I'm homeschooling my five children still at home (including a set of five year old twins). http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:14:00 -0500 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:14:00 -0500 Lyrics to "Whatever You’re Doing" – Sanctus Real It's time for healing, time to move on It's time to fix what's been broken too long Time make right what has been wrong It's time to find my way to where I belong There's a wave that's crashing over me All I can do is surrender [Chorus] Whatever you're doing inside of me It feels like chaos somehow there's peace It's hard to surrender to what I can't see But I'm giving in to something heavenly Time for a milestone Time to begin again Revaluate who I really am Am I doing everything to follow your will Or just climbing aimlessly over these hills So show me what it is you want from me I give everything I surrender... To... [Chorus] Time to face up Clean this old house Time to breathe in and let everything out That I've wanted to say for so many years Time to to release all my held back tears Whatever you're doing inside of me It feels like chaos but I believe You're up to something bigger than me Larger than life something heavenly Whatever you're doing inside of me It feels like chaos but now I can see This something bigger than me Larger than life something heavenly Something heavenly It's time to face up Clean this old house Time breathe in and let everything out http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/670171/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:14:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/670171/ Just wanted to share that at the bottom of this blog is my playlist. I've included some of my favorite music and will be adding more. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/655997/ Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:47:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/655997/ I decided that it is time for me to change the focus of this blog as my life has changed so dramatically.  (I'm currently going through a divorce.) At this time, I need to concentrate more on homeschooling. Stay tuned. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/649512/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:41:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/649512/ Actually, that is not true. I'm a manager of my home already. The question is whether I'm a good or poor manager. I appreciate the book Terri Maxwell wrote entitled, "Managers of Their Homes". Through this blog, I hope to better manage my time. I'm guilty of dawdling and not being focused. Here's hoping for improvement in this area. Today is off to a good start. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/527795/ Tue, 6 May 2008 06:58:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/527795/ Update: I did pretty good. I didn't succeed every day though. I failed to read my Bible three days. I literally forgot if it wasn't the first thing I did for the day. I'm taking the 30 Day Bible Reading Challenge! It seems simple but consistency has in many ways been a challenge for me.  I'm pondering the role of motivation in these areas that I'd like to be more consistent.  This blog will help me to journal my success in becoming consistent and organized. :) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/507565/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:54:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/507565/   Tonight I started reading the book, "Created for Work, Practical Insights for Young Men", by Bob Schultz. I've had the book for awhile. I thought it might make a good devotional for dh to read to my youngest son. He hadn't gotten around to it after all these many months.  I took a look at the book the other day and thought we really need to read at least some of this book together as a family.  It seems that when it comes to myself and the kids that things aren't going smoothly when it comes to our work around the house.  For myself, I work hard around the house steadily. I'm the house-workaholic type. However, I find that I'm very inefficient.  One of the causes of this is that I'm in always in a hurry.  I'm in a hurry, because I don't want housework to take me all day thus crowding out what is really important in life--time with my family.  Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men... Colossians 3:23 (Amplified Version) Recently, my daughter-in-law was over. She came up to me and said, "I folded that laundry basket of clothes in the living room." I looked at her blankly and said rather quietly, "It was folded already." A confused look came into her eyes as she said slowly, "Oh...it didn't look folded." Upon examining her folded laundry, I had to conclude that I hadn't folded the laundry after all. This was a real eye-opener for me after 22 years of "folding laundry" as an adult.  It was a bit humbling. I resolved that day to turn over a new leaf after I was properly instructed in the details of laundry-folding. I went through my husband's drawer to set all the years of wrong right by making sure that certain personal items were folded "correctly"--military style or what should be military style for those items.  He thought I was crazy as he is former military and is quite happy with certain items not being folded at all. Needless to say after all my resolve, I sadly fell back in to my old habits very quickly. I know that if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.  This includes folding the laundry.  For me the need is balance: doing jobs well while not getting sucked into losing the whole day making things perfect. I think re-evaluating how I'm spending my time is important so that if the laundry is going to take more than the five minutes I've been giving it, then I will have budgeted the appropriate time it actually takes. Back to the book, "Created for Work": The first chapter is entitled, "Art in Your Heart".  The author talks about God's energy and creativity being without measure. Drudgery and getting by with the bare minimum aren't factors in God's vocabulary. Even the simplest of God's works are works of art.  Take the snowflake for instance.  Earlier this year, I found snowflake pictures online which were fascinating.  The author states that, "God puts His heart into His work."  How often are my children and I doing work with an attitude of drudgery, do what we have to do and be done with it so we can do the next thing which will be better than this. Looking back at Colossians 3:23 and the word "heartily", the author refers to it as "adding a touch of abundance, that splash of overflow that comes from a heart filled with God." This is going above and beyond what is necessary, and doing it with joy. Now, I see that an evaluation of our attitudes toward work is in order.  People with full and abundant hearts give the way Jesus instructed: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.  For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."  Luke 6:38 Empty hearts give the bare minimum and grudgingly. The author suggests using imagination to turn a gray and drudgery job into something that blossoms with creative color. Decorating, in some way, every task we undertake. We'll find the joy of His presence when we team up with God to accomplish a task. Well, I'm not sure how this will work out into my life, but I'm starting with folding the laundry tomorrow.  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/484096/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:02:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/484096/ I like so many others had thought Creation Magazine was no longer being published when "Answers In Genesis" "upgraded" their magazine.  This is not the case. More than two-thirds of "Creation"  magazine  subscribers (appx. 24,000 subscribers) were suddenly cut off from the magazine without notice when the switch took place. If you have enjoyed "Creation" magazine, please help get the word out that it is still being published.  Thanks for reading! Creation Ministries International                                                                                  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/314014/ Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:31:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/blessed2bhome/314014/