Arrows in the Hand
• Sep. 27, 2009 - My Blog Has Moves
• Nov. 15, 2008 - joke
• Nov. 13, 2008 - Friendship bread
• Nov. 6, 2008 - from my heart to yours............
A quote of William Bradford’s from his
history of the Pilgrims, “Of Plymouth Plantation.”
"Thus out of small beginnings greater things have grown by His
hand. Who made all things out of nothing, and gives being to all
things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so
the light enkindled here has shone to many, yea, in a sense, to our
whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.”
(Bradford, circa 1630, p. 226)
This Thanksgiving we all need to focus on the things that make/made our country great in first place and remember that God has truly blessed us in so many ways. It is amazing that so many who have gotten lazy about praying for our country have been "woke up" by this election. Truly this is a wake up call to us Christians, if we don't stand in the gap, our country will loose God's favor. I think the way things go from here is not up to Obama, it truly is up to the church (Christian). Yes, we all know that what is written in Revelations will happen but I believe that the timing is up to the church and it will happen a lot faster if we sit back and get spiritually lazy. God is waiting for the church (Christians) to take responsibility for what WE have let this nation become because of our compromises. As you know God is a gentleman and he does not force his will on people (nations). We have chosen as Christians to look away and make excuses for sin in this nation. Instead of standing up and showing Gods light to the world we have tried to become just like them, till the only difference between us and them is we go to church on Sundays. I challenge you just as I challenge myself to take a good and honest evaluation of the things we watch, listen to, joke about, teach our kids, think in our minds, spend our time on, and gossip to each other. There is not a conference, sermon, or retreat that can do this for us, we know what to do, we have heard it over and over again. We can all pretend to be so spiritual and never make a difference or we can dare to be different and change the way our world is going right now. It is up to us how things turn out from here. God is waiting for his bride to respond to his wooing, lets respond before we have let things go too far. . He is waiting for us to grow up and stop acting like little children both spiritually and mentally. We have got to stop being fearful...fearful of what will happen, fearful of what people think of us, fearful of failing, fearful of not having, fearful of being different ect. Maybe I am only speaking to myself, if am I am keep me in your prayers; if not then please do not take this as condemnation take it as a challenge and be the person God made you to be.
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• Oct. 11, 2008 - My knights and their "castle"
• Oct. 11, 2008 - Malachi 4:6 family prayer
He will change parents' attitudes toward their children and children's attitudes toward their parents. If not, I will come and reclaim my land by destroying you." Malachi 4:6 (Gods Word translation)
Every Tuesday we ditch school( LOL) and head to IHOP for family harp and bowl for TWO hours.
I must admit when we first moved to Missouri,last June, I didn't know if the kids could make it for two hours of prayer or if they would drive me crazy with cries is hunger (its between 10:00 and 12:00) but I was determined to start the kids doing the whole two hours so they wouldn't get use to leaving early. It has been so wonderful and I have learned just as much as the children. As you can see we have a large group. You know there is just nothing more powerful than watching children praying with their whole hearts.
  The Lord is really changing my heart and the way I view my children. He is bring us closer together and given us back the year that the Locust stole(or I guess the year I allowed him to steal when we sent the girls to school). 
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• Sep. 25, 2008 - Knifty Knitter
I went to walmart yesterday and I picked up a Knifty knitter.
I don't know if you have seen these, but they are awesome!! I really didn't expect them to be as easy as it says but it really is. I sat down last night and read the instruction and went right to "knitting." It was so simple that I knitted both the girls hats for their dolls(for practice) and could not wait to share it with the girls(8y/o and 6y/o). Today, while Ben was napping, I showed the girls how to do it and they took right to it. Becca is knitting a hat for herself so she is still working on hers. Bella did a baby doll hat already today and has started her 2nd project. They are sooo excited and are making plans for what they are going to make people for Christmas and to donate. Bella said "I feel like such a big girl." Anyways, here is Bellas hat she made today, I will post Beccas when she gets done. If you want an easy and fun handicraft for you and your kids I highly recommend this.
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• Sep. 25, 2008 - SiDeWaLk ChAlK
• Sep. 23, 2008 - If You Give a Moose a Muffin.........
