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Well I haven't posted since almost Thanksgiving we have been very busy here. Doing this and that and everything in between. We have snow here now. It is very nice the first 10 minutes of the event. Naw...I do really like the snow...as long as I can stay put and enjoy the beutiful scenery. We have been doing many more kitchen lessons than workbook. I really enjoy the kitchen lessons better than everything. We have made gingerbread, learning where ginger comes from and seeing on the map where exactly it is in regards to us. We made a number of different cookie recipes from around the world. We contacted our church missionaries and asked for different recipes we could try. That was so much fun. Ok that was the great stuff that happened to us recently. Now for the bad....many people homeschool to protect their children from the dangers that lurk out there in the world. Well those dangers came crashing through our front lawn and almost into our home on December 4. A young man decided he was "OK" to drive home from the bar and going around 80+ miles an hour, oh yeah it was also snowing, split our telephone pole in half and became air born doing a nose dive into our front lawn with his car, then crashing into our car. Coming 4-5 feet from our house with us inside. Although that was a very bad situation we can see God's hand in everything that happened that night. We were supposed to be at church at that very minute, but due to the weather we decided to stay in. Had we gone to church he would of gone right into our home. The major thing was that my husband and son were shoveling the driveway about 15 minutes earlier. The young man came back the following night and told us he was very sorry for what happened. That was nice to see. As a former court clerk who had to deal with a lot of so called sorry people, I could tell he was genuinely sorry. We were able to witness to him and his father. He was sobbing by the end of the conversation. I told him that I had no idea where his relationship with God stood but God obviously had big plans for him because after everything he did not have 1 scratch on him. We contacted the judge and want part of his sentence to be coming back here in the spring and cleaning up all of the 1,000's of car parts spread out in our lawn. Yes I said 1,000's.
So back to Homeschooling.....we turned this whole ordeal into a big lesson. The kids are now fully aware of what happens when you make bad choices. Not only do they affect you but those around you and even thoes you do not know. I praise God that he crashed here and not into another car with innocent people in it. Until next time. God Bless.
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