Ok. It has been requested that I blog about my ladies retreat so here it is. lol I arrived on Thursday and since most of us did not arrive till Friday we got the entire evening too ourselves. It was nice. I read my bible. I read the book of Acts. I don't know why that is just what I was led too. It was so nice to be able to lay in bed and read all evening. Then we went out for dinner. Friday we still had all day to ourselves. Of course I went shopping. The first place I went is where I spent most of the little money I had. Jennifer can appreciate it. I spent my money at a discount book store. lol I found classic novels for kids 6 for 10 dollars. So I got Tristan The Time Machine by Jules Vern,Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain of course. I also got him The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Call of the Wild. Then I got Lilly Little Women and The Secret Garden. Two of my all time favorite books. These are the condensed versions of these books specially set up for young readers. I hope they will like them and then want to read the entire book one day. I also bought Tristan The Box Car Children. One of my favorite books at his age and also , I found out later, one of my mom's favorite books. He is really enjoying it and it is one of the books he will read to get his book it award this month. I bought myself Wuthering Heights which I have always wanted to read. Then I found the best deal of all. I found the book that includes all of the Narnia books for 8 dollars. Can you believe that ? It is usually at least 22 dollars. I was so excited. Now I don't have to keep checking them out of the library. Tristan was excited too. He loves these books. Now it is our bedtime story. We are on The Horse and His Boy.

Of course we also had a full weekend of devotions based on the book If You Want To Walk on Water You Have To Get Out Of the Boat. Lots of lessons on Faith, Courage, and How big is your God.

These retreats are always not only refreshing because of the fellowship and rest time but they are refreshing to my faith and devotion to my God. I think we need a mom's retreat for out homeschool group. Don't you? I am very blessed to have a husband who will take care of three kids all weekend because he knows how I need these retreats.  Oh and he is getting pretty good at it.