I am the mother of three beautiful children. I love the Lord and try to serve Him in every way. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sun, 8 Mar 2009 09:54:00 -0500 Sun, 8 Mar 2009 09:54:00 -0500 Sorry that it has been a while since I was on here, but alot has happened. The most important thing is that my family needs prayer. On March 7th, 2009, my son and his friend was making a fire. When they went to put the fire out they started to gather more firewood so that the next time they were ready to make a fire the wood would be there. There was a paint can in the fire that didn't explode but after the fire was out it exploded in my sons face. His friend is okay but isn't doing to good cause my son got hurt. Please keep them both in prayer. The doctor said that it may have been 2nd to 3rd degree burns on his face and his right hand. He is doing okay. The doctors put him on medicine that is 5 times stronger than morphine. This has really hit home because less that a year ago my dad was killed by a drunk driver and couldn't identify his body. My son's accident could have been worst. God has sparred him and I know that God has a special plan for him. I have to bring him to see a sergeon on Monday, March 9th, to see what he thinks.  This is a picture of him the day it happened. This was only 2 hours later. This is the next day. He is doing ok. He still needs prayer. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/666527/ Sun, 8 Mar 2009 09:54:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/666527/     Today is now 3 months since dad passed away. The days go by so fast and some so slow.  We celebrated my daughter, Hannah's b-day on the 3rd of this month. Even though we had a good time it was also kinda sad cause dad wasn't there. I know he was here in our hearts.      There are times that we are talking and having a good time talking bout dad like he was on the side of us and there are times that we start and then we just sit and cry.     Oh, how I wish that he was still here with us. There is so much that I still need dad to show me how to do this and that around the house. He would not only show me, he would make me do it, cause he would say that he will not always be around to do it for me. Little did I know that it would have been this soon.    Not to much else to say that God Is Good All The Time. I'll have pictures later of Hannah's b-day. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/572815/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/572815/ This is something that I found and wanted to put up for my kids. Today is 2 months that dad was killed by a drunk driver.  Times I'm sitting and waiting for him to come home but that is not gonna happen cause he is already home.  He is with our Heavenly Father, Jesus.  When I saw this picture is just did something to me and had to post it.   Love ya and thanks for all the prayers. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/559998/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:38:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/559998/                                                 My Mom     This entry will be dedicated to my mom who is a strong, awesome woman of God.     My mom is an awesome woman.  She has been the strong one of the family.  She might not think she is.     She has kept this family together.  She has also helped me not to hate the guy that killed my dad.  I had so much hatred that if he would still be alive I would go and give him a piece of my mind. But I can’t cause he is gone.     She has been a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, sister-in-law and so on.  She has blessed so many people that she doesn’t even know it.  For the funeral, right before it was finished she went up and call all of her kids and spoke maybe for 15 minutes and those 15 minutes was awesome.  She ministered on how wives if you love your husbands tell them that cause you never know when it will be the last you hear from them.  When she was finished she had a standing ovation. She said that it was God.  I believe her cause she had a speech all prepared and she didn’t even use it.      Since we have been home, she has blessed us. She has ministered to us. She has shown us how to love her mate till the end.  She still loves him and it hurts to see her in so much pain. A lot of times she is so strong that her emotions don’t show, but there are days that we talk and then cry cause it hurts so much that I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.     My days have been sitting around mom and absorbing her love for God and for her family. I keep thinking that this is a nightmare and that we will wake up and dad will be walking in the door saying “What’s for supper? And sorry that I worried everybody and that I was alright.” And then I realize that day will never happen again.  But I know that I will see him again and I will still be able to learn the stuff that he wasn’t able to show me.     My 6 year old daughter had a dream one nite not long after dad’s accident.  That her and Grandpa was sitting in a hallway and that they were visiting each other and that he told her to let us know that he was alright and not to worry that he was in a better place and that he was not hurting and that he loves us and he will see us soon.  And then she got up and started walking away and that she was crying and that her heart was hurting.  And then he went away.  So when I’m down and out I think of her dream and have reassurance that I will see him. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/555723/ Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:53:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/555723/ A New Month     Hey. Not to much going on here. I am now in Alabama trying to take care of mom and my 2 sisters. We left on Sunday, June 1st, to bring mom back home. We had to rent a uhaul to bring all my dad’s stuff home. He had 3 containers full of tools that he had in his car and some that he had to do my classroom. We also had 9 plants that was given at his funeral. Mom gave some to the kids, so she left like 6 of them down the bayou. We caught some rain coming to Al. not to much though. We left at 10:15 a.m. and got here at 7:30p.m. We have had some good days and some bad days.      