Well, I have so much to catch you all up on. First, my husband and are back together and have rededicated our loves to the Lord. Second, we brought LaVante home from school and are homeschooling again.
Let me see if I can quickly explain what happened. At the beginning of the year LA and I decided to move in together to help each other out. We lived as roommates. Well, God had other plans for us. He moved us acroos the street from some wonderful godly people. About three weeks after we moved in the man across the street came to talk to us about the Lord. LA told him how we were married but getting divorced and how we were both backslidden/ This man and his wife spoke to us without condemnation but with love about how we needed to turn back to God. A couple of days later we did. A couple of days later we got back together. Last week we were both baptizied and are in the process of renewing our vows.
After we got right with God it was only natural to resume homeschooling. So here we are. The children are doing great and both my husband and I realize that without God we just wont make it.
Thank you all for your prayers.
Not much time to write here. Between working two jobs and going through the divorce I just had time to stop by. Everyone is doing great. The kids have adjusted very well.
Carol, I have no clue what your email is. email me at
patricialemar @ yahoo. com
Thank you for all the prayers, will give better update when I can. Gotta go to work.
This will be my last post. My marriage fell apart about 1 month ago. My husband left me for another woman and filed for divorce. My children were placed in public school and I am working 2 jobs to try to get on my feet. Thank you all for being here for us. We can still use all the prayers we can get. I love you all and pray that all goes well.
Trish
Thank you everyone for all the prayers these last few eeks. I am doing much better. It was really hard there for a while, but with the thoughts and prayers from so many I made it through.
My husband as started another new job. He just was not happy in the pizza buisness anymore. He is now overseeing the opening of a new Cajun place. It is great. It is open 24hours, as a bar, and a cyber cafe with it, and is right next to USM.
The children and I are doing great in school. With LaVante we are focusing extra hard on Math and English. Rebekah is doing great at learning ABC's and numbers.
I have been working out a lot. I am now down 3 dress sizes. I am thrilled, but still not where I want to be. I am really carefull in what I eat and drink. I am also working out two times a day.
Well, I guess that is all for now. Talk to you all later.
It has been a long time since I updated. First I was super sick. I ruptured my eardrum, had strep throat and got pink eye. I have no idea where it all came from.
Then my husband and I went to class so we could take our life insurance test. We are selling it, health insurance, mutal funds, and mortages.
Then we had birthday's, both mine and my husband's. We watched the Super Bowl, but our team lost.
Then yesterday, i got word that a friend of mine killed herself the day before yesterday. Her neighbor found her. i am really upset by it.
I guess that is all for now. Talk to you all later.
Today my son turns 10. I can't believe I am old enough to have a 10 year old. LOL. I am sitting here thinking back to when he wa born. I had a very difficult pregnancy. I was in labor from 22 weeks until 33 weeks when I delievered him. At almost 7 weeks early he weighed 8 pounds. Once he made it home from the hospital he was an easy, laid back baby. He slept through the night from 6 weeks and didn't get sick for the first time until he was 18months. He was always laughing and smiling and had all the ladies in love with him. He loved being around people and loved noise. We use to take him bowling with us at 2months and he would sleep through. As a young child he was content, curious, and full of laughter. He woke up smiling and stayed that way through the day.I am proud of the young man he is becoming and cant wait to see what he does with the rest of his years.
So, if you get a chance today, please tell him Happy Birthday!!!!
Yesterday was very busy. I took my husband to work, did school, ran errands, went grocery shopping, made chili, did laundry, cleaned up, and picked my husband up from work.
In case any of you are wondering what we are doing for school right now I thought I would let you know: Math: Singapore, math blaster cd-rom English: Writing Strands, Daily Grammar, English From the roots Up, Cursive Practice, and spelling list I make myself. Science: The World of Animals, and Reptiles and Amphibians for Dummies. Geography: World Geography Bible: Book of Devotions- Attitude
Throw in some PE and that is what we are doing right now. We are enjoying it. At the end of the month I will be adding typing and Spanish.
Well, I guess I will talk to you later.
I think I am going to spend the rest of the night resting and watching some of the Bond movies that are on.
LaVante is playing Madden with daddy and Rebekah is riding her bike in the dining room.
