Sisters twins -- growing like weeds 3 months old

other sister had baby boy 11/23  so cute!

cousins wife had baby girl 11/1 also a cutie!

Moved in with mom and stepdad -- his idea he grew up one of nine children and likes a full house with people around. Plus every home needs a kid living there!

Seasonal part time job at lawn place is over till next spring but I did get a 2 nights per week job proof operating...not much but as I stated I've applied for tons of full time jobs but either never hear anything or get interviewed and then don't hear back.  Just waiting for the right door to open.

DS is still homeschooling but DH complains daily about it (and me but let's not dwell on that)

May YHWH bless thee, and keep thee: May YHWH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: May YHWH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

Well the christian school starts next twos-day and it's looking more and more like DS will NOT be attending simply due to finances at this point but for me the mom whose heart is in home education the lack of finances is a blessing in disguise and HIS Way of guiding me through this decision process.

Plus DH is in agreement with me so far that we can't afford it and when he found out with A.C.E. the student practically teaches himself, DH was like so why are we supposed to pay them?!!

We put our 30 day notice in with the landlord on the 1st, where we go from here it's in HIS Hands!

My sister gave birth to 2 girls last week.  One weighed 9 pounds and 2 ounces and she is the one in the NICU not breathing properly.  At blogspot there is more info on the girls.

Last week at this same hospital 2 other sets of twins were born and I know one set had a baby also in NICU and on the 1st a local Rabbi's son's wife had twin boys and one of them was rushed to local children's hospital for complications.  SO many twins and other babies need HIS Healing.  Prayers appreciated.

I'll keep you posted on my sisters babies, the Rabbi's grandsons, and DS's schooling/living arrangments as we know more.

May YHWH bless thee, and keep thee: May YHWH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: May YHWH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

Betcha thought I forgot about posting...well I did in a way. 

Not much to share.  We finished A Lion to Guard Us and yes each week of new spelling words I still combined the 2 lists to make a personalized one for DS.  We've started on Historical Fiction for storytime and since I have a copy of Little House in the Big Woods, that's what we'll use.  DS really like The Big Balloon Race reader.  Really enjoying the emerging reader book suggestions.

Here's a craft/science photo.  It's a starfish....we used pearled barley and flaxseeds to give it texture

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee: May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

This week we reviewed the memory verses we've learned so far and read a cool book about Dolphins.  The neighbor boy who spends most of his weeks with us will be starting 7th grade on moon day so he'll be gone most of the day.  Here's a couple of photos from this week.  Sorry I'm not more chatty about this week.

 Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

There is a city not far from here that held a meeting yesterday to vote on a daytime curfew.  If it passes, the proposal would set a daytime curfew for children ages 6 to 16. The curfew would be in effect from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

any other homeschoolers feathers get ruffled at that?

this city already has truancy laws but they say this will allow them to stop anyone who looks to be in that age range ... gee that means even I an adult will get stopped because I look young.

apparently another city, also near by, already has such a law ... good thing we don't go over there....funny thing is these two cities are on the small side...how come the small cities are more concerned about kids skipping school causing trouble than the large ones are?

Still praying for another child

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

This week we started an adventure book.  DS7 enjoyed the treasure hunt activity to introduce the genre.  We chose A Lion to Guard Us to read.  We also read the extra books as listed in the emerging readers section --- not the early Bible but like this week was Snowshoe Thompson and next week is Dolphins.

earlier today we went to an historic place not to far from us with the neighbor boy and my Intro to Jewish Roots class instructor, his wife, and 2 of their granddaughters.

photos for your enjoyment:

Here are the kids at sailboat cove, a stop over before our destination:

Here the boys are talking to Moses, that 9 year old ox:

Here's the mercantile - and yes they have Ray's arithmetic and other period textbooks for sale....and he really enjoyed my new fangled camera dilly said he heard there were a team of people in there and it didn't need flash powder:

the colonel's house --not a military official just the richest guy in town:

and inside the one room schoolhouse:

here's one of the history texts for sale at the mercantile:

Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

Some highlights from our week:

Smushed Spelling on moon day

twos day: the water drops on a coin project was a hit!  the 13 year old neighbor got 27 drops and DS who was still 6 at this point got 21.  They wanted to try again the next day and the neighbor boy got 39 drops.

windy day: the math sentence meadow scene, sure ya can tell which boy's paper is which

thirsty day:  Birthday day!! and our last day with Benjamin West ((he was due back at the library so we had to read it in 19 days not 20))  we enjoyed learning about Friend West.

to day:  what we treasure

Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom

This week was a good one as well.  There was a story in the pilgrims book ((which I knew up front would not be a fave of mine and therefore held the right to edit as I read aloud)) and they used the words Sabbath and sunny-day interchangably, while I just stuck with Sabbath because Shabbat is the 7th day of the week, please see Geneses chapter 2 and not the westminster catechism....ok back to week 3

DS really enjoyed the game of the king's court or prison this week.

for your enjoyment we have photos of our wall at Scrooby Inn,  our backyard scene for math when we counted fireflies, and our meshed spelling list 3, and a sample sentence from our grammar section.

