Christmas week is upon us and I couldn’t be more blessed.All the decorations are up, all the parties have been had, and all the shopping has been done. Now, we relax and enjoy the holiday season.
The girls will be very excited about their gifts this year.They will be receiving some highly-desired items – one of which will be given to them tomorrow.We have finally gotten the girls a puppy, and we will pick it up and bring it home tomorrow.I am so excited, I can hardly wait!A home school family wanted to give away puppies to good homes.We are so blessed to have this little girl pup.She is cuddly, cute, and truly addicting.I was with her for only 20 minutes and hated to leave.The family is so sweet.Their children have learned so many valuable lessons from this experience: childbirth, death of one of the pups, and the joy of giving.Since our girls will be going to their grandparents the day after Christmas, I decide to get the puppy earlier – so they can spend time with her before having to leave.
School and work are both on hold for a couple of weeks, and I’m so looking forward to this break.My calendar is literally empty this week!Yay!Terry is on vacation this week too, so we should have some good quality time before the girls leave with my parents on Saturday.There are still some papers of Rachel’s that I need to grade before semester’s end, but I may do that when they’re gone next week.
I’ll be taking and posting pictures for sure.I love you ladies and I love our calling!You and your families will be in my prayers.
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward
Though I know nothing about William Ward, I know this quote is very true!
It's Thanksgiving morning, and I want to take time out to thank each of you for sharing your experiences - both good and bad - and your crazy, wonderfully hectic lives with me on this site. Support and kinship are so very important as we face challenges that only other homeschoolers can understand. I hope you have a blessed holiday with family and friends, and don't forget to tell God and others how thankful you are. Go ahead and give that present to them.
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. 2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Autumn Fires
by Robert Louis Stevenson
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all! Flowers in the summer, Fires in the fall!
This is my place of rest and reflection on my life and my home school. I am Terry's wife and the proud mother of three daughters (16, 12, and 4). Please make yourself at home as I ramble about our school, our kids, my job, my love of sports, current events... you name it! Oh, and by all means, leave a comment so I can visit your blog as well.
