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Friday, October 10, 2008
Fiesta - Not!
Well...we were supposed to have a big "fiesta" today to end our study of Mexico.
The lesson plans included things like a pinata and homemade tortillas.
BUT....since we are having one of (ahem) "those" days...
...this was the extent of our celebration and Mexican cuisine.
Ole! 
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Annie's asthma.
Annabelle has asthma, and when she gets sick it really acts up.
Well...last night Annabelle was coughing and wheezing and Joseph says, (dead serious),
"Mom...I think she's got a hairball."
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Worn out....
Ugh...when are these 'sick days' going to end?
I am weary of the sore throats, the stuffy/runny noses, the fevers and chills, and the horrible coughs. I'm tired of dosing cough medicine every four hours, tired of nebulizer treatments and inhalers, tired of vaporizers and the smell of Vicks vapor rub. And I'm tired of looking into watery/tired/sick little eyes and wishing I could take all of those yucky feelings away....and yet knowing completely how they feel because I have the same bug myself. In other words....I'm just tired, (and I'm thinking a nice long nap is in order!)
Is it Spring yet?
Maybe I'll just hibernate this year.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Fall colors
Autumn is in full-swing here in Wisconsin, and the colors are gorgeous this year!
We went for a road-trip on Saturday to see the colors and hike in the woods.
Since we've talked about 'elevation' in our geography lessons with MFW -
we thought it would be fun to go to the highest geographical point in Wisconsin...Timm's Hill.
Once there we hiked the trail to the top. It was a gorgeous Fall day, and a great day for a hike.
 
At the top of the hill was a HUGE observation tower!
Now...I'm not much for heights, but everyone coming down said that the view was well worth it...so I faced my fears and went up....and they were right!
 
Once we were safely back down, I thought it would be nice to sit the kids down together for some nice photos. They had other opinions.
 (Hmmm.....should I use that one for our Christmas card this year?) ;-)
Individual shots were MUCH easier.
(Basically, those are their 'school photos' this year - LOL!)
Upon leaving the park we drove by this gorgeous lake!
(Can you see the observation tower sticking out of the trees?!)
And speaking of lakes...sigh...
Some of my smaller family members, (hint - you can see the guilty culprits right here,)
decided that 50 degrees really isn't "that" cold, and so they waded into the lake with all of their clothes on and got soaked!
Thank goodness there was a Goodwill nearby where we could pick up a couple pairs of cheap DRY pants for the ride home!
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Week in review.
Fall is officially here!
(Look what we awoke to this morning! - FROST! Brrrrr!)
It was a long and tiring week. Paul was traveling and the kids were all sick - again!
My honey must have known I was having a bad week, because look what he brought me when he came home!
 Isn't he just the sweetest?!!! 
Despite the coughs and sniffles, we managed to get quite a bit of school done.
This week in MFW we are studying Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
We made a geography game, (as recommended by MFW,) where the kids place a penny on each country that they get correct. The first person to fill up their card wins. Julie was the winner - but Joseph was only trailing by two! 
We also learned quite a few Spanish words,  and had fun listening to CD's of Mexican music that we got from the library
(Julie and Joe had to play along!) ;-)
For Bible we continued reading in the Book of Matthew and we read more of the biography of Cameron Townsend, missionary to Guatemala.
In science, we continued our study of deserts and how the animals regulate their body temperatures.
Katie had a good week this week. She began both the second book in the Rod and Staff series, and the third book of Explode the Code! (I really thought ETC would last us longer - I guess I'm going to have to go shopping for the next level!) :-)
For "Little Hands" this week our lessons focused on Joseph.
(As you can guess.....that story is a favorite here in our house!)
Katie made a really cute art project depicting Joseph and his brothers,
 (and how they didn't recognize him in his Egyptian garb...
but it was really him underneath the different clothes. )
 (I love how she added pyramids for Egypt, all of the brothers, sacks of grain...and a cup hidden in Benjamin's sack!)
