Can November be over already???  How can this be?  It seems like only yesterday that we moved into this house and now we are coming up on three months!  LOL

More rooms are unpacked and starting to come together.  Honestly, when we bought this house, I thought it was so similar to our other house that we would just put everything in the same places and keep on keeping on like nothing had happened.  Well, that didn't really work for long.  So, we have had about the fourth rearranging of furniture, completed changed out a couple of rooms, and are starting to feel settled...just in time to decorate for Christmas!

Our co-op semester zoomed right by me.  We had so much sickness, in our own family and in several of the other families, that it was seriously difficult just to keep all the classes covered from week to week.  Thankfully, we always had just enough, but it was a little stressful for this girl who really likes to function WITH a plan!  Flying by the seat of my pants and reassigning teachers weekly was kind of zoo-ey (is that a real word?).

The kids loved their co-op classes.  Jonathan is READY to move out of "the purple room" and be a big boy next semester.  He is so cute about it.  Everyone learned cool stuff - Timothy is a budding historian and scientist (don't even ask him about his favorite president or his favorite planet unless you have time for his dissertation!); Susannah is becoming quite a seamstress and botanist and is really into sign language; and Nicole acts like Chemistry is so hard, but she is really good at it and gets it.

As for me, well . . . someone, who shall remain nameless, suckered me into joining facebook in October.  Oh my goodness - I might be an addict, if I had time to be one that is!  ;-)  My high school classmates decided that staying connected via facebook is better, faster, cheaper than classmates.com so here we are - and meanwhile I have found friends from every path my life has taken so far and cannot believe how many of them are on facebook!  So, facebook is robbing me of good blogging time - I'm going to have to rectify that!

If you aren't ready for Christmas yet, it is time to set your mind to the season at hand!  I'm mailing my dad's office Christmas cards in the morning and starting on our family cards.  If you haven't been on my mailing list before this year, our annual newsletter will be hitting the post office by Friday, so email me (if you know me) and I will add you to the list!

Have a tremendous week!

♦Right before we moved, Nicole was notified that she had won the Grand Prize package from the Thomas Nelson live event "Revolve Tour".  So, she signed up for the Dallas event - her prize package included 4 VIP passes to the Revolve Tour, a parking pass for the covered parking garage, 2 nights at the Renaissance Hotel (where all the Revolve Tour's speakers and singers were staying!), some "revolve bucks" (money to spend on the concourse), a meet & greet with Hawk Nelson, a couple of CDs of 2 of the artists, the Revolve Bible and Journal, and some other cool stuff.  What a tremendous blessing!!!

♦The weekend finally arrived and we had a blast.  First thing, checking into the hotel and then exploring - - - which went fine until we started down the glamorous marble spiral staircase.  At that point, I twisted my ankle, fell down a couple of stairs, scratched one of Nicole's friends, and caused a bit of a scene (sooo embarrassing).  Then, one of the speakers from the event came running to make sure I was OK.  Honestly, he was the ONLY person who came - others just looked up and kept on about their business.  So, the girls were impressed that ONE chivalrous guy still exists!  (Looking back, I think his act of kindness caused them to listen more closely to the things that he shared - which were valuable truths about guys and girls!)  Anyway, the hotel man insisted on calling 9-1-1 (ugh!) and they came - checked me out, decided I could walk, and let me be.  Thankfully, they did not insist on taking me to the ER (although I may still need an x-ray - my ankle still hurts a month later. . . )      

♦Next up, we went to the Friday night session - great speakers, great music, and LOTS of screaming girls!  Evidently, Hawk Nelson is the FAVORITE band of many teen girls.  The lead singer did clear up the confusion - HE is not Hawk Nelson, the BAND is called Hawk Nelson.  This cracked us up, because we are all HN fans and knew this already, but girls had signs like "Hawk Nelson - will U marry me?" so the guy just had to say it!  Dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse in the West End.  Fun night!  Then ran into Chad Eastham (the "guys and girls" speaker) who admonished me to ICE my foot, then to ICE THE ICE.  The girls were enamored with his kindness and were a touch sad to find out that he's very taken!!!! 

♦Saturday morning, back to Revolve again - then shopping (they all wanted Chad's book - which he gladly autographed that afternoon), then more Revolve, then MEETING HAWK NELSON - the highlight of the day. 

