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Saturday, April 5, 2008

Proverbs 22:1
A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

We are getting ready for Loolie's birthday on Monday. Wow!! Do you remember when she was born? I had so very many well wishes and blessings! It was phenomenal. It really blessed me. And then naming her. Yes, it took a month. Maybe 6 weeks. I don't remember. But, at least with a record like a blog, I can check!

04-14-07 Baby Girl Speaking of her name, LucyLillie; we named her LucyLillie because we wanted to name her after her Great Grandmother. This is the same Great Grandmother who had alzheimer's, who we never got to take Lucy down to meet. She went to be with the Lord in January. Matt did let her know her name last year on her birthday, and he said she was surprised and very happy to hear it.

I liked the name Lillie, too, when we were naming her. Lillie and Lucie. Those were the two I had picked out. We really wanted to use Lucy. Matt really wanted to use it especially, as her first name. I liked Lillie a lot more. Her birth was the day before Easter, so Lillie fit right in with that one.  We tried so many names. First names, middle names, middle names as first names, first names as middle names, forgetting the whole thing all together!

The vote here was pretty much in favor of Lucy. I am thinking Amanda and I were the only ones who loved Lillie. I don't know if Mom or my sister gave their opinions on those two names. Gena liked Lucy. I can't remember what Paul liked. I think the boys liked Lucy. On a side note: Amanda still calls her Lillie, usually LillieGirl.

Then Matt pretty much nixed Lillie in favor of Lucy, and, well, that was just not cool Honey, sorry. No, not really. Actually, he really grew to like both names and fell in love with our Little Girlie, so it didn't matter in the end which one to him. On a tearful day, as I sang to my girl, I realized it had to be Lucy. I had chosen a few other middle names, and he liked Avigail. Me too. Of course, it means Father's Delight, so of course it fit our Little Sweetie so very well!

When I came up with the idea that we would just call her both names, it seemed like too much of a tongue twister to put the two names together. But they had really grown on us. Our blog friends had been waiting anxiously for an official name, and I think Lucy and Lillie were growing on them too. We just had to decide which came first: Lucy or Lillie. We were still divided on that one. LillieLucy. LucyLillie. Lucy 04-17-07

After a month of deciding and searching and praying, we decided on the perfect name: LucyLillie Avigail. Yes, that seems like a mouthful. It sure rolls off the tongue so easy now. It does fit her perfectly.
Isaac will occasionally break out singing her a little song we all made up when we were deciding names and nicknames were given to our little girlie. It goes like this:

LucyLillie Avigail (you have to hold out the aaaiiiiilllll)
Raspberry
PixieMuffin
Pre-cious


It is quite soothing to her and even the rest of us when he sings it so sweetly in his little four year old voice. You have to give each and every syllable of LucyLillie Avigail a hard count to get the right rhythm. And the last line of the song is usually, "I love her."

We have all been quite proud of her long sweet name that she seems to have grown into. Then, when Matt went to NM for Grandma's funeral, he discovered something extraordinary. In looking through all of the family information on both sides of his family, he discovered that his maternal Great Grandmother had a special middle name of which we had no idea: Lillie. So, our sweet little Raspberry, whom we named after her saint of a Great-Grandmother, was also named after her Great-Great-Grandmother too. That, to me, was extraordinary. It just blessed me. Really.

LucyLillie 03-08 Grandma's passing was such a time of sorrow and turmoil, with all the extenuating circumstances, and this really blessed me. I could not believe it. Is that a blessing or what? Naming our children has always been an important part of their lives, and I was extremely happy that she had been named after two Grandmas.

And now it is Spring again. And Lucy will be one. She is such a sweet little character. I can hear the birds chirping away outside, and it makes me smile. She was born at just the right time. She is so full of life and laughter. I can testify to this: no matter how many children God gives you, you will never run out of love. You can't. They supply it for you!


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Saturday, April 5, 2008 - Doll baby

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She is a real sweetie. I love that picture of her standing. I can't believe how quickly this year has flown by!

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Keep their hearts. If you don't have their hearts, take note and re-capture their hearts!
Don't let the seeds sown by the ideal of today's youth culture ruin the glorious plans God has for your child.
Satan wants him. Your child is a jewel in Christ's crown, and satan wants him.
Train him as such.
You want him more. So does the Lord.

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Our School 2007-2008: How We Learn:


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Mom
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*Early morning coffee-time to include:
* Bible Reading
* Prayer: for Husband, children
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*Reading to Littles
*Time to snuggle
*Computer Time
*Time with older children

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Everyone
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*Love God and Family
*Bible Reading
*Self-discipline
*Proper Manners
*Polished Cornerstones or Plants Grown Up
*Art: sketching, coloring, painting
*Cooking
*Caring for animals
*Arithmetic
*scrapbooking, notebooking

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Teaching the Littles
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*Love God and Family
*Self-discipline
*Proper Manners
*Cooking
*Caring for animals
*Arithmetic

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Fun For Littles
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*Playing Cards - War
*Chalk and chalk board
*modeling clay, a cutting board and a plastic knife
*Counting chocolate chips
*folding laundry - towels are easy
*paper and pencil
*helping to make cookies
*rolling out dough (playing with the flour)

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Teaching the Middles
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*Self-discipline
*Cooking and Baking
*Sewing
*Feed and Care of Goats and Chickens
*Mathematics
*Reading Literature

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*Daily Bible Study
*Home Economics:Hospitality and the Art of Life
*Writing Essays
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*Making up unit studies
*Literature: Foreign and American
*Life Skills
*Algebra
*Biology
*American History and Government
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Deuteronomy 6:1-13

1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.




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