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 From the Heart:

 Its hard being a parent at times.  You get presented with so many things to weighout and have to deside what is good or not good for you and your family.  I wish I could go into more detail but I can't.  Please pray that Handsome and I can make sure that we are walking in the way the Lord wants us to and to do it.  Please pray for us to have desernment from the Lord. 

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On the Homefront:  

It has been a rainy week.  Personally I have really welcomed this with both arms.  I need to chance to start making desisions on our homeschool materials and goals.  A time to look at where we have been and where we need to go.  I have been purging and organizing our learning room too.  I plan to post some pics  of what the learning room looked before I started cleaning and where it is at the current date.  It will be on Monday's " Iv'e got the itch to pitch" meme.   My learning room will not be done in a week and I am not sure exactly how long it will take.  But I want to make it a place that we want to be and that will inspire the desire to learn. 

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In The Garden:

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We pretty much took a break this week.  It has been very wet and we have allowed God to water the plants and let them grow.  Handsome came down with a bad cold and I am glad he doesn't feel like he has to  get out in the garden. 

Here is one of the flowers in bloom right now in my flower garden.  I wish I could remember it's name.

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In the School Room:

We are in summer mode.  There will be reading, a bit of math, a lot of delight directed studies, and swim practice at the beach this summer.

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Bible: 

 discussing "Created For Work" by Bob Shultz .

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My Boys Read Out Louds: 

  Luke ...is reading "By the Shores of Silver Lake" by L. Wilder

 Noah... is reading Farmer Boy.  

 Nicolas.... is working his way through SSR&W books and  BOB Books. 

 Our Read Aloud :

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The Young Fur Traders by ... R.M. Ballantyne

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Nature Study:

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The boys have been having fun making a fort with what they can find around the homestead.  I will have to dig our my Handbook of Nature Study and make sure we do some kind of nature walk each week or some kind of fun assignment that they don't even realise it is a assignment.

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In The Craft Corner: 

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I am almost done with the second sock and  I want to finish the other guantlet that I am knitting.  I have a bunch of small projects that I want to be working on.  I love that God gave some back door provisions of some yarn to make some neat things.

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In the Kitchen: 

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I will be making Handsome some pumpkin pie ( from mashed pumpkins that cooked and froze) for Father's Day plus a nice roast, potatoes, and veggies.

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This Weeks Boys Pics:

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This tree fell over and I had to show how big the root base was.

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Weightloss Wednesday:

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I have walked the pounds away 3 times this week.  My goal is more like 4-5 times each week.  I lost all the weight I gained last week end on my road trip.  Now I just need to keep going in the right direction.   I really want to get serious with what I eat and eating 6 small meals a day to keep my metabolism burning efficiently.  I will have to write it into my schedule each week to plan meals and such.

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The House That God Built Update:

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Still waiting for the siding to be finished and the sofits to be put up.    Plus it looks like August is when the court date with our friendly neighbor.  Maybe God will surprise us and it to be fully worked out of court.  Only ..truly only God knows.  But we are being faithful and trying our best to follow God's leadings.  B/c of the late court time we will probably go one more winter on the well with Handsome's family.  God has been faithfully provided us water all the way through this whole ordeal,  thank-you God.  

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Here is a pic from the top of hike close to where we are planning to put the water box. ( it is taken from our land looking down in the valley through the trees.)

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Mother Culture:( for definition go HERE ) 

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My reading has been very slow and not much of it.  Life is full and the season to read again will come again soon.

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I took a momentary break from my other books to read one of my friend's new books.

"Treasures of Darkness finding a Hope Stronger Than Our Hurts" by Esther Mannuel.    go see her other books HERE

There is the reflections and ramblings for this week.