Tuesday Games

Spring continues, as Teacher looks for summer.

Oh may the Lord above bring motivation and the realization that we are held accountable for that which He has given us, and giving children to parents to teach, is a lifelong commitment that starts EVERY morning.



Sickness brings kleenexes and games into the homeschool today.





Thanks to The Father for His steadfast love.

Friday School

Or lack thereof.

Oh, death, where is your sting?
Oh, Hell, where is your victory?

This, too, shall pass, and health shall
be restored in the name of JESUS. Amen.

Wednesday Wonders

Because this world is fallen,
and evil abounds,
sickness strikes all.

Today it is true for the Homeschool,
and there are no classes today.

Friday Sickness

Yes, we played.
Yes, we enjoyed our Thursday.

Today is Friday and now there is sickness.

No school.

Final Friday

Reaping blessings from above, the Homeschool welcomed gifts delivered from Mrs. Val and dug right in!



Student thought it was fun to BOGGLE as did Warrior...who could hardly turn around with his smile fast enough to reveal his spelling accomplishment, while wearing his shirt inside-out, we are so proud! Growing and gaining in knowledge and admonition of the Lord each day.

Also opening the Bible Dominoes and Princess addition flashcards, our box of goodies is just beginning to open! It also holds much of the needed curriculum needed for Warrior's Preschool next year. Could God be hinting at Homeschool again for next year! Can't wait to pray that we will let Him establish the work of our hands, and see what comes next!



So wonderful how Final Friday is one of our scheduled days to serve, when all we could do this week was open the door to all whom God brought over to serve us! Once again, our plans are NEVER as wonderful as His!

Psalm 20:4
"May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed."

Thursday: Feet on the Ground

It felt good.
She had been awaiting life apart from her sick couch.
Her hopes for time away from the nebulizer were being realized.
It was just a little too much a little too soon!



That fist indoor soccer practice of her life was too curious to miss, so Student went out and about and ran and dribbled and learned more about soccer than her brain has ever known. It was the wheezing afterward that brought our attention to the time still needed for a first grade set of lungs to recover from a week of illness.

And with the increase in energy and the voiced desire for food, Student was displaying multiple signs that God's time is now approaching restored health. Hard to keep a sick Student down when the medicine is at work, and so she began anaerobic activity instead, like paper weaving...



And onto other projects and games, Student hopped around and rejoiced in the day the Lord had made.

Wednesday Wandering

From room to room in the homeschool, we are wandering around looking for each child's labeled mouthpiece for a treatment, and checking the chart twice...
yes, we've hit an all-time new and un-charted sick experience:
3 sick, multiple meds each, and so we must enter the land of nursedom and keep charts. Auntie Ang would be so proud, and probably hysterical over our organizational attempts!

Through it all, once again, God has brought hope through Warrior. As he was out playing with Principal in the minutes of Winter sunshine, he found some beauty and thought of Student...



The promise given and always kept, by our Father in Heaven, that a new season is approaching, and the Crocus was the tangible evidence. Out with the old and in with the new!

Isaiah 43:19
"See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."

Tuesday News

Still sick.
Still looking for love and faithfulness from above, in our plans for good...
and God brought His love and faithfulness through Toddler today.
Really, the past 2 days he has been more than a Toddler.
His big sis is sick, and so he must step up be a helper in more ways than usual.

And so as many great men in the Bible under-go a name change after God is revealed through their life, so must Toddler: Warrior!



He's a strong helper, in his own way. With the director if Homeschool down with illness, Student, he has more opportunity to call the shots,
step-up-to-the-plate,
direct plans
and be BIG!



From dishes, helping with Mascot, picking games to play, to hunting for supper game, this Toddler has proven not-so-childish anymore. His ways of a growing boy are more obvious than ever, and it's just another eye-opening experience through out IV fluids, breathing treatments, and blood draws, that God is showing His love and faithfulness. Thank you Lord, that you are raising up a Warrior among the Homeschool. Goodbye Toddler, welcome Warrior!

