Just us, a homeschooling Air Force family of 7. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Wed, 7 May 2008 11:53:00 -0500 Wed, 7 May 2008 11:53:00 -0500 Go and read As Life Goes On blog. Her entry on the 25th of April this year titled The Things he says is a hoot! I enjoyed reading about her son and his sayings. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/528605/ Wed, 7 May 2008 11:53:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/528605/ I have that feeling again. It is as if the whole world full of God’s creation is holding its collective breath. What will happen next? I read revelations recently and I don’t feel like I have any more answers than I had before. One truth that was very sure is that God will take care of His children; no matter what happens we will be in Heaven with Him in the end. I take great comfort in this truth.   Politics weigh heavily on me. I see the degradation of common sense being played out in the race for the White House.  Who people stand for and what they don’t stand for, if they stand at all. The degradation of common sense was concocted by the evil one and put into action in the mass dumbing down and situational ethics taught in the public schools. There are today whole generations of public school students because of their training can’t tell the true right from all the grey.  I wonder if the few that weren’t dumbed down by the public schools will rise up and stand and bring us back to our roots.     Many tragedies are happening more and more with an intensity that defies my desire to have a stable life. I wonder if any of this is bringing humans to their knees and come to the Great Comforter and Savior for Salvation. There are rumblings of a full blown awakening in America. Will America respond? Or will America again defy common sense and turn their backs on God?   Satan is working overtime. He knows his time is short. He hates God and His Creation. Satan will do anything to keep our eyes off of the Lord.   Keep your eyes on the Lord and don’t lose heart. We will be victorious! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/528587/ Wed, 7 May 2008 04:33:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/528587/ How is everyone? I pray that you are doing well enough. As always a large amount of time has passed since my last visit. I really struggle with knowing what to write down. Maybe the next time I come thru will be sooner and I will have something substantive to add to this blog. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/521717/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:42:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/521717/ We are almost settled from moving from the Netherlands to Florida last December.   Our move went both smoother and more difficult that I thought it was going to. So many things happened and it happened quickly. The Lord blessed us with a new vehicle and we got to spend time with family along with too many things to list.   After we received our household goods and got everything unpacked and put the house in order we stepped back into the school routine. It was not easy at first and it took time for us to get back into the rhythm of school. Due to the size of this house we no longer have a school room. Now we are getting close to our break. We had to work hard to make up for the school that we didn’t do during the move. Another 5 days and we will be officially done with the school year.     I am so excited for our oldest. She has worked so hard and starting in August she will almost be caught up. She is working so hard and I am so proud of her.    The kids and I, Daddy had to stay home, went to VA to participate in some of the 400th anniversary activities planned for Jamestown and Williamsburg. The trip up we got stuck on I-95, it took us 20 hours to get to our destination. We visited both Jamestown and Williamsburg and had the time of our lives. The trip home was a little less eventful and it only took us 13 hours coming home back on I-95.   It is taking us much time to feel at home, find a church and get plugged in with the local homeschool group. We think we have found a church but only time will tell if this is the one.   In May my hubby blessed me by watching the kids so that I could go the FPEA 2007 Homeschool Convention. It was great to be at a convention again. I loved the energy and seeing all the homeschooled teens in attendance. Being a homeschool graduate myself it was encouraging to see parents stay the course with their teens. I was able to attend several classes and buy the audio recordings for many more. The exhibit hall was so busy but I found the curriculum I was looking for.   Right now we are gearing up for the Hurricane season. I suppose you can never be prepared enough for it but I feel so unprepared. With all the hoopla in the news it is hard to leave this in the Lord’s hands but I am continueing to work hard at doing so. I find myself with a very unnatural fear of a Katrina like storm coming thru. It has been a long time since I have been through a hurricane. When I was a kid living in VA we lived thru a Hurricane and the memories are still vivid. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/345199/ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:14:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/345199/ I was reading past posts and noticed that the curriculum info that I put down last year is a little out of date.    I have since changed our language arts program from Rod and Staff to Learning Language Arts Through Literature. The kids are really enjoying it.   We never got around to spelling power. I just never took the time to figure it out.   Science is working out very well and the kids are retaining the knowledge.  We are now on the second Zoology book.   Also something new that did this year was A Child’s Geography. The kids really enjoyed that one. A new volume is out and I look forward to doing that with the kids.   What more can I say about Beautiful Feet. We all love this history curriculum. The books that are used are great. I also love watching the notebooks grow with the kid’s creativity and knowledge. