May 30th, 2008

What a beautiful day today! I am just reminded over and over about God's beauty and how warm he truly is. However, we so desperately need rain! But, I think we are due for some tomorrow. I have a bridal shower for my husbands, cousin's fiancee which should be fun and Andrew has two baseball games. It is playoff time! So we have yet another busy weekend.
We had a great day. Another homeschool family (2 of them) made up a scavenger hunt in one of our towns. It was a lot of fun. I had my youngest nephew and then my three kids. My best friend Kelly joined us with her three boys. We had to have walked about 2 miles. It was great! I learned a lot and I think the kids did too. What a blast! It ended at Greeley Park and we had a picnic lunch with a lot of free playtime.
I think we are just about done for the school year. We took our final test and just have to finish off with Language Arts and Math. They both have to finish that before the new school year begins. I think I am all set for the next school year but I do need a break! Yeah for sun and pool.

May 28, 2008

Well today started off a little slow. Just can't motivate myself to get things done. I think it's wanting to end the school year so bad so I can move on. Some days I wonder if I can continue this journey of homeschooling and then I look at what my children are learning and I know that it is only through God's grace that I can get through each day. There are good days and bad days. I am learning to teach through God's bible. This is what I use for my character training with the children. I am learning as well as them. Each day brings new challenges. Especially when it comes to sibling rivalry. I would like to think my children are perfect, but in reality only Jesus is the perfect one. I pray every day for patience and a wise tongue. And children that will want to please God and get along with each other. I have to work tonight and I actually cherish that time to myself where it is peace and quiet. I don't have to listen or answer anyone and I can just get my work done. The silence is nice. It is just me and the Lord. I try to listen to Him, but it is hard sometimes.
Hopefully by the end of the day things will seem better. I look at my kids faces and know that life really is great and exciting, but it brings challenges that adults have to face which make life seem difficult.

Zachy 5/27/08

Well, this is my first attempt at blogging. My reason for it is simple. My children give me many things to blog about. Zachary, my youngest is very outspoken and very black and white. He needs a lot of explanation if he doesn't understand something. But the thing that amazes me most is his love for God and people. Today, he did something amazing. I found him writing the letters E and O and then he said to me, "Mommy, this is a letter for God. It says, I love God and God loves me." Then I heard him go out the door and I said, "Zach, what are you doing?" His response(after putting the letter on the cinder blocks) was, "I'm putting this hear so that it will get blown up to space and then to heaven so God can get my letter. I want him to know that I love Him." I just cried. It is those moments that you realize how real God is. His heart is truly for the Lord and he loves God and wants to do right by Him so bad. He talks about God all the time and asks me all the time about Him. He asked me today if God ever sleeps and why God was making it night already (it was a thunderstorm). Then yesterday, he told me that rain was Jesus' tears. Everything is this world to my son is about God. I want to look at things that way. I wish I didn't get so caught up in the world that I can look at everything through God's eyes. Zachary always wants to spread God's word. He has a little bible of the New Testament that he looks at and makes "new verses" that he says God would love to hear. Why can't I see God in everything and always want to please Him in all I do. Let me put Him first. I was reading a few articles about Steven Curtis Chapman and his family and that horrible loss last week. The thing that sticks in my mind is how that family gave that little girl the opportunity to know who Jesus is and she served Him with all of her little heart. Now my prayer is for that family to heal and for their son to seek solace in the Lord and seek forgiveness that the Lord gives at the cross.
Little children are God's gift to us. And we see the world through their eyes. I pray that the Lord will help me to see the world as my darling son Zachary sees Him and wants to serve Him.