JANUARY 28, 2008

Just a little note. If you have watched 'Over the Hedge' than you know about Stella. Well we may have 'Stella' living under our back deck. Every once and awhile we have a scent of skunk. Not alot but just enough to let us know there is something there. Ed will be putting down some flour to see if it is true...to see if there are footprints at night. We have had some of our trash pulled apart....after the boys were told to take it to the trashcan and they "forgot". I'm hoping there isn't any 'Stella' there, I don't know how we will get her out without full-blown smell!

We had a good day today. As always we did our devotions. We are using the KJV Bible with Volume 1 A Family Devotional Guide by Crown Christian Publications; Heartwarming Hymn Stories by Lindsay Terry; Family Time Story Devotions By Edlon Weisheit; and tomorrow will be our last day using: You Can Change the World by Jill Johnstone (The Children's version of Operation World.). They have loved this book so I might try and put something together for Tom to do a quick lapbook or something of the sort. We had been using the 'Mr. Pipes' series by Douglas Bond but I have to order the last book. Excellent series...I may have said that in an earlier post. :) I'm going to add the book 'Boys and Girls Who Became Great Missionaries' by John Theodore Mueller, after tomorrow.

We started our paper mache' projects today. Becca is doing a fairy, while Tom and I are doing dragons. Right now mine looks like a viking boat. :) It should look better when I add the wings and legs/feet. (I am taking pictures).

Katie did do a page of math...she's only 4 1/2 so I'm not expecting much. She's the one who wants to do it. She has been doing very well with her alphabet and the sounds. She only has trouble with the sounds of x,c/k, g/j. Ana has been saying her alphabet alot and does count some. She wanted to "write" today so she just got paper and pencil and did her little lines. Tom is getting much better at math. I would say by next year he will have no problem with BJU 5th grade math. Right now we are just using 'The Complete Bk. of Math' that you can get in the stores. I think it explains each type of math problem very well.

A friend of mine from a Christian Homeschool Forum sent me a flyer she made up for some types of birth control causing early abortions. I have believed this for a long time but I wanted to see her flyer. It is very well written: In it she has "If life begins at conception, then this is an abortion"...meaning, what these bc options do is to stop the fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. So, that fertilized egg, that baby, never had a chance. I think we need to take a really good look at what we are doing to our bodies and to the unborn. People seem to think children are a nuisance, or more than 2 is way to many BUT, God doesn't. He says to be fruitful and multiply. Children are such a gift and we treat them like they are a plaque. Yes, people have said things to me that have not been very nice, but I (we are happy) with the many children we have. I can't even imagine not having one of them. We need to listen to God not man. In this day and age people are wanting more to save animals and plants before saving a child. So, if anyone would like one of these flyers I'm sure I could ask my friend to send me one for you.

I have to say that I have been thinking alot about the above because I have read quite a few blogs lately .... these wonderful women are carrying children with Trisomy 18...The baby usually passes away very shortly after birth. They have chosen to give this child life...even if it is just for a few minutes. To us that seems like no time but to God it means alot more. Also, I have been reading the Confessions of a CF Husband blog and this young couple now have a beautiful baby,....with the mom having Cystic Fibrosis. They have given a child a wonderful chance at life. God can do marvelous things with this child. If only all the people thinking of abortion would really find out the truth of what happens when they do that. And, how blessed they would be if they gave that child life.
Psalm 24:1--The Earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.