This week we're going to reminisce on our Favorite Travels! I had three requests to do something about favorite field trips, favorite vacations, or just favorite places to go as a family or with other homeschool families. I combined those three requests and came up with Favorite Travels! Do you have a favorite travel prayer that the children recite or a favorite verse you can add? That would be fun too. Don't you just LOVE the graphic for this assignment...it's thanks to someone on Fliker (not sure that's spelled right), there was no name to give thanks to. Please share pictures or a direct link to them if you have any!
I love sunshine faces!
Here's mine:
I would have to say that my favorite travels, not just homeschooling trips, but when my family and I went to Disney World about 2 yrs ago. We left home on May 19th at around 11pm and drove all night to Florida and got to our cottage on the lake about 6pm the next day. We stayed in a cottage to cut expenses and drove the 9-10 miles into Disney area....gas was a lot less then too.
We loved being at the cottage and have often thought about going back down there just to stay in the cottage on the lake again. Disney World was fun but we really enjoyed the last day more than any other time. The Tower of Terror was just that!!! I'd go on it again though just to experience without so much fear again. LOL After leaving Disney on Saturday we drove up the east coast to the top of VA to pick up a friend that was moving to OK and he stayed with us for about two weeks then moved to OK to his familys home. We stopped at St. Augustine beach on the drive out of FL and my husband got to experience the ocean for the first time in his life. He's physically disabled but in the water anyway. With the help of a lifeguard I was able to help him get back out of the water! I have pictures of that posted below.
We stopped through all the coastal beach towns and spent a little while just enjoying the different areas. We were trying to make it up to NC to ride the ferry boat to the Cape Haterras lighthouse but we just weren't able to make it. We decided that might be a trip for another time. My daughter actually did a good bit of learning from reading maps to hearing about the history of the ocean and all the surrounding beaches we drove through. I grew up in the military life and moved every few years to one coast of the south or another, so I spent lots of time talking with her about the history. We visited a graveyard that is well over 430 years old down in SC where I was raised. It's as beautiful, spiritually, now as it was to me when I was a young teenager.
We stopped in NC at a winery and did a tasting and tour of the processes, we tasted many different wines and my daughter tasted sparkling wine (non-alcohol). The tour was nice since it was extremely hot in the south for that time of year. All the rooms were cold but very enjoyable. The drive through VA was really hard and traffic was horrible, with the addition of construction going on everywhere. The Shenandoah Mountains, WV, will never cease to take my breath away! It's kind of a scary drive in some areas with giant trucks barreling down behind and around us small cars. There are two toll booths there also, so if you go that way be prepared to pay the tolls. That was the first and probably only vacation my family will get to enjoy for a long time to come. We were gone for nearly a month with a few days at home in between times. Now for some pictures:
This was the view from our cottage on the lake...my daughter loves this place!
My husband in the ocean...still in his clothes! He didn't care, he loved it! He was sitting in the water...it was only about 8 inches deep. WOW! Gerald's lost a lot of weight since this picture!
We took tons of pictures but I'm not going to post any more of them because this post is getting very long. Hope you enjoyed my journey-tales...have a blessed day!
Isaiah 54:9 - For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
I decided last night to go ahead and color the sketch of the rose that I drew over the weekend. After coloring it in with General's Watercolor Pencils, I went ahead a patted over it with a wet towel. It doesn't look exactly like a watercolor but I wanted to be able to see the details of it. I hope you enjoy it. If you see the horizontal streaks across it they are from my scanner...not sure why it does that.
In the Nook...I keep practicing my sketching. I want so badly to be an artist! I still intend to either watercolor them or color them in , slightly, with colored pencils...which do you think?
This is an Iris that I loved and wanted to draw.
It's kind of hard to see this tree because I haven't finished it yet...I love trees! I still have to add the shading, every tree needs some shade, don't you think?
Next year Kelsey and I are going to do some major studying on Art and work on some drawings. I would like for her to find a passion in some form of art. We're also studying about color! If you follow the link on my right sidebar "Color Wheel Pro" they offer classes in color theory. I've done some of the classes and find it extremely interesting. Kelsey loves photography but doesn't know much about how it became what it is...she got a blue ribbon and yellow ribbon in the photography contest that she entered through our co-op. She took a picture of a tree in our yard just as Spring was settling in the air. She loves that picture so much and we have lots of memories under that big oak tree. I have an amazing young daughter! She thinks of all the little bitty details that some her age would not notice. I'll have to post her tree picture, when I find it.
