We had another wonderful day of learning around here!  I'm really loving this.  I think I'm just starting to truly understand this:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.  Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.  - Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Since I've stopped to take the time to listen to my children and teach them at every possible natural opportunity, I'm simply in awe of how many opportunities the Lord has given me to talk about Him to them.  Wow!  The Lord truly touched our hearts today so much.  We had an awesome "God Moment".   This morning Alex and I sat and read through a book called Who Likes the Snow? by Etta Kaner.

This was an absolutely awesome book for teaching just about everything you'd want to know about snow and the science behind it all.  It was very educational and at the same time fun to read.  Each page included a question about snow such as "I wonder why snow is white?" and then you'd lift the flap to read the answer.  The answer for this question in particular was of course that the crystals act as tiny mirrors and reflect white light.  Well this lead us to discussing about rainbows and God's awesome creation and how beautiful the light is that gets reflected from the water droplets in a rainbow.  And we listed all the colors in the rainbow and discussed how could anyone not believe there was a God.  And Alex commented on how long it had been since we'd seen a rainbow.

Well, wouldn't you know it...two hours later the sun peaked for only about 5 minutes after raining and I heard Alex yelling "Rainbow Mom!"  We all ran out the front door to a perfect view of a beautiful rainbow!  I grabbed my camera as quickly as I could.

I will never forget the look on Alex and Hannah's face!  I said "God put that there for us today!"  We all felt as if God had purposefully reached down and touched our lives today.  It was also a sign for me that our homeschooling is heading in the right direction at last!

Here is a list of what we did (for fun) today:

Alex -

• Read the book to Mom "Who Likes the Snow?" - Had lot of great snow and science discussions and discussed God's intricate designs and beauty in nature
• Played with Gabby under an umbrella on the deck in the spring-like rain
• He went online to WeatherBug and pretended to be a weather man and used Mom as the audience (he amazes me with how acurately he portrays them!).  I used this time to teach about wind chill factor vs. actual temperature, had a great geography lesson using one of the weather maps, and discussed directions (sw, nw, se, sw)

Both Kids -

• Played a game of "Life" with Mom.  Alex was the banker for part of it
• Exercised with Mom.  We discussed the health benefits of exercise to the body
• Dad is getting ready to read a chapter from "The Spiderwick Chronicles" Book 1 to them

Hannah -

• Gave Gabby bath, and got her ready for the day
• Taught Gabby using blocks and read book to her
• Read Chapter 2 of "Jedi Quest"
• Did Saxon Math 6/5 Lesson #63 Mental Math and Lesson Practice Only
• Read Bible Devotion, looked up verses, and had great discussion with Mom
• Played on keyboard making up her own music for 45 minutes
• Cooked dinner for family - Beef Stir Fry with Rice - Mom helped very little
• Did Blog entry about fixing dinner