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No Power
I hope my dear blogging buddies aren't hanging out for an enlightening post... as this will just be a quick update on our week, or part thereof. The week has been all over the place! We received notice that our electricity supply would be cut off on Tuesday for line...
5 Reasons Why Websites Make Changes
Facebook recently changed their whole layout. As is typical on Facebook, a large number of groups and pages were created by users to express their anger and frustration. Groups such as "I hate the new FB. Give us back the old layout!" and other such titles. The number...
Daily Quiet Times
I don’t want to play the game of religion. I don’t even want to play the game of Christianity. I want to know God and I want to walk with Him. There was a time when I felt secure in my life because of certain ‘religious’ activities, but God has been pruning these things out of my life, showing me how unimportant they really are to relational living. This post about my devotions and quiet times.
Quick Catch Up
A quick catch up is better than no catch up eh? John is back at work and he leaves tomorrow morning at 5am...he returns on Friday. He will have to be away a lot this year. I don't mind it so much while he's gone. It's the preparing to go and the first day that I hate....
Avatar Movie…an interesting teaching tool
Ah, well I offered my thoughts (in the form of a comment) on a Jeanne's blog post so thought I might as well as post it here as well. Why not, it is my blog after all. Regular readers of my blog will know that we're a Sci-Fi lovin' family. We get to explore all sorts...
The Work of a Teacher
"The actual work of the teacher consists of the awakening and setting in action the mind of the pupil, the arousing of his self-activities… All explanation and exposition are useless except as they excite and direct the pupil in his own thinking…We are now ready to...
When To Start Homeschooling
"When a baby is picked up, spoken to, and loved, he is starting his education as God planned it. For all our lives we are human beings, in an active state of learning, responding, understanding. Education extends to all of life. In fact, an educational system that...
True Education
"True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness." ~J.R.R.Tolkien~
Joshua Harris: Proverbs 3:7
Proverbs 3:7 says, "Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil." Joshua Harris uses a beanbag chair to illustrate how we often fail to "turn away from evil." As analogies go, it isn't perfect in its illustration but the point is still real...
Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness with a click
There is something happening on Facebook at the moment. It involves posting a colour as your status update. I had no idea what is was about until a friend asked the same question. Apparently, one is to paste the colour of their bra as an update. A single word is all...
Opening Doors
It’s all too easy for me to say ‘no’. No, no, no! I don’t want my children to remember me as a ‘no mum’. “No” closes doors whereas “yes” opens the door, giving loads of opportunity! Opening the door is like igniting a flame… we never know where it will lead or brightly it will burn. I desire to create an environment that is conducive to pursuing delights, to shape and develop the character traits necessary for a lifelong habit of learning and provide the fuel or rich ideas to stimulate an interest.
We Argued Over Fireproof
I'm probably the last Christian in Australia to see the movie but finally... I watched it! Fireproof, that is. Funny story with it though. I had told Miss A that I wanted to watch it one day when it came out on DVD. So, for an anniversary (in late June) present she...
Read Your Bible Daily
“Read the Bible daily. Make it part of every day’s business to read and meditate on some portion of God’s Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the...
Update on 'that' thumb
We're off! I'll be packing my bags and heading to Melbourne after all! :party: Regular readers may remember where my 18yodd (the athlete) dislocated her thumb. You can read about it here. She has had it in a splint for the last 3 weeks and today we went back to the...
Read the Bible: Just Do It
Begin reading your Bible this very day. The way to do a thing is to do it, and the way to read the Bible is actually to read it. It is not meaning, or wishing, or resolving, or intending, or thinking about it; that will not advance you one step. You must positively...
A New Feline Family Member
:cat2: Yes, it is official. We are a cat family. Eowww, how did that happen? ?:-) Late one night four weeks ago, Miss R brought home a stray kitten. She had found it in the middle of a busy road, looking scared, very thin and nearly dead. She was nowhere near home at...
In the beginning… a new year
Life... it's full of new beginnings! Unlike yesterday, today is the beginning of a new year. Who knows what this year will bring each family? God, the author and finisher of our faith does! I love a new year. I like new starts. Maybe that's why I get itchy feet and...
The Last Day of the Year
It's the last day... of the year 2009. I've reviewed the year...various aspects of our life and family. Yes, I've taught manners, English, Maths and Science. I've taught life skills, domestic skills, health, fitness and Bible study. It's been a pretty good year. Do...
Christian Training of Children
"Christian Training of Children" by Charles Spurgeon "Parents! Your children are as surely as grown-up people, "dead in trespasses and sins!" May no parent fail fully to realize the spiritual state in which all human beings are naturally found. Unless you have a very...
Helping the Weak: The Lesson in 1 Thessalonians
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, (Or 'disorderly', or 'undisciplined) encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. Ah, this verse leaped out at me this morning. I don't know about you but I never know what my day is going to hold....
