Why I Home School: What I have learned (so far)!

I am a married 42 year old Christian home schooling mom, and this is what I have learned after 8 years of home schooling my two sons. 1. It DOESN’T look like what I had envisioned………and that is o.k.! 2. It may NEVER look like what I had envisioned……….and that is o.k.! 3. My boys may…

Be Intentional and careful about the Ideas you pass on to your Children!

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will…

Intentional Parenting

INTENTIONAL=  1. done with intention or on purpose; intended: an intentional insult. 2. of or pertaining to intention or purpose. *Synonyms 1. designed, planned. See deliberate. What is Intentional Parenting? I believe Intentional Parenting is doing what you know needs to be done even when you are tired physically, emotionally and spiritually. It means doing what you know is best even…

Parenting encouragement as you search for advice…

I am blogging over at Habits for a Happy Home today about this thing we call parenting………… How do you know what to do?

Quite time with the Lord for Kids

Updated today Dec. 29, 2010 was originally posted Sep. 29, 2009 He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there. Matthew 14:23b I have always read the bible, bible story books and devotions to my two boys. I play Hymns, Contemporary Christian and even some Christian…

Habit of Working Together (and great backyard bird resource)

Quote from an author at the blog called Habits for a Happy Home I’m so proud! I have known Kellie since high school. Yearbook staff, out with our big group of friends. She even survived going on a family vacation with us and a passel of cousins. She and I ended up at the same…

Today is for Reflection

I started reading a  book called Have a new Kid by Friday by Leman two days ago and I am almost finished with it already. It is a very quick read and I am really being inspired by it or should I say I am receiving a good kick in the pants. That’s o.k. though…

Habits for a Happy Home

If we have been successful in establishing a habit there will always be another one we have to establish, one that we need to work harder on or worse one we have to reestablish. This is true in training ourselves or in training our children. Just when you think you might have a habit established…

Habits for a Happy Home

See my POST for this week at the Habits for a Happy Home Blog: Mother’s Owe A Thinking Love to their Children.

Habit Formation:The Habit of Crying out to HIM!

Last week I wrote “What about our own Habits” and I was writing it because “MY” habits have been on my heart and mind often, thanks to the Holy Spirit. I do say Thanks because I NEEDED to seriously contemplate “MY” habits. In many areas I do Not have good ones, therefore I am not setting a…

Habits for a Happy Home: Habit Formation-What about our own Habits?

 What about our own Habits? “Each of us has in his possession an exceedingly good servant or a very bad master, known as Habit” (Vol. 4, Book 1, p. 208).  “Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future…

Habits for a Happy Home: Habit Formation

This relation of habit to human life––as the rails on which it runs to a locomotive––is perhaps the most suggestive and helpful to the educator; for just as it is on the whole easier for the locomotive to pursue its way on the rails than to take a disastrous run off them, so it is…

Habits for a Happy Home

Please visit the home of Habits of a Happy Home today! I have submitted a post from my series called “Today is for Reflection” and it is titled: A Habit of Walking with HIM, no matter what I also want to encourage you to check out the first post in a series on the HHH…

Why I Home School

I love that our ‘school’ days can include Biblical and Church History along with the traditonal World and American History. While learning about other countries we can find out the spiritual needs along with the basic facts, find out about missionaries past and present that have ministered in that countryand pray for the people of that country. I…

Habits for a Happy Home: Habit of Quality Time Together

Please join me today over at Habits for a Happy Home

Habits for a Happy Home: THE HABIT OF GETTING YOUR KIDS to CREATE AND THINK!

  I am posting at the Blog: Habits for a Happy Home! Check it out HERE.——Be Blessed!

Check out this Inspiring Blog

You have got to check out  my good friends blog, she has such wonderful ideas about everything!!! She is also such a gifted writer and she loves the Lord with all her heart!! Right now would be a great time to check her blog out because she is posting every Friday with Holiday ideas that will truly…

The Habit of Knowing

I am blogging over at Habits for a Happy Home  so please go on over and check it out!!

Walking with HIM!

Ann at the Holy Experience blog invited us to “Consider sharing in community thoughts on memorizing Scripture“. At this time in my life I look back and regret not spending more time memorizing scripture. I know the word and I can share a lot of scriptue but I can’t share many of them word for word or tell…

The Habit of Remaining Calm

Calm- make calm or still;  steady: make steady; “steady yourself” become quiet or calm, composure: steadiness of mind under stress; not agitated; without losing self-possession; sedate: cause to be calm or quiet  Wow, that sounds like the total opposite of who I am but my heart is to be this way when it is needed, when…