Knitting Socks Scrapbooking beaded bookmarks making earrings making chunky votives
Family Read Alouds
Kingdoms Dawn by Chuck Black
Our Curriculum
On my night stand
Bible
Reread Heart of Wisdom by Robin Sampson
7 Habits of a Healthy Home by Bill Carmichael
Learning In Spite of Labels~ Practical Teaching Tips and a Christian
Perspective of Education by Joyce
Our Father Abraham~ Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R.
Wilson
A Family Guide to Biblical Holidays by Robin Sampson and Linda
Pierce
Good and Angry by Scott Turnasky and Joanne Miller
Having Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver
A Parents Guide to The Spiritual Mentoring of Teens ~Building Your
Childs Faith Through the Adolescent Years by Joe White , Jim Weidmann
Wild Days ( a book about language arts and nature journaling) by
Rackliffe
How to Create Your Own Unit Studies by Valerie Bendt
The Power of Parents words by H. Norman Wright
How to read the Bible for all it's worth by Gordon D Fee and Douglas
Stuart
Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and your
kids by Scott Turnasky and Joanne Miller
You Can Teach Your Child Successfully Grades 4-8 by Ruth
Beechick
A Strong Start in Language
An Easy Start in Arithmetic
A Home Start In Reading by Ruth Beechick
Any Child Can Write by Harvey S. Wiener
" This is what the Lord says: "Stand at the crossroads and look: ask for
the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you
will find rest for your souls."
Jeremiah 6:16
Sep. 3, 2007~ Monday Meanderings ~
This last week went okay. Life gets away from me and I wonder where the time went. I got the little crabapple tree pickings all made up into jelly. Now, today we are going to pick the BIG tree. That means I will be up to my ears in crab apples. I am thankful for that b/c it will mean jelly for lunch, toast, and pancakes all winter. Plus, we are easing back into our schooling routine.
Thank you Tiany for starting Monday Meanderings. This has blessed me and helped me focus on a plan. I needed something like this and it helps me see that yes I am getting important things done. It helps me feel like life is not so up in the air.
here are my humble plans....
Bible Study/Devotions~ I am slowly working through "Mom Walk" by Sally Clarkson. I am going to try to pick some verses to memorize and meditate on. Plus have my Bible open to them so through the day I will remember them and reread them when needed.
Zone~ I wanted to keep in the same zone that Tiany was in but I NEED to be different this week b/c my 4ds( my baby) is going to be turning 7 yo. I need to be getting ready for the family birthday party for Thursday and my main area ( entryway, dinning room, kitchen, and living room is ALL one big room) needs to be ready for the special day. So I will be decluttering and cleaning up hot spots for the day.
Must Do~
This week I have to ...
Get the boys eased into schooling
Make MORE crab apple jelly
and plum jam.
Get house ready for ds's birthday party and make cake Update: Some ripe pears and peaches were dropped off today. So I will be making pear sauce, peach jam, and freeze some peach pies.
Menu Planning~ I am still working in this area. I find it a challenge b/c I eat what the Lord provides that day. What I mean is we have a big garden that is shared by my MIL and we eat what is picked. Sometimes I have summer squash ...sometimes beans...sometimes cucumbers. I need to be able to be flexible with what I receive from the Lord. We buy our meat and maple syrup once a year. When a sale goes on I buy several bags of flour, rice, beans, baking soda, salt, and etc and then store them in our pantry/cold room. Plus, we grow and dry basil, oregano, other spices, and dried fruit from the garden and store them in 4 liter jars. I need to have a organized system for recipes I think and then share what we did eat. Then that way I don't feel guilty for not being able to plan a menu ahead of time. I would like to get into making doubles of things and freezing one. That would be a good thing for me.
Well if you want to join in or see other's Monday Meanderings click on the graphic at the top of the post.
PS: The Back to School Snake Naming Contest is ending on Thrusay. My ds who will be turning 7 yo will be picking a name out of the hat. So go HERE if you want to enter the contest and have a chance at winning one of my beaded bookmarks.
This was a very inspiring post for me. I think I will do monday meanderings next week instead of a list. Much more meaningful. Your garden sounds wonderful!
I think it's wonderful that you are making jelly and jams! I've never even attempted it before but I'm thinking it's hard! Goind to check out the snake contest! lol!