I will be here (Al.) for 1 month and then we should be going home. We will try to go home that day depends on how we feel the day we leave. Please keep our family in your prayers.     I pray that this hurting that I feel will go away. It has been hard for me to be at mom’s. Usually when we are here, dad was always with us. He is suppose to be coming home in the morning, but we know that will not happen. The first 3weeks went by so fast. It seems like it was just yesterday that the accident happened. Since we have been here at mom’s, which has only been 5 days, has felt like 2 months.      Father’s Day we were suppose to be celebrating it with the family.  Mom and the girls were suppose to be coming down with dad on the 13th to spend Father’s Day with us. I bought him a card and wrote in it so I couldn’t bring it back. I told mom bout it and she will put it in a scrapbook that she bought to put all dad’s things that we found at the crash site.      DAD I think of you often, And always with love. I think about How hard you work, And how much you do For the family. I remember Things you’ve taught me And times you’ve encouraged me, And I see how your wisdom and caring Have helped shape my life. I look back On favorite memories That remind me how much We’ve always meant to each other, And always will…. There are so  many times When I think of you, Dad, And feel proud And thankful And very lucky You’re my father. Happy Father’s Day With Love, Sandy     I could not have picked out a better card than the one that I got for dad. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/548466/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:51:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/548466/ Since I last wrote we have now finished the classroom.  We just need to get in there and start. The day we were to start we got some really bad news, my dad was killed in a head on collision. Can't believe it. We were just having lunch with him on Mother's Day and now we are grieving so much that it hurts. The thing that gets me is how we don't know our appointed time to go. If we did I would not have let my dad go on that run that day. He would be here with us laughing and celebrating his 52nd birthday.      The day before dad's funeral I started to write a letter that was suppose to be read in front of everybody. I didn't finish it so it wasn't read. Mom kept telling me that I need to finish it. Well here it is. It is very long.         My dad is an awesome man. He is a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, friend, a hero. He was taken from us at an early age in a car accident. He would have been 52 on May 23. I am blessed that God has given me my father. He was an inspiration. He was my friend.     I remember when I was younger that one time I was bad for mom and when dad got home, dad had to discipline me. Mom was the one who usually did the discipline, but this time dad had to. He walked into my room and said that this is gonna hurt me more than it’s gonna hurt you. He barley spanked me and I cried like he would have beat me.      In high school, I was to go to homecoming and 2 days before I was suppose to go I got grounded. Mom said that I couldn’t go. Well dad being dad talked mom into letting me go. So when mom told me that I could go, but my dad had to be date. I was like if that is the only way I could go that was fine with me.     Growing up I had really good memories of dad, but it wasn’t till Hurricane Katrina hit that dad and I's relationship was better. You see 12 hours before Katrina hit that dad moved mom and the girls to Al. Dad was still a truck driver and tried to get a job over there but was unable. So I talked to my husband and had dad move in with us. He has been here for almost 3 years now, but I loved it. If I needed something, I would call dad. A lot of the time, dad would make me do it. I have learned to put up ceiling fans, install dishwashers, washers, dryers, build a classroom. Dad and I have been working on building a classroom. He framed it up. He showed me and helped me put up the insulation for the walls, the beams for the ceiling. He showed me how to put up ceiling tiles and moldings and flooring. Anything I needed done in the house, dad stood by me and walked me through step by step. I thank God for allowing dad to stay with us and to allow him to show me so many thing that I need to know. I felt selfish that I got to spend like almost the whole month with dad and he would go up to visit mom and my sisters maybe 4 days sometimes 8 days a month, depending on how he worked.     He was something with the kids.  Dad would sleep in the same room as Lil’ Mitchell. Dad had the bottom bunk and when Lil’ Mitchell would climb up on the ladder, he would grab his feet and Lil’ Mitchell would scream. Dad did that everynite and Lil’ Mitchell knew that but he would still screamed. Dad meant everything to him. He looked up to him. When he needed help doing something, he would wait for dad to come home and he would ask dad to help him. No matter how tired dad was he always spent time with him.      Heather was dad’s little tom boy. Wherever dad went, Heather was there with him. He would come home and she would say guess what grandpa and he would say what and she would tell him what happened for the day with her. She would get so excited when he would come early and she would get to help him in the classroom. He was her everything. There were times that she wanted to go and ride on the truck runs with him. She would help him cut grass, help work in the garden, help him when he had to work on things at the house, where ever he was, she was there.     Hannah was different with dad. She would go and sit on him and always say that she loved him and that when he would go home to mom she would always say that she missed him and wanted him to come back home to us. She would sometimes go and ride with him when he would go and visit mom. When we would go and eat or go to church she had to ride with him. When he would drive up from a run I would holler “Grandpa’s home” she would be the first to meet him at the door. He loved it.  