• Sep. 22, 2008 - scripture memory
I thought I would share the scriptures we have been learning this year and share the best way I have found to learn scriptures. We started using the scripture memory system from Simply Charlotte Mason(No it is not something you have to order for lots of money, it's free, you just need to buy a couple things from wal-mart!) We have been using it for about a month and we are working on our 10th scripture. The kids are learning them so fast that I am shocked! We say the scripture that we are trying to learn plus the ones that we are supposed to review for that day in the morning and at night before bed. The kids make up hand motions for the verses and it really does help you learn it. Some of the verses we get from our devotion using keys for kids ,some I have just added, and some are ones the kids are learning at IHOP (international house of prayer). The Ihop verses are great tools for the child(or Adult) to use when they are praying for themselves or others(I have marked these for you). I will try to add to this list as we learn new ones. Anyway here is the ones that we have been doing.
1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
1 Peter 1:18-19
You were not redeemed with silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.
John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Acts 5:29
We ought to obey God rather than men.
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you...
2 Thess 3:1
May the Word of the Lord run swiftly and be glorified... (IHOP)
2 Thess 3:5
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. (IHOP) At IHOP the kids pray this over themselves and their family just change it to Lord direct my heart into.....or
Lord direct my mommy's heart into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
Lord direct my daddy's heart into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
Eph. 1:18 (IHOP)
May the eyes of your understanding be enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling...
This is one of my favorites to pray for anyone and everyone, I pray it for myself all during the day!!
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever beliveth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
1 Peter 3:8-9(we are fixing to start this one)
Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling, for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
Psalms 100(this is the scripture we are starting next, for Thanksgiving.)
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. 2Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 5For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. |
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• Sep. 1, 2008 - The Little House Lapbook
Here is some pictures of our first lapbook we did using the book The Little House. You can print out all the little books and teaching notes plus find so much more at homeschool share, I have found some great lapbooks over there and its all FREE!!!!!
 This is the front of our lapbook
Most of the pictures are from my 4 year olds lapbook. My girls took the pictures for me!
 This is a little book we did about the trains you read about in the book, on the inside we wrote a little about each of them.
 In this there is a space to write in that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and color the sun as it wakes up then goes back to sleep.
 This is a time line I adding to the lapbook that helps the kids see when the book was written compared to when they and other family members were born. Nate's picture of the little house seems to be missing, it is supposed to go in the 1942 space. We talked about what it means for a book to be a classic.
 On the left this just shows how cars have changed over the years the cars are supposed to be under the year flaps but Nate wanted to do his to the side of the years. In the Kinds of trucks pockets we keeped track(tried to anyways) of how many trucks we saw on one of our trips to the International HOuse of Prayer. It is about 25 mins away from our house and we go on the interstate so we had a hard time keeping up with all the trucks we saw. Bella said she never realized that there were so many trucks on the road! Ben loved all the excitement in the truck from this project! We talked about how important this trucks are and the different jobs the do. Also the girls used tally marks to keep up with the truck and Nate did a lot of counting that trip so there is even math added!!
 There is also lots of joke to add if you want. There is a lot more in the lapbook but this is all the pictures the girls took. I guess these must have been their favorite parts of the lapbook. Maybe I will add more pictures later. |
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• Aug. 28, 2008 - what we are up to!!
I thought I would give everyone a peek at what we are doing right now. We are using A Beka in most subjects..kind of.
 In science I am using abeka's exploring Gods world 3 with all the kids, we are not going in their order and not having tests. Abeka doesn't have science for k4 and the 1st grade science is ..well dull. We are going a lot slower then your supposed to go because be are doing a lapbook and reading other books. We are studying about insects right now and I am amazed how much the kids are learning! As you can see from the picture even Ben is growing his love for bugs!! After this we will move on to vertebrae which will include a trip to the zoo!!
