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How is your school year going?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:19:00 -0500

Well, we have had a slow start. First, we had our covenant ceremony, then it was the clean up and rest of such a day, now w have a musical and choir performance in 2 weeks. It seems like we barely have time to breathe, let alone do school.

Rebekah turns 7 tomorrow and is well on her way to being an avid reader. I can't believe she will be 7. Where in the world did the time go???

We are having a Reformation History Day here at the house on Sat. Since, we don't do the trick or treat thing, we are going to watch some DVD's on the history of the Reformation.

On Monday we have to butcher 21 chickens. That will be a learning experience in of itself. The day will be great though. We will be spending the day with our pastor and his family, and that is a real blessing.

LaVante is also doing The national Day of History this year. Anyone else doing this? It is a little intimadating all the research he has to do. He wants to do it on some sort of military history event.

Finally, we are in the starting preparations for Thanksgiving.We have a few friends who will come by here and our once again opening ou home up to co-workers who don't have a family to be with. I love sharing the holidays with people who are in need, but more importantly I enjoy sharing Jesus with them.

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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:40:00 -0500

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Happy Father's Day

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:01:00 -0500

Hey everyone. Happy Father's Day!!! Sorry I have been MIA, but life as been hetic. I hope and pray that everyone had a wonderful day celebrating and honoring the father's in their lives. We had a huge crawfish and shrimp boil, here. My father in law and his family came from Louisiana and hung out for the day. It was great. We really enjoyed showing him and my husband honor, today. Whew, it was hot though. Over 105 with the heat index. So we cheated slightly. We ran the fans in the dining room and ate inside. I have to mop, but at least we didn't melt.
Tomorrow will be clean up day then Tuesday is back to school day. We will hit the books hard until the end of July when we will be going to Houston to my Father's renewal of his vows. We will be there for almost a week, then back to school.
We are praying about the possibility of moving to Houston later this year. Please pray with us for that. We want to be completely in God's will.
Well, I think it is time for another cold shower and then bed( well, scratch that I have to go peel 30 pounds of crawfish)

Husband having surgrey

Thu, 28 May 2009 07:13:00 -0500

Well, that is just the way it works. Right? I had our new year all schedules and planned out. We were suppose to start. And. Wham, my husband gets a bad hernia and is having surgrey for it tomorrow. I know it is minor surgrey, but not on my husband it isn't. he doesn't even take asprin without a fight.

Please, keep him in your prayer for safety and healing and keep me in your prayers that I don't worry to death.

Mississipp homeschool conference

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:22:00 -0500

This weekend we all went to the Mississippi homeschool conference. It was great! It was the first one we went to in 6 years. We were encouraged beyond measure. We are so hyped and ready to go. Doug Phillips was our keynote speaker and that was very cool. My daughter went up to talk to him and told him we have his dvd's and that she was trying real hard to be a blessing to her mommy and daddy. My son was in Generation Joshua and learned how to make an ammendment. He loved it so much that he has declared he is going to patrick Henery College andwill be a lawyer and then on to Congress. I am so glad that he was encouraged to work harder at home.

Now, we are home and I will spend the next 2 days putting away books and getting the house organized. Then it will be time to hit the books.

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Thu, 14 May 2009 09:40:00 -0500

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Sunday Morning

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:57:00 -0500

Well, here it is Sunday morning and my house is quiet. I am almost always the first one up and enjoy the peace and quiet before the day takes off.

Today we are visiting a new church. See, last month we were asked to leave our church because we would not send our children to children's church. Even though my children were never disruptive, the church as a policy about children under the age of 13 being in the main service. So, now we are visiting other churches. Hopefully we will find one that we can stay at until we leave for North Carolina.

After church we are going to the park for a BBQ and prayer. When we get home we will watch Extreme Home Makeover as a family, then do our family devotions. This week we are studying the Family Toledoth by Doug Phillips. The dvds How to Disciple Your Family are wonderful. We are also studying Genisis in our Balancing the Sword book.

All, that is left is to get together anything I need for the upcoming school week. I am adding extra Bible since both children are signed up for the Bible bee in Sept.

We are moving

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:07:00 -0500

Well, it has been a very busy month and an half. We went to PA for the missions confrence. It was great. Our faith was challanged and stretched. We met some wonderful people.

We enjoyed spending time together as a family. This was our first real road trip. We took lots of pictures and stopped at every welcome center in 5 states. We went to Hershey's and Gettysburg. Both were a hit, but Hershey's definitely smelled more appealing.

We got to stop and visit two very special families that we had not seen in years. First we stopped to see my husband best friend from high school. We had not seen them since Rebekah was only a few months old. The second was a family that has been key to our spiritual growth for the last 5 years. Or hearts were very blessed to see them again.

Before we left for PA we had been asked to leave our church. See, we would not send our children to children's church, but instead had them sit quietly in the main church with us. I do not feel like I needed to get up and fuss to get my children ready for church just to have them go play for 2 hours. Well, on the way home God spoke very clearly to both my husband and myself. We were moving to NC. We had never even thought of going to NC. My husband hates snow and being in a place that has real possibilities of getting any was not in his plan at all. But when God tells you to go, you go.

So, now we are looking for a house. My husband put in applications at different places. We already found a good family intergrated church. We are preparing to move whenever the call comes in. We are all totally excitied.

We started the new school year after we got home. LaVante is doing MFW EXP - 1850 and Rebekah is doing MFW K. Both are enjoying it imensly. I even had LaVante ask if he could do extra in English. I about fell out when I heard it. rebekah wants to school on Saturday's. So, I guess those are about the best signs you can get that what you are doing is working.

He Passed!!!!

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:26:00 -0600

I just wanted to tell you all that my wonderful husband passed his state test for Massage Therapy. He is now certified. I am so proud of him and thankful to God that he passed.

Not much going on here. We are getting ready for our trip to Penn. We are so excitied. This is our first road trip (that didn't involve a sick dying person) outside the southern states. My children will also get to see snow for the first time. I just finished crocheting my husband a scraf, now I need to make LaVante one. My best friend, Tara, made Rebekah one.

School is going pretty good. We are using the online site ALEKS for math with LaVante and he really seems to be doing better. I think the fact that the pc can repeat over and over the lesson when he needs help is a big benefit. Rebekah is slowly starting to read.

Well, I will talk to you all later. I need to go fix hubby something to eat.

Hey People!!

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:56:00 -0600

It has been ages since I wrote. Thigs are going great here at the Lemar household. We started working as a family at a camp ground and that has been wonderful. We are really enjoying it. School is going good. We are waiting for our next year's stuff to get here. We will be doing MFW Exploration to 1850.

Next month we are going to Penn to go to Charity church's mission confrence. I am so excitied. We have wanted to go to one for years.

I just had my birthday. I recieved a new chronilogical study bible and I really love it. We are doing great as a family. Hubby graduated from massage therapy school and is now going to the seminary. We are looking at trying to move into the country so we can become more self sufficent. We really think this is needed given the current economic status and government. We also think this will be helpful in keeping our family close to each other and God. We are having a few issues at our current church, but are growing strong no the less through family devotions and the like.

Well, I better get back to school. Just thought I would drop by and say hi.