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     We got up this morning with plans of getting in a good school day so we could be ready for Homeschool Expo with Cindy Rushton tomorrow, but not long in to the day, our plans were changed. My aunt called & said she was sitting at a gas station & she didn't know if her tank had a whole in it  or what, but the gas was running out on the ground when she  was trying to pump.

     I thought, here goes our school day, but when a neighbor is in need it's an opportunity for a good deed. so we got ready & off we went to see if we could be of any assistance.

     I grabbed the library books & said, "Beings we are going that way, we'd better make a library run too."

     We got to where she was & thank god my hubby immediately spotted the problem. We had prayed when we got in our van that God would show him the problem and again God was faithful. There had been a limb that had gotten caught some how & it was stuck between the gas tank & the van & it had knocked the hose lose from her gas tank. Thank the Lord for showing him & soon she was on her way again.

     We went on to the library & that is when our fruitful day began. Here it was, I had thought our day was shot for any school, but God had other things in store, little did I know.

     My son is getting better, but he is not what you would call an advid reader. Today I could tell God wanted to shine some light on our homeschooling. Everyone was picking out their books to bring home or just brousing around & my son & I went in the children's reading room (a place where the librarian reads to the toddlers) and he got a book and sat down & began to read to me. He read three bookx! WooWho!!! We're on a roll. When we left the library, he started reading in the van. We went to my M-I-L's house & when we left there, he started reading again. God is on the move!

     Not even in the plans for the day & so much accomplished.

     My son started drawing a picture & I asked him what he was drawing & he said a carriboo. I asked him, "Do you know what a carriboo is?" He said, "Yes, Mom." (This was in one of the books he had read to me.) So I asked him, "What is it then?" He said, "A deer." That's good enough for me. Great job done! I'll take that as a naration. I can tell that he had learned something today. We are having a blast with the Charlotte Mason style of teaching.

     We found some great movies to go with our studies this week about stars, sun, moon, solar system, galaxies,.... I think this will make our library book on galaxies come alive to them. I have never seen my children more happier about schooling than they have been in the past month. I thank God for leading us down the right paths to follow.

     Well, I am going to go for now. I got me a great book to read also, now that I got me a program that goes on my computer & will read books to me. I got me a book called "Things We Wished We'd Known" compiled together by Bill & Diana Waring.  Anyone familiar with that book? I am looking forward to getting to do lots of reading. If anyone has any great suggestions, please feel free to leave them in a comment or email me. Wep, better go, Blessings, Traci