We also learned about character qualities this week including respect, responsiblitiy and honesty.
If the kids are feeling better - we hope to go on a 'field trip' this weekend to see the beautiful autumn leaves!
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Bloomers!
My little Annabelle is a feminine girly-girl and she LOVES to wear dresses.
But she is also very...how shall I say... 'adventurous'
and so with her, dresses do NOT equal modesty!
Aside from that fact, here in Wisconsin dresses are downright impractical when it's 50 below!
So in an attempt to keep her bum covered and her legs warmer, I made her some cute, old-fashioned bloomers!
This first pair is capri length, and they're just light cotton, (so these ones won't help too much with the warmth factor,) but I hope to make more for her in various lengths and weights before winter sets in.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
An apology.
I want to apologize to all of my fellow bloggers.
I have been really bad about leaving comments lately. 
The good thing about MFW is that I am spending lots more quality time with my kids, and I am enjoying every minute of it. The bad part is...it doesn't give me as much time to 'catch-up' with all of you.
Be assured that I still drop by and read your blogs on a semi-regular basis, but I must admit it's more of a 'bit here' and a 'bite there' sort of deal...and I have been having the hardest time finding the time to sit at the computer for an extend time and comment on all of the blogs that I SHOULD be commenting on.
(And then there's all of the therapy appointments...those really break up our days and take up my time, too.)
But I wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate each and every one of you!
So...consider this my comment....
THANK YOU for all of the Scriptures that uplift my spirit and strengthen my faith.
Thank you also for showing me your adorable families, and all of the wonderful/neat projects that you do in your homeschool. You inspire me!
(And when you describe your sometimes hectic and crazy days...you let me know that I'm not alone.) ;-)
So I am still here...rejoicing at your triumphs and sending you 'cyber hugs' on those days when you need them, and be assured that when you have a prayer request, even though I may not be commenting - I AM lifting you up in prayer!
God Bless you ALL!
Michelle
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Update on Katie-Noel
Thank you to all of you who have asked about, and prayed for, Katie lately.
She is doing..."okay."
We are sort of in a pattern of two steps forward - one step back as far as seeing any progress, and it appears she may be going through another one of her regressions again. She's been 'off' for the past few weeks, and following a similar pattern as before... she made great progress in both her speech and motor skills for awhile, but now she is back-sliding in both areas.
Her occupational therapist was pretty convinced that she would be 'graduating' out of OT this month. She said that she would do a 'final' evaluation yesterday - just to check, but that Katie had made such great progress, she was pretty sure that she wouldn't qualify for OT services anymore... (and I was thrilled at the prospect of only having TWO therapies to drive to each week!) Unfortunately, her therapist came out to the waiting room with a very puzzled look on her face after the eval. she said that Katie actually did worse on yesterday's eval. than she did on her initial evaluation, and that her coordination just seemed really 'off' yesterday.
So....we're scheduled for (at least) another month of OT.
Katie has also been having trouble with speech again, though. She's not as bad as we have seen her in the past - but she's running her words together a lot which makes her difficult to understand. Her speech therapist has also noticed a marked difference in her progress.
The most frustrating part is that we still don't know what's causing all of this.
The MRIs and EEGs are all clear, she has no allergies (food or otherwise,) her nutrition is good, we even started her on fish oil supplements as we had heard such positive things about them with children that have apraxia...but we haven't noticed a difference.
My little Katie is a mystery.
And yet, I find comfort in knowing that she is exactly the way that God made her to be.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Reunion
I'm back from my reunion, and I had a wonderful time!
I met up with all of my old girlfriends and we had dinner together, then went to the reunion, and also met for brunch the next morning. We laughed until we cried ...reminiscing about all of the fun times we had together, and the stories about what we've been doing since.
All of our lives have taken such different paths. We are a diverse group of stay-at-home mothers, police detectives, marathon runners, doctorate students, and career women ....
but we all have the memories of our Midwestern, small-town upbringing that connect us all.