They were GREAT with Nicole.  There were a few other people there, but it was "Nicole's meet and greet" so they made a big deal about that.  Each band member spent a few minutes talking to her and her friends, then they all posed for several photos too.  Very nice guys!  They're Canadian, but we don't hold that against them!!!  :)  Also that day - we realized how much we enjoy Group 1 Crew - they were new to us, but had some great music and love the Lord!   

♦After the last session, we went back to the hotel where we got to see Natalie Grant (singer) and her family in the elevator - twin toddler girls, too cute!  Her husband was in the Revolve band too.  Several of the other speakers and bands were around the lobby, so we enjoyed imagining that we knew them and they knew us!  LOL   Actually, they were all very friendly and did not act at all like it was annoying for us to say hello.

♦Later, we went to the West End again to eat at Gator's (they have live music at night, but we missed that part).  We ate on the rooftop patio.  Krystal Meyers and her band and a couple of friends came and ate at the table just behind ours.  We left them alone, but did thank them for a good show as we left.  The girls had this theory that if we acted cool with people instead of like groupies that they would actually think we were cool.  I think that was a good plan, as it seemed to work well, especially with Hawk Nelson and KM and band.  I'm not so sure that Chad Eastham thought we were "cool" since his introduction to us was over me making a goon of myself on the marble staircase, but he was also the friendliest towards us, so maybe he felt our pain at drawing too much attention.

♦All in all, a blast was had by all.  Jesus was glorified, the girls had a wonderful time together, and we all got to meet famous people who love Jesus too.  How cool is that??

Oh my goodness - I just logged onto my blog and realized that I have not posted one single thing since we moved into our new house.  So, you haven't had a chance to see photos or read stories of Nicole and her friends and I going to the Revolve Tour in September.  Or Hillary Hoyt's wedding in September.  Or my mom and I celebrating our 100th birthday (60 plus 40) in October.  Or my actual birthday in October.  Or well, practically anything that relates to the Lerch family at all for the past month and a half!  SO O O O O - watch for a few posts in the next couple of days - I will try to include photos with them where I can.  Enjoy!!!!

Hip Hip Hooray!!!!  We now own a brand new house!  Everything was made official today.  So we are packing maniacs!  Steve and Nicole just left with the WHOLE KITCHEN in the back of our minivan (without seats, of course!).  They are going to unload all those boxes into the kitchen so the kids and I can unpack the kitchen in the morning while we wait for the fridge to arrive.

Friday is moving day!  Well, "movers" day anyway!  I'm going to take a couple of small loads over tomorrow, then pile up a trailer with as many of the rest of the boxes as we can fit tomorrow night.  That way, we can get the movers to carry the super heavy stuff on Friday and we can start living in our new house! 

God is good!  I will have to put together a "miracle list" of all the unbelievable things that the Lord has done for us in this whole selling/buying/moving process.  I stand amazed - literally.  Steve and I are just overwhelmed at how much the Lord cares about the giant things in our lives and the very smallest of details that really matter in our hearts even if we don't talk about them a lot - He knows our hearts and He meets us right where we are. 

Can't wait!  Steve can't wait for his new and improved shorter commute to work every morning.  I can't wait to get my awesome new dedicated school room all set up (more on that in a later blog post)!  The girls can't wait to get their own rooms.  And the boys can't wait to be all together in one room as "room mates" - they have been practicing by sleeping on the floor of each other's rooms at night.  Too cute!

I wish I had a funny story to tell or some clever way of announcing our big news, but I'm just wiped out!  Waking up at odd hours (usually between 3am and 4am) every day this month is taking a toll on me.  So, I really can't wait to just get settled again and into a groove at the new place.  Learning new grocery stores, new shopping, new restaurants, etc - that will take some adjustments!  And finding a gas station that has consistently good prices - that's my number one goal!

If we are personal friends or business acquaintances, watch your email box for our address and phone number change announcement.  Thanks for reading my blog!  Have an awesome week!

Today is our son Timothy's 9th birthday.  It's also his Grammy's birthday (she's 70!).  Here's the fun e-card that we made for her at Hallmark.com using their smilebox program.  FUN!!!!  Enjoy!

Blessings, Sunny

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Whew - what a week it's been - and it's only Wednesday! 

