This is a great one for us mom's!!

I am so excited and I have to thank you Vicki for helping me firgure this out. You  can vist her blog at Path of Life Academy.  I finally have pictures again. 'Source" button.....

If you would like to learn how to twist like I did then visit Prairie Frog Blog

Now, that I have figured out how to get the pictures on, I will share some of our summer.

   It was great fun trying to learn to shot at night.

  That is our tent in the back ground. It took us a while to find one that had a 'room' for the wheelchair at night.

The next few shots are enjoying what God has made.

I have been holding onto this for a long time, and realized that it was next to impossible to get the 'whole' family together to preset this to Faith, so I finally did when Poppie was visiting.

Daddy was given a set of golf clubs. We figured this might be a good father, daughter thing. I tag along to play with the camera.

Becasue I had the same cancer as Terry Fox. We do the run with Faith every year, this year will be her 6th run. Oh course when we heard that Doug was in town with the van, we had to take her.

 I am alive due to the funds he raised and the Power of God.

Give God the Glory in all you do and say. I hope that everyones summer has been as blessed as ours has been.

Much to update and say, but I have been away for a week, spending my nights in Church giving God the glory. As many of us have felt this I just wanted to post this article that was posted on my yahoo support group for homeschooling only child.

Daily Journal

I thank God that my cup over flows. Sorry I don't have time to write more about my week and how great God is, but you know what it is like to be away from the computer for the week and the mail to read.

May you give God the time, and the glory.

God Bless.

Matthew 6:33-34 (Amplified Bible)      33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. 34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

After doing some homeschooling with Faith today and while her piano teacher was with her. I decided to try and make a schedule for the coming school year, grade two. We homeschool durning the summer, but nothing is set in stone. If a play-date or park fun comes up we will drop the school work for the fun. We should be in full swing on our first year using a curriculum, which many of you know is Rod and Staff, by the end of September. I have prayed about this and know that this year will be even better then our first year. One thing that God has led me to make sure we do is start our day together in worship and prayer. I have been doing it separate, mine then hers and then we start schooling.

Also found a Rod and Staff Yahoo Support group. Very excited about this, because I just felt the mom's would be a better place to go for advice then the company support line. I have had a few mom's give me really great idea's and help already. I spent the afternoon typing in a weekly planner for Faith, then my dear amazing husband came home and did another, better one for me. Don't you just love when your husbands step in and help with what ever it is??  It will have her school work, her choirs and her extra activities. The plan is to add in the Lesson and pages for each week and her activities. Jujitsu, Sparks and swimming. Doing it this way as we know that not every week is the same and field trips or some other fun homeschooling things will come up. I am also planning on buying her a calender, this year she will watch me more and learn to keep her own calender, so that she will learn to schedule herself. Right now she thinks she can do everything all in one day!!  

I am so looking forward to this coming year, I almost want it to start tomorrow, but then that would mean we are closer to the winter, so I can wait. Snow and wheelchairs just don't mix!!

Well in 15 minutes it will July the 4th. For my American friends this is a great holiday for you. For me this is the day that I was born 38 years ago. I am so blessed!!! I was thinking about it, I have a cousin that when she turned 40 became depressed. Well first this should not be a word in a Christian's vocabulary. I had to really think about why she would feel this way. Then I realized that not all of us have walked the same path, and for some of us being alive today is truly a day to give God all the glory. 13 years ago I was told I have cancer of the bone, that was wrapped around the pelvis. It wasn't tell years later that my mom and I realized that the doctors didn't think I was going to make it. 13 years ago I went through 6 courses of chemo, that made me very, very, very sick. So sick that they had to cancel my original surgery. It was to be 3 chemo, surgery, 3 more. Then after the 6 chemo's they had to cancel it again becasue I was just to weak to make it. This was another answer to prayer as my mother's only brother died the night before and having the surgery cancelled allowed my mom to goto the funeral with her sister's. 12 years ago I had the surgery that left me in a wheelchair. It has not been an easy road. It was not life back to normal after it all, there was never normal again for me. Just the new normal that I have made for myself.  9 years ago this amazing guy that I meet one month before I knew I had cancer, still married me. The new me, after surgery me. There are days that I have asked him why he wanted any part of this. 6 years ago there was this little 4lbs 7oz baby girl that was born and needed a mommy and daddy. God told me to go get her, we became her parents. It is truly wonderful that God trust us with His daughter. 3 years ago God told me to goto Bible School. I am for ever thankful that He has placed me there. Just over 1 year ago, God called me to take Faith out of school and homeschool her. I have not looked back since. You see why I look back and think how every year God adds something great to this life that wasn't to be and I am forever thankful, to be alive, to be a daughter of two great parents, to be a wife, to be a mother, to homeschool our daughter, to be in Bible School, to be free to carry my Bible and not worry what would happen to me, to have a wheelchair that has come a long way, to be a friend, to be a sister to my new family in Christ.

Father God I give you all the Glory this Day that you have made. I am not here by mistake, you have great and wonderful plans for my life. I look forward to learning more about how Great You are and that you are only do good. Praise and Glory to You Father this day.

Jeremiah 1:5a Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you;

Funny we take pictures of homeschooling things we do and then time flies by us and we need to up date the first set of pictures we have taken, but have not even posted that first set to begin with....

