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One of My Favorite Homeschool Items and Thirty Days to Give Thanks: Day 27
One of my Favorites: I thought I would share with you a favorite homeschool item. It is such for both myself and for Little Man. It is the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary. This book is not like most dictionaries. It has the basis, yes, but it offers so much more. There are full color graphics on every page. There are labeled illustrations of many words as well as diagrams of things like escalators, clipper ships and termite mounds. It also has inset information about subjects like world history, spelling and grammar tips. I often find when assigning spelling vocabulary and dictionary work, that Jonathan get’s caught up in studying the…
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Marriage Moment:Waiting for an Open Door, Give Thanks Days 25, 26
Marriage Moment: Sometimes we are tired. In our marriages we just get so very tired. We work day in and day out to keep our marriages strong. In addition to the relationship work of marriage there is the life work, the career work and in my case the homeschool work, there is the service in the Lord’s body, there is mommy and daddy work, friend work and on and on. Life requires work and has since Adam and Eve were sent out of the Garden of Eden because of their sin. Right now my husband is working weekends as a freelancer. Why? He hasn’t secured a new full time job…
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This Week…. School & Thanksgiving with Friends
This Week…Monday was a school day here at the Academy. .Literature: The Golden GobletWe read all of chapter four. Ranofer has decided to confide in his new friend Heqet. The two of them decide that Heqet can tell to the goldsmith Rekh what has been happening with the gold. The devise a plan that will allow for Ranofer to be left out of the loop. But before they can make the plan work Ibni presents Ranofer with another wineskin to give to Gebu. Ranofer, afraid of Gebu’s terrible fists, takes him the wineskin. Gebu surprises Ranofer with some copper coins for which he will gladly buy himself some food.Science: This…
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Walk in the Spirit
In our Sunday evening worship our minister, Anthony, has been doing a study of the Spirit and how he works in our lives. We have mostly been studying from the book of Colossians. For the past few days this verse has been coming to my heart. I believe it goes along well with the study I have engaged in on sanctification. I’m sure we will come across this portion of sanctification in a future study, but it has so been on my heart that I decided to share it here. Galatians 5:24-26 NKJV24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let…
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Marriage Moment: How Does He Love Me? and 30 Days to Give Thanks Link Up
Marriage Moment: How Does He Love Me? How does he love me? I am such a flawed and imperfect human. Yet he continues to love me despite myself. He loves me by seeking my own good above his own. He forgives me when I treat him wrong. He guides me in step with the Father’s will, because he loves my soul as much as he loves my life. He still reaches for my hand when we walk beside of each other. He still opens doors for me. He carries heavy things so that I don’t have to. He willingly helps around the house, even though I have told him he…
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This Week… Studies and Socializing & 30 Days to Give Thanks Day 17
This Week…Oh I am so tired after all the planning for this weeks Thanksgiving festivities at our homeschool group. Bible: Progressing forward in Exodus, Jonathan began to walk with the Israelites out of Egypt. He read how the Lord led them by a pillar of cloud during the day and a pillar of fire at night. We talked about how He still leads us today through the study of the Word and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. He read how that rather leading them the shortest route to the land of Canaan, He diverted them toward the Desert of Sin, or the Sinai Peninsula because if they went through…
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30 Days to Give Thanks Day 15 & 16
This is a bit late. But I have been busy for several days prepping for the Homeschool Support Group’s Thanksgiving Celebration which happened today. Day 15, Today I am thankful for my dear loving friend Joyce. Who is more than just a friend. She is a surrogate mother to me, she is grandmother to my son. She has stepped into our lives in a beautiful way bringing love and joy far beyond anything I could imagine. She encourages me in her words and in her deeds. She only ever speaks kindness about others, and even when she gets upset she never speaks ill about another soul. She has laughter in…
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Marriage Moment: Absence and the Heart & 30 Days Link Up
Marriage Moment: Absence and the Heart My Beloved is now travelling on the weekends for freelance work. First, I am extremely thankful that the Lord is providing for our family in this way. Yet, when he leaves I feel a little pang of regret that he will be away. We’ve all heard the statement “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” For me this is very true. For 9 months before we got married Beloved and I were in college in 2 different states. I thought my heart would explode from the pain. It’s not that bad now, I do believe I have matured a bit with age. Yet, I do…
