Latest card I made. This one is for Gary’s mom – Grandma Douglas.
Happy Birthday, Grandma!!!
Preschool Today
Sisters, sisters,
There were never such devoted sisters.
All kinds of weather
We stick together
The same in the rain or sun
Two different faces
But in tight places
We think and act as one.
Little Girls
By Edgar A. Guest
God made the little boys for fun, for rough and tumble times of play;
He made their little legs to run and race and scamper through the day.
He made them strong for climbing trees, he suited them for horns and drums,
And filled them full of revelries so they could be their father’s chums.
But then He saw that gentle ways must also travel from above.
And so, through all our troubled days He sent us little girls to love.
He knew that earth would never do, unless a bit of Heaven it had.
Men needed eyes divinely blue to toil by day and still be glad.
A world where only men and boys made merry would in time grow stale,
And so He shared His Heavenly joys that faith in Him should never fail.
He sent us down a thousand charms, He decked our ways with golden curls
And laughing eyes and dimpled arms. He let us have His little girls.
They are the tenderest of His flowers, the little angels of His flock,
And we may keep and call them ours, until God’s messenger shall knock.
They bring to us the gentleness and beauty that we sorely need;
They soothe us with each fond caress and strengthen us for every deed.
And happy should that mortal be whom God has trusted, through the years,
To guard a little girl and see that she is kept from pain and tears.
We are also very grateful for our little boy – Garrett – and our big boys!
And our little girl who is rapidly becoming a big girl – Fiona!
Garrett and Fiona, our Favor, Favor, always remind us that no matter how bad things look, we are surrounded by God’s Favor. They are our Power Twins! We also call them Faith and Patience – The Power Twins that inherit the promises.
Motherhood is not for the Fainthearted
Homeschooling Is…
Homeschooling is…
Family schooling – learning how to be a real family in a culture that has declared war on families
– learning how to do family God’s way
– learning how to live life together with our children
– learning how to develop loving relationships
– learning how to inquire of God about everything concerning our family
– learning how to cultivate a love for God in our children
– learning how to produce a sense of belonging and security in each member of the family
– promoting a love of family and cherishing your own family members
– introducing each child to God and demonstrating our relationship with God and love for Him
– teaching our children to trust God and letting God reveal Himself to them
– praying together every day
– praying for our children to know that God is real and the Bible is true
– praying for our children to have a hunger for the Word
– encouraging our children to get to know God for themselves
– doing everything out of love without selfishness and teaching our children to do the same
– praying that God will reveal to us gifts and talents of each family member and how to sharpen and improve them and use them for the Kingdom and to provide for ourselves and others
– praying for guidance to find out God’s purpose for our family and each member
– working together as a family in ministry (the way He tells us to do it!)
– producing income to finance Kingdom projects that God lays on our hearts
– letting God have His way in our family
That’s what I believe homeschooling is.
Today I joined the Link-up at A Wise Woman Builds Her Home:
Being Creative with Fiona and Emma – Making Cards
I finally found a use for some of the scrapbooking materials I’ve been lugging from one state to another in my big, heavy scrapbook case. Making cards! Anna has actually made quite a few cards in the last several years, as I released my death grip on my beautiful and revered scrapbooking stuff and hesitantly let her cut into the papers and use the stickers and other supplies.
Now I have actually let myself cut into the papers and use them instead of hoarding them. I’m using them to bless others. And it feels good! I’m letting myself take some time to be creative. Always having a baby around was a major deterrent to getting the stuff out, but now my baby is 5, so it’s time! I still had to chase my baby away, because she stepped on one of my pads of scrapbook paper and wrinkled several sheets of it. I also found that there was some water damage to some of them, but they are mostly intact.
I am finally at a stage where I can actually like my finished product, too. What a victory! This is big for me. And I’m having fun.
Emma making a card for Grandma and Grandpa’s anniversary
Fiona using real scrapbooking supplies for the first time to make a card for Grandma and Grandpa.
Fiona’s card
Fiona’s envelope
My card for my Mom and Dad’s Anniversary
My card for Aunt Laura’s birthday. She will be 93 years old!!!
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