Happy New year everyone. Last night my husband got home with 17 minutes to spare. We were able to bring in the year together, praying.
We have had a pretty busy day here. We started school back up. Right now we are doing a hodge podge os stuff until our new comes after our tax refund. It is good though. I had a bunch of stuff that had been bought and never used and now we are using it. If all goes well we might not start the next year of MFW until Sept or so.
I made gumbo for us to eat today, got laundry done, so all that needs to be done is dishes and picking up the bedrooms. My husband is off tomorrow so we will take the day off and work oround the yard if it is dry out there. We need to rake and pick up leaves and clean up the shed.
I made a couple of resolutions this year. One is to read two books a week. Last year I read one a week and really enjoyed it. Second, I want to keep my blogs updated more. As of yesterday I have four of them. Dh signed on with myspace so he could keep in touch with friends, so I signed up so we could comment on each other's. Third, is to be more organized in my homeschool. I am still going to be relaxed but I want to keep better notes on what we are doing. The last one is to be a better wife in every way. This includes working on losing weight so I am more attrative to my husband.
Well, I guess that is enough for now. We need to go do our PE.
Merry Christmas!!!
I hope you all have a wonderful time this weekend. We will be driving down to Louisiana tonight to get the children. We are having our Christmas Eve bonfire at my mil's. Tomorrow will be spent driving around south Louisiana visiting friend's and family. We will be home sometime tomorrow night.
I thought I would catch you all up on what is going on here. First this month I celebrated my 15th name day. See, I was adopted 15 years ago and had my first and middle name changed( I was adopted by my paternal grandparents so my last name was the same).
Second, I was able to spend a lot of great time with my husband. We went out some and stayed home and really reconnected. It was great. I am renewed and ready to go when the kids get back tomorrow.
Third, we found out our landlord is selling our house. He offered it to us, but we couldn't get it as we have horrible credit. Then God stepped in and the landlord offered it to us on a rent to own deal, interest free. Can you believe it. So we are going to buy the house. It means we will stay in Mississippi for a couple of years more but that is okay. I love this house. Well that is all that is going on here. See you all later.
1. Eggnog or hot chocolate? I love eggnog
2.Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? Depends, if from me they get wrapped, if from daddy he gives it to you when he buys it
3.Colored or all white lights? I love them all colored
4.Do you hang mistletoe? no
5.When do you put up decorations? The first week of Dec
6.What is your favorite holiday dish, excluding dessert? Stuffed peppers
7.Favorite childhood memory? The year we decided to do Christmas after candle light service, we all changed into our night clothes, then took movie star pictures where it looked like morning but our hair and makeup were perfect.
8.When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don't recall, I just knew one year and everyone was happy because no more early wakings
9.Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve? Sometimes
10.How do you decorate your Christmas tree? I usually do it all by myself
11.Snow! Love it or dread it? I love snow
12.Can you ice skate? I have no clue. I use to skate but haven't in 10 years
13.Do you remember your favorite gift? Yes, my wedding ring
14.What is the most important thing about the holidays to you? Sharing Jesus with others
15.What is your favorite holiday dessert? Cranberry tart
16.What is your favorite holiday tradition? Going to look at lights
17.What tops your tree? An angel
18.Which do you prefer giving or recieving? I love to give
19.What is your favorite Christmas song? The carol of the bells
20.Candy canes, Yuck or Yum? Yum
Hey all. It is so cold here. It is 28. I live in the south, it is not suppose to be this cold. Oh well, maybe we will get a bit of snow this year. I can always wish.
The children are doing great in Louisisana. They will be home on Christmas. My husband is loving his job. He bought me a car last week.
I have the house clean and am going to do some baking today (just to warm up you know :)
I have continued to lose weight though not as fast. My husband likes for me to eat when he does and when he was gone I was lucky to get one meal in a day.
Well, I guess that is all. Talk to you all later.
We are down to one week. School is almost over. Here is what we did this weekend.
Bible- We read the book of Nehemiah and wrote five sentences on the rebuilding of the wall.
English- We did three lessons in Daily Grammer and two handwriting pages.
Math- We did five lessons on adding money
History- We read about Greek drama, science, and philosophy. We read three Aesop stories and two Greek myths.
Science- We read one chapter in Archimedes and the Door os Science.
