I’m a blogger, but I’m also a mom, a youth leader in our church’s youth group, homeschooler, wife, maid, chef, and taxi driver. If you’ve noticed my quiet blog, just please bear with me while I get myself back into a groove again. I am going to combine everything into my Weekly Wrap-Up for Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers. I have missed a couple… a few? Weeks of wrap-ups too!
The last two weekends I’ve been out of town. Two weeks ago it was for Snow Camp, which was fantastic, and this past weekend it was to attend the baptism of my 15yo daughter, which was out of state. Many of you know that she is living out of state, at a girls Teen Challenge program. She is over halfway through, and we are all looking forward to her being home this summer. Last weekend I flew down to be there when she was baptized! It was exciting and awesome and fun too. She and I got to spend two whole days together and had a wonderful time re-connecting. God is so good!
School this week hasn’t gone so great. D1 was really off-task yesterday (read, jumping from one place to another, couldn’t sit down, couldn’t stay focused to save his life). Friday went better but still it was difficult. I am praying next week is better. We had quite the up & down week, both with school and personally. A few large disappointments, although God tells us that we can’t put our hope in men, and so disappointments are inevitable. However, outright blatant sin in the body of Christ is especially disheartening. Needless to say E & I have both been pretty bummed out this week. And yet God is faithful! We cling to that.
P finished up her classes at the high school yesterday. The semester is over, and her three classes are finished. We won’t know the results of her finals until late next week, and I am praying she passed her Holocaust class. She doesn’t “NEED” it for her NARS graduation credits but it would sure be nice if she could get the credit for it. She will continue her online English classes through BYU (yes, the school is LDS, but the classes aren’t, and neither are we). It is a good class though! Once she finishes her English credits (1.5 through them) she will graduate through North Atlantic Regional High School. YAY! For now, just getting some sort of a PLAN in place– “What are you going to do now?”– is the priority. The rough plan is: Do her classes, get a job, get her driver’s license, start part time internship at the church… not necessarily in that order… At least, for the remainder of this school year. In the fall we will re-evaluate the direction she is heading and plan accordingly. (OH, TEENAGERS! You make me CRAZY!)
Oh wait, did I say that out loud?
And finally, my last iron but one of my favorite and most important, reading the Bible in 90 Days! Yes, I am still on schedule. Today was Day 29, with the reading of all the geneaologies in the first half of 1Chronicles. Yawn. I know I should be a little more excited about that so I really TRIED to show interest. How? I underlined the names of all of the WOMEN mentioned in the geneaologies. That forced me to pay some attention to what I was reading, anyway. =) Surprising how FEW women are mentioned, and under those circumstances, that they WERE mentioned at all. Some of the names I am familiar with, but others I have never read before. They listed them in the geneaology but not in the Scriptures thus far. Weird. Still, I am LOVING this Bible reading. I am falling more in love with God’s Word every day. I am more thankful every single day for the sacrifice that God made, sending His Son Jesus to take my place. THAT is the main thing I am getting from this. Praise God for His overwhelming love and grace!!
Oh, a cool tool I found for help with the Bible in 90 Days reading plan is YouVersion.com. Sign up for an account with your email address, and then you can access the Bible in 90 Days reading plan, either online or on your iPhone or iPod Touch. I use this with my iTouch. You have to set your starting date online through your computer though, because if you sign up today from iTouch it will set today’s date as your Day 1, even if you began on 1/1/10 like I did. But you can download different versions of the Bible for offline use, you can go to Today’s Reading (if you’re online) with the click of a button, and keep track of your reading. There is also a cool Journal feature, where you can journal about each day’s reading… of course, if you are blogging daily then you wouldn’t need this any way. I’m not, but I’m also not journaling there. Still, it’s a neat feature. You should check it out.
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