When she would be at her granny’s he would ask for her. He would leave his pennies on the table and she would always get it first.     There is so much that I didn’t get to say to him that day. He came to church with us and then he came eat lunch with us and we had a great time. When he left Lil’ Mitchell wanted to go home with him and he said that he wasn’t going home that he had a run to go do. Then Hannah was like Grandpa you can put me in the back of the truck and nobody would see me. He told her that he couldn’t bring her.  When he left I said to him “See you later at the house.” Little did I know that would have been the last thing I said or saw him. It is so hard for me to write this.      May 23 is my dad’s b-day. I wish he was here right now, so I could say that I Love Him. Never take that word I Love You for granted. Say it often and every time you have a chance tell your love ones that you love them cause you never know if that will be the last time you see them.      When it happened, I asked God, “Why?” I still have not gotten an answer. When I got the call that Monday morning (5-12-08) and was told that my brother was killed in a wreck I was like NO cause we haven’t talked to each other in over a year. I wanted to make peace with him before he died. And then mom called that they had the wrong person I was like thank you Jesus and when mom said that it was dad I was like Oh No! I can’t believe it that it has been 11 days and it feels like it was yesterday. There is so much that I need him to teach me and he isn’t here to show me what to do. God how I miss him so much. Everywhere I look in my house I am reminded of him. He had stuff in Lil’ Mitchell’s room, the bathroom, his bible on the table, a glass of water on the snack bar that I would knock over and water would go all over, his dirty clothes at the washer, his log books on the computer table. You walk out the back door the awesome classroom that him and I got to build together. I am so bless that he was there to teach me hands on, on how to do all the stuff that he was able to show me. I am blessed that my kids got to spend the last 2 ½ years with him. He will be missed. Hannah had a dream bout her grandpa and they were sitting in a hallway and they were talking and he told her to tell us that he is ok and that he is happy and not to worry bout him. They were talking for a while and then she got up walked away and turned back and he was fading away. So I’m not to worry cause I know where my dad is but I wish he was here to celebrate his birthday and then Father’s Day next month. He wanted to take my 12 year old (Lil Mitchell) on that run. Everynite at 7:00 we knew not to call mom cause dad is on the phone with her and he was asking her if it would have been a good idea to take Lil’ Mitchell with him and mom was like it is Mother’s Day and that he needed to be home with me. If he would have asked me I would have said yes. Thank God that he didn’t ask cause I would not only have lost my dad, I would have lost my son also. I thank God everyday for my family and tell them that I Love them as much as I can cause you never know when you last breath would be or the last time you see or talk to them.     Since dad‘s death they have had 11 people get saved at his funeral, a couple that was separated is now working it through, it has brought this family so close together that it is so scary. For his funeral it didn’t feel like a funeral, it was more of a church service. A lot of people felt uplifted when they left, not down and out like most funerals. I am blessed to have had my dad in my life for 32 years. Some kids don’t even know their fathers. I am proud to be the daughter of Elgin Joseph Lirette Jr. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/537195/ Mon, 26 May 2008 15:40:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/537195/     What is the difference between prayer and intercession?  Prayer starts with you and what you know to be the obvious facts as you bring them before God.  God will then take over and you will pray what is on your heart and mind until you have prayed it through.     Intercession differs from prayer in that it starts and ends with God.  Satan will usually attack us most in our greatest area of strength.     Prayer is not just a call to war; it is also an invitation to rest.  Knowing that God is on your side will help you to enter into the rest He offers.  He invites you to give Him your problems, cares, concerns and worries (1 Pet. 5:7; Matt. 6:25,26).         Not to much going over here.  We have put up the walls for our classroom and we have started on the ceiling.  After that we have the floor and the molding.  The walls and ceiling will be white and the moldings are red and blue.  I can't wait till we are in the classroom doing school.  Here is a few pictures.     They found the boy that drowned in the water bout a week later.  he was trying to swim across the canal to go and visit some girls and the current was so strong that he couldn't make it and went under and came up a few times and the last time he came up there was a big boat that passed right on top of him.  They hasn't seen him come back up.  They looked for him for 5 days where he went in but they found him a mile down the water way.     Here is a picture of my 6 year old Hannah.  We were at WalMart and she had this hat on and was like take a picture. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/520369/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:10:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/520369/           It has been a while since I wrote.  We have been very busy with home schooling and also building our classroom.  I used to get up at 10:00 in the morning by the time we get started with school it was like 11 so then lunch was at 12 so we would do school till like 4 in the afternoon.  Now I get up at 7:00 in the morning, then get the kids up and start school by 8:30 and by 11:00 we are finished.  Do you know how much you get done if you get up early.  The only thing I don’t like bout getting up early is by 4:00 p.m., I’m ready to go to sleep.  So when we finish school I try  to work in the classroom.  We have the walls up, the windows in, the electricity is working, now we are  trying to figure out how to put up the tiles for the ceiling.  