Olive Branch Academy - Homeschool Blogger

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:50:00 -0500

I am over at blogger... it is easier to keep that one up to date since I have been there forever... I do sometimes blog at homestead blogger but I am not sure how long that will last, lol.
Trusting the Lord (homesteadblogger)

Simple Woman's Daybook

Mon, 11 May 2009 07:59:00 -0500

Simple Woman Daybook

FOR TODAY Monday May 11, 2009
Outside my window...
Cloudy skies, and the looks of rain

I am thinking...
Should I call the Dr. about Micah's tonsils or give it 1 more day (that is how long his brothers cold lasted this past week)

I am thankful for...
My dear husband, my 3 boys, and for the blessings and love that my Savior has shown me.

From the learning rooms...
We will continue our English & Math studies and hopefully finish up science and geography this week.

From the kitchen...
Oh, how I need to go to the grocery store. I think we will have sausage keish tonight.

I am wearing...
My pajamas ;-)

I am creating...
Well more like planning on creating a few skirts. Hopefully I will get one finished by the end of the week. However, I have some mending that is more of a priority.

I am going...
to keep living one day at a time

I am reading...
The Book of Peter in my Bible, and the Latin Road to English Grammar

I am hoping...
(Praying) for my DH cousin who is having medical problems, my Granny who is in the hospital, for a couple of Uncles that they may come to know Jesus and accept him as Lord and Savior. That Micah cold heals quickly and for a new vehicle as we have outgrown the little Tracker.

I am hearing...
Noises from the boys cleaning their rooms upstairs, dogs playing, Isaac driving his cars.

Around the house...
A cleaning is in order, laundry to be done, and a household manual to be worked on.

One of my favorite things...
A child's laughter!! What a joy to hear each day!!

A few plans for the rest of the week:
We will be at home the first part of the week, then things get a little bit busy. At some point I have to go get my 1st glucose test done this week.
Tuesday the pest control comes by for their preventive maintenance.
Thursday we need to our grocery shopping.
Friday is Field Day (being put on by a club in our local homeschool group).
Saturday I am taking some finger foods up to the church where our homeschool group's graduation and reception will be held.
Sunday - church of course

Here is picture thought I am sharing...

Happy Mother's Day!!

Sun, 10 May 2009 00:28:00 -0500

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!
"Her children arise up, and call her blessed;"
Proverbs 31:28

Maybe This Time

Sat, 9 May 2009 19:46:00 -0500

I know my last entry said I was back, but then I disappeared again. I have been horrible about blogging for the past few years. Maybe this time...

So... we stayed in Central FL for a little over a year and now we are in Texas. Got to love the military life, lol. Texas was the one place my DH did not want to go. However, the Lord always knows what is best for you. We only moved here this past January, but it has been amazing what he has done already in such a short time.

We joined a local homeschool group and started going to a co-op. Which has been a true blessing. The ladies I have met are not like any other Christians I have been around. I know that sounds weird, but they are real. You get the good and the bad. I know longer feel like I am an outsider because of my past. Yet, unfortunately I still became stagnant in my walk with the Lord. How does that happen?? I also was called on it by a particular lady who I admire. So I am slowly starting to moe forward. Praise God!! I am not sure I would be able to if the Lord had not brought this lady into my life. Isn't amazing how God's timing always works out.

Hello... Back at HSB

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:37:00 -0600

I quit blogging on hsb in June 2006... Well, I am back. I still use my blog at blogger but I figured I would write about school and stuff here again. Or at least try to. A lot has happened in the past year and a half. We moved from GA to Fremont, MI to Central FL. Joel has gone from being an apache mechanic to recruiter back to apache mechanic and is now in Korea. We were hoping to go to Korea - doesn't look like that is going to happen though. But the most important change of all - we had a baby last December. So now we have M - 10 years, X - 8 years and I - 10 months old. Life has surely changed!

Military/Civil Service is Coming Your Way

Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:07:00 -0500

Military/Civil Service is coming your way. We are a country with a voluntary military or at least we where. In February Congressman Charles Rangall introduced the bill called the "Universal National Service Act of 2006 - HR 4752 H" yesterday the house was to convene and possibly adopt this bill.

This bill can be summed up as a Mandatory Draft. It will require all persons between the ages of 18 - 42 to register with selective service and perform a period of military or civilian service.

There are a lot of individuals who agree with this bill on both party lines. I am not one of them. While I understand that our country is falling short when it comes to how many soldiers are in the military, we are a voluntary military non-the-less. To require all persons to join ignores the fact that God has called everyone according to His purpose.

Furthermore our country is failing to support the men and women who are currently serving their country. They do not make a "decent wage" as some suggest, a majority of military families fall below the poverty line enough that they are on welfare. When the men and women return from Iraq poisoned by the depleted uranium our government turns their backs on them. This is the same thing which happened with Vietnam & the previous Gulf War. To many times the military is not given the equipment they need to perform their jobs. So how are we going to pay for more soldiers whether they are in the military or performing a civil job? I do not see congress taking a cut in pay to provide for the men and women who risk their lives because they believe in our Constitution and are serving their country out of Patriotism and the simple fact that it is a job that provides the necessary means to care for and support their families.

