Choose the graphic you like best~Mine is the top one, just because I love Maple trees and leaves!
Hello everyone! I thought it would be nice to get to know one another's Favorite Bible Story...not necessarily a story in the Bible but the story of what your favorite Bible verse or story is and why. This will probably be a very easy assignment for us all but with warmer weather well on it's way, I know how hard it is to stay indoors, even for school work. Have fun with it and remember we only have two more BFS assignments left!
Here's mine:
I always loved the story of Ruth and Naomi. The way she was willing to let her daughter-in-law go on to begin a new life after the death of her husband and son. That's just a beacon of what true love is about. I guess by that my favorite verse should be 1 Corinthians 13 and the rules of love, however, my favorite verse is Philippians 4:13. I love this verse perhaps because my mom and dad always told my sisters and I that when we grow up we can do or be anything we want! The word can't or cannot was simply not allowed in our home. My dad's famous words were, "can't ain't a word!" In the same sense Ruth's testimony of love is the same as the ideas that I have about Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Ruth knew that she had to go on with her life even after losing her husband and her son and she didn't want to keep Naomi from being able to have a new start for herself. Full circle.
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.
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 wanted so bad last week to have some of you ladies to leave me a couple of ideas for the next few weeks assignments. I didn't get a single one~ I was so surprised not to get any at all. So, here I go with this weeks assignment. I'm very open to any ideas you all have and would love to hear from you. Feel free to leave a comment about one or email me with anything you have. Maybe you just need someone to bounce an idea off of, I'm very open to that too.
This week's assignment is The Three R's -- Reduce, Recycle, and Re-use. I thought since today is Earth Day and this month is Arbor Day that we all could share ideas or tips that we use for recycling, reducing or re-using items in our home. Do you recycle at all? Does it just seem nearly impossible to recycle? Trying to catch every piece of trash that goes into the garbage is a hard one for me too. I have a friend who is very diligent with it and so are her children! It amazed me to see how they re-spect nature and use the Three R's in their home. I challenge you all to write about your ventures with recycling, reducing, and re-using your trash and take a pledge to at least try to use some of the tips that you read about on this assignment. Don't forget to add your favorite scripture for this assignment.
Here's mine:
My family and I are not diligent enough about the Three R's but we should be more conserving. Things that we do to try to be more advantageous about are these:
We try to save on fuel by not going anywhere we absolutely do not have to. That means making one trip count the most and doing several things in that trip.
We re-use most plastic that we purchase; i.e., water bottles or drink bottles get filled with water. We rarely have cans to throw out since we don't buy soft drinks or canned vegetables.
We do recycle paper and glass products instead of throwing them into the dump.
We did decide to join the Arbor Day foundation, for $15/year and received 10 trees that we have planted to take the place of some trees we had to cut down because they were rotting.
Our Pledge
We are going to start composting our trash and use it to fertilize our garden that we plant for food that we can preserve to use later on.
Like I said we have lots of room for improvement but we are going in the right direction. I can't wait to read all of your ideas and your pledges.
Hello Ladies! I hope everyone is doing great this week. Please remember to extend your condolences to Marilyn Moll on the loss of her husband Duane. If you don't know the name she is the UrbanHomemaker. I've been very sad over this since finding out...I remind myself I've not yet (May 11th) have even 5 years with my sweet husband and I don't even want to cross that bridge.
For this weeks assignment I decided to take an idea from a fellow BFS'r. I'd like a Yea or Nay in a comment if you'd be interested in passing along an idea or you can just email me. This week I'm using an idea from Sombra at More Little Wilsons. I do have plenty of ideas that I've written myself, but thought it would be fun if we did a round of BFS on the blogs that participate.
Sombra wrote, "I think it would be interesting to find out if some
of the other ladies have sunk their teeth into something new in the last
year or so, what are they enthralled with, what has claimed the fires of
their passion." You can post pictures or as many things as you'd love to start doing for YOURself. I stand corrected but I took it from Sombra's email that she meant OUR OWN passion and not something your children or husband would like you to learn. Make sure you include a favorite scripture.
Here's mine:
I'd like very much to learn to play the piano...how many of you thought I did from the picture on my header? I've wanted to do this all my life but gave up the chance so my younger sister could take lessons since my parents couldn't afford for both of us to take them. I've recently purchased a calligraphy set and will be doing more of that in the summer while my daughter is away at camp. I've always wanted to own a greeting card or printing business, thus the desire for calligraphy. I've always wanted to go skydiving and WILL one of these days and I have always wanted to learn scuba diving. I love doing scrap crafts and that's my own made up name for it. It's where I take something I see and make a replica of it using my own scraps that I have around the house. So there! You've learned lots about me in a paragraph. My scripture is Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me...it's one I use a lot of the time.
As spring is among us and summer is approaching my family and I slowly steer away from the big hot dinners and more to the salads, sandwiches and fresh fruit. We'll be doing lots of canning and preserving foods this summer, so I won't feel like cooking big meals every night like I do now.
For this week's assignment I thought it would be fun to share our dinner plans for the night or if you're organized enough for the week. You can include pictures if you desire. Also tell what your family likes to drink, if you have desserts or not. If you want to then take this assignment and let all the children in your life make dinner for the night. Please add your favorite verse for this assignment as it might be an encouragement for someone else. This week's assignment is short and sweet so have fun with it.
Here's mine:
Tonight we had our favorite crock pot meal. I cooked country style ribs with pineapple pieces and barbeque sauce, we had water to drink and for dessert we usually have fruit, but tonight we had some fudge royale ice cream! I don't have pictures since my batteries are recharging, sorry. I wanted to apologize for not getting back to some of you last week on the comments; my daughter and husband were/are both sick with sinus infections and we've been trying to get them well. Thank you and I look forward to reading everyone's dinner assignments.
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.
Choose the graphic you like best~Mine is the top one, just because I love Maple trees and leaves!
WOW! Gerald's lost a lot of weight since this picture! 
