Saturday, September 29, 2012

It's Sammy's birthday and he needs a Jesus Storybook Bible .. can you help, PLEASE??

Ok, that was a little tricky ... not my Samuel ... he actually has a Jesus Storybook Bible

But there are many, many, many more Samuel's in Ukraine that need a bible!!!!

Would you like to help???? 
 
Then celebrate with us!!!!!
 
Orphan Sunday and Samuel's Birthday are just a few weeks away.
 
In honor of Sammy's birthday and in celebration of Orphan Sunday 2012,
we would like to raise
$1,000.00 for Bibles for Orphans.
 
They are planning to print and distribute
30,000 Jesus Storybook Bibles to orphans in Ukraine during
Easter 2013.
 
 
 
Celebrate Sammy's million dollar smile!!!
 
 
 
 
Celebrate his fashion sense!!!!!  
 
 
 
.... with a donation in his honor  ....
 
PLEASE?!?
 
Do you have $5.00, $50.00, $500.00 to spare? 
 
THREE DOLLARS will provide one bible. 
 
Surely most of my friends and relatives have $3.00 to spare  ... 
$3.00 is a super small price to get the story of Jesus into some one's heart. 
Think of what your $3.00 seed could harvest!!!!!!!




BIBLES FOR ORPHANS

You can help place God’s Word in
the hands of orphans in Ukraine!

$3
 
FOR $3 YOU CAN
GIVE A BIBLE & HOPE TO AN ORPHAN
 

Partner with Christians in Ukraine to print the Jesus Storybook Bible in their language and distribute it to 30,000 orphans.  Believers will personally deliver the Bibles to these children through a network of over 100 churches and 30 Christian organizations already working in orphanages in every region of the country. 

The Jesus Storybook Bible will be a valuable tool for churches and believers, equipping them to minister more effectively to orphans who desperately need to hear the gospel message of a loving Father who sent His Son to rescue them and bring them into His family. 




 

 
You can donate by clicking the link below and making a contribution directly to Bibles for Orphans ... these donations are tax deductible.
 
Or you can give/send your donation to us and we will make one large contribution after Orphan Sunday. Giving the donation to me, will not get you a tax deduction, but I believe, it will store up a treasure in heaven ;) 
 
If you send a direct donation, would you send me a note telling me you did so and if you are comfortable sharing the amount you donated, tell me that too.  I'd like to keep a tally of donations made in honor of Samuel.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Vikings!

In our first week of My Father's World Adventures we studied the Vikings and as a fun craft we made Viking Hats.
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, September 10, 2012

Signing for Chocolate!

How do you get a girl to talk????
 
Pull out the chocolate!
 
And she is a signing maniac!
 
 
 

Sunday, September 9, 2012

A New Plan

I am trying something new.
 
Last night we cooked about 30 eggs in the rice cooker.  If you did not know, you can hard boil eggs in the rice cooker.  I have this three-in-one rice cooker, it is a fabulous kitchen tool.  I would really like to have two of them!  I use it for all sorts of things ... including non-soaked small white beans in 45 minutes.  Anyway, I digress ...
 
We go to the early service at church and are home by 11:30ish.    I love the amount of "stuff" I can accomplish after church.  Today's plan was to make lunches for the week.  We walked in the door, everyone had marching orders.  I set to making lunch for the day and for the week.  And now am writing this post.
 
 My plan is to rotate between tuna and egg salad sandwiches with raw veggies and fruit. The idea is that the kids will grab the egg/tuna salad and someone will make sandwiches out of them.  They will also grab one tomato and one carrot container to be entirely consumed at that day's lunch.  If they want them, they can have the apple slices too.  I tried a trick I read on pinterest.  The apples are soaking in soda.  They are soaking in Hansen's Ginger Ale.  It is a natural soda, so I am hoping it does the trick of keeping them from browning.  If it doesn't, I will throw the whole batch into the crock pot and make applesauce.  If it works, I have a lovely time-saving new trick.
 
All of the foods can be served on paper plates, so the only dishes we should generate are cups and knives from making the sandwiches.
 