My children helped out a lot.  Here is a few pictures that I took.  Not finished yet so the rest of the pictures will come later.  Tomorrow we (dad and I )  will be trying to put the ceiling tiles and hope the rest of the walls and lights.  Then the only thing we have left is the molding, the floor, the air condition unit.  The room is white and the molding will be red.  I bought new desk for the kids and I'm waiting for Hannah's table to come in at Wal-Mart.  I ordered it on line.            Oh, I almost forgot we got our puppy.  He was born on Feb 12, 2008.  He is 8 weeks old.  He is already spoiled.  We are in the process of potty training.  It ‘s not easy as they say it is.    His name is Snowball.  Here is a few pictures of him.  We are in the process of teaching him some tricks.  My daughter, Heather, is trying to teach him to bring back crumpled paper when she throws it at him.  He has been fun to have. He is adorable.            My computer won't let me upload the pictures.  I will find a way to load them up later.  That's it for now.  Pray that I can load the pictures.  We are so excited bout the classroom.           I would like for ya'll to keep a family in prayer where I live.  A 14 year old boy went swimming in the canal and the current was strong.  Well he was swimming across to meet some girls that he knows and with the current so strong that he went under and came up a couple of times.  Well the last time he came up they had a huge boat passing and it pulled him under and they haven't found him.  This happened on Monday, April 7th.  I pray that they will find him so the family will have peace to bury their son.  They just lost a daughter in Feb. of this year to cancer.  So they are having a hard time. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/514371/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:44:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/514371/ Hello everyone.  Happy Easter to everyone.  Today was an exciting day.  It was the day that Jesus rose from the grave and the day we started building out classroom.  To begin the day, I bar-be-que and my son Pokey (Mitchell) helped me and he did really good.  I think from now on he will be taking over the job.  While we were cooking my dad started building our classroom.  I will post pictures next time.  So when we got finished cooking we went to my mother-in-laws, cause mom didn't come down this year.  Dad and Mitchell stayed and finished working on the room.  We ate dinner over at mother-in-laws and right before we left I called some friends and we had to puppy sit while they went on vacation.  We went and picked them up.  We wound up with 2 of them.  One's name is Cruz and the other Cooper.  They are adorable.  Here they are I also took a picture of our puppy that we will be getting on April 8th. Oh I almost forgot on March 15th, my sister and I went to Southdown.  It is a historical plantation that had about over 200 little shops to go in.  We went in one and they had these cute little cradles that you put a baby in.  Here is a picture of it  Not much else.  I will be putting up the insulation on the walls in our classroom tomorrow.   I will post up pictures later. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/503614/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:45:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/503614/      Since the last time I posted we have been out of state.  On March 1st, we left Louisiana and packed up and went spend like 11 days in Alabama (with my mom and sisters).  We had a blast.  Mom was so sick for like 2 weeks before she left that she was still not feeling good when she left so we went with her.  While we were there my sister, Sarah, entered a Teen chalenge and she won 1st place with superiors and a got a medal.  Her pastors, daughter, Britney won 2nd place.  They are now both going to nationals.  The day that they performed it snowed, so we didn't get to play in the snow.  The day before we left, I had to go into town to get a new tire for my van so I took all the kids with me (Jordan, Sarah, Mitchell, Heather, and Hannah).  We had fun.  While we were waiting for the tire we walked over to  Target and I found my girls matching Easter dresses.  After we got the van, we went eat.  Then I brought Sarah to the music store to get her, her music for her to play in the nationals.  We went to the mall for pretlez (misspelled) bites, then to T-J Max.  On the way home we stopped off at Wal-Mart to get mom some flowers.     We left on Monday to come back home.  We stopped at a gas station right before the interstate to fuel up the van won't started for us to leave.  So I had to call my dad to come and help us.  I had to wait at the station for like 30 minutes cause that is how far they live from the interstate.  It took me 11 hours to get home which it should have taken 8.  When we are almost home the traffic was horrible.  It was bout 8:30 p.m. and the traffic went from doing 60 m.p.h to 35 m.p.h to 5 m.p.h then 3 m.p.h. then stopped moving for 45 minutes.  So I was so happy when I got home.       A little bit from the book   The Word of Prayer           Praying God's Word brings results and answers, because God himself said that His Word will not return to Him empty, without accomplishing what He desires, and without succeeding in the matter for which He sent it ( Iss. 55:11).  When you pray the Word, however, it must be quickened by the Holy Spirit so you may speak forth with anointing.        Do not pray the Word for the sake of religious activity.  Pray the Word based on faith, believing that you are in agreement with God's will for the circumstance.     Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him (Heb. 11:6)     Prayer that is based on faith bears fruit for the Kingdom and pleases God. When you pray and communicate with God in faith, He will speak to you and give you direction, wisdom, knowledge, strength and protection ( Col. 1:9; Ps. 40:1-2; John 15:7-8). http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/498261/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:09:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LivingfortheKing/498261/