Blogger Friend School #116

 

#116 Now You’re Playing With Power (Nintendo)

Memory Verse:

Genesis 7:24 The water held power over the earth for 150 days.

Introduction: The only witnesses to the Flood are Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives - 8 people.   And then there’s the animals, 2 of every unclean animal and 7 pairs of every clean animal. When Noah and his family emerged from the ark, they offered sacrifices and praised the Lord for preserving them.

Assignment: What kind of catastrophe have you lived through? Weather? Fire? Car crash? Did you feel the oppression of the power of the disaster, or the protection of the Power of the Lord?  Tell us the story of how you rejoiced and praised Him through it and after it.

Thank the Lord I have not been in any major fire, weather realted or car catastrophies but October 3, 2005 is not a day I will soon forget.  Joshua (who just turned 2) was sick with a cold and pretty congested.  He came to sleep with us that night (which he never did he always prefered his own bed).  He tossed and turned all night in between Jay and I and we were up several times with him.  We seemed to have finally fallen asleep when all of a sudden Joshua scrambled up and over Jay to get off the bed.  We didn't know what was wrong and then realized he couldn't breathe.  It not only freaked us out but him as well.  We were calming him down and as he would try and breathe his whole chest would cave in and out.  He could breathe but it was very shallow.  We decided to rush him to the ER.  We woke up the girls and loaded them all up.  On the way there we finally decided to call 911 (which we should have done from the beginning!) The ambulance met us at an intersection and I went with Joshua and Jay took the girls to his dad's house.  They started steroid and breathing treatments right away.  He had croup that turned strider and was blocking his airways.  Jay met us at the hospital and we were there most of the day.  I knew Joshua was sick because my very energetic boy was just laying there.  After some time on the breathing treatments he was starting to perk up and could breathe much better.  I knew all was well when he looked at me and said "Thank you mommy!"  Ok that is when I lost it.  I think I had adrenalin rush and just kept going with the motion of everything and when Joshua said that the reality of it all sunk in.

God was there with us through it all.  We were praying non-stop even out loud in the car.  It was a "God thing" that Joshua came to our bed that night.  I would have to say during it the reality never hit me like I said above until it was all over.  Of course we were praising God afterwards and ever so thankful for His protection.

Psalm 61:1  Hear my cry, O God; give heed to my prayer. (NASB)

A B See Photo Meme

This Meme looks like a lot of fun and one I want to include the kids in on.  It will be great for the little ones to work on their letters and Anastasia can take the pictures with her new camera.  So be sure to watch for our posts on this.  If you would like to join in the fun click here.

Great Bible Study

I am keeping up with my resolutions so far anyways! I wanted to share with you the book I am using for my personal devotions.  It is Becoming the Woman God Wants Me to Be  ( A 90-day guide to living the Proverbs 31 Life) by Donna Partow.  I am on day 2 and it is great!  My friend Melanie introduced me to it and started a small group.  The best part is Donna Partow started a large group on line on facebook complete with videos that you can watch to go along.  What I really like about it is with the videos anyone can jump in and start at anytime.  Day 2 has us working on commiting to a daily time alone with God (TAG) I am working on setting up my own prayer area  where I can do my study each morning (before the kids get up!)  This is my challenge so please pray for me that I can stick with this commitment. 

Are you looking for a new devotion one that will give you a jumpstart on the year in so many different areas of your life; faith, family relationships, health, business, home managment, ministry and more then come join me in this venture and check out Donna's website at: www.donnapartow.com 

This Weeks Happenings

We are back to the grindstone this week. Well kind of anyways. We are trying to get back on track. It is so hard to get up early when it stays dark outside later. This month I am not teaching at co-op so I just drop the oldest three off so there probably won't be many pictures of what they are doing. This past Monday Alexa, Natasha and I ran errands- post office, Costco, bank etc. Tuesday was PE and we got the basics done for school. Then today Joshua was so excited started a unit about Dinosaurs. I am using materials from both Homeschool share and learning page . Homeschool share has a great lapbook that is creation based and learning page has a wonderful wall mural to color and add the dinosaurs too. Did I mention it is all for FREE!!Today we were coloring maniacs and colored the wall mural, everyone helped. Then Joshua is going to color the dinosaurs and add them to the mural as we learn about them.

Here is the mural hung on a wall in our school room. If you can see the picture at the bottom, that is the one Alexa helped with. She wanted to be a part of it and as long as hers was hung on the wall she was happy!

Next the dinosaurs took over Joshua's train table as he set up a display of them. (I didn't realize how many he had!)