 
SOUNDS GREAT IN THEORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I am really hoping it will work. 
 
I have a helper here 4 days during the week.  This past week as school ramped, some mornings she helped get kids dressed (it takes us f.o.r.e.v.e.r for meals and breakfast is no exception)  she helped wrangle babies, kept our laundry caught up and helped clean up after lunches so I could go back to the school room. 
 
In this picture you see our lunch for the week.
 
 
I gave the food it's own shelf ... let's hope my grab and go plan works!!!!
 
 
If you think about it, we could use prayers. We have grueling therapy/dr appt schedules right now.  Praise God, many of them are in home and my helper is currently helping me manage his speech sessions ... BUT ...  This week we are adding hippo therapy back into our therapy regimen. 4 kids are getting hippo therapy. Obviously, we are going to the ranch for that. It will put me out of the house for three hours one afternoon a week ... prime school time ... I am hoping to come up with a really smart plan ... as to how to make up that time ... I am bouncing some thoughts around in my head, but cannot see the big picture yet .. so it is a work in progress. 
 
We are also praying about adding two additional speech therapies a week for Seth.  We feel he could really benefit from more speech sessions.  We are working on the rehabbing an injured player theory, more is better right now, work, work, work ...
 
  Here is a screen shot of my week ...
 
 
WHEW!!!!!

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Still Ramping

We are working our way back into a full school schedule.
 
Today, we brought the whole crew back together for bible.  We started by singing This is My Father's World.   We will sing that every morning ... or so ... through out the year.
 
Don't they look thrilled??/!!!
 
 
 
 
Then we read today's Proverb and colored a page to go along with it.  The whole crew was coloring ... check out Gloria's grip on the crayon!!!
 
Then, I sent them all packing ... and worked with Faith.
 
Here she is working on her creation time line and creation book
 


Hope is moving right along ... look at her writing her name :)






 
 
CHECK THIS OUT .... Seth got this toy and played with it appropriately!!!!! That is the first time he has gotten a toy and then played with it. 
 
Can you see in the picture the red puff above his eyebrow ...  he is hitting himself A LOT ... it started on Sunday and he has not recovered ... he also chewed up one of the cables for his cochlear coil today.  This is really, really bad.  Advances Bionics has been absolutely amazing to work with, but somehow I don't think "kids chewing up the pieces" is covered by warranty.  OY!
 
 

My Kindy Girl

I can hardly believe that my sweet Faith is in Kindergatern.
She will be my 4th to teach kindy to.  Should be a piece of
cake, right?!
 
 
She was very excited this morning!
She wrote her sign with just a bit of help
forming the k and the 2.
 
 
 
Today's number was 1!
 
I did not get a picture of her making
her creation folder.  We are studying
creation for the next 9 days. 
 
So excited!  She loved me reading from
the bible and kept telling me what God
was going to do next.
 
Faith will be using My Father's World Kindergarten,
Explode the Code, Handwriting without Tears, and will
be learning math facts through song and dance.  We
will actually be using a variety of different medias to
master addition and subtraction facts.
 
 
The big kids have been schooling with math and
spelling through the summer.
 
Tomorrow, well actually, later today they will start adding in more subjects.

I have been frantically planning ... and planning  ...
and planning and installing software and updating operating
systems and call in Dell customer service.

I am almost ready for the big kids!  They will ramp into their
new curriculums over the next three weeks. 

This is what I looked at and worked on for a good part of the day.

I ran into a glitch trying to mount and ISO file as a virtual CD/DVD drive.
AHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH .... can't get it to work!

 
I am excited to be back in the school room!

The big kids are using some combination of the following ...
it would be too confusing to list by kiddo ...
My Father's World Adventures
Teaching Textbooks
SOS LA
SOS Bible
Explode the Code
Wordly Wise B & C
Penmanship
First Language Lessons
Writing With Ease
Horizon Phonics
Sequential Spelling
I Can Do All Things
English From the Roots Up
The Complete Book of Time and Money
Pathway Readers "for fun"


I have the first 12 weeks planned ...