Green Eggs and Ham

Okay, I've just been at a pretty cool website that you can check out if you'd like.  It is very educational and I have learned that I despirately need to go back to school!  Okay, so maybe now one of my reasons for home schooling is slightly selfish!  What a way to learn it all again - teach it to your own kids.  Wow, I actually think that some of the stuff wasn't even covered in my classes (especially since I was in the state rated #50 for education)!  It's pretty outrageous if you ask me.  I can't believe how much I didn't know.

We have been receiving a fabulous magazine called Answers, and I've been learning so much from it and my mind has been getting more and more curious.  I'd love to go back and concentrate in the areas of math, science, and history.  I've always loved writing and the elective courses, but now I appreciate the others so much more.  I liked math in school, but then it got too complicated for me.  Now I want to explore it, learn how the universe works and learn from our history and more about the government.

My life is great, I love staying at home and raising three children.  I think that is where my deeper appreciation of learning has stemmed from.  My oldest son asks so many questions and I've got to stay ahead of him!  Thank you for asking so much!  He really gets me thinking. (and he's only 6!) 

Well, a lot is going on in life, for all of us!  To get specific here, there is an abundant amount of activity keeping me on my feet!  I have thought about re-doing this blog completely, but so much has gone into it, I can't get rid of it.  So from this point on, I have a new title and a new theme!

As I've previously written, I'm involved in the education at our church.  We have also decided to begin home schooling this year (after kindergarten is over).  I am so excited about all of this and I want to be sure and chronicle what we do!

We love to read as a family at night before the kids drift off into dream land.  Of course, we read at least a chapter of the Bible every night and a couple of books from the kids shelves.  One of the favorites has been Green Eggs and Ham.  Jo is reading now and has read a few pages from that book to us.  It is so awesome to hear and see him read to us!  Very often throughout the weeks, we refer to it in our daily living and we've used it to help teach the kids some concepts about life.  Often times at dinner, one of the kids will say something like, "I do like green sagna!"  That would be lasagna, after she had said she didn't like it then decided to try it.

So, since it is so often refered to in our family, this space will now be entitled Green Eggs and Ham!  I will be writing about the adventures we have in learning and those in teaching as well.

I cannot believe how much time has flown by since my last post.  Sorry about the depressed nature of the last one.  Things are awesome in my family (as always)!  Really, I could not ask for better!  Our new son is 4 1/2 months old now and I am so busy!  Lots has gone on in the last several months.  Aside from having a baby, we have taken on quite a bit at our church and things are going great!  Well, I just wanted to let anyone who reads this know that things are good.  Maybe I'll find the time to post a few updated pics too.

 

Blessings to you all.

My son has started kindergarten this year.  He is in school to learn.  And boy is he learning.  At the rate he's going, he will be reading small books by Christmas.  I'm proud of him.

 

But this is a time of learning for me to.  I'm learning about my daughter.  She is quite the little girl.  How can I sum her up?  I don't know if I can, but I will try.  She just turned three on the 20th.  She is upstairs right now, hopefully dreaming away in princess land.  She has quite a vocabulary and loves to talk.  She does not like spiders or flies.  Her favorite colors are purple and pink.  She is a princess, and learning about being God's princess.  She dearly loves her brother, but they don't quite know how to get along.  I suppose that comes with sibling territory (I know it did with my sisters)!  She is very motherly, and can't wait to help me with her baby brother (in seven weeks)!  She loves to look through books, and be read to, but only when she wants to.  She does (unfortunately) like to watch some television (we need to work on that one).  She honestly wants to help and be kind to everyone.  She wants people to be happy and when they are not, she wants to know why.  She loves to cuddle with her stuffed animals and loves them all the same.  She is very independant; puts her shoes on by herself, needs little help getting her shirt on, doesn't really need help with pants.  But I think she still wants to be the baby.  She has no desire to be potty trained, wants her binki back, and speaks baby talk now and then.  She loves chocolate, and would rather eat sweets than a real meal.  Her favorite foods are mac n cheese, soup, bread, and peaches.  She likes to color (and not just on the paper).  She likes to run and play ball with the "big boys."  She likes tea parties and cooking.  She likes to help clean up now and then.  She does work on shining her halo when her brother gets in trouble.  She loves to jump, and is trying to jump down the stairs (with my discouragement she's trying not to).  She loves to have the Bible read to her.  She sings twinkle little star so cute.  I think she likes to be spooked, and she likes all the halloween stuff she sees.  She is resisting nap time, though I'm not ready for this and I am not too sure how to handle it.  She has definitely had me questioning my parenting now and then.  It is a constant struggle to stay on top of things.  She wants to do right, but definitely tests our boundaries.  She does not want to dissapoint, especially her father.  She dearly loves her daddy, and is so excited to see him come home at lunch or after work.  She loves Bible class.  She has her own language, in which most of the words have pooka or pica somehow in them.  She has a smile that demands a "yes."  And loves to use that look on her daddy.  She likes a chase.  She loves art.  She wants to find the beauty in everything.  She likes going on walks.  She is a daughter of the KING, and we are trying to bring her up in His Word.  I pray that we can channel all of her lovelies and not so nices into the right direction.  I am so thankful that God gave her to us.  I hope that I can continue to learn about her and maybe understand her.

 

I've also been learning other things.  Perhaps I've taken on too much these days, but is it too late to say never mind?  Should I say it?  What would that do to the people I love and am doing this for?  Maybe God is growing me.  I've had so much on my mind and yet, I've got mush brain.  I still do not like to do house work and I've learned that I really need to get over that.  It could possibly be one way that I need to show love to one in my family.  Don't get me wrong, I work to keep it clean, but to the minimum.  Mornings are rough on me, my body likes to stay up and then it's terribly hard to wake up in the morning when I really should.  I have an ideal in my head that I want to work, but how can I change myself?  I'm learning that perhaps in my writings, the use of the word "I" might be too much.  How can I make it work?  How can I decide on a schedule, and then make it stick?  How can I get rid of old bad habbits?  How can I make the new better habbits stronger?  How can someone live knowing that the next day they may be moving again?  How can I develop and cultivate friendships, only to know that I'm going to loose them some day?  How come when one works so hard to cultivate a long distance friendship, the other end doesn't put forth the same effort?  I can make new friends, no problem there, but how can I keep the old ones - the golden ones, when they never make any contact?  How can I show my in-laws that I love them, and accept them, without worrying that I'm not perfect enough for them?  How can I be a friend to her?  How can I have the heart of Ruth?  Why do I feel so disconnected from them?  Why do I constantly feel that they look down on me?  I've made it my goal for the year to be a better Sendy.  I feel that in most ways I've been accomplishing that, but in one area, I'm not sure that I'll ever be good enough and that scares me the most.  How can I let go of that?  How can I help my friend who's experiencing so much pain?  How can we fight through the lies?  I guess this is life, it has to be lived some way.  I guess the only thing for me to do is to keep trudging through it all.  Try to keep my head up.  Try to keep my faith.  Wow, I didn't mean for this to go down.  But those truly are the questions on my mind.  How can it all be accomplished?  I get it, I have to lean on God for the strength, I believe he gives it to me, but what am I supposed to do for all of this?  Why can't anything ever be laid out so easy to see and know?  Maybe I'll never know.

 

I just hope that one day I can learn...