We suddenly got an offer on our house on Monday of this week, with a closing date less than 3 weeks away.  So, we kicked it into high gear and found a house - made an offer on it today and finalized the contract.  What a crazy week it has been!!!!  The new place is wonderful.  It's in Frisco near Independence and 121 - so quick access for my DH to get to and from work (he has been commuting over an hour each way most days - and further when he visits an office out of town 1-2x/week).  He said it took him 22 minutes to get there the night he looked at it - in rush hour traffic.  How cool is that?!?  Also - it is a TOTAL answer to prayer - more than we really thought we could squeeze into a house, but everything we could have imagined - except it's 2 stories (but I am not really sure we could have this and in a one-story - that was kind of a pipe dream!) - but we are amazed, blessed, in awe - God is good!  All the time!

We close in 2 weeks and have a couple of days to move out of one house and into the other.  Oh - and did I mention that God brought some really great buyers to our house?  I think our neighbors will be blessed to have this family in the neighborhood.

For those who only came to see the photos (you know who you are!) here ya go!

Front of house	Kitchen and breakfast room (see my little computer nook in the back?)
Family Room	Humong-a-bath
Neighborhood park, pool, & playground (with a pond)	Back of the house

As a reader of The Old Schoolhouse magazine - and NOT a digital magazine reader - I really wasn't sure what to expect from a digital edition. 

You know how you look at things online and it's just grainy pictures of things that you'd like to see a little clearer or you wish you could dig a little deeper to find out more about what you are reading?  (If you're an information junkie like me, you know you do that - just admit it!!!)  You'll be pleasantly surprised to find out that the digital version of The Old Schoolhouse takes the paper version into the digital age and does a surprisingly thorough job of anticipating your wishes.

One of my favorite things about the digital edition is that all of the pages in the Table of Contents and index of advertisers were hotlinked - so you click on the page number and "voila!" you are there!  Also, every time an advertiser's or reporter's website or email are given, it is also hotlinked.  So, the stuff you used to have to write down has been handled for you.  Remember when you had to carry the magazine over to the computer to log onto someone's website - well, no more of that!  Just click on their link and you are shopping, surfing or emailing immediately.  That feature alone makes the digital version more useful than just an image of the paper version.

In addition to being extremely easy to read (the page flipping feature is so simple!), this digital version is also cheaper than the paper version.  You're saving them printing costs and they are providing you with simplified usage, less paper clutter to manage at home, and some awesome links to some of the best home-school resources available today.  You can't beat that!  :)

And did I mention that the content is identical - everything from the printed version is included in the digital version - PLUS you get the links to extra content from the writers, the advertisers, and associated websites.

If I were Siskel and Ebert (or Ebert and Roeper or any of the successors to that line of reviewers), I would give this two thumbs up!  ;-D  But since I'm NOT any of those guys, I'm going to give this product a rating of 5 "books" on a scale of 1-5 books.  (What self-respecting home-school mommy wouldn't use books as her scale of judgment for excellence!!!???)

Hope you have enjoyed reading my review of The Old Schoolhouse's digital magazine.  I'll have more reviews in the coming days.  I would love to have your feedback on the products or the reviews.  If you choose to use one of the products that I review, please let me know - and especially let me know if the product blessed you.  I'm always looking for something to make home-schooling easier and more enjoyable for all parties - moms, kids, dads, co-ops, groups, etc. - so this seems like a great way to check out what's out there and see what serves that purpose!  Hope you agree!

The countdown to the new school year has begun!  Are you ready???  Praying for a successful and effective learning situation for everyone in your family this year!

Much love from north Texas!
Sunny

Wow - I just finished reading through the 2008-09 e-book edition of The Schoolhouse Planner.  I have to say at first I was a little overwhelmed by all that was in it.  I was thinking - I just need some nice calendar pages and a few places to make some specific notes about what each of my kids is supposed to be doing from week to week.  But as I read through this long (247 pgs) e-book, I realized that I had a wealth of information at my fingertips!  Because it is an e-book, it is customizable as far as printing off just what you need - but I can't imagine not printing the entire thing because it has everything you could possibly need and then some.  Each month even includes lists of available downloads for that month's highlighted activities - all available at The Old Schoolhouse website.

If you have been a "flybaby" on Flylady.net, then you know what her control journal looks like.  This e-book takes that journal and puts some serious wings to it, because it includes planning for home-schooling, creative menu ideas, educational nuggets (like the 7 wonders of the world, the Constitution of the USA, timelines and history of inventions, Presidents, and much, much more), and plenty of calendar space for those daily activities that keep us busy moms running.  I stand corrected at my initial thoughts that all I needed were some calendar pages to get this year off to a rocking start!