We are friends for life.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Blast from the past!
Well...I'm off to my reunion.
Hmmmm.....I wonder how much things have changed in 20 years?
I know I sure have! (Thank goodness...or the world would have run out of Aqua Net hairspray!)
Shudder!........
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
School news
I think we are finally finding our 'groove' with MFW.
I have done some tweaking and made some adjustments here and there, and our days are flowing more smoothly. They still take longer that I had anticipated, but part of that is because I am giving more breaks, and we are starting a little bit later in the morning, as the kids have been enjoying 'outside time' on these nice warn & sunny days that we've been having ( and I figure I'd better let them enjoy them while they last!)
We have passed the 'introductory' portion of ECC, and we have started off on our 'world tour.'
And ...every world traveler needs a passport....so here is a sample of ours!
We printed out the cover and pages from this wonderful site OurLosBanos
(The have TONS of other great homeschooling resources, too!)
We'll be filling up the passports with the flag stickers that come with the MFW:ECC package.
Right now we are now learning about North America!
This week we learned the 50 states ( and their postal abbreviations)
We reviewed the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangled Banner,
and the history of the U.S. flag.
In Bible we prayed for Native Americans and the missionaries who serve them, and we read about some American heroes of the faith in Hero Tales - (Harriet Tubman and Dwight Moody.)
For science we've been learning about deserts. The kids have been doing their notebooking pages. (This is one area that I have tweaked. Joseph struggles so much with writing. He is good at coming up with the thought themselves, but the actual physical writing process itself causes him a lot of distress. Since he's already getting a lot of writing practice in his other subjects...I am having him just narrate his thoughts to me, and them I am typing them into the computer, printing them out, and having him illustrate his pages. It's going MUCH smoother! - and...he's having fun choosing different fonts for has pages each day. I gave Julie the choice of doing the same thing...and she opted to write her pages by hand.) 
Here are some samples from our science:
Katie is doing so well, too. She really enjoys the Bible lessons from Little Hands to Heaven,
but her favorite part by far, is Explode the Code. She actually BEGS to do more each day!
She's completely through the first book, and 3/4 of the way through the second! (And I thought they would last her all semester... At this rate she'll finish all three books within six weeks!)
Explode the Code
a math activity from LHTH
we are also doing some additional learning about how to stay healthy!
It's been a good week!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
It's a small...small...world....
Today we went to Katie's speech therapy.
In the past, Katie has always had one-on -one sessions with the therapist,
but this year her therapist informed me that another child would be joining Katie.
What was a fun surprise though...was that Katie already knew the other child!
(The two of them had gone to phononology preschool together.)
The girls were so excited to see one another again, and they will certainly have a lot to 'talk about in therapy! ;-)
As much of a coincidence as that was, however,
when I spoke to the other girl's mother I got an even nicer surprise.
They are homeschoolers, too....AND....
they use My Father's World!
How cool is that? 
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Jr. archaeologist
So, Joseph told me he wanted to be an archaeologist and dig for dinosaur bones.
I said, "That's nice, son...."
I never assumed he meant right NOW! 
 
Silly me!
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Geek or chic?
Well...here's the new glasses.
I feel rather geeky in them ( or, geekier than usual...)
but they are a fun change from the same-old same-old.
(and...ugh...don't look at my hair! I didn't do a thing with it today!)
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Our little creepy crawlies weren't eating the leaves that we had put into the cage, so we decided to let them go near the spot where we found them in the first place.
Joseph was a little sad that we never found out what they were, but he's moved on.....to ladybugs. They're everywhere!
He was super excited to find one in the 'larval' stage.
Most people would never guess it's even a ladybug - but he knew what it was right away.
(He's such a smarty pants sometimes!)
In other news...we've all been battling colds here ( myself included.)
It's hit Joe, Annie and myself the hardest. (I really wanted to call in a 'substitute teacher' last Thursday and Friday...no luck. We just did 'light' school instead.) I'm still not feeling 100%, so I may go a little 'easy' on the lesson plans this week, too.
