I haven't posted here for a while porque, I have to come up with something inspiring every week for homeschoolblogger at www.homeschoolblogger.com/hsbcompanyblog which is really taxing my lazy brain.

I am going to be speaking next Saturday at the CFS conference in Escondido (near San Diego) and so I have been trying really hard to keep to our schedule so that my darling teenage daughter doesn't blast me with comments such as "Mom, I think you have only done that once" when I talk about kids preparing snacks and other tidbits.

It is nice to have children who encourage us to do our best, even as we encourage them in the same way. To stay on track with our good habits, we all took a few moments this morning to clean up rooms, brush teeth and tidy the house.  They are all outside now working on their little gardens and washing up horse gear in hopes they can catch our neighbor's horses (they have permission from the neighbor).  Scott is busy at the orphanage directing a group who are building another bedroom for them.  It will be a huge blessing for them to have the boys not sleeping in the living room.