If you're interested in downloading this e-book, go to The Schoolhouse Store, part of The Old Schoolhouse magazine and online service.  Their website is www.theoldschoolhousemagazine.com and you can find this and many other timely and useful products.  Here's a picture of the e-book that I'm reviewing: 

Hope all of your planning for this new school year is coming together and that you are rested, relaxed and ready to teach!   If you're still trying to figure out this coming year - grab this e-book and get moving!

We FINALLY got our house listed this week.  It is so cute!!!  I mean, it has always been a cute house, but now it is SOOO CUTE!!!  Here are photos of some of the rooms.  If you've been to my house, prepare to be amazed!  (LOL)

First - the front of our house:

Then, the kitchen and the living room

And now the master BR
 

And can I just say I AM TIRED!  But it's a good tired!  Exhausted might be a better word for it, but all that work was worth it - it looks super and I can't wait for someone to fall in love with this house, so we can find our next place.  I'll SOOOO miss living here - I have loved this house.  We knew it was "home" from the very first time we came in - and felt immediately at home the first night after we moved into it.  But we really felt the leading of the Lord to prepare this place to move - but we don't know where we are going yet.  So, if you're reading this far still, we appreciate your prayers for us to end up just where the Lord would have us. 

If you read my earlier posts this month, FYI, the kids did survive the packing/storing/cleaning process and are now enjoying a clutter-free home and adorable bedrooms.  We still own a bunch of the stuff - not sure if I'm going to let that stuff back into the house, though!  We also unloaded a LOT of nice things that just weren't working for us anymore.  CCA (Christian Community Action in Lewisville) got a ton of things and several friends got the "overflow" blessing of items that needed a new home.  Praise the Lord - I love to bless people out of the abundance of what we have.  I just didn't even realize the level of that abundance until I started trying to deliver things to people that I promised them - my goodness - I still have a long way to go on that one - and a trunkful of "treasure" to prove it! 

Hope you're living an overcoming, joy-filled, powerful life where you get to do things that you are passionate about - with people that you enjoy!  Who could ask for much more than that?!?!

OK - so pretend that I'm taking a break from all the work to gut my house before the carpet layers come later this week.  Whew - I'm just wiped out from all the packing and THINKING about how to organize things better.  I wish I could just cram stuff in boxes - but I know the trouble I'll have on the other end if I do that - I think that is how I "lost" a few things on this move.  We have now "found" those things while emptying a really deep closet and a forgotten portion of the garage.  Ugh!  At least some of those treasures are not gone forever (2 boxes were photos from early in our marriage and when the first 3 kids were really small!).

We're also pretending like we're having fun doing this!  I suppose if you let something go for too long (oh, let's say 7 years, just to have a nice round number!) it takes the same amount of work later to go back and get it right.  Can I get a witness on that?!?!?  LOL   I swear, we have probably put 4 years worth of cleaning (and clearing, packing, etc.) into some parts of our house.

I think my parents finally made their last big load to their new house yesterday.  Can't wait to see how that turns out.  Don't know what possessed the Lord to direct us both to pack up and plan moves at abotu the same time but "ugh" is about all I can say.  ;D

Did I mention on here how many books we packed earlier this week.  Well, we are now adding 2 more boxes to that list - things that just appeared out of nowhere after all the bookshelves were cleared and loaded into their boxes - and hauled off to the storage unit. 

Today, Jonathan wouldn't enter the house through the garage when we got home from Target.  He insisted on going through the front door.  Now normally, I would insist on obedience from a 4-year-old, especially if I thought it was a temper fit.  But I popped my head around the garage door long enough to look at how distraught he was and asked him what the problem was.  He said, "The garage is dirty and I don't want to go in there."  Had the sweetest little pout but looked like it was the end of the world if he got a little smudgy - and the garage looks GREAT right now compared to years past.  So, I don't know what the issue was, but I closed up the garage and went with him through the front door.  Decided that wasn't a battle I was willing to fight today - there are plenty of other things that I really want him to do and walking through the dusty garage isn't one of them. 

OK - that's all the "break" that I have time for today.  Steve is upstairs installing a new door and has been painting quite a bit.  I have only done 4 loads of laundry today and packed 3 boxes, so I think I'm falling behind here!!!!!  ;-)

Have an amazing day - whatever it is that you're doing!!!! 