Hopefully I'll be feeling better by this upcoming weekend.
I'm going to my 20 year class reunion!
Paul has graciously agreed to stay home with the kids, and I'm making a 'girls' weekend of it.
My best friend (since grade school) and I will be going together, and we are going to meet up with our old group of girl friends ( we're even going to meet at one of their parent's houses...the one where we hung out & had all of our slumber parties...LOL!) I'm going to feel like I'm 14 again!
As much as I'm excited to see the rest of my old classmates, it's really this group of dear friends that I'm most excited to see. We're planning dinner on Saturday before the reunion, and brunch on Sunday before we head out of town. It should be a fun time.
(...although I'll miss my hubby ....He just isn't comfortable at theses sort of events, though...so we'll both probably have more fun this way.)
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Theeeeey're Heeeeeere......!!!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Living on the edge.....
I'm sort-of excited, and you'll never guess why.
I'm getting new glasses!.... (and I went with something 'new and different.')
I always get pretty much the same sort of glasses.
Small round ovals, made of metal, that look fairly conservative and 'classic.'
Sometimes I'll switch things up and get a half-rim frame, but they're pretty much always the same size and color (silver or gold). Sort of boring...but 'safe'.
Well not this time - LOL!
I'm getting some pretty nifty plastic frames this time and...they're square and bright blue!
Boy....I'm living life in the fast lane now, huh?
Next thing you know I'll be bungee jumping!
Well......okay...maybe not.
But I am still pretty excited about the new 'specs!' (I'll post a photo when I get them.)
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Name that egg!
Okay, all of you nature lovers and entomologists.....
Joseph found this in our yard today.
Does anyone have a clue as to what sort of eggs these might be?
(It sure would be nice to know... before they hatch in our house!) 
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Our week in review.
We have had a busy week here at our house!
Paul has been entertaining clients all week, so we haven't seen a lot of him.
(He was traveling last week - so it's actually been 2 weeks that we've 'missed' him.)
I also volunteered one evening for a Safe Kids carseat check event.
Julie and Joseph started piano lessons,
Katie started back to speech therapy,
and all of the kids started Sunday school last weekend.
(See why I'm so grateful that I didn't have to add co-op into that mix! )
School was a bit difficult this week. We're still trying to 'find our groove.'
I actually found myself getting a bit discouraged, because in all of the reviews of MFW, one of the things that really appealed to me was the talk of shorter school days.
Well...they seem to be taking us forever!
We've been starting school around 9 am.
It takes us most of the morning to do Bible, geography, and science (and music/art if the lesson plan calls for it.) Both kids are quite slow writers, and so doing just one notebooking page for science takes them forever!
We break for lunch, and I have them do 'book basket' while I'm preparing lunch.
Then the afternoon is full of math, grammar, writing, spelling, penmanship, reading, and Spanish.
I feel I'm right back to the 'rut' I was in last year, except this year I have to find time to squeeze in kindergarten with Katie-Noel, as well.
I went with MFW so we could all have more time to enjoy one another, but it's not working out that way so far. I keep looking at the 'How do I fit it all in?' section in the ECC teacher's guide...but the time they allot for each subject is unrealistic for my SLOW writers. We are going to try having them 'dictate' their narrations to me and I will just type them out...and them they can illustrate the page after I print it out. (Hopefully that should save us quite a bit of time!)
Otherwise...for all of you MFW users.....please tell me it gets better?!!
Don't get me wrong, we're still enjoying MFW.... just a little overwhelmed is all...
I'd like to share some photos of the kids' work. (Sorry there are so many of them, but I like to share what we are using every one in awhile...just in case someone sees it and thinks..."Hey..that might work for us!")
So...of course we are doing lots of Geography.
 We've learned the continents and oceans.
We've also learned about directions (N,S,E,W) and the 'compass rose.'
