Memory Verse:  Psalms 55:22 - Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee; He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Assignment: This would be a good week to tell about your worst struggles with a lifestyle of homeschooling.  Tell about something you’ve struggled with and how God’s mercies gave us the strength to get past it.  Also, share any curriculum/homeschool methods that have been a relief to you, i.e., a particular Teacher’s Manual or Homeschooling method that’s been easier for your family.  Talk about how you felt when the burden was lifted and Oh, What a Relief it is!

Picture ideas: That never ending, hard to keep clean closet (shelves), the children doing school work you didn’t know if they would ever get a grasp on, your schedule or organizer with plans for the day

Share your favorite scripture and don’t forget the Memory Verse above.

Oh my goodness, after finishing the whole assignment, I hit the wrong button and have to start all over again. Thank you God for the lessons on Godly character because right now it is keeping me coam and putting a smile on my face, heck why not laugh at it and do it again...

Round Two; Wow how do I keep this short? Not sure that I can. As most of you wont know as we are all just getting to know one another. I am a cancer survivor, which has left me in a wheelchair. I suffer from pain at night know as phantom pain, and add on top of that I am a night owl. I have many morning when getting up to teach is not what I want to do. I want to put the sheets over my head and go back to sleep. This is not what God has called me to do.

Our daughter start going to school at the age of 3 because of a medication mess up that left me very sick and it took me about a year to get over. When we removed her from the school I was sent a letter stating how very concerned they were for me because of my pain and that I was not qualified to teacher her. You can imagine my nights lying in bed thinking over and over "You have to go to sleep, you have to teach her tomorrow, you can't be a failure" Which only led me to staying up longer worrying about things. This was when God taught me a very important lesson, well two. I was over whelmed by the amount of homeschooling curriculum's that were out there. For grade 1, I decided to buy the workbooks that can be purchased any where. Lesson number one, I can teach my daughter and she can learn from me. The second lesson came from a day that I was so sick and the thought of sitting down at those workbooks was to much to bear, I learnt that Faith can learn with out a workbook. Check that story out here,  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/498575/ Don't worry lots of pictures, little writing. 

For grade two I am grateful that God led me to use Rod and Staff(well He did in gr. 1 but I didn't listen). There are a number of reasons. Here they are, you know the first, those late nights. I love knowing that when I get up all I have to do is open up a TM and read what it say, even says what to say to the children, tells me what pages she is to do and gives me the answers. I know your thinking, 'hey your only teaching grade 2'. Well when your not feeling the best, having those answer and all those words in that TM is a blessing. The other reasons I like having a full curriculum all planned out for me is that I am in Bible School part-time and I am trying to teach myself the technical end of photography, because my cousin and I are planning to start a business in a year or so. Having everything all laid out from point A to B is perfect for me.

I am also very blessed that my husband made me a calendar like I want for this school year and another wonderful R&S mother sent me our full grade 2 year all planned out. I love this, Faith can just open the binder and see what lesson has to be done that day. I have all the books that we use in our school day at the end of the kitchen table, but can be easily picked up and moved if we have company. For all our school year planning check out here, again loaded with pictures, not many words. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Faith2002/578046/ It also shows those over stuffed book-selves that I hope one day wont be so over stuffed because we will have more.

I don't feel that I need to post a picture you have already looked at so many. Plus right now my favourite one is right at the top of my blog, so I will move onto my Bible verse that has been such a help to me.

Joshua 1:6-11 (New King James Version)

6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”