In case some of you do not realize your daughters are not safe. In today's society the feminist movement that began years ago has taken over. Women are expected and taught that they can do any job that a man does and more than likely do it better. This bill does not make an exception. Regardless of sex, women will now have to register with the Selective Service. They will be required to fulfill the same duties as our sons. While we may raise our daughters to be "keepers at home" as the Bible instructs the government will put them in the workforce for their own purposes. They will be expected to live up to the feminist standards and not only do their jobs which does not glorify the positions the Lord has given them but do it above and beyond the call of duty in the name of equal rights.

We as a nation must make a stand and not allow the government to force our children and even ourselves into a position in which the Lord has not called us. Mothers will be torn away from their families, our children will be thrown into a Godless society where the government will be able to "raise them" according to their pagan standards and Fathers will be left with an even lower sense of worth because their wives are no longer their helpmeet but instead working not for the betterment of their families but for a government which does not appreciate nor support the role the Lord has given women.

The Past Few Days

Sun, 4 Jun 2006 07:43:00 -0500

Thursday we hit the park for our weekly park day activity. I love getting together with this group of ladies and their kids. I will definitely miss it when we move. We had a new lady visit that Thursday with her 2 children. So that made it all the better. It is amazing though how well we all get along (including the kids). The kids are really starting to bond with each other and play together more compared to at first when they tended to play beside each other instead of with each other.

To top it off we have had a few more people join our online group and are showing interest in our get togethers. We have scheduled our first "co-op" day for the 20th of June. It really is not much of a "co-op" but an art project at the local pottery place. The only down fall is with summer here field trips are not really happening but that is okay. We will only be here for a few more weeks to enjoy it then hopefully we will be able to find a new group of homeschoolers.

I finally cleaned out the rest of the boys folders and set them up for the coming year. So my dining room table is now piled high with books and extra papers that I have to sort and go through. We have so much stuff for school and we don't use a lot of it. I am seriously considering selling some of it but I know if I do then I will end up wanting one of the things I sell back. However, I have almost made up my mind to take the plunge because a lot of it we have not used or opened in over a year. So it is just taking up room on my bookshelf. The downfall is I have no idea where to sell it at since ebay is taking TM off people's lists. What a crock.... I really need to sit down and make a list of the stuff.

I am now deciding on where to place Xavier in grammar. He is smart enough to go into the same book as Micah but his writing... well that's a whole nother story. Plus I have no idea where to put him in math. Technically a 2nd grader now and can do some multiplication but lacks having his addition facts memorized. Ughh. I will figure it out.

We were going to start our new schedule Monday and we still might. But Tuesday they are going off for the day/night. So that will throw a crimp in the lessons being done a little. Why does that always happen? Just when you get things ready to really move in the right direction little curves happen along the way, lol.

Oh well. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

Etiquette was changed

Wed, 31 May 2006 16:07:00 -0500

just a little bit due to the fact that my kids have been monsters and we needed to seriously discuss the burping thing. For some reason they think it is cool to burp the alphabet. Okay, I will admit I did not exactly nip that in the bud like I should have when it first started. So now I am dealing with it bigtime <-That is probably what I looked like at one point as they smiled at me, laughed and said but it is fun.

So the fine points of today's manner/etiquette lesson were the appropriate way to burp and the definition of the word rude. Hopefully they got the point, lol.

We did finish math today - YAY! So now they totally get the concept of multiplication and multiplying by 0 & 1. Now we will practice that for a few days along with their speed drills and then move on to 2 & 5.

Olive Branch Academy & ramblings

Wed, 31 May 2006 11:51:00 -0500

We officially decided on a name for a homeschool... Olive Branch Academy won out over the other names we thought of. We decided to use Romans 11 as a corresponding passage and I have come up with the basic design for our logo. The boys are excited and it has really given them a sense of ownership. Micah and Xavier can't wait to make a flag and now they are talking about shirts and other things which I never even thought of, lol.

The boys have finished 1/2 of their school work this morning and now are fixing lunch. We will do math and finish writing afterwards. I finally put all of the past years work in their designated envelope's and labeled them. So their notebooks are fresh, clean and empty for a new year (which starts next week).

On another note... we are still waiting to see where we are moving to. We were told that we were going to Ludington, MI and then 4 hours later that changed - ARRR! It is so frustrating. I will be glad when July 26th gets here and the move and knowing where we will be living is finally over.

Ft. Pulaski

Tue, 30 May 2006 11:23:00 -0500

We went to Ft. Pulaski today to take part in the NPS Jr. Ranger Program. We met another family there so we could do it together. WOW! The boys were a little overwhelmed with the writing they had to do but then they do not like to write at all. But they did most of it themselves and the few times I wrote for them they dictated what I wrote. It took about 2 hours for us to do the self-guided tour and then we had a little picnic lunch afterwards. It was a lot of fun and the boys are looking forward to collecting Jr. Ranger pins from other places.