So where does the time go? Since my real last post May 16th.  Faith earned her Pizza-Hut Book it metal. Boy was she ever happy.

OK I am so computer leiteret, I need help here. HOW DO I RESIZE THE PICTURES TO FIT IN HERE??????

As of right now I can't share her metal. Planting of many flowers and such???????? HELP SOME ONE!!!!!!!

Then I was going to talk about how busy year end of my schooling has been. I have chosen to take the summer off of Bible School and try and spend some time reading books for enjoyment. Plus read the many new photography books that I know own to learn about my new camera. I figure a brake is OK as I did summer school the last two summers. As of the end of this year in Bible School I NOW have my A. God told me I would get an over all A, but at the end of the last two years it was a B. I went to Him and asked Him where I was going wrong and He was wonderful and told me that I was not resting in Him. I got my A, which had to be over 93 as this is an A. Plus I received the Most Improved Student. Pastor Terry said he looks at more then just marks. This means so much as I know how much I am growing. GOD IS SO GOOD!!!!

Schooling for Faith doesn't really end but then it may not be everyday. It all depends on what the weather is like, what activities we have to go to.

I am very excited that this year I not only survived the Homeschooling Convention. I even had a seasoned mom, remark on how relaxed I was this year. I was SO HAPPY to report to her that not only was I relaxed but I have all of our grade two supplies picked up. She was so happy to see the new confident homeschooling mom, I had become. I can't take the credit for it. If I had listen to that still small voice on the inside of me, I would have had made a purchase, last year, but I didn't listen. This year, I prayed and I listened to that voice. I am so looking forward to Rob and Staff. Faith has started the Pathway Readers. I am planning to add one subject at a time to be at full load by the end of September. Where we school pretty much year round, I need to figure out how to make our goals for the year. The R&S catalog has a brake down for each grade but that is for a school year which we don't follow?? I am calling on some seasoned homeschooling mom's here for help on how to brake it down. I found a yahoo support group for R&S, so I am sure much help will come from there.

I guess I should head off to bed. See what the day brings us tomorrow and maybe, just maybe, I will figure out how to get a few pictures on here??

Matthew 6:30-34

30-33"If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving. People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.   34"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Father God I want to take this time ad thank you for how great you are. That as long as we seek your kingdom and your way of doing things and being right, You richly bless us. I thank you for the support that the internet has brought to our lives. That on here I can find a group for my area, and one for homeschooling only child and yet another one for families using the same curriculum. That all these meeting places want to bring You the glory and be edifying to each other. Father for all the bad that we hear the internet provides, I am forever thankful the Your Glory still shines through.

We have planted flowers....

OK I can't figure out how to put in a youtude for you to just watch right here on my blog. I have added the link please watch what this wonderful 92 year old lady does. It will change your heart.

youtude. 92 Year Old lady with a few lessons.

I was very sick last week. Since then have been feeling very down. I was thinking of sharing on here, then though not to and look here I am. I never schooled Faith last week due to me being sick in bed.This should not have gotten me down but what did was that daddy took this week off for us to have some extra family time before things got very busy at work for him and he would have to be gone a lot again. We had made plans to go see my cousin and fiance, and take Faith to the indoor water park in Niagara Falls. Plus Faith was saving her money to go to Build-A-Bear. I look back and see that I am sad for two reasons. One is that for some reason I have let satan steal my time with the Lord. I have spent no time worshipping, in prayer or in His Word. Then two that I missed out on time with the family. I am grateful that daddy and Faith got to spend a lot of time together. She played basket ball with him and won a few times to her joy. They read together. I am not worried about the lost school time, as I school year round and this was a planned break for us any way.

I just remembered another thing. I have been away from volunteering at the local hospital for about 4 weeks now, just not feeling good and didn't go in. Well I received a thank you note from one of the patience daughters thanking me for the time spent away from my family to be with her mom. I realized this was the first 'friend' I lost. It has awaken me to the greater call that God placed on my life and that I need to step up.

I want my home, our homeschool, my marriage, my life to give God all the Glory. I want people to read this blog and see that I drawl my strength from the Lord and not myself. How can I do that if I don't start my day at my fathers feet and give Him thanks, and Glory for this day that I dedicate to him?

We did get Faith to the Mall to build-a-bear. Here was the first one she picked, but at the next picture we talked her out of an all white one, as Hope the last build-a-bear, is looking like the 'last one' and she is light brown...

Notice the pink bear purse that is holding her money she saved.

This is Faith filling the puppy.

I was to far behind to get to the side to see her warm the heart, I think she had to wish something?? Then place it in the puppy.

This is the stuffed and stitched 'puppy'

Above was bath time and then the 'stress' of picking out the outfit!!! I thought I was going to lose my mind?? She couldn't make up her mind, and then I realized she would say yes to our every suggestion. Then I told her she had to make up her mind and be happy with what she picked????

Below she named the puppy RACER. I loved that she 'adopted' the puppy and got a birth certificate. Then Faith and Daddy out side the store with Racer in the box??? I didn't realize until now that I don't have a 'finished' Pacer picture....

I think in the end the heat in the store got to me, plus this was my first day out of bed after 7 days of fevers....

Fun memory in the end.

God Bless