Harvest Time!!!!!!!

Sorry for not getting this up sooner. The Harvest Festival at our church was so much fun! Our family put together a booth and ran it. I came up with the idea and Mr. Incredible ran with it. Mr. Incredible and I took shifts running it, each with two kiddie helpers. The kids told me on the way home that it was their favorite part of the evening. Little Giant, Straight Arrow and Tendar Heart all wore their medieval costumes from last year's medieval feast Tapestry of Grace end of unit celebration. Nightengail created her own costume from her gymnastics/ballet clothing (not very extravagent but cute none the less), she also did her own pony tail, of which she was very proud.
Mr. Incredible left his work clothes on and just added a hat and became the crocodile hunter. I wore jeans, Superman's flannel shirt, boots and braided my hair and went hick.
Enjoy the pictures!














Mr. Incredible (a.k.a. Crocodile Hunter) gets one of our elders to try the toilet paper toss with Nightengail standing at Superman's side.

















Here we have a starwars character giving it a try. Nightengail can not be seen too well as she is by the garbage (where we put the candy) handing out the prizes.
Mr. Incredible should also have Straight Arrow with him, I am not sure where he is at this moment. I do believe that the Festival hadn't quite started yet and that these two kids were those who came with people who were running other booths.

It is that time of year again...

We have always chosen not to celebrate Halloween and to make it a special family night at home. In the past we have done everything from using it as a time to visit with my parents, get a new movie and watch it on the projector with popcorn and juice boxes in hand, we have even handed out candy with tracts and let the kids know the Jesus Loves them. We have never participated in a church harvest party since we have had children. We didn't want them to be confused why it was okay for them to dress up and go to church to get candy but they couldn't do this around the neighborhood.
Our children are now older, the oldest is 13 with the youngest almost 7. We decided this year to help out with our church's harvest party. We, as a family, are running a carnival booth! Yup! All the kids understand that we are doing it reach out the community in which our church is in and to hopefully have opportunity to minister to others who may not know Christ. What other day of the year will a bunch of non-Christians come to you so willingly? Both, Superman and I felt that we needed to step out of our isolation and do this with our kids as a family.
What is our booth? you may ask. Well....it is called the Toilet Paper Toss. I will be taking some pictures with my phone tomorrow and will post those either on Sunday or on Monday. We are all going to wear our costumes from last year that we made for our Medieval Feast, as an end of unit celebration of our History studies. Superman has been hard at work creating our booth and strumming up the idea of what it will look like. He has done a superior job and I can hardly wait to hear what comments we get.

Confessions of a homeschooling Mom

Have you ever wondered if you are the only homeschool mom in the world who sometimes wishes she could just crawl into a hole and exape back to singleness? Well you are not. There have been times that I wish I could go back to being single again. I have often wondered why this is. Why would I not want my wonderful husband and children around me??? Well, to be frank I get tired of all the responsiblities of this life. I have discovered that what I thought would bring me joy isn't what brings me joy at all. It might make me temporarily happy, but there is not any joy in "having" these things. Yes I just said that. The only joy in anything is the joy I have found in Jesus' love for me. You see I thought these other things would fulfill me. But they don't. I was left with an unguided purpose in my life. I am doing what I know the Lord has called me to do, that is home school my children. Raising them in the knowledge and fear of the Lord. Praying that He will open up their understanding and give them wisdome that could and can only come from Him. In the mean time my search for significance has been found in His amazing love. Yes, I always knew in my head and was sure I was doing all I needed to do to gain his love. However I have since learned that His love for me run so much deeper than I could ever earn. That is where I place my significance now. Where is your significance? Where is your real joy? Is it in your children? Your husband? Your job? or ministry or your volonteering? Try asking God to really show you the depths of His love and then really see how significant you really are. It is an amazing ride!

FALL???? Already????

Yup! Coach Mom says it is so I believe her! I haven't written again in a while. I just never know what to write. Have this problem with your blog too? Well I found a GREAT book from the library titled, "No One Cares What You Had for Lunch, 100 Ideas for Your Blog" by Margaret Mason.
I will be reading this and trying to find some ideas of things to blog about. So until then...TTFN

WOW! It has been too long...

I sat here this evening catching up on emails when I realized I had friends with more than one blog who actually post EVERY DAY in their blogs. How awful I felt that such a great friend would help me get this blog up and going and I wasn't even using it. Sorry T.
I decided to turn a new leaf. My new goal will be to post at least once a month. If I can do more I will post once a week. I don't spend a lot of time on the computer as the Lord has convicted me of romancing my computer WAY more than I romance Him. My time with the Lord has been very sweet lately. I have had some wonderful talks and some amazing times in His word. What a faithful, endearing God I have. If you have not discovered God's deep love, the love you accept even though you cannot earn it. Even though you didn't deserve it. You should start asking Him to show it to you. It is pretty hard to swallow at first. Yes, I have always known God loved me...in my head. I knew that it was a great love. I even knew it was deep. But I really knew I didn't deserve it and really I wanted to just earn it. Of course this made it hard to look at when He showed it to me. It was like standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking down. You get dizzy and feel a bit sick to your stomach. You begin to realize that looking over the edge with out a guard rail might not be such a good idea. Well, God's love is so much deeper and wider and dizzying to look at unless you have the guard rail complete trust in Him. Oh, I trusted God before but not in every area. I trusted that I was His, and that.....He heard me when I prayed and that.....He would....maybe not totally there...hum........as you can see I didn't fully trust Him. I trusted me more. Yup, I was my own god in many ways. Now, as I look down into His love cavern, I feel His arms wrap around me and hold me steady and I sigh...that "I am safe and loved" kind of sigh a tiny child gives it's mother or father as they let the last little bit of their day go and truly fall asleep. Knowing that their parent will not drop them and will safely put them to bed when the time comes.
Well, this isn't what I had planned to write about. I thought I would write about my weight loss journey and what God was doing in me there. Apparently that is for another time. Maybe I will blog TWO DAYS in a row!!!! Better be watching, you never know!
TTFN

Ramblings under a Beautiful Sunset

Tonight the sun was a hot pink as it set. I love how it painted the sky. I know that much of it was due to smog, but it was beautiful non the less. I am working on packing for our short two and a half day get-away. We head over the mountains to visit friends we do not often get to just sit and visit with. We moms will have a day to ourselves and then the guys will have a day to themselves. The kids will hang at the house with the moms one day and the dads another.

RT and I decided to come home Saturday for our church's first saturday night service. The church leadership just decided to switch from very early Sunday to Saturday evening. The congregation is 100% happy over this change. There will even be people we haven't seen in a while there because they have had to take jobs that require them to work on Sunday mornings. It will be nice to have a service where we won't be half asleep in the middle of it. Did I mention how much we are looking forward to this change???

Well I must stop rambling now and get the kids focused on their packing so we can leave tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow will be a VERY busy day.

Tiff is my new awesome friend!

I LOVE my new blog! I like the look and feel of it . Thanks Tiff! YOU ROCK!

Taylor'd by God

No, my blog has not been Taylor'd by God...I have been Taylor'd by God. Here is the place in which I will post some of those tailorings from my perspective in hope to encourage others who run this race with me. I am a homeschooling mom of four incredible kids and the happy wife of an amazing husband. We live hard, work hard and play hard. We love worshiping the living God and listening to His voice. We are each different individuals and yet all one unit. I hope that this is a blog that you will want to check often.