We've learned about the equator, the prime meridian, latitude, longitude, degrees, and how to 'plot a point' on a map. We learned about scale, distance, how to read a map 'key,' and about the different types of maps, ( physical, political, etc.)
In Bible we learned about the major religions of the world and how they began...including Christianity, Judaism, animism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.
And we made this our memory verse for the week.
Isaiah 45: 22
"Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other.
After learning about all of the people that still need to hear the Gospel...Joseph said....
"Mom, I think I want to be a missionary when I grow up." 
For science we learned a lot about plants this week.  We learned about the seeds, pollination/reproduction, the oxygen cycle, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the greenhouse effect. 
We also learned about photosynthesis and how the plants move food and water through-out their leaves and stems. To show this...we did an experiment with celery. We removed all of the xylem ( those 'strings' in your celery are the xylem) and we compared that piece of celery to a piece that still had the xylem intact. After a few days sitting in glasses of water...the piece with no xylem had wilted because it had no way of getting water to it's leaves.
We also worked on the "3 R's"
Reading  (some of the books from our Beautiful Feet reading program)
Writing (HWT)
 and Grammar/Spelling, too! (Growing With Grammar and R&S spelling)
 
and Arithmetic ( CLE)
And......We can't forget about Katie!
She worked on her ABC's and phonics
 and learned about 'left and right'
For Bible we learned about The Tower of Babel
And we learned about "Father Abraham" and the special promise that God made to him to bless all nations through him.
She even did a special art project showing how many blessings God promised Abraham.
 (That's supposed to be a tent on the bottom, and the verses read ....
The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
"I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
and
He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
It was a busy week.... but it was a good week!
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Friday, September 5, 2008
A little disappointment / a lot of relief.
We got our class schedule for co-op this week, and Katie and Annie didn't get the class they wanted.
I really (REALLY) didn't even want to take co-op this Fall because it interferes so much with our daily/weekly schedule. But when we found out that they were offering a pre-k ballet class (in a Christian setting and at a fraction of the cost compared to any local dance studio) I signed us up anyways.
Well, we got our classroom assignments and.....there's no ballet.
Apparently they didn't have enough kids sign up. :-(
So...I pulled us all out of co-op altogether.
I was very nervous to do so - because I had already committed to helping in 2 of the classes, but the co-op administrator was very gracious and understanding.
My little ones are so disappointed about the ballet, (It's all Katie has talked about for weeks!)
but I have to be totally honest...I am SO relieved that it's one less thing I will have to 'run' to.
I am still going to continue to be a member of our homeschool association so we can do park days, field trips, etc. - but I feel so relieved not to have that huge commitment hanging over my head.
Not that we won't still have a lot to do ...(all of the kids are in Sunday school this year, Katie will be in 3 therapies [PT,OT and speech] and the older two will have piano,) but I am so happy that there are no other 'scheduled' activities dictating we have to be in a certain place at a certain time.
(Insert huge sigh of relief here.......".Aaaahhhhhh!")
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Joseph at school
Joseph is a very wiggly boy, and last year we had a really hard time with him tipping/rocking his chair. (It drove me nuts!) We even tried using an exercise ball for a chair, but he bounced so high he couldn't write.... and then he rolled away.
So this year we found him one of those 'kneeling chairs'.
I don't think he's quite gotten the hang of it yet.....(LOL!)
 But, at least he's not bouncing or tipping over! ;-)
He may be wiggly.... but school is never dull with my little guy!
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Starting My Father's World - ECC
Today was the first day of our school year.
Overall things went well. (We had a few moments of stress - mostly because I tried to cram 2 days worth of school into one. - MFW has a 5 day a week schedule. We didn't start yesterday because of the holiday, and so I 'adjusted' the schedule to spread things out over the week so we can still fit in all of the great activities. I think it was just a little too much for our first day...)
We started out our day with Bible.