Guess I could use that title every day, but seems appropriate these days as my youngest son, age 4, really is getting into noticing the details of his world these days.  He's always been incredibly observant with things that he sees and hears.  (i.e., he knows the names of all the bands on Power FM and most of the songs-  this totally cracks me up because it's rock/scream-o/metal Christian music - and the older kids were all listening to Baby Praise and The Wheels on the Bus at this age, but here he is listening with his teenage sister and can tell you more about the bands than I can - and I'm actually into it!!!)  Anyway, the other day we are driving past a mall and he starts reading out "D - I - eleven - and something" and Nicole says "He's spelling Dillards" - we cracked up laughing.  Funny kid.  Then yesterday, we were playing Wii Sports and he is explaining to me what "picking up spares" means on the bowling one.  I'm afraid I have a very early reader here!  :D

Timothy has been devouring the game Axis and Allies (about WWII) for a while now, but especially the last couple of weeks.  Honestly, I don't like them to have so much computer time, but it keeps him quiet while we work on the house and he can't unpack any more boxes of Legos or K'Nex or Playmobil while he is doing that - which my feet appreciate!

Susannah is growing an avocado from a pit.  It almost died a couple of weeks ago - someone tried to lift the plant up out of the dirt (who could that have been!?!?) but she and Steve replanted it and it is sprouting some leaves this week.  So, she made an outfit for it.  Yes, that is what I said - an outfit.  It's in a very tall cup (with a Dickey's BBQ logo on it) and I guess she got tired of looking at the boring cup so she drew an outfit on some paper and cut it out and wrapped it around the cup.  Then she taped some yarn with hands and feet (with shoes, of course) onto it.  I guess the stem of the plant is the neck and the leaves are the head???   Can't really tell, but that is what it looks like to me.

Nicole has basketball practice today, so she is preparing for a double-tournament week.  One tournament is this coming weekend ending on Sunday and the next tournament starts on Tuesday.  Perhaps a slight bit of basketball coming out our ears, but she's passionate about it and that blesses me.  It keeps her from texting for at least part of the day, which is worth something these days!  ;D 

I'm not actually feeling too funny myself these days.  Hoping that when the house looks more like a hotel and less like we actually live here that I can run away with the kids (and maybe even Daddy!) to Galveston or somewhere beachy.  Maybe even Destin - wouldn't that be awesome?  (say yes, because you know it would be!)  My sister lives near there so we could make it a two-fer trip.

Thanks for catching up with us!  Hope you enjoyed a giggle or two while you were here.  :)

Well, it's been another crazy week of trying to pull things together around here to prepare to sell our house and move a bit east (15-20 miles maybe).  Anyway, I knew I was a crazy home-schooling bibliophile, but I had no idea just how many books we had!  I knew they all existed just not how huge the pile would be.  I think I packed over 20 file-sized boxes of books this week - that may be an understatement on our grand total, because I had already packed 8-10 before that.  Oh my goodness!  I just LOVE books, but am keenly aware when I have to touch them all that I do not actually love every single book that I own.  Hmmmm.
More hmmmmm.  Still pondering that one.

I was trying to be "smart" about how I organized the home-schooling materials, but when I maxed out the perfectly organized and labeled boxes, then moved on to the second round of boxes and now still have stuff galore, well, I'm getting to the point where I am thinking about pitching even the perfectly good things just to get finished.  Ugh!

I suppose we will get most of the final "junk" dealt with over the weekend and then be ready to talk to someone about purchasing new floor coverings - some carpet, some tile - and MAYBE (???) some hardwoods?  Who knows. Still trying to discern the best choices to bless the next owners and not kill our own wallet!

Guess that is it for me this morning.  All I can say is whew!  ;D

Today was fun.  Several other moms and I took our kids to the water park.  We got lots of families in our home-school group and our moms email group (a blend of home-schoolers and non-home-schoolers) to buy season passes so we could play for "free" whenever we wanted to get out of the house.    Today was HOT - supposed to go over 100 degrees.  So, this was just the right fun for today.

Each of my kids has their little routine at the water park - the oldest vaccilates between riding slides and laying out (it also depends on which of her friends is there that day), the next daughter does everything - some of it alone and some of it with friends - doesn't matter to her, she just enjoys being there!  Then the boys - the older one likes to do the "river" with his friends or ride the Hawaiian Half Pipe - a two-person tube slide, or any slide really.  The little one just likes to play on the playground (think a crazy McDonald's with 6 water slides and water spraying and dumping all over the place - it's amazing!  He also likes the wave pool.  As for me, i prefer to do NOTHING if possible (lol) or walk around and around the "lazy" river - which is probably the best exercise out there.  Some days we walk that river 6-8 times, sometimes more!  Today - we lapped it about 4 times, I think.  Lots of good mama talk while we walk - occasionally toting a toddler or baby - ours or someone else's - and enjoying the cool wet fellowship!

