Oct. 15, 2008 - I'm Moving

    Well, the time has come for me to move from Homeschoolblogger. I have enjoyed all of the friendships I have made, and I will continue to uphold them, just from another site. lol

    You can find me here....www.PainterofWords.com

    Stop by and leave me a comment!

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Aug. 14, 2008 - ~Olympic Homeschooler~ Becca Ward~ Women's Fencing~

Becca Ward  is a homeschooled sabre  fencer who has gone to the Olympics and has won a silver medal for the United States. You can read more about her here. It is very interesting to hear about a homeschooler competing in the Olympics. I just hope that encourages some of us out there.

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Jul. 10, 2008 - I am come back...into the world of blogging!

       Our computer is fixed and it was all covered in the warranty, and on Monday morning around 9 o'clock, we will have high speed internet and I can check everyone's blogs faster and more often. Yeah for me!

       So I will post on Monday on everything that has happened since I left. So I will be gone for a few more days, but will still be dropping by others' blogs.
  
    Everyone have a Great Day!

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Jun. 27, 2008 - Once Again An Apology

    Everyone who has read my blog, will know that we are having problems with our computer and I must again announce some very sad news.
    I am my cousins' home, using their computer for we have just came back from the computer hospital after our computer was knocked completely senseless during a very powerful electrical storm last week. So, we took it to the doctor's office, and then we heard that it was covered in the warranty so we did not panic. Yet we have heard that the starter strip thingy will take two weeks to fix, and that we will have to wait*( what a sad and powerful word) to have a computer again.
    As much as we are excited about not paying for the costs, we will be giving up everything that is on a computer for two weeks. Then the hurt of losing a friend, I am positive we will see happiness come in from another source. A great way to do all of the things that we need to do!

    I shall return and see everyone in two weeks!

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May. 24, 2008 - Three Cheers for the Graduating Eyebright!

Eyebright, a young lady of character and entirely amiable in sense and now...education!
After completing her years as a student, and growing in Christ...she is finally ready to  grow in more mature  dealings...yet she, as us all, will never stop learning.

Through her entire life, she will need to seek God's wisdom, to the smallest thing, for it is the only thing that can satisfy the soul...God's love and mercy.

Proverbs 4:5-6 "Get wisdom, get understanding;
do not forget my words or swerve from them."
6," Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you love her, and she will watch over you."

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May. 21, 2008 - The Fun Blogger Award

Renee, a very good blogging friend, has awarded me the Fun Blogger Award (see above)

Now I shall award this to only one blogger....

Meg16

She is a wonderful young lady, that is striving to be pure in heart. She has been a wonderful daughter, as you can see from her retreat, and a sympathetic sister.
She is truly a fun, ladylike blogger.

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May. 12, 2008 - Homeschool Boutique Homeschool T-shirt Contest

Some of the funnest shirts I have ever seen are within grasp. The Backyard is giving away Homeschool T-shirts through Friday, through the Homeschool Boutique. They look really professional and everyone will know that you are a proud homeschooler! Hurry on over and see the qualifications.

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May. 10, 2008 - For the Lovely Miss Jocelyn...

      Today Miss Jocelyn is the age of seventeen years, and growing in such maturity and wisdom. Although I had not met her in person before today, I knew she was a godly young lady with a heart for the Lord that exploded with passion in her posts.

      I have noticed that she is passionate about the Lord, beautiful in her pictures, a wonderfully active blogger, helpful daughter and kind sister, and a great friend to many people.
 
    Everyone must go to her blog and enjoy her seventeenth birthday party with her!

   

   
   

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May. 8, 2008 - There's a New One in the Family!

    This new baby is my new nephew, Samuel Thomas. He was born yesterday at 8:08 in the morning. He is extremely adorable. His tiny little toes and complete body weighed 8 lbs. and maybe 5 oz, and he was 19''. He is the smallest of my brother's sons, for they have three. All three have light features and so does this little wee one. However he does have a bit bigger patch of hair than the others.
    I must scurry for there is much work to be done!

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Apr. 9, 2008 - Hooray for the Fairies...

This book is ADORABLE! I showed a friend of mine this book, and then she surprised me with a copy! She bought one for herself also! We are both lovers of nature, poetry, and beautiful pictures.

Each flower...well obviously not every kind of flower...has a little poem about it, and a little fairy that matches the flower's colors and design. I will carry this book with me to camping...but when we come home it will smell of a week-long fire and spring rain!

The author is Cicely Mary Barker, who lived in the early 1900's...and is now my favorite illustrator. I will try to study her way of drawing and someday hope to become a fairy maker also.

I do believe in fairies...I do, I do ...I do believe in fairies...I do, I do....

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Apr. 8, 2008 - He is Finally Home Where He Belongs

Dad got to come home around 6:30 last evening, and it was an eventful coming. He had been in the hospital twelve consecutive days, and he was getting a little fidgety. For a person who likes to move around, staying in bed that long with no home cooking, familiar activities, or sleep, twelve days in an uncomfortable bed is mere torture.

So we got him ready around five, and then everything was signed and put into the computers that he can go home. However, everyday until Thursday he will have to go to this creepy medical building, and have his antibiotics pumped into his (pick or pic) line. That is like an IV, but it is on a major vein that goes directly to his heart, which is a lot quicker.