Make a DIfference Monday

Could we be more surprised?
Our best laid plans...
plans for a Make a Difference Monday, were redirected!

Proverbs 14:22b
"...But those who plan what is good
find love and faithfulness."

It was to be a day of spectacular Homeschool occasions gifting love to others in the name of Christ, what else could make a Monday so worthwhile? Student had been up sick throughout the night, Toddler was finishing his cough and antibiotics, and Mascot couldn't sleep for his chronic cough. So, the day began early and unhealthy, we had high hopes for a turnaround. Rather, He had plans for finding opportunity in trial. Our plans for good, were re-routed for His plans for good.

Principal took on Mascot's ear infection and pneumonia, Toddler's Albuterol-enhanced energy, and Student's pneumonia and sinus infection ALL TOGETHER, so Teacher could go to the Dr. to check for a sinus infection and foot injury.

Alone and reading, Teacher found much time to listen to the surrounding conversations with the lack of children present. It was then, that Christ broke-in and brought love to the Homeschool and the computer showed a credit on Teacher's billing account. Simultaneously, a patient next to Teacher was informing the receptionist that he didn't have the payment for his visit could he bring it next month. The EXACT amount credited in Teacher's account was the EXACT amount due in the man's account that he didn't have available to pay. It was then that Teacher wrote a checl for the EXACT amount with the man's name in the memo and handed it to the receptionist and said that it was for Jesus on Mondays, the the Homeschool focuses on others, and apply it to his account, please...

Far above the kleenex,
far higher than the amount of Albuterol tubes emptied,
and more meaningful than our plans for good,
our God-arranged Make a Difference Monday was just the encouragement and distraction from sickness we needed to be reminded of the love and faithfulness of our Father in Heaven. He loves us, will take care of us, and provide for us. It's a promise NEVER broken!

Administrative Overkill

Yes, we know it is Thursday.

Yes, there is hope to be found in the Lord.

Yes, there is sickness, of the masses.

Principal is included on the list of casualties.

This too shall pass.

It's a promise we stand firm on.

God is good.

Praying is up,

though Homeschool is down.

Student Teaching

A sick Teacher calls for a substitute: and Student it is!

This is some of Student's photography from this Fall.

A day of activity in the backyard.

Fun-filled adventure as heroes climb trees.

A bit of Literature presented by The Muppets,

in their adaption of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

And of course the learning continued with good old School House Rock!

Student even helped with Toddler School!

A little exercise helping with Right & Left recognition. And stop-light theory.

Toddler was excited and ready to get started when he heard his name associated with school!

2 beautiful kiddos, and 1 Mascot.

We each survived the Student Teaching.

Tall Tales for a Sick Day

Yes, our first Sick Day on record. We read Tall Tales of Giants with Golden Hairs, and Frog-Brides from our Grimm's Fairy Tale Collection.

And who is this, not-so-sick super-hero?

Toddler is that hero: Larry Boy!

And that laundry pile is mine! All mine! Yet to be folded...

How better to brighten the day of a sick sister? Well, Toddler did just that!

Blessings of health in this home, we pray. Amen

Thankful

Thankful for doctors, and the help God gives us.

Thankful for medicine, and the healing God gives us.

Thankful for sick days with two parents around to give care, and the care God gives us.

Today marked our first sick day. Sure, in life, God teaches us everyday, we renew our minds everyday. But papers and pencils were kept in the cabinet and we continued breathing treatments and began antibiotics.

Student was a brave soldier and swallowed her first antibiotic capsule today! The fact that it was full of pink and purple made it all the more princess medicine! And that was all it took... it went right down and she was so proud.

As for our Final Friday, we were welcomed into Miss Margaret's home with love. We brought smiles, cards, flowers, and music. We stayed, visited and read books. We left with fresh-baked cookies and homegrown tomatoes. What a blessing for all of us! Can't wait to see how God works next Final Friday!