.( Hee he...I escaped the 40 flamingos in the front yard on my 40th today )
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 From the Heart:
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This week has been real good. If you read last weeks WWU then you will read who Essie is. I have been soooooo blessed by her. She is not someone who is fleeting and short lived in our lives. She has been apart of our lives for a few years now and I can see being a permenant ( Lord willing) apart of our lives. I love her like a daughter and hope some day that she will be. My first ds is courting her. It is a beautiful relationship and is everything I have prayed for my son to have. I feel like she is a gift from God and thank the Lord for her constantly. This is a part that many hs moms dont blog much about but I think I will try to share in the near future what the Lord has taught us.
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Essie and I have had a lot of fun together. She has been such a blessings in all the help she has given the last week. Each morning we started the day with weeding and talking for a hour in the strawberry beds. We have shared our thoughts and feelings about so much. What a blessing !
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 On the Homefront:
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Trying to keep up with the watering and weeding. Plus working on decluttering and cleaning the house.
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 In The Garden:
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Water, water, water, weed , weed , weed. We need to tie up a few more pea fences and finish weeding the strawberry beds. We are now eating snow peas from the garden and huckle berries are starting to happen. We are also getting lots of strawberries still.
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Bible:
We are almost done with reading and 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.
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Our Read Aloud :
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The Young Fur Traders by ... R.M. Ballantyne
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 In The Craft Corner:
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I have been having a blast beading and creating wirework with Essie . I am learning a ton of new skills right now.
Here is a sample of what I have done (on Tuesday I will share how to edit your photos like this for free !) ...
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 In the Kitchen:
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I didn't get to the bagels yet that I posted about last week. Maybe this week or the next. I did make the greek style yogart that Tina mentioned on one of her Tightwad Tuesdays. You line a colander with a cloth or clean coffee filter drain over a bowl for the day and you have the consistancy of sour cream. This is soooooo cool that it works and is EASY. Handsome used it in my birthday cheese cake instead of sour cream. That was such a blessing b/c that I could make it from goats milk. My 2ds is allergic to cows milk products. Plus it saved me A LOT of money. Goat milk products are very expensive and hard to find so making them myself makes life easier.
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 There is the reflections and ramblings for this week.
"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!
If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in
a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents.
The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them
be." ...Charlotte Mason
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First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 19 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 17, 15, 11, and 9. 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. 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 on The House That God Built 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.
This blog is the home of Show and Tell Friday's and Tightwad Tuesdays. I hope you decide to join in on the fun !
Blessings and ((HUGS))
In Him<><
-Mary