My baby has a birthday today. Oh how I loved his seventh birthday it was all knights and castles! I hope your baby's is wonderful too.
I LOVED Searching for Treasure, I hope your kids do too. We had a board game called Solomon's Treasure that we played along with it. It re-enforced the verses.
My neice will be 35 on Thursday, we really are connected my twin.
I really wish that we lived somewhere a little more permanent. Then it would make sense to do the canning and growing. I always have a garden but fruit trees etc take too long to be ready. I'd move right about when they were producing.
All in the right time....
I think the train them up studies look great. I am going to check out that book- my ds really needs some growing up guidance.
Blessings, Thanks for saying such sweet things on my blog.
Wow, you really grow a lot of things on your own, that is so neat. And I think it's good that you are using what the Lord blesses you with, even if it means you don't make a menu. :)
JoAnn
Wow, you are going to have a busy first week back to school. Sorry, but I'm not that clever with names. I will ask the kids though and see if they can come up with anything.
Mary I loved this post, so much great info and i loved hearing abut your Menu planning, I think that is a great idea and your garden and way of feeding the family sounds awesome!!!
What fun that your little one have a birthday this week, I hope you have a wonderfully productive week, a great party and fun fun fun!
Boy oh boy Mary, your so busy. #4 son is turning ***7*** yeah! Looks like it will be a blessed day for Thursday. I like that your growing your own herbs. That's something I would love to try here. Maybe next year, the kids and I can focus on doing a herb area next year.
Great focus list of thing's to do.
Blessings,
Debbie
I read that book by Sally Clarkson, twice!! It was such a good book! I love crabapple jelly. There is a tree on the mountain that we have gotten crabapples from, but we don't have a tree of our own. This year, we got no fruit at all because of the late freeze. Boo hoo. Have a great week! God bless you!! - Julie
Mary, I apologize for not getting a comment here sooner. I had a wonderful 3 day weekend with DH home. Now I am BEHIND in almost every way. I am not fretting, however. I am working my way through the house one mess at a time. Thankfully, we can sneak our lessons in between life's demands. :-) Your list looks great. I understand about not being able to plan meals in advance. If that is not helpful to you, then I am sure it is not intended to be a burden.
Be blessed,
Jenn
That's awesome the way you eat - fresh from the garden! I love that. I enjoyed reading how you shop once a year for meat and staples - like beans, rice, etc.... That is such a good idea.
Would you please share with us what you do with your herbs - you said that you store them in 4 qt jars - would you share a picture? Do you leave them whole, or cut them up - do you put water in the jar, or do you dry them first?
I have a herb garden this year for the first time, but now I don't have a clue to what to do with them.
Again, I loved this post. The way you garden, preserve and can, and your herbs, seems like 'yesteryear' before we all ran to the supermarket.
I'd love to be like that.
Antoinette
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 17 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 15, 13, 10, and 8. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style and use the Heart of Wisdom Approach. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
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Now, today we are going to pick the BIG tree.
That means I will be up to my ears in crab apples. I am thankful for that b/c it will mean jelly for lunch, toast, and pancakes all winter.
Plus, we are easing back into our schooling routine. 
This has blessed me and helped me focus on a plan. I needed something like this and it helps me see that yes I am getting important things done.
It helps me feel like life is not so up in the air.
So I will be decluttering and cleaning up hot spots for the day.
I find it a challenge b/c I eat what the Lord provides that day. What I mean is we have a big garden that is shared by my MIL and we eat what is picked. Sometimes I have summer squash ...sometimes beans...sometimes cucumbers. I need to be able to be flexible with what I receive from the Lord. We buy our meat and maple syrup once a year. When a sale goes on I buy several bags of flour, rice, beans, baking soda, salt, and etc and then store them in our pantry/cold room. Plus, we grow and dry basil, oregano, other spices, and dried fruit from the garden and store them in 4 liter jars. I need to have a organized system for recipes I think and then share what we did eat. Then that way I don't feel guilty for not being able to plan a menu ahead of time. I would like to get into making doubles of things and freezing one. That would be a good thing for me. 
First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 17 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 15, 13, 10, and 8. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style and use the Heart of Wisdom Approach. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