We read the introduction to Windows On the World and learned about how God wants us to pray for people around the world who do not know Him. I presented the kids with their own prayer journals, and we began our school year with a prayer of our own, that the Lord would bless our homeschool and our learning this year.
Then we moved on to our geography lessons. The kids took a pre-test to determine how many countries they could name on their own - before studying geography. (It looks like we have our work cut out for us!)
Then we read about maps and the history of map making. We also did a little experiment to see why the land masses look so different on a flat map, compared to a globe.
The guide book suggested using a tangerine or an orange, but I had read reviews that said that it was pretty messy...so we used a toy ball.)
First we drew the continents on the ball using a marker .... and then we cut the ball apart.
 It was really interesting, and the kids got a kick out of watching Greenland and Antarctica 'expand.'
Next we did science. We read a few pages from the Usborne Living World Encyclopedia about environments. Then, the kids each chose one topic from the reading to do a notebooking page on.
Julie chose butterflies
 And Joseph chose sea anemones
After science we listened to the song "Hello to All the Children of the World" while we did our art projects...(We made a poster based on John 3:16 using pictures that we cut out of magazines.)
The kids LOVED the concept of the Book Basket!
 
(This was great, as it gave me time to work with Katie on Kindergarten!)
And this afternoon the kids went to their own work areas to do math and Language Arts.
 
Our new spelling and grammar programs seemed to work out well so far.
Joseph struggled a little bit with his first day of HWT cursive, but I gave him his own mini white board to let him practice on, so hopefully he'll catch on quickly.
Overall we're really pleased with MFW! I'm really excited for this year!
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Sun, sand and ...submarines!!!
We had a wonderful Labor day weekend!
Paul planned a really fun trip to Manitowoc, WI to the Maritime Museum.
They had all sorts of interesting museum exhibits about shipping/boats, ship building, fishing, and the Coast Guard, but the best part of the museum was a tour of an authentic World War II submarine!
First we had to pass the 'hatch test'
 We all made it through so we proceeded out to the U-boat - the USS Cobia.
WOW was it cramped inside! It was basically just one long narrow hallway.
I honestly cannot imagine 80 men and all of their gear packed on board during a wartime mission!
 Of course... Annie had to try driving Joseph liked the torpedo tubes the best.
Afterwards, we spent some time exploring the museum.
They had lots of fun hands-on activities for the kids.
  
They also had a great 'water exploration lab'
  
And...as if that wasn't enough fun for one day. There was a kite festival near-by along the shores of Lake Michigan!
We had fun watching the kites and playing at the beach.
Happy Labor Day to all of you hard-working homeschool families!
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Panic sets in....
I can't believe we're in the final days of Summer.
Didn't summer just begin? - Where did the time go?
Waves of panic are starting to hit me, as I worry about what lies ahead.
No...not this....
but THIS....!!!
It's creeping up on me. I can feel it!
We have pretty much made up our mind to stay in Wisconsin for awhile, and so I know that the weather is just something that I will have to come to terms with. But God has gotten me through 35 winters so far (we spent 3 blissful years in San Diego - I think it 'spoiled' me...) and I know He'll help me through as many more as He sees fit.
Deuteronomy 31:8
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
and....as a positive.... there's always Autumn to look forward to, right?!?!!
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Why I love rummage sales!
I love browsing at rummage sales - I mostly go for the books.
You just can't beat paying 25¢ - 50¢ a book!
I have found a lot of classics and FIAR titles, but my most recent find has me super excited!
The Young Reader's Christian Library
These will go perfectly with My Father's World, and many of the missionary stories are ones that we will be studying in our lessons!
When the nice lady who was selling them found out I wanted to buy the whole set, (she was expecting people to only buy one or two at a time) she gave us a 'deal ' on them.
What a blessing!
They are in beautiful shape, too!
(Well....with the exception of the one that Annabelle got ahold of...) That silly girl STILL sticks everything in her mouth! 
To be honest...I think I'm going to have just as much fun reading through this series as the kids.
And the best part...no twaddle!
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