“Holiday Homeschool Open House 2007”

Our family begins celebrating during Thanksgiving and we continue with many traditions and activities that are dear to our heart.

We have been especially sentimental this year since my father-in-law had heart surgery and this has touched our hearts!! I actually began making candy and bread earlier than ever this year.

Celebrating the birth of Christ  - We try and keep this our focus as much as possible . This is the reason we celebrate Christmas!

Since they were very young my girls have been blessed to be a part of a Christmas Play each year at our church. This is very special and helps them as they interact with children of all ages. Memorization of play parts and/or scripture, public speaking, organization, music, scenery, and much more are just the tip of what they are learning from this experience.

IN the past my girls have taken piano and usually were part of a piano recital with such rich and meaningful Christmas music. They were very excited and also nervous but we all enjoyed it so much.

Christmas Caroling  at a nursing home with both our church and our homeschool group has been a fun time this year! Delivering fruit baskets to those who are shut in and elderly in our community are also a part of our church Christmas outreach.

Family Traditions – Our family loves to get together for celebrations and we started off this year by making Christmas candy. We made chocolate covered peanut butter balls, peanut butter fudge, and chocolate covered pretzels. Yummy! The kids helped roll out the peanut butter balls and enjoyed videoing my mom and sister as we made the candy. We had such a great time!

This year I have wanted our focus to be on “The Birth of Christ” even more than ever so we are celebrating Advent. Today was the first day and we have read over a wonderful Advent which you can find at http://miikogibson.com/advent_study.htm. This is so wonderful for all ages! I’m so excited to share this with the entire family!

BLOGGER FRIEND SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT #11

The assignment this week is "praying for needs." Visit classmates' blogs and let them know you are praying for them and to list requests of your own.

This week our Homeschool Group met together for our Christmas Party and we not only had lots of laughter and fun but also tears as we shared prayer requests. I would like to share a few of those requests with you.

1. Mom in our group whose son may be going to Iraq soon. He was sent to Georgia at the last minute as he was attending school here in our town.

2. Family in our group who is going through a very difficult time. The Lord knows the situation.

3. Family who is experiencing fear and confusion (from Satan) as they battle the side effects from the medications he is taking from seizures. This is their first year homeschooling.