They also need his two wounds changed, and they gave Mom a crash course on how to do it. She seemed a little nervous, but the Lord gave us two very trained nurses in the family. If we have trouble we will call one.

After we got him into the car, we headed home through the country to our rural town. He really enjoyed feeling the fresh air.

Then we got him situated on the couch, and he immediately took a good 25 minute nap, the longest interval of sleep he has had.

So today they are getting his antibiotics charged into his blood. Everything has worked out, and life is once again normal.

Psalm 46

God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,
though the  mountains be moved into the heart of the sea
though its waters roar and foam
though the mountains tremble at its swelling Selah

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God
the holy habitation of the Most High
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved :
God will help her when morning dawns
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter,
he utters his voice, the earth melts
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress Selah

Come behold the works of the Lord
how he has brought desolations on the earth
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the chariots with fire
"Be still and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!"
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress Selah

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Apr. 5, 2008 - Need I Say the Title

Dad had his second surgery two nights ago, and Mom did not get home till 1 in the morning. She was so tired.  It was scheduled at four, yet the surgeries were running behind, and they did not get him in till 9, and Mom had to stay for he was completely numb and only felt like he had a head. So she fed him his soup and then came home to me. He said that was his hardest night to get through without going nuts.

Then yesterday they waited all day, for the doctor said he would come in and check his wound and bandage. However, he got there so late that he said he would do it the next morning. That made him, Dad, so disappointed...for he laid in that bed all day with the hope of a doctor's visit. But we can't change everything...

So today he should be getting his visit and they will decide, maybe, if he will stay til Saturday or till Monday. So we are continuing our prayers.

Also, since this is a hectic time...we are now on a forced spring break. We weren't planning on having one, so why not have our as this is going on? Oh the joy of homeschooling !

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Mar. 30, 2008 - Updates Out the Wazoo!

Well, my dad has made it through a complete day after his surgery. He was of course a little cooky after the sleeping medicine wore off..and now it is completely out of his system.

He is having plenty of visitors, and eating, and is finally able to sleep. I was bored in the hospital room and watched a few minutes of Pride and Prejudice on television. That movie seems to find me anywhere...but I am grateful that is was on tv, for nothing is pure and simple anymore. I was horrified to see so much junk on the television...for we do not have cable or anything else. We just rent movies, and with that I am used to I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Green Acres, and The Honeymooners.

I was present from 1 o'clock to around 9:30. I have never had so dark of circles under my eyes in my  entire life! I looked like a ghoul who was trying to scare the patients.

So on Tuesday, they will see if he is well enough, and if he is they will let him out, and if not...well he will stay until Friday.

So we shall continue on our 'spring break' , and that is coming in hand. Homeschooling allows you all such a flexible schedule. As you all know!

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Mar. 29, 2008 - More Updates

There has been some more news on his leg, for Mom called from the hospital this morning and said that they had surgery on his leg to remove some pus.

And he will not be coming home as soon as we had thought and anticipated...for the original doctor has now said that he might not come home before next Thursday. We shall have to see!

Keep praying!

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Mar. 28, 2008 - Praise!

A week ago, my dad felt a burning feeling in his knee, and after it went away and so did the concern.

Then half way in the week, his right leg started to swell at least three times larger than his regular leg size and hurt excruciatingly. So he took a few days off work, and it got bigger and bigger. His skin was stretched a little too far for comfort, and it had a fever growing inside it.

Yesterday, after a doctor's visit and an x-ray...he went to the hospital. The doctors did some tests and a few skin and fluid observations. At first they thought it was gout, but then they decided it was cellulitis which is an inflamation of the veins.

Last night he stayed up there, and Mom came home and we cooked chicken fajitas( which is my favorite meal) and then we fell asleep watching the old Pride and Prejudice.

The reason for this post...is to say that cellulitis is curable and he should be well within the week. God has given us a blessing! He should be home and living life again pretty soon!

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Mar. 23, 2008 - Happy Easter

We all know that Christmas celebrates Jesus' birth (mostly), and Easter is our Lord's Resurrection! This is where He arose, unlike any other man in history...except those that He personally healed of death...temporarily.

Now we know too, that Easter has been bombarded with eggs, baskets, and a large overrated bunny... but we should not go through an Easter where we do not pray and thoroughly thank our God for saving us through His mercy of a fate truly worse than death here on this Earth.

Matthew 28:6 "He is not here, for He has risen, as He said"

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Feb. 14, 2008 - A Joyous Occasion!

Today is the most pleasurable occasion of a young woman taking on another year for her Lord, family, and herself.

Rebekah Rose, a dear friend, who I have only recently met, but consider her as dear a friend as ever, is celebrating a birthday today!

I do not have a cookie recipe that is worth giving for her birthday, but I do have something that we make instead of cookies...popcorn balls. We just recently began making them, and enjoy them so much! They are easy, simple, delicious, and a good hostess recipe for last minute people.

  Popcorn Balls

1 c. of sugar

1/3 c. of white corn syrup

1/3 c. of water

1/4 c. of butter

3/4 tsp. of salt

1 tsp. of vanilla

4 qt. popped corn

    Directions:

     Combine the sugar, syrup, water, butter, and salt. Cook to 260 degrees (soft crack) Pour over popped corn. Keep a bowl of water nearby to help not stick when rolling into balls. Makes 12 medium popcorn balls!

      Now, everyone must go and wish Rose a happy birthday!

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