Hi! Welcome to my blog! My name is Jane (PlainJane) and I am the blessed and happy wife to Jeff and doubly blessed mama of two perfectly wonderful daughters. Please join me as I share our Lifestyle of Learning through Christian homeschooling and homesteading on our little hobby farm with our prairie girls.
Bookworm is our dd14/9th grader.
Our perfectionist and over-achiever. She loves reading, playing violin, her Paint horse, Annie, being a farm girl, and History re-entacting.
Ladybug
is our dd11/6th grader.
Our "girls just want to have fun" girl. She loves to play and has a great sense of humor, but also likes reading, music, her Quarter Horse, Kitty, and History re-enactment.
We are finished reading
the Moody books
By Sarah Maxwell
and HIGHLY recommend them
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he said to them, "Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not just idle words for you -- THEY ARE YOUR LIFE. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess." Deuteronomy 32:46-47
Apr. 7, 2008~ Monday Ramblings ~
Good Monday Morning Friends,
It's April in Minnesota, so after several beautiful spring days, we are returning to snow again - it's currently 34 with snow/sleet and the snow is sticking a bit - go figure. But I am thankful that I don't live in northern MN, where they just got 2 feet of fresh snow.
Let's see, what's on the agenda this week...
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Kid's Choir
Ruby Girls Bible Study
Swimming or maybe company
Me Dentist
Peanut's 11th Birthday
Violin Lesson
Outside of school, a pretty light week! We have only 15 more full days of school left in our school year - woohoo! We are taking a couple of days off for the MACHE (homeschool) Conference and a day off for our annual trip to the MN Horse Expo. (both super fun & educational). I do plan on continuing Ladybug's math throughout the summer and probably history too. I'd like to finish up American history (an impossible goal) as next year we will be implementing the Student of the Word curriculum and start the cycle over again with Old Testament History.
I have now finished reading through all the Student of the Word material and I don't know what I thought was so confusing - I've already made out a preliminary weekly schedule for next year (to be tweeked as we go) and plan on doing the first week myself to try it out and have examples to show the girls. I think this will be great and I can hardly wait to get started ~ a very indepth inductive Bible study, focusing on God's Word and God's World for all of our schooling.
Meanwhile, diet & exercise are going relatively well. I lost about 2.5 lbs. last week and went swimming 1 day and took a walk down our road 2 or 3 days last week - thanks to the nice weather. This week's forecast doesn't sound quite as nice with a lot of snow/rain, so may just have to walk a lot of malls.
COngrats on that 2 pound weight loss my dear, even just a few pounds is great!! Prevention website has wonderful 6 week walking challenges if you are interested in something like that, its really great they break it down for you and you can print them right off,
Looks like a good week. We have fewer outside commitments this week, too. Makes for a nicer week. I hope you find some time for blogging! The blogging world is not the same without you!
Jenn
We too have had snow again. We thought we had come through to the spring side of things as well. From the weather report we should have grey and snow flurries the first part of the week.
Melissa
Cool table! I haven't got mine posted yet :P I am very tired, DH woke me up at 5:30 when he got up and I had to take him to the office today at 6:30, he is out of town this week.
Thanks for all the info on SOW, right now we are using Robinson Curriculum, similar "type" being for K-12 on CD discs with the education coming from reading. We do our own Bible studies. I'm still reading about it, but it does look good!
ahhhhh it is sooooooo nice to get over and get caught up on one of my favorite gals. ((((((hugs))))))
Life has been sooooooo full lately. I have to admit I am pretty stiff this moring from all that digging and pulling out the iris roots. I might only dig up a bed today and dig up the second iris patch tomorrow.
Wow, it is cool there again. Our snow is slowly receding and fortunatly my gardens was one of the areas that cleared already. You mentioned about planting in May. We do that for most things but we can plant hearty greens and I am able to move the bulb transplants that haven't bloomed yet. Other than that that is all we plant. It is mainly a time to digging and getting things ready. We got the fruit trees pruned on time this year. We are very happy about that. Hubby just got done furtilizing the fruit trees yesterday. So things are moving along.
I was thinking this moring HOW much I was missing you and I was sooooooo blessed seeing your comments and note in the cbox. Thank-you
Sending you a extra BIG ((((((HUG)))))) my SSiC
In Him<><
-Mary
Jeannie 