In history we are reading Little house in the Big Woods and doing a lapbook with that. We learned about Columbus in Abeka but have put off moving forward with abeke right now. The homeschool group in our area has scheduled a field trip that is all about pioneer life.. you know the type of place that dress up in pioneer clothes and everything. Well that will be Sept 22 and we can't wait!. Anyways, I am loving it the book and so are the kids, they beg me to read more. I know the kid's will want to read the all the little house books so I don't know if we will move on with abeka or keep learning about pioneer life and how it changes till we are done with the little house books. What do you think? If we read them on the side while doing abeka we won't be able to do all the fun things like lapbooks I just don't think we would have time for both.
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• Aug. 23, 2008 - Water painting!
 THis kind of water painting is mess free and on a hot day getting wet is half the fun!!!
 There is so much teaching you can do with this. Kids can learn a lot about evaporation. It doesn't take long for them to learn that in the shade their art lasts longer, and that it will evaporate faster in the sun. You can do a whole lesson just on that, but we were just having fun that day so we left it at that.
 While we were outside Becca found a cricket.
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• Aug. 22, 2008 - Field trip
We had a unexpected Field trip day today! My husband came home yesterday saying that he passed the Federal Reserve building and they had a sign outside saying FREE tours. He was already taking Friday off so we decided to just go ahead and go. We are not learning about money right now so I went to the library and picked up a couple books. It's pretty neat, at the library by our house they actually have a table with books grouped and rubber banded together by subject and they call them bundle book(great for unit study/lapbooks) Anyways they change them up all the time and today they had a bundle on money so I grabbed it up. After the library we headed back home to make some pizzas and brownies. Friday night is now pizza and a movie night at our house and the kids are always very excited. After the movie we still had time before dark so we road our bikes down to the park to get the kids good and tired before bed! I hope your day was Blessed!
 I don't know why but all the pictures I took were blurry, I think maybe Benjamin played around with the exposure or something. Anyways this is the kids walking up to the building. I promise, the girls do not were their homeschool shirts everyday, just every day they see them clean, they love the fact that people always comments about them!
The kids waiting for their security tags
Here they are trying to find the fake 20 dollar bill.
This is solid gold and weighs 27 lbs and is worth almost $400,000 ( I hate blurry pictures)
Benjamin trying to get to gold!
You are looking at the most money I have ever seen in my life and probably the most I will ever see. Only a little thin piece of glass to separated us from 40 million dollars!! |
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• Aug. 20, 2008 - FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!
 Today was our first day of school for this school year! It went real smooth today, even Ben was really good (so far so good!). Nathaniel was sooo excited to be in k4 but is quick to tell everyone that next year he would be in kindergarten. The girls shirts say Yes I'm homeschool, yes I'm socialized, and yes I had class today. I wish I would have ordered Nate a shirt when I ordered theirs.
This is them working on their Bible notebooking pages we are doing bible using Kids for kids which is a free devotion you can hear online (he is a great storyteller) or print it out and read it to them yourself. We listen online then reread the verse(s) and then do a notebook page about what we learned. I made these up myself and made Nate one were he could just draw a picture since he can not write yet. Ben is just color his own picture! We pray that God blessed you homeschool day today too! |
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• Aug. 19, 2008 - homeschooling
I am one of those Homeschool Moms who will try and do too much. I am trying to learn from my past mistakes and this time let God teach me what to teach my kids. He put it on my heart to teach the girls to pray (which is why we started the prayer journals or notebook). I was very surprised by Him asking me this because I thought we had already taught them to pray! And we had taught 2 little girls to pray at the level they could as toddlers..preschoolers but now they have grown up some and it was time for their pray time to mature also. I must admit that I have had a hard time moving from mom of little kids to now having more big kids than I do babies. I have really fought the Lord when it has comes to homeschooling. It is sad but I have said many times I wish that I could have keep all of them from turning 5 so I would not have to make the school decision! I really wanted to homeschool but did not want to take on the responsibility. Didn't want things to change from the way they were (hope that makes since), well as you know even when your kids go to school things change. I could not keep them preschoolers, could not make time stand still. I have to learn to enjoy the new season of life that I am in but I am sure when this season has passed I will not want it to end either. I have fully surrendered to God about homeschooling after trying to figure out what to do on my on, going from homeschool to Christian school than homeschool than public school!
Still growing up in God,
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