And last week about 5ish on 7/18 DS lost his first tooth, which was his second loose tooth...and earlier this week on 7/21 about 9ish DS started to eat a snack and instead of being able to eat it ..well take a look

How does our young sir feel about losing some baby teeth?

oh and maybe Benjamin West has been an inspiration because here's a photo DS just had to take of the sky

Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother
Prayers deeply appreciated that HE would bless us
with more healthy arrows...and quickly.

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

As previously stated for the next 34 weeks we will be using Beyond by Heart of Dakota.

this week we really enjoyed the activities and also really liking the biography we chose to read for storytime Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin ... such a sweet story .... although the Indians hollering Amen seemed out of character ...really reaching for that chrischun overtone .... but at least the Indians smoked, which would have been more true to character.  And that was my fave chapter when the Indians showed him how to make red and yellow paint.

I'll post a picture later ... I need to save space on the camera for tonight as my good friend is giving her testimony at Shabbat Service and I'm going to record it on the digicam.  So stay tuned for the geography activity from day 3 of this week.

 ETA:

our geography activity DS's, the 13 year old neighbor boys, and mine

the cross represents where Sally stopped to pray.

next up my mixed together spelling list for DS this week

and DS also got his second loose tooth earlier this week, his first loose tooth has been loose for a while.  I told him I thought the second loose tooth would fall out first and yesterday about 5ish as we were eating tacos/burritos for dinner we had to pause and here's the result ((the other one beside it on the middle bottom has been loose for 3-4 weeks))

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

Let me just say upfront that I am still an all about Charlotte Mason and AmbleSide momma.  My son however was showing how bored he was with just reading and narrating.  I still find it to be the best way to remember things though and was able to find something we will use for 34 weeks as a way to bring in the activities for a wiggly boy and also extra time for him to work on his 3 R's.

We're using Beyond by Heart of Dakota.  We will finish unit 1 day 5 today.  DS6 really enjoyed the science times and math activities.  Today we get to make a shield to remember who protects us, that'd be YHVH.  We will use the above image for Psalm 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

 ETA 7.15.08: When it came to the spelling lists I combined a few words from each.  I did not require any other copywork other than the words and/or sentences with the words because I knew DS would balk at having to copy the poem and I didn't have him put the poem in order because his reading skills are not that good ...yet ... weekly chipping away at it though.

Swylv :-(
Praying for a second child since june 2002 -- you'd cry too,
even DS cries to be a big brother

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.

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Special prayer:  we've been approved to get a home loan but this is a big purchase, not an overnight one.  Wisdom and direction needed.  Prayers for divine help welcomed.  Thank you

"Must Do":

• 06/22 -  11am- Attended  Intro to Jewish Roots class this weekend.   We're still on the Book of Jacob but good news, many people in various denominations are embracing their Hebrew Roots and many in Jewish realm are embracing Yeshua the Messiah -- HE really is making us all echad or one in HIM!!
• 6/30 and 7/02  - part time job opening the payment envelopes and tallying them for the company my sister works for.
• 6/24 attend Karate lesson with my son - we should get our uniforms
• 7/5 HavDalah and Torah Study
  

 Zone ~  Purge clutter...wow is this a never ending process?  please say no!

 Train him Up~

• everyday....teach him about Yeshua and Obedience and That it is our calling
• as always a day by day thing.  Fruit in his life will be the big indicator 
• Pray YHVH's Spirit leads and guides my son and compells my son to draw nigh unto YHVH

 Menu Plan ~ (leftovers often mean I can stretch the food budget especially since the gas tank also needs to "eat" LOL)

•  ((have you seen the cookbooks where you add veggie purees into the recipes?  shhhh don't tell LOL)) Deceptively Delicious and Sneaky Chef
• 7/5 HavDalah evening so take something to contribute and break bread together  ... which means have a meal, fellowship, and study Torah
• Matthew 6:25 -Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
• did you hear some Raleigh Washington who was some big guy with promise Keepers has embraced his Hebrew Roots?  no wonder I haven't heard anything about that PK group in recent years....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May YHVH bless thee, and keep thee:
May YHVH make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
May YHVH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee Shalom.