This week please post your planned homeschool routine is.

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Now this is a area I still need to solidify. ((sigh))

There are something's that is decided on... like ...

8:30- 9am ~ start Bible Study

9:15 ~Copy work

9:30 ~ Math

10 am  History or  Science depending on the day 

Monday's ~ Homeschool Co-op Day , Curling-starting in November till Spring Break

Tuesday-  Science, Nature Study

Wednesday-History

Thursday- Science in the mornings, Swimming lessons in October and November, Curling in November

Friday- History, Music Appreciation, Picture Study 

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The good thing about these HS Memiors is they are getting me to sit down and get what is swirling around in my head and make it more concrete writen ( or typed) .  This was good for me this week.  I will be tweaking  more on this in the next couple weeks and make it fit.  But this is a GOOD start.  

Weblink Wednesday

I have one freebie and then a sale to share !

Notebook Pages.com is sharing this freebie

and how to start notebooking HERE

and then they have a great sale HERE !

Here's my first assignment... two weeks late.    I wrote this out laaaate Sunday night/eaaaaaarly Monday morning (Sun., Aug. 31/Mon., Sept. 1), and I'm just now posting it to my blog.

Here's what the Homeschool Memoirs meme suggests.  I will put their writing mostly in black font, and I haven't decided what color I will put my writing in...

The first theme begins today, August 20th, 2008. This week, we want to hear about YOU.

The author behind the words.  I'm 37 years old and have been married for 15 years to my best friend.  We can't remember when we met because we started out as acquaintances in college.  Then, my roommate changed majors to the same major that my dh had.  So, he and my roommate occasionally worked on class projects together... so I got to know him a little better.  Then, we discovered that we both drove cars with an AM radio as the only source of music... not even FM or cassette.  (And, this was long before ipods and the like.)  As our friendship grew, we enjoyed spending time together.  He graduated from college the year before I did and left to go to seminary.  That's about when we decided that we "liked each other for more than a friend."    And, the rest is history, so-to-speak.

The Momma behind all the homeschooling kiddos.  Growing up, I always wanted to be a mother.  Oh, I had dreams of being a figure skater and winning an Olympic medal.  And, I thought maybe I'd be a nurse (my mother is an RN) or a teacher, but being a wife and mother was what I wanted to do more than the other things.

Just write up something about you.

your family, My husband and I have two daughters - ages 8 -1/2 and 6.  They both have hair that is similar to mine in color and texture, although the younger one's hair is not quite as thick.  Also, both girls have blue eyes at which my dh and I have wondered in amazement.  (He and I have brown eyes.)  Teasingly, we have said our older daughter has blue eyes because she was born in Minnesota (i.e. There are a lot of Scandinavian people there).  But when our younger daughter's eyes remained blue, we were (and are) dumbfounded as to the genetic reasons.  She was born in Tennessee.  (We were taught that brown was dominant, but perhaps that is changing.  If you know, please tell us!)  

We also have a soon-to-be-11-yo border collie mix named Chip. 

and your home. We live in a split-level house in a suburban-type area near Chattanooga, Tennessee.  We've been here for nearly seven years.

How long you’ve been homeschooling - since our first daughter was born in February 2000

and why you decided to homeschool. - We decided to homeschool for many reasons... the main one being that we felt God leading us to do so.

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NOTE:  I wrote this entry off-line at 12:54 a.m. on Sunday, August 24, 2008.  So, the date I'm referring to for Tuesday evening - would have been Tuesday, August 18, 2008.

I have decided as Tirzah's Mission Trip gets closer and CLOSER, that I would spend Tuesdays (as long as I remember) sharing with you what God is doing.

Last week she sent out her Support Letter. If you would like to read it, it is here. It is hard to believe that the dates are coming up so quickly. If you would like to be her prayer partner please leave a comment on her blog or if you would like to help sponsor her, there is a donation button on her blog as well.

It is about the Prayer part I would like to write today. You see Tirzah is flying to Southern California ALL BY HERSELF, on Friday. She will be spending a week getting to know her team, discovering how to work together and seeking her place among them. Africa she is ready for, flying by herself has her a bit let's say freaked! So she really needs prayers for Peace. Her daddy could use them too. Like Tirzah, he was good with Rwanda, but Orange County, not so much.

Please pray for Traveling mercies for her.

Pray she connects easily with her Great Aunt Christy

Ask God to fill her heart and then her mouth with His Words

Pray God would remind her HE alone has called her

Pray that she would be a blessing to her team and they to her

Pray that they walk in the Spirit and not the flesh.

Ask God to fill her/them with HIS vision for Rwandans

Pray for her family as they prepare her to Go into all the World

Tirzah will be gone from The 5th to the 13th of Sept beginning to take the steps that will lead her on a Mission she has been preparing for all year. Can by can, bottle by bottle, gift by gift she is trusting God to bring her to Rwanda and to the AIDS Orphans she loves.

Thank you for joining us in prayer.

Many of you are starting your first day of school today, many others have begun weeks ago. For that reason, I decided not to wait until Weblink Wednesday (Tomorrow) to share this link with you. So I will just sign up a day early. Socalval hosts Weblink Wednesday, so if you want a link to anything anywhere, she will have it.

http://www.operationworld.org/country/nigr/overvw04.html

This is an online version of Operation World which gives you  a daily devotional filled with facts about a different country every day for which you and your children can pray.

Now if you want something more hands on that you can take with you pn your nature walks, or trips tp  stuffmart...

http://www.ywampublishing.com/p-420-a-call-to-prayer-for-the-children-teens-young-adults-of-the-1040-window.aspx

This one is not the whole world and you will have to pay for it, But hey, it's on sale!

Remember as you bring together the math, reading etc, praying with your children and establishing a habit of devotions is what they will carry throughout thier lives.

Because of Jesus, Bobbie 

http://www.ywampublishing.com/p-420-a-call-to-prayer-for-the-children-teens-young-adults-of-the-1040-window.aspx

It’s been an eventful past few days.  No time for blogging or even checking email.  When I finally turned on my pc just a few minutes ago, it was heart-warming to see that I’d had many friends visit me while I was gone!

We had company this weekend.  Arriving Friday night was a family of six. There were children all about the same ages as ours.  My oldest son, Matt, grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for us Friday night.  On Saturday, he made all of us scrambled eggs, hash brown potatoes, bacon, and toast.  And Sunday evening, he grilled filet mignons, made gourmet mashed potatoes, and veggies grilled on a skewer.  What a blessing to have such a helpful son.    (And gifted with a talent for cooking!)

I didn’t really know our weekend company all that well before Friday night.  I wasn’t sure just what to expect, or how it was all going to go.  I was a little bit nervous!!  Having company for dinner and then everyone goes home at the end of the evening, is one thing; but to have company stay for the entire weekend until Monday afternoon is a completely different event!

The kids all played well together and we got to know our company a whole lot better.  But the best part of the three day weekend was the amount of time I got to spend with my new grandbaby, Kayleen.  I had oodles and oodles of snuggle time with my sweet, one-month-old g/b.  Family time, friends, boating,  good food, andlots of  relaxing time to hold the baby – the weekend was everything I could have hoped for!