• Sep. 1, 2009
I Can Do All Things In Christ.....
I read this wonderful post on http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tn3jcarter/ blog I wanted to link it back to that post. After asking if I could I realized I don't no how. So you will just have to click to her blog and read the post titled Paralyzed by Perfection. In the mean time if anyone wants to help me with blogging stuff. I would greatlly appreciate it.
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• Aug. 29, 2009
Time for School Again
Well I say learning is alway is session. However school is officially back in session in our home. We started back Aug. 3rd. It has been going great. Yes we have our hard days just like everyone else. For the most part though it has went well. I would like it to be a little more organized and routined. I never did get that entire day of lesson planning all to myself that I wanted, I mean needed. To plan everything out. We are getting it done though and thats whats important right now. We are using a mixture of workbooks and unit studys this year. ACE and FIAR ( Five In a Row) in case your new to homescooling and you don't know. Kaylee is loving ACE. She is learning it and it actually sticking better than before. Thats a plus it's always good if the child likes the curriculum right. We'll see how she's liking it by the end of the year though.
Have A Great Year
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• Jul. 4, 2009
July 4th
Happy 4th of July!!
Thank you to all who have fought for the freedoms we have in America. Thank you to all who pray and have prayed for those serving. Let us not take it for granted.
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• Aug. 20, 2008
Living and learning
I am so excited I made my first loaf of hand made bread today. It actually turned out great. The girls helped me we had a great time. They loved kneading it. The best part was eating it though. Its not as hard as you may think. Now if I can just figure out how to cut it best so that the slices aren't so big or so small that they fall apart. I used the beginners bread recipe from www.hillbillyhousewife.com. We learned to bake and learned math at the same time. What better way to learn measurement than hands on or (hands in) the dough lol.
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• Aug. 17, 2008
Thank you Lord for blessing me in this way.
It is such a blessing to be able to homeschool. To get to spend so much time with the precious girls that God has given us. I don't actually say it but I think it all the time. People always say they are growing so fast. Children do grow up fast. Even being with them everyday it is so easy to not pay attention and let it slip by. Sometimes we all need to slow down learn to say no to outside the home obligations and just spend time with our family.
Listening to them tell us something silly in there own words. Without being impatient, and rushing it out of them so that we can get to our next task. Stop just stop for a while and look at them, listen to them, get in the floor and play with them. They will remember and enjoy things like that.
We all need to get silly sometimes anyway. I know I take life to serious and forget to laugh sometimes. Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.
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• Nov. 15, 2007
So what's for dinner? Menu for disaster. DO NOT try this at home.
Blackend cubed steak frozen corn on the cob. Both sprinkled with shattered glass chips. Top that food network.
I have been busting it lately, meaning cooking balanced meals even when I was to tired to cook. Buying organic milk and searching for horomone free meat. That I cannot find. I have even went as far as to make homemade wheat bread once last week. I did not even buy sandwhich meat or chips in the last two weeks. I want us to eat healthier and I know I don't have to take it to that high a level but I did. I guess I have read to many, bread making, healthy eating homeschooling mamas blogs' lately.
Well tonight I had planned on cubed steak. I usually don't fry but since we had not had cubed steak in a while I thought I would.
I cooked the first 3 pieces and placed a couple paper towels on a big glass dish. I then sat the dish on the burner on the other side of the stove to take up the steak. I had turned on the back burner to boil water for corn on the cob. In a few minutes I heard a horrible glass shattering sound. I did not even know what had broke at first glance.
Well turns out I had turned on the wrong burner buy mistake.The paper towels caught fire when the dish busted. I did not have any shoes on. Glass covered my kitchen. (That I might add had just been scrubbed, swept and mopped. 15 minutes before.) I tried to step carefully to the fire to get it out. I called for dd to bring me my shoes. She brought them but she through them because she was afraid to get to close. So here I was trying to put out the fire and could not get to the shoes she brought me cause of the glass cutting my feet. Now keep in mind this, is the dd that. Already has a fear of the house burning down. So she was panicing of course. I told her bring me another pair of shoes and don't throw them. Then she got to close and stepped on glass but somehow did not get cut. By the third pair I finally got the shoes. In between trying to beat out the fire. It kept flaming back up cause I didn't realize to begin with that the burner was on I thought it had gotten to hot from the burner behind it.