Jurrasic Park meets Starwars! Only in a boy's mind!

A wall to contain the T. Rex's

Notice the cans in the background?! I was making Chili one night for dinner and Joshua was helping and then asked if he could have all the cans for building with. (Who needs blocks or legos???)

The rest of the week we are going to get started on the lapbook activities and read in Genesis to see when God created the dinosaurs.

It has been hard motivating Anastasia this week to get going and school work is taking longer to finish! Hopefully the rest of this week we will get started back with her US history. We are studying the states and early American history. However I should say since we got a Wii for Christmas it has been a good motivator for all of them for accomplishing things because it is not aloud to turn on until all school work and chores are done!

I need to get going we have dr. appt, picture appt and park day today so I need to go get in the shower before everyone else wakes up!

How is everyone else doing at getting back into the swing of things after the Christmas break?

BFS Assignment # 115- Prayer Box

Memory Verse: Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 2 - To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

Intro: My Prayer Box is a unique personal declaration of faith. It’s a place for our family to lock our worries, wishes, desires and prayers–even keepsakes or photos of loved ones. It’s about gathering thoughts and prayers that allow us to pursue dreams and to recognize that we are never truly alone. My Prayer Box represents faith, which is a force that allows us to believe in things—things you can’t hold in your hand, but can always feel in your heart. Here is a post about prayer boxes and how to get started using them, it’s not too late since it’s early in the year.

Assignment: Tell about your prayer box, if your family has one that you peruse at New Year’s Eve or New year’s Day and share those prayers, thoughts and acts of faith on the next year.

What a neat idea! We used to keep a prayer journal but we have never kept a prayer box. Upon seeing this assignment I have been thinking a lot about it. and I am trying to come up with a neat and unique box to use. We talked some about resolutions with the kids and I did a post about it but I think we will make a prayer box as a family. We can talk about it this Friday during our family fun night. I will incorporate it into school this next week and have us write out some prayers and then put up our box with our Christmas decorations to save for next year. As soon as I come up with a box I will post a picture of it.

The Simple Woman

FOR TODAY January 5th, 2009...

Outside my window...  It is still dark and quiet

I am thinking...  It is going to be a busy week but I am glad to start school back with the kids.

I am thankful for... My husband and his balancing act of many full plates

From the learning rooms...We are getting back into our routines of  school today.  Off to co-op today.                                                         From the kitchen... there is lots of left over mexican food and I need to clean out the fridge.

I am wearing...pj's still

I am creating...lesson plans for a unit study on dinosaurs.  I am also making a master grocery shopping list.

I am going... to work on getting Natasha to sleep through the night this week.                                                                                                        I am reading...Becoming the Woman God Wants Me To Be: A 90-Day Guide to Living the Proverbs 31 Life by Donna Partow

I am hoping...to stay on track this week with houshold chores and school

I am hearing...soft music playing and a baby sleeping

Around the house...Everything is still sleeping it is all quiet.  I just woke up to nurse the baby and I need to go back to sleep!

One of my favorite things... burning a scented candle.

A few plans for the rest of the week...to co-op, dr. appt. picture appts, park day and shopping this week



Here is picture thought I am sharing...

This is one of my favorite Christmas pictures of the kids!

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Homeschool Memoirs # 19- 2009

 

Today was just a nice day staying at home.  We were busy though taking down all the Christmas decorations!  It took the better part of the day.  Then Jay made a great steak dinner for all of us.  For dessert I made rootbeer floats and some New Years Resolutions.  I didn't want just a meaningless list that would be forgotten by February so I made it short and sweet in no particular order:

1)  Continue with my weight loss goal.  I have posted before how Jay and I are doing Weight Watchers.  I have lost 20lbs and he has lost 25.  Now that Christmas is over we are ready to get serious again!

2) As a family memorize two Bible verses each month.

3) Get a better handle on balancing housework and schoolwork.

4) We will be moving to a new house and community sometime between March and July and I would like to start doing things now so that it won't be so overwhelming when the time comes.

5) Save up to take the kids to Disneyland in September.

6) Set aside more time to sew and do other crafts with Anastasia.

7) Continue to really focus on Character training with the kids.

8) Find a time of day where I can stick with doing my own personal devotions and prayer time.

I think I will stop there for now  .

What are your New Year's Resolutions better yet what do you do to help keep them?

Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying their rootbeer floats.  Savannah however requested a rootbeer float with out the rootbeer!  Anastasia didn't want her picture taken, it was a bad hair day!