Box Day/ Sonlight / Homeschooling

It's official, today is our big announcement.... we are homeschooling!! This may not come as a surprise to many of you  mama bear because I have talked about homeschooling even before Matthew and I started having kids. It was my way of prepping hubby. But no prep needed he has always been on board from the beginning to homeschool. Especially when we realize all the gaps we have in our own education. Over the years our reasons have evolved as to why we have chosen to home educate our kiddos. In the beginning it was always the thought of a traditional classroom not tying us down and being able to travel and do mission work and also homeschooling our kids. Well, here we are many years later and seems this is still true and one of our reasons. Other reasons why we have chosen to homeschool, to teach our children to be free thinkers, to edge against the grain, to pioneer a new generation, religious reasons, freedom, and I am truthfully not ready to send my four year old out into the world. Honestly I don't know what the future holds and who knows my kids may one day attend public school but for right now this is our chosen way of life. I am really excited and nervous to start this journey but I remember, I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13

There is a scripture that I love

Remember God's Words
18"You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.19"You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. 20"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,…

Deuteronomy 11:18-20

I pray that in these foundational years for Ladybird and Zeke Bear that we teach them to love God with all their hearts and to love their neighbors as themselves. To know God's character and to develop their own character. This is the most important thing to Matthew and I. 

Our "box day" as Sonlight refers to it is where you receive your curriculum and the whole family goes through it and everyone gets excited about the upcoming school year. Although you can't tell by the photo Ladybird is really excited about doing school at home. She had a fever here and was not feeling well. In fact while going through ALL the books she fell asleep. 

Bear was totally into it he helped bring all the books out and went through them with me.

Please pray for us as we start this journey we will need it. 

Cheers. 

Blessings

Here is our Christmas card photo for 2012. We took these photos ourselves with a lot of trial and error and very patient children. 

When I look at these photos I realize how incredibly blessed I feel to have so much love in my life. 

I feel so proud that Hubby and I took these ourselves. I think I might have a promising career in photography (or not).

Cheers to your blessings. 

Anthropologie

I finally broke my Anthro cherry and its not even for me (one day though). I had been eyeing there fabric lowercase letters for several months and just the other day I walked in and they were on sale.

I wanted an E for Ezekiel's room but daddy caved and bought one for Ava Jolie as well. 

  Can't wait to put it up on his gallery wall (that I am reorganizing) will post pictures soon.

Cheers.

First Day of School

Today is our first official day where the hubsters is now a full-time student at home and this will now count as his 9-5 job. We are all trying to get into the groove of things and I completed a little project today to help both Lady and I know when we can bother daddy and when we can't.

A friend told me that the biggest adjustment to daddy being home full-time was going to be on me because whenever I may need help with something I know he is right up stairs. Especially when baby #2 arrives and making dinner, cleaning up a spill, diaper change and a potty break all collide.

I have to get disciplined into thinking hubby is not here it's just me and the kiddos. So we shall see how the next year goes.

First I searched clip-art on Google for a traffic light.

Then I pasted it in paint and colored in the traffic lights.

Then I printed the two photos below out, laminated them,  punched a hole and hung them off of a basketball hoop.

It is also a great teaching opportunity for Lady to learn red light, green light. When she woke up from a nap she came and told me "mama its green light and daddy is playing with me." It was so adorable and looks like she got the concept. Now lets wait and see if I learn as fast. 

Here's to having the family together a lot.

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Chevron Liner

I just posted pictures from the blue dresser the hubby and I completed for baby #2 room. Just wanted to show the before and after of the inside of the drawers.

Before

There was some kind of oil spot inside the dressers so we wanted to cover the inside with something. So I found this great print at TJ Max after I had bought a cork looking one from Lowes.  I am so glad I found this. All you need is a pair of scissors and some time to complete an easy fix. 

It was $5.99 for two rolls at TJ Max and was cheaper than the one I purchased at Lowes. I am already thinking of a few things someone could do with this chevron liner like making wall art and placing it in fun colored frames. 

Cheers for a completed dresser.

The letter "R"

My heart jumped when I saw this blog post by in the fun lane  she created a letter wreath to hang on a wall in the middle of an empty frame. I knew I had to do it and I also knew exactly where it would go. About a week later I saw a similar letter over at Miss Mustard Seed and she created a moss monogram with flower buds for HGTV.  So I was a woman on mission to create one just like it to go on top of vintage window/mirror for my bible page wall. When my grandmother was here we went to Micheal's to look for the letter. Well, I was not sure if the size was right so I didn't buy it. When my grandmother returned home she sent me two letter R's as a gift. The next day I went and bought the Spanish moss.

This is one of the letter's she sent and it stands up by itself and does not need any help to look fabulous.

This is the unfinished "R"

and this is the finished product!

I am not going to show you the whole wall just yet. Be patient and trust me it looks great.