Panic overruled any logic and I forgot any and all fire safety I had ever learned you know salt, soda etc. All I could remember was not to use water. I beat it out again and swept it off into the trash can, (even smarter yeah I know) bag melted. Then I look down and see a Pine Sol bottle, I thought oh no now it is gonna blow up. So I ran it outside and hosed it down. Mean while dd had went out the back door dragging little sister with her into the dark. Who was crying I don't want to go outside.
Well it messed up my floor in one small spot, some glass stuck to it. Burned up dish towel. Had to through away whole bag of corn and all the steak. What a day. Needless to say we drove 20 minutes and ate at Dairy Queen, very unhealthy with no veggies but at least safer for tonight. So how was your day.
We have a friend who when you ask him how he is doing he always says Hooah.. another great fantastic hooah day. He says if he is having a bad day that he just changes it. ( Course this is coming from a man you know.) So I had a great day. I am Thankful I didn't burn down my house. That my kids are safe and that we could afford to go to Dairy Queen eat on kitchen disaster night.
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• Oct. 20, 2007
Curriculum Fall 2007
We sort of homeschool year round. We are always learning. We have officially begun our new curriculum. I just never got around to blogging about it. I finally decided on Winter Promise AW I am also using there LA program. At first I thought the AW reading was a little over Kaylee's head and that she was not retaining it. After a few months though I can now see that she really is retaining a lot more than I realized. She will now point out things that we have studied or that she remembers when we are not even having school.
I did however quickly tire of the animal theme everyday but we will continue. We are taking a break from the AW for a few weeks to do a unit study on Thanksgiving, being the main theme with anything about pumpkins, fall leaves, indians, pilgrims and anything to do with fall added in. We are doing a Turkey Time lapbook from http://www.handsofachild.com/ I checked out several books from the library on indians and Thanksgiving. I have made some great pumpkin muffins that the kids loved. I am planning to bake some pumpkin bread more on this later...
For math we are using A.C.E paces and a mixture of Math Mammoth, and other workbooks and math bingo. I love WP LA. Kaylee would get so frustrated reading last year. I finally through out the readers we were using last year. I realized she was bored by them. Now we are using WP readers, library books, and the bible. Within a months time I could see such a big improvement. She is actually enjoying reading now instead of dreading it. I want to creat a love of reading and learning in general in my children. We got the Young Readers Bible with our WP curriculum, she actually reads her best I think when she reads this. We are also using http://www.time4learning.com/Login/Member_Login.aspx as a supplement we love this to. Kaylee especially likes this. As if we aren't already doing enough.
There are lots of other resources that we are using from time to time. Though I can't name them all right now.
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• Jun. 14, 2007
A May Birthday
My Kaylee has turned 7. It doesn't seem all that long ago that she was just a baby. She is so mature for her age. Growing up way to fast.
On her birthday I got out, the album with all of the pictures from birth to her first birthday. We talked about all the people who came to visit when she was born. As well as those who have been a huge part of our lives at different times. That are not as big a part now due to divorce or death or just different circumstances.
We really enjoyed looking through it. I love when they are babies it is such a special time. So is all of there life. I am so Thankful that God blessed me with these to wonderful girls. It is such a blessing and a privilieage to homeschool them and to be with them everyday.
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
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• May. 24, 2007
Our school day
I know this blog is suppose to be about homeschooling, but it seems that I never write about school. However I guess I do when I write about life in general because life is learning. We are teaching all the time, even if we don't have the books out because our children all always watching us.
So speaking of books we use Abeka here is our schedule at a glance
Pray
Bible
Bible Verses
Breakfast
Phonics
Writing
Math
Lunch
Read Alouds
Readers
This is our basic schedule, though some days we turn it completely around and do our reading in the morning and worksheets during Kamber Grace's nap.
Kaylee also does The Mailbox Club activity sheets, this is just a fun sheet that she gets in the mail it is storys and questions based on the bible. It is for fun SSHHH don't tell her she is learning.
Some books we read aloud this year.
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (We also watched the movie the classic not the new one.)
