays. While most public schools stay out of the Bible & Christianity we are free to teach the Word of God. When others breeze thru history and other subjects we enjoy staying on a subject matter or historic figure until we understand in depth to the fullest knowledge of our forefathers & our orgin. I am still amazed at how much our DC have learned & how they have such a hunger to learn even more.
We enforce a lot of our subjects with documentary videos & audios, read-a-louds & acting out parts of stories. Our DC enjoy using their own imagination to write their own stories or short booklets. To the public we HSers seem strange because we love what we are doing. I realize we have good & bad days but overall there is a good feeling knowing we are obeying God by teaching our children ourselves!
I pray that God will "rain" down many blessings on your HSing efforts!!!
I saw this over on Debbie's blog and it was too good of news not to pass along! We own and love all the previous movies from Sherwood Pictures (Flywheel, Facing the Giants, and Fireproof) - so we'll be anxious to add this new movie to our collection as well. Sounds like it'll be another great one!
The room is done! There is even some furniture moved in already. It came out great, a little bit smaller than we had hoped for, but GREAT none the less... The whole experience was great! The contractor was super GREAT! The workers were great! The project came in $600 under the proposal so we had some additional work done. Our contractor went out of his way to get us deals. He went two counties away to get us bamboo floors that were sitting in a barn~the leftovers of a business that had gone under. We got them for $1 a linear foot... They retailed for over $5 a linear foot. They are perfect!! He also looked our house over and found a few things that were in desperate need of repair and fixed them for almost no cost. Lets put it this way. Part of our home had to be jacked up because of a failing support beam. He did the job for $76~the cost of the beam and a little extra to pay for his helper. The mess was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be... So, you all want me to stop carrying on about how great it was and let you see the results for yourselves!?!?
Yeah! Well, this is all you are getting right now. The big reveal will be just after Christmas. This year we are giving no toys (except stocking stuffers) so that we can decorate the childrens bedrooms. I show you all the rooms once we have curtains and such.
In the meantime we will be painting the rest of this room. We decided to paint the floor insted of refinishing the wood becuase it is so costly if you have a professional do it. My dh has refinished two floors in our home, but it was a really grueling project and they have not held up as well as we would have expected. So for now we will paint this floor instead. We will need to do all of the trim work and no furniture can go on it for a week.
