Spiritual Gifts Inventory

Earlier today, I was listening to Cindy Rushton and Kathy Butryn at the Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2008 (yes, it is over now, but you can still buy a ticket and get in on the fun and goodies). The teaching was on helping your child discover their life purpose. Cindy certainly has a heart [...]

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Trusting God Isn’t Always So Easy

Have I mentioned how hard it is to trust in God? On the surface, I say things like, “I’m not concerned about our job situation. God has taken care of us before and I know He is taking care of us now. He’s got it all in His hands.” Sounds good, [...]

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Thankful Thursday…hee hee, a day late

1. A garage. I’m thankful for my garage, because even during a thunderstorm, the fruit are able to play out there and have a blast. They have currently developed a game called “The United Kids of the Garage”. They have stores, charities, money, services to render (such as bike repair), and homes [...]

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Thankful Thursday

1. We have moved back into the new house! Mom decided that she can handle the stairs until her room is finished. She told me Tuesday that she wanted to, and I had us packed and ready to go within three hours.
2. My garden is growing! My broccoli has recovered [...]

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Habits Update

So Barbie, you ask, how is that walking going? Have you been keeping up on your habit-forming? Have you, indeed, stayed away from your beloved message board???? The answers are: okay, sorta, and YES.
I didn’t walk for awhile, because of one useless excuse after another, but I’m back on board [...]

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So Sad

This Fox News article is so sad. Steven Curtis Chapman’s five year old daughter, whom he and his wife adopted from China, was hit and killed by an SUV driven by her older brother in the driveway of their home.
Am I the only one who is afraid of this happening? I [...]

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Math Me

So this morning, while doing our Bible verse memorization - Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” Matthew 16:16. Each of the fruit, beginning with F1 and on down the line, recited the verse. After F5 had finished, F6 looked at me expectantly. “F6,” I [...]

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Comfortably Numb by Charles Barber - A Review

I have just finished reading Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation by Charles Barber. Mr. Barber spent several years as a counselor to the addicted, mentally ill homeless, as well as several more years as a researcher at medical schools. This book is filled with study conclusions, statistics, anecdotal evidence, and [...]

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Changes

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been going through a spiritual crisis of sorts. I just felt so far away from God and I knew that I knew that it wasn’t Him that moved, but me. I didn’t want to admit that however, because that would mean that I needed to do something [...]

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In Other News…

F3 needs braces. She’s only nine. The orthodontist wants to put on what he calls a 2×4. There will be a brace on her four top front teeth, with brackets around the six-year molars for stability and of course the wires that run between. She has what they call (I think) [...]

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