School Days with the Millers by Mildred A. Martin
A Hive of Busy Bees by Effie.M Williams (We went on a farm field trip.)
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mr. Poppers Peguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
We have read more but I cannot name them all.
We also sing ABC's and read with Kamber Grace.
They have learned so much, I am so proud of them both.
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• Feb. 8, 2007
Count Down to the Day of Love
A friend got me to really thinking about Valentines the other day.It always bothers me about holidays that we all wait until 1 exact day to show our love or thankfulness once a year. You know how we all wait until Thanksgiving to be Thankful and wait until Christmas to celebrate Christ. I always think that we should be doing all of this all year. Some of us do but it is hard and I guess it just adds to the millions of task a mother and wife has to accomplish each day already.
We all know it is hard to accomplish our daily task and show our family how much we love them. Even though we try our best to do all of this through out the whole year. I thought I would attempt what I am calling a count down to Valentines Day instead of waiting for the day to get here. Beginning today I plan to do at least one special thing for my dh and children each day until V day and maybe end it with something a little more special.
I may leave a note for my oldest dd to read.
So if anyone wants to join in and do your own Count Down to the Day of Love. Let me know if you are gonna attempt it like me. You can share your ideas if you want to.
May your week be filled with lots of Love.
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• Jan. 4, 2007
A Blessed New Year and Everyday
Everyone is talking about new years resolutions. I have never done that. I think it is a daily walk, you have to pray and try to do your best everyday. So in a way I guess I do a new years resolution just not once a year but everyday. I hope you all are having a great start to your new year. If you have started back on your regular schedule of school like me I am sure you have had some good and bad days.
Blessings
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• Dec. 27, 2006
What to do? Curriculum
I had a blessed Christmas we visited family and had family here from Oklahoma. The day after however was a different story I went to bed Christmas night with a slight headache I woke up later with a horrible headache later and then awoke several other times feeling nausea and just feeling bad. I was sick for a couple of days.
When dh got home yesterday he brought in the mail and I had gotten the catalog that I requested from Winter Promise, so I have used the time of recovery to read it from cover to cover. Today I feel good enough to sit at the computer so I have been reading WP forum and a blog I found with a WP MFW comparison. My dd does not want to read any of Abeka readers to me so I am looking into something more hands on and fun.
I want something that is hands on crafts, fun, that has all the books with it ,that is planned out, WP looks really good but they don;t seem to have that great of a bible base. MFW has the Bible base but from what I understand you have to gather and prep and go the library which I guess I could purchase the books somewhere else. I have a baby so the prep work I don't have time for. I like the way Winter Promise looks we are looking at AS1 for my 6yr dd. I also read a little info on Sonlight. It seems like just reading and no hands on. I thought I might add some of there books later if it doesn't over whelm us to use WP and add Sonlight books. In reality I don't think I would ever get to the SL books seems we are always struggling to get done with what ever I have planned.
The biggest to things I am praying about with this decision though are how SL says that they have books some homeschoolers won't touch I have always been the type of mom that alway leaned toward protecting my girls from worldly things. I wonder if I am doing it wrong though they might have a point about exposing them to the bad so that they can learn to deal with it. However another homeschool mom once told me that my kids would one day learn to drive right I said yes she then said so are you gonna put them behind the wheel now? Of course not I said. We don't let our kids watch certain shows either.
Anyway the other thing is what will I do for Math and LA. WP AS1 looks wonderful and I really think she would enjoy it but at this age is that to much should we just be focusing on math, reading and writing?
I want to get a set of CDs that teach addition subtraction by songs. Since my kids love to sing and dance. I think that will help us in math. I just have to find where to get them.
Any suggestions on all this curriculum stuff would be much appreciated.
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• Nov. 18, 2006
Blessed My Heart
It is nice to see the the harvest of what we reap sometimes. My baby girl 22 mos, really touched my heart last night. I was trying to get her to sleep last night and she said mama I wan pray, of course in her own beautiful language.
I said ok and I began to lead her in a prayer, she repeated as best she could until I finished. Then when I began to sing a praise song she lifted her hands to praise God. I almost cried. When I say Jesus at the beginning of a prayer she will say Looord , it is amazing to me she already understands that Jesus and Lord mean the same thing.
