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Oct. 23, 2008 - 'Tis the Season and other Ramblings

I felt like posting just a few ramblings for the morning.

**We got our first cold front of the year yesterday and a pretty significant cool down. I think my children forgot how cold it can get (although going North of TX would certainly give them a shock to the system when they felt how cold it can get elsewhere.) So with the cold front comes another first. . .Christmas music. LOL!!!! JB got her chore cards done early this morning so I let her come down and make breakfast this morning. She found my iPod and all the Christmas music I had stored on there. Right now I am listening to Big Daddy Weave's version of "Go Tell it on the Moutain." Apparently this is one of the reasons she LOVES Christmas. She loves this song. Who knew?

**Speaking of Christmas, I am supposed to eat nothing but front for 4 hours in the morning. I started that at 6am this morning. Here's my question: Does Fruit Cake count as fruit? I am so tired of eating fruit right now. I think after Finale is born I never want to see another piece of fruit again. bleech!!!!!!

**BTW, we change baby ANTs name. Now she's not baby ANT anymore. Gramps is now calling her AJ because her middle name will be JOY. LOL!!!!! Just another addition to my "'Tis The Season" post. JOY to the World. Now she's back to being "Finale".

**Uh Oh. I need to pack the Operation Christmas Child boxes so we can have those ready in November for drop off. Add that to the massive list of nesting that must be done.

**Although it's not Jesus' birthday right now, we do get to have a birthday celebration this week. Schmoo will turn 6 tomorrow. Wow!!!! I still see her as a baby. But she's not. She's starting to read just a bit and has already started the Alpha book for Math U See. I am seeing her ability to do certain chores and I am challenging her to step up. I think JB and BroncoFan appreciate that. HA!!!! Schmoo wanted to have a horse theme for her family celebration so I bought that for all her party plates and such. Then she wanted a pumpkin birthday cake. We'll see.

**I love cold weather. Unfortunately, I have discovered that a cold front will quickly send an almost due pregnant woman into prelabor. And it's not just a few simply hours of prelabor contractions, for certain women it's nearly 8 hours of prelabor contractions. Boy that was fun. In fact, about half way through it I was so tired that I needed a nap. That just set more in motion because I was rested after that nap. Finale is very low and making me just a bit uncomfortable. She's a big girl. I don't dread her size though. I think she's competin with Knucklehead (K-Head) for the biggest baby in the family. Hmm, maybe I should worry. Nah, if I can do 10.3 lbs without knowing he's that big, I can do anything. hehehe!!!!

**We're sorting out summer clothes from fall/winter clothes today. I hate this particilar job. Everyone has a favorite this or favorite that they don't want to put away. Then, of course, all their new clothes are their favorite. Sometimes I just don't have the guts to tell them to just put it all away. And the weather doesn't help with that. It will warm up a bit this weekend before the next cold front. They will at least need a couple of short sleeve shirts left out.

**Next week is the one week of the year I really dread and can't wait to get over with. That's right, next Friday is Halloween. I HATE Halloween with a passion like no other. I began to question the purpose of Halloween as a teenager but it wasn't until I had children and the magnitude of the task to raise godly seed was upon us. I know that this is a decison that every family has to make on their own and I really don't want to stand in judgement over anyone. But I don't understand why Christians must celebrate and participate. It's a holiday that celebrates death and evil. Why would we want to celebrate death and evil if our Savior defeated death with His Resurrection. Shouldn't we be celebrating life? Again, I don't want to judge. I have some really good friends who use Halloween as an outreach in their neighborhood and have a Hall-o-weany party. They hand out free hot dogs and hot chocolate to those going around trick or treating. It's opened many doors to get to know people and introduce the gospel in a great light. I suppose that maybe that should be our focus as well. Their children are older and can distinguish between good and evil. My children are still young and struggle to see the evil in this celebration because even the cute things of their lives (like Pooh and Elmo and Blue) dress up for Halloween. We have made evil "fun" and so it's hard to discern good from evil anymore. Satan has sure taken something that we should know about and made a way to make it paletable. And don't get me started on the Fall Festival that just happens to fall on the same exact night and have some of the same themes (outside of the gross evil) as Halloween. How are these any different? I suppose that this truly is something that each family should decide and I guess I have expressed what our family believes.

**Once Halloween is gone, we begin to focus on the arrival of Finale and moving toward our season of Thanksgiving. We're going to make our annual turkey placemat. This will K-heads first turkey placemat. I wander what he's thankful for this year. I am pretty that there will be a running theme for each placemat. . .Finale. There will be so much to be thankful for when she arrives. Does it show that we're excited about her arrival?

I suppose it's time to get off and eat my next piece of fruit. Pear or apple? Neither. We're running low on fun fruit. We might run to the store this morning as we fold Mount Laundry and get all the new clothes in their new homes.

Merry Christmas. . .just a bit early.

Oct. 28, 2008 - Come What May!

Posted by SchoolinRhome

I thought you might like this awesome new movie! It is called Come What May! It supports the fight for life, inspires the Godly marriage and encourages purity. You can even veiw it free today and tomorrow yet! It is so worth the time. I am trying to get the word out before everyone goes to vote, too!
It was made by over 40 homeschoolers! Way to go homeschoolers! A+
Check out my post here:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/SchoolinRhome/611224/
Please leave me a comment if you were inspired and plan to pass it on to others. I'd love to hear that!
In Christ's love,
SchoolinRHome

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Oct. 29, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by MarlaMom

Hello! It's been a long time since I commented or blogged on a regular basis, for that matter, but I happened to stop by and noticed that you are pregnant again.

I was pregnant with my fifth baby (Josiah) at the same time you were with your last one and their birthdays aren't too far apart. I too am pregnant again, but this one is due in February - just a bit after yours. Yeah for number six! Happy pregnancy!

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Nov. 1, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by MarlaMom

Our church does a Reformation Day party instead of a Halloween party because Oct. 31 was the day Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to the church door.

Every year (this is my first) they celebrate different reformers' lives (Martin Luther, etc.) and this time we focused on the Pilgrim/Separatists that came over on the Mayflower. So fun!

We had booths, a play, songs (including some the Pilgrims sang), feats of strength and dexterity (like the Pilgrims and Indians did for the first Thanksgiving) and a full-blown meal. At least 90% of the attendees dressed up like Pilgrims or Indians. Most of the people at our church homeschool and I love opportunities to have fun and do educational things at the same time.

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