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Well here we are getting back into the full swing of things here at "Big Woods Academy". Starting tomorrow there will be a lot less blogging from me (I think). I am going to need to get myself back on that schedule I have never really been on. Really I mean it. I am setting mine and the dc's bedtime and going to really try to stick to it.

I have to go to bed early so I can rise early. I now have a bit more on my plate than before. I started working part time with my mother outside of the home in the evening and on the weekend. This past weekend was my first and it went well. This coming week will be my first to go in the evenings. My hubby will be home in the eve with the children. I don't know how my youngest will do as he has not been away from mommy that much . How mommy will do...time will tell .

Starting tomorrow I will have two additional children to teach. One that is in 9th grade and the other in fourth. I know I need my rest and I have not been getting it and the kids haven't either. I also want to be able to stick to my morning devotional and prayer time and spend a little time with my hubby before he heads off to work. So in order to do this and be able to gather my thoughts before the children rise in the morning, I need to go to bed earlier than my normal time of....well let's just say too late.

So how did I get another highschooler in my home????  Well, to make a long story short my son has a friend that lives with his elderly grandma who is a widow. She has been having a bit of trouble with him this last year. He is here much of the time when school is out or on the weekends and is pretty much a part of our family anyway. We (my hubby and I ) have told her many times if she needed our help with him to just ask and we would be there. Well I recieved the call this morning and so the story goes. I will say this, he needs intervention in his life so please pray that we may be able by the grace of God to be that for him. He is a great boy  and many do not see that side of him. I believe that God has placed him in our lives for a reason and I feel that He will give us the ability to do whatever it is He calls us to do. Your prayers would be greatly appreciated in this matter. Am I nervous about this? Yes, I am . Nevertheless I know I can do this because God will give me the strength to do it. He will be using the Alpha Omega Switched on Schoolhouse Curriculum. I already have that for my oldest son so I just had to add him as another student.

Now the one in fourth grade, well that is a temporary thing until her parents can get settled into their new home.  That is of course unless her mother decides to go to work but we will cross that bridge if and when we get to it. She uses ACE paces and so I'm really just there to supervise and help if she needs it. She enjoys the lapbooking so she may be included in those if she wants and her mother allows.

In the next few weeks I am sure as I get used to my new schedule there will be a bit less blogging. I may be able to fit an hour in on the pc a day (that is for reading and visiting other blogs) while my youngest dc naps and the others are reading. Yet then I could be doing laundry too. That's a neverendning job around here.Thank God we have clothes to wear, towels to dry with, and laundry detergent to clean them all.

Well that's whats up here in our neck of the woods. Hope everyone had a blessed holiday season. I am finished with my Pay it Forward gifts so ladies they will be in the mail soon. Be Blessed,

Stacy