Gotta say I loved the AHEA(Alberta Home Educator Association) convention this year! Steve and Teri Maxwell were the main speakers and I just loved soaking up their take on life and how we can live it to the fullest spiritually! My biggest blessing is the impact that it has had on my husband! Half way through the convention, he up and told me he was ok with getting rid of the TV!!! You have to understand, this was what I wanted right from the start of our marriage and NOW I’m quite used to the "beast" as the Maxwells call it, and quite frankly, I’ve made friends with it!!! However, I DID disconnect the cable as soon as I got home and am purging tons of videos that are just not glorifying to the Lord. I can not part yet with home videos or my Max Lucado videos for kids, the Hermie series.

Also, to replace time with the tv, we’ve given Silas the use of tools to use in the back yard. I think his 7^th birthday will be tool themed!! As I’d like to start a slow purge on the toys as well….a sloooooooow purge….I’m not feelin’ too brave here…

I’m also in the middle of reading Pagan Christianity? which is pretty much talking about the history of the church we are today…wow, who knew most of it was steeped in paganism!! Yikes! And it made me wonder how much more freedom we’d have as a church if we got rid of all the man made "rules" for what a church should look like?! I challenge everyone to read it! It just made me more hungry for the Lord and to be a part of the church without all the baggage we’ve added to it. Then I hear of so many underground churches in Asia that are growing exponentially, and it makes me realize that, it is most likely because they are forced to function as house churches! Everyone is an active part of the church! There are no pew warmers or people there just to criticize! Everyone is seeking the Lord all week and brings something to share when they get together! And believe it or not, even with no Pastor/Leader, everything is tying together like it was planned!! And the cool thing is, it WAS planned! Not by mere human minds but planned by the Holy Spirit!! Jesus is again the head of this kind of church! WOW, what a thought! I LONG for this! I feel like I’ve been starving my whole life for this kind of fellowship!

So, you add the ahea convention, pagan christianity?, and a woman who is searching for the Lord’s leading, and you get one emotionally charged woman feeling more than a little off kilter!! LOL

Oh, and then you add to the equation, dealing with the consequences of disobedience to the Lord…sigh, that made for physical upheaval on top of the emotional and spiritual upheaval….I definitely had to completely rely on Him to not lose my mind.

For those following the saga of our landlords and our consequence paying…we now have a brand new bathroom! There was so much mould in there they had to rip everything up, even the subfloor! So new tub, new vanity, new tile in the bathroom and new lino throughout the whole house! However, this also meant we had no full bathroom for a month. We learned the art of sponge bathing and showering in public showers at swimming pools…only had a couple young girls staring at my 2yr old and I…perhaps they hadn’t seen a brazillian wax with design before..hehe

There’s still lots more that need fixed but these were the "big" things, so I must admit I’m quite happy! And the contractor they hired had a wonderful helper who really took to my kids, calling my daughter "Hihi" as she said "hi" every time he’d come in the room…it wasn’t a creepy thing, he was a nice grampa figure who was expecting his first grandchild this summer…really nice guy.

Anyhow, that’s it for now. Hopefully it will work to upload this onto my blog! My internet connection is so glitchy…I’m really hoping it’s nothing serious, buy my computer IS old…sigh. I should really start transfering all my files to disk…look for future posts on my notes from AHEA!