Yesterday would be my 3 month anniversary of blogging!  Tempus Fugit, as my Grandma used to say---please forgive me if I spelled that wrong.  Will somebody PLEASE hand me that Latin dictionary???

Anyhow, I hope it's ok to "re-blog" - I guess I need the blogging rule book too.  I was looking back over my entries, and nobody even appeared to have read my first one, and since it was SO good, you have a second chance.

Some things have changed in the last three months, Fall is in the air.  The cosmos are just beginning to bloom, the flax and poppies are long gone.  Morning glories are almost as tall as I am on the arbor, and the sunflowers are big too---tall anyway.  Hope those rascally squirrels don't get them this year.

So with all the blogging going on about school "starting" up again, and the changes going on around us, I thought yes, we will re-visit these thoughts. They fit.  Not just today, they fit every day. Now it is looking like this intro is longer than the blog that follows, but hopefully today, those few words will paint just the right picture for you.

Blessings,

Nancy

May. 19, 2005 - Launching in to the new world of blogs!

It is a beautiful day!  The poppies are blooming, the flax is amazing and the mercury is rising---we expect upper 70's today.  But I didn't get on here to give you a weather report---but I suppose I am really just testing the web-log-waters, so to speak!   I sometimes spend a lot of time on line,just being goofy with friends (my fruit-loopy friends will understand) and yet, inbetween the necessary tasks at home and the exciting duties at TOS (The Old Schoolhouse Magazine) I often have wanted to have a serious outlet for some of my deepest and most creative thoughts.........now, I have a place, just need the thoughts!   Being a homeschool Mom has been the sweetest adventure.  Sometimes, it is not so sweet---but having friends, mentors and a husband who has clarity of mind helps me to get my thoughts in order.  It amazes me that what God had planned all along for the family has been so misappropriated by so many.  It is designed to do what it does do very well, if I can borrow a line from Ken Ham!     The family has a plan and a design, and we struggle sometimes because what we know in our hearts is correct and good---but we have all those false designs from the past that have laid claim to our lives, that we must THROW OUT!!!    Get rid of those old ways of doing "school."    Stop it right now.     Enjoy your children today and learn what learning is all about.     Let the Master Teacher be your guide, not the old tapes of public school experience, not the family next door, not your store bought curriculum.    Don't quench the Spirit!   The Lord put a thirst for life into your children.  And the desire to learn.     The world He created is your class-room.     His Word is your guide book.   Crack it open!   Nancy