I want my children to walk in truth. We have to train them now so that they will make Godly decisions later.
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• Oct. 29, 2006
Contest
Friendsfortea is having a contest here is my entry
1. How long ago did you start blogging and why did you start?
Only a few weeks ago Oct. 8th.
2. How did you come up with your username/URL address?
I use misty316 for a lot of things misty is my nickname given to me by my stepfather because I cry so easy and especially (watching a movie) which I rarely do anymore. The 316 is my birthday March 16th
3. What do you enjoy most about blogging? I love to share, and encourage others and to get advice from others and I like writing.
4. What makes one blog stand out to you from all the others?
One that is pretty and has lots of pictures but mostly ones that talk alot about homeschooling there schedule and what curriculum they use. Ones that talk about training children and home organization and meal plans and Jesus Christ. I also love the funny ones, so that I know were to go when I just need to laugh.
5. On an average how long does it take you to write a post for your blog?
Too long. I blog sometimes in the evenings during my dd nap but mostly at night I need to discipline myself to get up earlier so I can get it in.
6. What has changed in your life since you started blogging?
My opinion on many things.
Does your family support you (if so how) or do they think you're a blog addict?
Yes they support me, and my dh probably thinks I am an addict.
8. Have you ever gotten a negative comment? If so, how did you deal with it?
No, Thank you Jesus.
9.How often do you check your blog for new comments? To often several times a day.
10. Do you have a blogging tip you can share? Leave more comments, and blog more about homeschool like your schedule and home organization and curriculum.
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• Oct. 19, 2006
Am I really that selfish
I was reading a friends blog today, check it out (twaddlemenot) about fruitfulness. I would like to say 1st of all that I really have mixed feelings on this and am seeking the Lords wisdom and guidance.
Above all I want to do the will of the Lord. One person commented that people are just selfish always thinking about a hobby or traveling etc and that is why most people stop at 2 or 3 children. I agree the world is way to selfish, but what is wrong with having a hobby and taking the time to enjoy it. It is not about me it is about praising and loving God, but does he want us to just have so many children that we can never enjoy anything other than our children. Please do not get my wrong I love my children and that is about all I do is take care of , hs and enjoy them, and I only have two. I actually caught myself thinking just the other day , that I would be glad when they were a little older so that I could shoot my bow with my husband and get back to singing more. Then the rest of the time I am thinking how they are growing to fast and that my baby is almost 2.
Not only hobbys but what about the other things that God has called us to do. For example I use to sing but since my 2nd dd I have not practiced so I hardly ever sing anymore I love to sing. If I have more children will I ever make time to practice. Maybe it is about me making the time rather than that the dc keep me to busy.
I do believe that children are a blessing from God and I love the idea of letting God decide on the size of my family. However I also think that he gives us wisdom . If were are tired wore out, or sick how can we take care of a large family and be a wife.
I have so many question and comments I could go on and on but I will stop. Please don't scream at me...
Like I said I have mixed feelings about this, but it is a very important subject to me and I wanted to see what some more of your comments are on this.
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• Oct. 8, 2006
My 1st Blog
As I am writing my first blog I can see the sun setting on the beautiful fall leaves that have began to turn. It is a beautiful day. I love fall its not to hot and not to cold. I am so excited to began my own blog. I am so blessed to be able to hs my children.
We are in our 2nd year of hs although I have realized that we have actually been homeschooling since birth. I feel that homeschooling is what God has called me to do in this season of my life. I hope by sharing my thoughts that I will learn and be an encourgement to others as they hs.
We are using textbooks for the basics and I am checking into some units studies and notebooking we are stilling learning about all these other approaches but I am very interested in them.
With only haveing homeschooled for a short time I have already learned so much, one of the most important things I think that I have learned is that no matter how many questions I ask or how many different ways that I try to do things in homeschooling. I have found that most of the time I already knew the answer or I was already doing it right and that you just have to keep trying until you find what methods work for your family. The Lord was leading and guiding me just as he said he would, and he will lead you if you just ask him. The word says we have not because we ask not. Confidence is as important to homeschooling as it is to all other parts of life.