Spanish- We worked on the spelling of the numbers of one through thirty.
My husband will be home in two nights. We are working on making pies and homemade cranberry sauce today. We are still going to Louisiana on Thanksgiving and the children will be staying there until Christmas. we will also be doing the last week of school work today. Talk to you all later.
Only two more weeks worth of school left. I am ready for a break. Here is what we got done yesterday:
Bible- we read the book of Esther and LaVante wrote a summary.
Math- we covered money and adding and subtracting money.
History- we studies the Greeks and Persians at war. We rad two more stories about Greek Myths.
Science- we read a chapter out of Archimedes and the Door of Science.
Spanish- we went over our months again and their spelling.
When we are done with our history and bible we will continue doing science and math. We are always working on spanish and I am printing things for Grammer. We will start Rome to Reformation after the holidays.
That is about it for yesterday. Talk to you all in the morning.
Hey all. Is it cold where you are. It is chilly here but I love it. We are on a fast track to finish school by Thanksgiving, but I will tell you about that in just a bit. First a recap in what we did for school yesterday.
We finished week 31 in CtG. We are both happy to be in the Greek time now.
Bible- we read a few chapters in Daniel and wrote a paper on The writing on the wall.
English- we did two lessons and a test from Daily Grammer. We also did two pages in our handwriting workbook.
Math- today we covered our 10x's table and division table. We took a small test which LaVante aced.
History- We read about the Medes and the Persians. We also read two stories from Greek myths and eight stories from the Aesop for Children.
Science- We read a chapter in Archimedes and the Door of Science.
Spanish- we learned our months and praticed writing them in Spanish.
That covers the school part. Now to everything else. Rebekah was sick the last few days but seems to be getting better. LaVante is trying to finish his work since we are going to Louisiana for Thanksgiving. The children will be staying there with my mil until Christmas Day. They were suppose to go from Christmas until my son's birthday in Jan. but we changed it. They will go down again Jan 8 and come home on the 11 of Jan so dh and I can be alone for ann on the 9.
Dh is doing great at training. He is really enjoying himself. I can't wait until they give us a store in Texas next year.
Well, that is all I guess. Talk to you all later.
Hey you all. I just thought I would give a little update on us.
We just finished week 30 in CtG.
In Bible we covered Judah's fall, Daniel and the King's food, Nebuchadnezzar's dream. and the fiery furnace. LaVante wrote a paper on Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
In English we did the first 3 lesson's in Daily grammer. We also did 2 pages on handwriting.
In math we covered our 4's in divison and our 5 x's table.
In History we learned about Athen's and Sparta. He wrote a paper comparing the two.
We read from Aesop for Children and Archimedes and the Door of Science.
We worked on some Spanish, also.
We have been up all night as we watched the Star Wars marathon. We watched all six movies.
Dh is doing great. He is even staying late to practice which is making the trainer notice him. He did wake up to snow the other day, but other that that and missing us so much is doing great.
Well, I guess I will talk to you all later.
Please support this homeschool family!!!
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Hey all, I know it has been a long time since I posted. Here is a recap of what we did in school yesterday.
We finished up week 29 in Creation to the Greeks,
In Bible we studies Jeremiah and Babyalon.
In English we took our final assessment test in the yellow book of LLATL.
In Math we worked on our 4x's tables some more.
In History we covered Babyalon more in depth.
I also let him do some work on the Time4Learning page. We are trying it out and I will post a review of it in a few weeks.
My husband is in MN doing his training. He is enjoying the work so that is a great thing. We all miss him but we are getting ready to start cooking for Thanksgiving pretty soon. My husband will be home the day before.
My daughter is getting sick but my friend who is a nurse came a checked her out last night and said it was most likely this cold thing that is going around. I pray it is since I don't have a car.
Well, I will talk to you all later.
I just wanted to tell you all thank you for the prayers. My husband got the job with the pizza place. He starts Monday by flying to MN to train at the Mall of America. He will be gone from Monday until the day before Thanksgiving. He is really excited.
On the plus side this company is opening stores all across Texas and will let us move there in a few months if we want (of course we want to).
Thank you all. Please keep praying for a car for us. Our van died and we are in a rental right now. We wont have the money to buy and car until tax time, so we will stay in a rental on the days dh has to work.
Talk to you all later.