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/236125/ Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:20:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/236125/ I wrote up an entry and I was trying to copy it so that I can do a spell check in Word and whalla the entry dissapeared. Don't ya just love that?   We only have our PC until this coming Monday the 13th. After that we will have to rely on other sources for access to a computer.   It is sunny today. I am happy about this as I am battling a sadness today. This sadness always hits me when we move. It is very unsettling to move and all that goes on with moveing. I want to snap my fingers and be there at our new place moved in and everything put away. 3 weeks and we get to fly.   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/235241/ Thu, 9 Nov 2006 02:34:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/235241/ Do you ever read something that you wrote and wonder, "What is the world was I thinking when I wrote that?" I am so mellow dramatic or maybe it is just that it is late and I should be sleeping? In any case I am feeling better today and off to bed I go! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233814/ Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:36:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233814/ I thought I was doing better only to get worse. I am pretty sure this "It" thing is the flu and all the symptoms that come with it. This upsets me as there were a lot of things planned for this upcoming week that will delayed a bit while I get better.At least my kids are doing better and are on the mend. Well, I guess I can get to some planning activities that I have been putting off! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233813/ Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:03:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233813/ It has been a while since I last posted. And as usual a lot has happened. Family came to visit; that was good but I am happy to have my house back. Even good things can completely drain you.I started something new... loom knitting. I like it! It won't replace the crochet work that I do but now I can do things I couldn't do before. I do have several projects going; a pair of socks, a baby blanket, and a fine art filet crochet piece. Last week I went to a PWOC conference in Willingen, Germany. It was a good week spent with about 600 other ladies from the protestant military community. The Lord moved mightily in my life and in the life of others. Many ladies came to the Lord last week and one of those was in my group. I saw her just this past Sunday and it was wonderful to see the joy written all over her face and oh the peace that flowed from her; it was beautiful.During the conference there was a semi-formal banquet. I was going to make a asian style dress but at the last moment my machine broke and to complicate things my mom who was coming in on a military flight couldn't make it out to help me out with sewing the dress. I scrambled at what to do for this formal. The Lord was good; everything worked out and I made a formal sweater and wore that with a long linen black skirt and a pair of very dutch black shoes. That sweater got many comments as many ladies saw me work hard on this sweater all week.I took my machine (the one I mention above that is not working) to a Pfaff dealer only for the machine to work. I really need to find my international warrenty card so that I can take it in becuase it has problems it is not supposed to have. My older daughter needs clothing so I need to get that machine in ASAP. I just wish the Pfaff dealer wasn't 3 hours away, in another country no less!This year might actually see the Christmas cards that I made last year sent out. I am so bad about this; over the 13 years hubby and I have been married we have gotten cards out maybe twice?!? I will be impressed if I can get those out.I think some of the Christmas spirit is coming back. It got killed when my hubby was deployed over the holidays during 2 separate deployments. I tell you what you really don't want to do Christmas when you have sick kids and have to go to someone else's place just to get a Christmas dinner. The second Christmas that hubby was deployed for I was getting very sick. So, now that I am feeling some of that old spirit come back I have downloaded some organizing forms to help me get things in gear. Something else to add to my ever growing to-do list. The "IT" cold has hit our house and we all have "it". It is awful; our little one couldn't sleep the other night and daddy was up with her fighting the croopyness. Even hubby is sick with "it". I think we all are feeling a little better today. After a two week break I will be starting T-Tapp up again. I hate these breaks they make those first few days back into it very hard! I miss doing it though and look forward to exercising again. I am still loosing inches and I am fitting better in my size 8's jeans. The size 10's I have are getting bigger on me and are starting to put weight on me. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233812/ Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:00:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233812/ I did it or rather we did it! The new desk looks great. The best part is that our place looks more like a home instead of a office. I love how neat everything has become. There are still some things that need to be tidied and put away but it all looks good and welcoming. The weather is nasty. We are now on day 2. It is windy and rainy and quite dark. I know this weather is so typical but it still strikes me how much I don't like it. It is hard on me to yearn for something that won't be. I would be perfectly happy to live in a place where the sun shines all the time. Tonight I am having a stampin up party. I invited 15 people. I must be the most boring person alive because for various reasons there are only 1 firm and 2 possibles showing up tonight. Sigh. Quaint parties can be very nice. OH well! maybe I will be surprised and have all these people show up. Only one person showed up for the party the demonstrator. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233811/ Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:54:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/AngelaH/233811/