Our Pretty Daughters

Anna Banana

Kizzy Wizzy

Kalista Wista

Pictures!! Yay :)

We finally have our camera back from Nikon...it broke during our TN trip only a couple weeks after we bought it and I waited all summer on it getting repaired.  So now we will be able to add pictures again to the blog.  Praise the Lord!

Thankful

The storm came through on Saturday/Sunday evening with no ill effects for us and the sun started to shine on Sunday morning.  I was expecting alot worse from the news reports.  We had a storm last Thursday that was worse than the weather we got from the hurricane!  I know for other people there was damage though and I am grateful to be spared.  Life is beating down on me hard enough in other areas. 

Waiting on the Hurricane..Gazing on Him

Well we are all here waiting for the storm to start.  The sky is grayish-white (kinda looks like it does when it's going to snow) and there is light rain and wind..nothing much happening yet.  I am comforted knowing that God controls the storm!  He is in charge of the wind and the rain.  If we get through this unscathed we will praise Him!  If the basement floods, we'll praise Him!

Just Some Humor..

Earthquakes and Hurricanes and Homeschooling, oh my!  Earthquakes and Hurricanes and Homeschooling, oh my!

Whose Slave Are You?

As I struggle to keep up with my homeschool curriculum and get all the things done that need to be done in a day I ponder, whose slave am I?  Am I a slave to the My Father's World curriculum?  Honestly, on most days, it would appear so.  This cannot be!  I am only to be a slave to God.  Nothing in my life should be mastering me or directing my footsteps over God.  It's easy to fall into a trap..to begin to be led by something that God himself even brought to you!  Clearly it was His hand that brought this curriculum into our lives but He doesn't want me to lift the curriculum higher than Himself.  The curriculum is a guide but He is my ultimate Guide.  I need to be sensitive to the Spirit and remember that my kids are continually learning..whether they are doing their curriculum or not!  God help me to remember this again tomorrow.  Help me to keep my peace and joy and not allow anything to master me except your gentle loving hands.

Homeschooling, Earthquakes & Jesus

Well we have been back to school a little over a week now and the routine is in full swing.  I am trying to figure out how to juggle all the demands of teaching a kindergartener, (2) 2nd graders and providing accountability to an 8th grader...and was stressing out a bit yesterday when my body called for a bathroom break.  As I was sitting on the throne, the house began to shake!  At first I couldn't figure out what it was and then as the shaking and noise got louder it was obvious that it was something very large and coming from beyond this house!  At that point I started to freak out and I quickly jumped off the toilet and got out of the bathroom to find the kids..but then it was over.  We opened the front door and a couple of the neighbors were out and talking about it.  It's really crazy when your life can feel out of control emotionally..when things can feel unstable..but to have the ground beneath your feet moving..well that is really nutts.  I am so glad that God is in control of the days of my life and I am resting in the fact that he holds the lives of me and my family in his hands.  It was a humbling to experience the "shake" and it reminds me that I need to be about my Father's business.

Matthew 24:3-8 says,
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and the close of the age?"  And Jesus answered them, "See that no one leads you astray.  For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ', and they will lead many astray.  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars.  See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.  All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

The earthquake reminds me that Jesus is coming back and His return is imminent!  We need to be ready and the most important thing in our lives is our relationship with Him.  Being right with God is of the utmost importance!  He is coming back on the clouds to take His church with Him.  The church are those who believe in Him..and those left behind are going to see a period of time on this Earth that is worse than the World has ever known. 

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