Adventures in Home School

Our family has come to the decision, that the best education and environment for our sweet kids is for me to home school them. I am looking forward to this time with them and all along praying that we will have success. These days the funding for public education has been cut so much it is a disservice to both the teachers and students. We are passing kids through an educational program that is no way setting them or our country up for any well rounded future. Not to say that there are plenty of teacher putting in over time and their own funds into our children and their education. I am just ready to regain control of these children of mine, and if the only reason for me to send them off to school is to have less kids at home and "free time" then I am not doing my giving job as a mother. I have 18 years with these precious children, to pour love and knowledge, and pray to God that they are contributing members of society. My years with Galilee as a child are HALF way over, she is turning 9 years old this month, action needs to be taken now! I am ready, hoping, and praying this all goes well.

This is my 3 year old Felicity-Reese, I know parents say it all the time about their kids growing so quickly, and that time flies, it is truth (unless we are talking about homework time, then it seems to d...r...a...g... on). I was talking with a sweet friend of mine today, whom I met here on blogger world, she gave birth October 13th to her rainbow Ava, and she says time is going so quickly. She cannot believe her precious little one has been home for over a week. So I am happy to hear I am not the only one thinking "WOW if I blink I'll miss it". I am enjoying many parts of age three with Felicity (not everything,for instance look at the hair), she has started story telling, not just any story telling but stories that crack her up! I love it, and she tells the same 3 stories all day long and I cannot get enough of it. She is also such a great big sister to Quinn. I love this girl! And I cannot believe she is 3 years and 5 months old.

The simple things

I love the simple things in life, such as a thunder storm in summer, and sunsets. I got both of these beautiful things on Labor Day and we celebrated my younger brother and his wife moving into their new house, they closed escrow and moved back to San Diego this weekend, they were living 2 hours away (not far) but I like that they are now 5 minutes away!

My sweet Quinn woke up in the middle of the night sick with a fever, but she was so sweet and chatty I just wanted to stay up and enjoy her gibbering away, pray she gets better.

I really feel blessed and I know I use this word so much but I am thankful for, who I was made to be, and who has graced my life with their presence, I strive each day to be who God has meant for me to be, I feel like there is so much to be done in this short life. What will you do to make your mark?

Saying goodbye to summer and gearing up for a busy week

I was meaning to post this 2 weeks ago, a local church was putting on a pretty neat event for the community, it was a clothing exchange for the new school year. I just happened to be leaving my house with some bags to drop off at the Salvation Army when I read a flier my kids brought home from VBS a couple of weeks prior, it was about the clothing exchange happening at the very moment. It is so wonderful to see people coming together to help others, and it is really awesome to see it at church. I went and dropped off old clothes and picked up new ones for my kids. As I was there the volunteers were getting Moms at the local taco shop to come and get clothes, one Mom was just so over joyed, this is just was she needed for her little boy, she squealed with excitement and her older daughters early teens were happy to help their Mom find the right clothes. Everything was set up in a nice organized fashion, folded clothes on tables sorted by gender and size with signs to point you in the right direction. Thank you Pathways Church http://www.pathways.cc/ for being a blessing to my family!

We are getting ready to start the School year, I have a 3rd grader and a 1st grader starting on Tuesday! I am sad for summer to come to an end, but I am praying for a GREAT school year. 3rd grade was one of my favorite years of school, I hope Galilee has a very awesome school year, and I love hearing all that Owen is learning about. I will have 6 hours to send more focused time on my 2 sweet rainbow girls, I am looking forward to that time, we are joining a Mommy and Me group as well.

So here's to, homework, packing lunches, shoe finding, teeth brushing on the way to school, backpacks, and arriving on time! Wish us luck!

I feel like blogging

I feel like blogging but I am not sure what about, there is so much. So I went to check my photos to see what about, we have beach days, Disneyland, Sea World with friends, tea parties, lemonade stands, bears, Pirate Ship Adventures, park days, theatre award shows, summer is in full swing and all at once soon to come to an end, Mylove starts back school (well going into school, he took 18 units this summer) he goes back in 10 days, it has been nice sleeping in next to him each morning, but all good things must come to an end, and the bed get to be made before 10 am each day yahoo! Some reason if the bed is made a bit of my heart is content, I have always felt this way. Ok back to summer and it's end, the kids have just over 3 weeks left, I don't even want to think about what madness that brings to my life, I'll blog about that at a later date.

I have blogging A.D.D.

Now I want to talk about the 2nd Annual Remembrance Gathering put on by Sweet Pea Project http://www.sweetpeaproject.org/remember I am not savvy enough to make that link to just say sweet pea, I will be hosting San Diego's event along with Tara, and Bridget moved so we are hoping this year she gets to come down for it!

Oh maybe I should update on my last post; Save, Give, Spend. There is money in each Jar, we re so good at the spending jar, Save Jar could look better, and give jar I was able to give towards http://www.active.com/donate/holdenuganda/teammichigan $6 not much at all but when a lot of people come together big things can happen, it takes about $2000 for 1 well to be built but with that 1 well it means water for hundreds of people! I will be looking for more things to give towards and hoping to continue with The Holden Uganda project as well!

Living life each day with purpose to bring Him glory. Feeling blessed as I lay in bed with my lap top, internet, and my snoring 3 year old.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8

Today I had an idea so I am putting forth what has been laid on my heart.
Save, Give, Spend
This concept isn't new, just the way we are going to go about it is new for us.

SAVE: Pretty easy to understand save for future us. Easy to understand not as easy to put into practice for us. Labeled RED for STOP don't touch!

GIVE: In this jar is the money we can use to bless others; family or friends in need, church, the homeless, or special non profits that speak to our hearts. Labeled YELLOW for pray-fully consider who to bless.

SPEND: No need to explain this is our extra spending cash. Labeled GREEN for go ahead and spend.

Over two months!

Sorry for being away so long, many things have gone on in the past 9 weeks!

~Galilee and Justin's show opened and closed "The Music Man" Justin did a great job directing and Galilee was so sweet up on stage

~Justin had a birthday during the shows run so we really haven't celebrated

~We had a double rainbow birthday party for Felicity and Quinn, they are growing so quickly before our eyes!

~Katie and Cassie graduated high school!!

~Esther had her 4th heavenly birthday, we had a Esther bear party where family came over and got to make their very own Esther bears.

~The kids are out for their summer break, so this means a lot of swimming, beach days, and trying to keep 4+ kids entertained, we get to have nieces, nephews, and siblings over during the summer.

~Justin became a pirate(fun stuff)

~Mylove(justin) and I celebrated our 9th anniversary!

~Our wonderful friends The Crews had their darling rainbow baby Jason, he is so perfect and beautiful!

A lot going on, we are blessed with love, family, and friends! Sorry I don't have more photo's to go along with this blog (I am on the wrong computer)