What drives your day?

How do you decide what your plan of the day will be? Do you plan every moment and get stressed if it does not go "your" way? Do you have a loosely laid plan but transition easily when changes occur? Do you have no plan and fly by the seat of your pants all day, then at the end of the day wonder where the day went? Well, I have had days like each of these above. But my goal is balance. I plan our day loosely, we have routine and responsibilities but I want my days to be used as the Lord wants them used. I desire to be on the look out for moments that He sends to direct my day. I must be prepared for my day, but also prepared for other things.

What's on the menu today?

Breakfast: Waffles (extras from another day that I have frozen)

Lunch: Undecided

Dinner: Moose stew with corn muffins

May the Lord find us faithful.

 

this lady knows

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/PreschoolersandPeace/257413/What+Non-Homeschoolers+May+Not+Know.html

I just thought this was worth being read, also to remind those who homeschool that it is part of our job and we should treat it as that. We just have a priviledge that most do not appreciate. I count my being able to be at home a priviledge and I do not take it for granted.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Pondering the purpose

I have been avoiding blogging because I am carefully thinking about the purpose of my blog. I know that I want to be faithful to God and be found faithful. I know that I want to bring glory to God only. I know that I need to read what other homeschoolers are doing. I know that I do not want to just have something to do for fun. To me this is serious stuff. So, as I ponder the purposes, be patient, I am here, I am checking your blogs regularly so keep posting.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Homekeeping

In my wanderings around in cyber world, I look for information about homeschooling, homekeeping and cooking. It was not until today that I realized the coralation between all of those things, they all deal with me continuing my education as a keeper at home. So, while others with secular jobs continue their education working towards masters and doctorates to gain promotions, etc. I will just keep continuing my education. It won't yield a promotion, for I am at the top of my pay scale. I cannot attain a higher promotion. I can only learn to do my job better and do it more proficiently. 

May the Lord find us faithful.

Dress for blessing #2

 Here is a dress that I am making for blessing #2. I indeed need to sew more to get practice but I am trudging along. The zipper is actually the best I have ever put in but it is by no means a good zipper job. I still need to hem and give it a good press.

May the Lord find us faithful.

power outage

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We had a power outage last night and this is how the blessings passed some of the time. We also made shadows on the wall. The electricity was only out for about an hour and a half which is a long time for our area, usually our electricity is off for only a few minutes. It was -40 degrees last night and we were very thankful we put in a wood stove when we built on to the house.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Truth

Good Monday morning!

All is well here in Alaska with a temperature of -35 degrees. We are staying home today!!!  We will get a lot of school and household chores accomplished today as a result. So, we are quite joyfilled this morning and warm at home.

We start a new ladies Bible study every January at our church and this year the book we are using is "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy DeMoss. I have a quote from the first chapter. "Regardless of the immediate source, anytime we receive imput that is not consistent with the Word of God we can be sure Satan is trying to deceive and destroy us. What we read or hear my sound right, may feel right, may seem right- but if it is contrary to the Word of God, it isn't right?" (p.32)

How true this is, especially us as ladies, we need to know what the Word of God says so we know what the truth is, not just what some one tells us.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Friday

Happy Friday we had made it through the first week of 2007. Enjoy some family time tomorrow with those you love.

May the Lord find us faithful.

 

New Year

We made it into the new year very quietly. We went to church Sunday night like always and there we had our watchnight service. A couple of years ago our Pastor decided that since we lived in Alaska we would change our new year's eve service to ring in the new year on east coast time, thus 8 pm. So, we have been doing that the past couple of years and it has been great for our family. We can get the kids home and in bed at a decent time. And we can get to bed early also. So, we were all asleep when midnight came.  My husband had Tuesday off due to President Fords memorial so we had another day off from  school to spend with Dad. So, we had some fun on the snowmachines again.

May the Lord find us faithful.

20 below

It is 20 below today. A good day to stay in and we did.

 I decided that for Christmas I would give my husband the gift of me getting healthier. I have not told him yet but I decided none the less. I have been struggling with no energy since Thanksgiving. I have stretched myself and I can feel it. So, I decided to eat healthier, I have very little appetite lately, so I eat breakfast and more vegetables. Plus, I have decided to get outside every day unless it is colder than 20 below. I just came in from my outside time for today. I walked for a few minutes and promptly came in, but I have made it two days now. I also try to go out during the daylight hours for the sun.

May the Lord find us faithful.