In the Nook... I had heard of Diaper Cakes before but had never actually seen one. One of the ladies at our co-op is expecting in July and we're having a baby shower for her tomorrow. I wanted to do something extra special for her since she's been through a lot of sickness, and her mother also passed during this pregnancy. I made her a Diaper Cake today and I think it turned out beautifully. I went online to find out the instructions about two weeks ago and found a store that sells them, so I checked out what they had, as far as design and how they're set up. I could not believe they range in price from $89-$200+ ! Mine was less than a third of that to make. There cakes only had 1-3 flowers on them and the layers had big gaps between them...not like stair-step layers. Anyway, I wanted to post my pictures of the one I made and how it looks after I finished it and wrapped it in it's veil of tulle.
This is the right side of the cake
This is the left side of the cake~
This is the final touch - the tulle veil ~
I just got word this morning that my link was approved, so that means that I will receive the Color Wheel Pro program for FREE!!! You all just don't know how happy that makes me. Finding a good color program is hard to do, especially one that has web safe colors for all types of browsers. Okay, I just wanted to share my news...if you're also interested in receiving the program for free then follow the link under my About Me description and read on their site about what you'll need to do.
Hello Ladies! I pray that everyone is having a great week and that your mountains have become your molehills. If that makes sense to anyone but me...LOL. Thank you for submitting some new ideas for me to use. I got this idea from Pat and her beautiful daughter-in-love, Jenny in an email about two weeks ago, so I decided to use it first. I quoted her email here to give the directions.
"what if you took Jennys idea about showers of blessings and if we all told about a time God showered us with a blessing and how we paid it forward to bless someone else or how we had done something for another and in turn were blessed." Share a verse or worship song that touches your heart for this assignment.
Here's mine:
I will be very upfront about this assignment. I love it and think it's a wonderful idea to pass along the blessings, but I DO NOT like being recognized for doing anything to help someone. I do LOVE being blessed enough to help someone, moreover, helping anyone gives me so much joy in life. I feel so strongly about that, that I have to reveal that my life would not be worth living if I didn't have the love and compassion for helping others. My husband had to help me out with this because I am so humbled by it. Years ago when we lost our home and had nothing, not even a place to be a home, we decided that whenever God decided to bless us, that we would never hesitate to turn that blessings around and make it multiply for others. We had the opportunity to help a local family by taking care of their farm when they went out of town for a much needed vacation. That family told us to keep or sell whatever eggs their chickens put out for the week they were gone...we're not talking about peanuts here, we're talking 160-170 eggs a DAY!!! So we started giving them to our neighbor who is an elderly woman and has a very ill son who cannot work and provide for them. She was/still is sooo happy to have those eggs. We also passed some along to our Pastor who is no longer publicly employed and the joy just keeps on giving back to us. We have also been going to a warehouse for fresh and organic produce where we can buy tons of fruit and produce that we have shared with the neighbor lady and our Pastor as well. We've also canned most of what was left from those trips. Okay, sorry this is getting too long. I chose to share this song, "To God Be the Glory" since we give God all the Glory and Honor for what we do have. Thank you Pat and Jenny! To God Be the Glory
How can I say thanks
for the things you have done for me
Things so undeserved
Yet you give to prove your love for me
The voices of a million angels
Cannot express my gratitude
All that I am or ever hope to be
I owe it all to Thee
(Chorus)
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
For the things He has done
With His blood, He has saved me
By His power, He has raised me.
To God be the glory
For the things he has done
(Bridge)
Just let me live my life
And let it be pleasing, Lord to Thee
And should I gain any praise,
Let it go to Calvary.
With His blood, He has saved me
By His power, He has raised me.
To God be the glory
For the things he has done.
I am a Christian woman with strong morals and values. I love homeschooling my daughter. I am a very curious person and love to study and do research. I'm a very determined woman and if I make up my mind to do something, then NOTHING can stop me. On the other hand, I am very laid back and love Celtic music, new age, contemporary Christian, old-time gospel, and I'm interested in doing more things than I could name. I hope you will enjoy my blog. It's pretty random, so enjoy~!
I made a little change with my Friends List. It's on the left side and to open it just click on the word "Friends" and it pops out! Neat, huh! To close it click on it again! Thank you
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Seven Steps to Raising Godly Children
Principle - Impart God's word on your children and live in a way that you are their greatest example of what a Christ-abiding parent should be.
Pattern - Teach your children a pattern of prayer; when to pray, how to pray, and why prayer is important.
Persistence - Don't ever give up...teach your children to always have faith and not to give up when things get hard.
Participation - Our children crave our attention! The way our children see us is the way they'll see God in thier lives.
Praise - Encourage children, praise them when they do something right and help them when they have a hard time.
Prayer - Teach your children to pray and then to TRUST God for the outcome.
Priority - Make God the Head and Heart of your home and let them live with God's desire coming first in your lives.
WOW! Gerald's lost a lot of weight since this picture! 