Today we took our lunches in the big cooler.  Nice to not drop a load of money buying the park food.  Last week, I treated them to the lunches at the park because I had coupons for it (buy one lunch combo get one free).  So for a whopping $8 that I would normally pay for the pizza combo (pizza, breadsticks and drink - ouch!), we got 2 for that price.  Seemed like a good deal, but only with the coupon! 

If you know me personally, you might find this funny - I got my toenails polished bright pink today!  That's almost unheard of - I usually wear the faintest color I can find, so my toenails look nice but aren't "begging for attention".  But I got talked into a bright color today, so I'm making the most of it and trying to adjust!  It's a little loud, but looks nice enough.  We'll see how long I can take it before I take it off and go back to beige or something! 

Guess that's it for now - got one to get off to basketball practice with her daddy and 3 others to feed and get to bed early for a change - we played too hard out there today!  Hope daddy gets home soon - he had a long drive home today (over an hour and a half!).

Hope you are having a blessed day and walking in the favor and love of the Lord!

Well, I looked and looked for a picture of all 6 of us - with a small enough file size to upload onto here.  This was the best I could find - hey, at least it has us all in it!  This was Thanksgiving 2006 at my parents' house.  We're all a good bit older than this now!  ;D  Nicole is 14 now, Susannah is 10 now, Timothy is 8 now (and will be 9 in September 08) and Jonathan just turned 4. Don't ask how old the parents are!  :D  I'm reaching a milestone this year... 

At least this should show on the front page for a while - let's hope.  I'm not a genius blogger yet, so I still have a few things too learn (I was going to say "thingies" but I don't think that is a high-tech enough word!)  LOL

Have a superb day!
Sunny

Well, after a much-too-long hiatus from posting on here, I'm back!  :)

Today was supposed to be garage sale day.  But we got overheated and under-shopped by around 10am, so we bailed out!  Not a good return on the investment of our time, but a learning experience.  I'm definitely back to the "give it away" mode because that was frustrating beyond belief!

We are supposed to be summer-home-schooling, but we are also trying to pack up our house to move closer to our church and HS friends and hubby's work, so it's been slow going, to say the least. 

If you've stopped by to read blog entries, then thanks for that!  Hope you are having a blessed day!

Sunny 

Well, it's a new day!  (Isn't it always?!?!)  For us, it's another in a series of ever-changing days.  For the last two weeks our school schedule has been somewhat disrupted due to staying up super-late and starting each morning super-late.  We are still getting lessons accomplished, but the times are weirder than usual.  However, I'm glad you stopped by and hope that you will enjoy a little bit of SunShine with us!

Today is a "home" day - meaning nobody is expecting anything from me outside my house during the school day.  That is relatively unusual.  We have almost 3 weeks until our co-op starts; softball practices don't start until next week; and no other lessons or lunches away from home.

For me, the "new day" includes me blogging for the first time.  I facilitate an email group for moms and another one for our home-school group, so I'm not new to writing (at length) about a variety of topics, but at posting them for all to see on a blog, well, that is the new part! 

If we haven't met before, I'm looking forward to getting to know you through this venue.  I'm married (15 years now) to Steve, my best friend and true partner in every sense of the word.  We have four fascinating children - Nicole 12, Susannah 8, Timothy 7, Jonathan 2.  We have been home-schooling since Nicole was 4 and haven't looked back since.  It has been a joy and the highlight of our lives thus far.

In addition to home-schooling, we serve in our local church, where we oversee the Altar Team (prayer ministry) and Free Indeed ministry (how to walk in the Freedom that Christ bought for you).  We also lead the home-school group in our church and I coordinate our co-op enrichment classes for 10 weeks each semester.  Somehow, we find time to work with our junior high youth and to pray on the healing teams when we get a chance.  :)

I suppose I can bore you with the details of life another day - there is always another day!  For today, I need to put my energy into getting the kids through with math and on to learning about the battle of Little Big Horn and the Arrest and Trial of Paul the Apostle.  Just some light reading (ha ha).  Once the kids get settled into their groove and the little one gets down for his nap, I have to put some energy into preparing for this weekend's Free Indeed seminar.

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Blessings,
Sunny