Homeschool gathering

Spent the day with great group of ladies from a homeschool group. Had an enjoyable time visiting with like minded ladies. Sounds like they have some fun things planned for the school year like field trips and maybe a sign language class. Send some tips our way regarding things that your homeschool group does through the school year.

Mine was a little bit unsocialized yesterday, he's been suffering headaches on and off since doing head traps in soccer, he was doing fine until he was on the merry go round and a kid kept throwing a basketball at him and it hit his head twice, then the headache started up all over again  :O( 

So he sat quietly by himself and when he felt a bit better he read a book.  Praying that these headaches go away.

Gluten Free disaster! lol

Well I have been trying some new recipes. I found one for a cranberry quick bread, I made the 1 1/2 lb loaves. Our son was watching it rise in the bread machine and he asked "Mom do you think that it's going to go over?" I looked, it still had a few inches before going over the top. I figured it was fine. A little bit later he comes back and says "Mom, the bread machine is smoking!!" Yes indeed the bread had gone over and spilled on the heating element. So I told him to start the oven and get a bread pan out. The cranberry bread got baked in the oven, it caved in, but it tasted good. I spent the rest of the afternoon scraping burnt bread off the inside of the machine.

I think I will make a 1 lb loaf next time.

Michelle Duggar on Focus On The Family

I was so encouraged by hearing Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar on Focus On The Family. It gave me some things to really think about. We don't watch the show since we don't have pay TV, though I have read their first book and plan to read the second one too. I just love Michelle's calm spirit and how she talks of relying on the Lord for all her needs. I hear so many parents talk about the show and how it's unbelievable how great the kids are. But in thinking about it, the Duggars are using God's principles that can be followed by all parents.

#1 Love your children enough to discipline them.
#2 Love your children enough to disciple them.
#3 Love your children enough to put God first.
#4 Love your children enough to put your marriage 2nd.
#5 Love your children enough to have daily devotions with them.

This Bible verse comes to mind as I listen to the broadcast.
Deuteronomy 6:5-9
"And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. ⁶And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
⁷And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
⁸And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. ⁹And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."

Take the time to download the 2 episodes of the Duggars entitled "The Blessing Of Raising A Large Family," they are free. Even a mom of an only child can be blessed by this broadcast. They aired on July 28-29.
Just go to focusonthefamily.com then click on broadcast at the top of the page. Then go down to the calendar to click for more info. Focusonthefamily.com
Another link I found with some neat info on the Duggars was http://www.boundlessline.org/2011/07/wwtdd-episode-183.html
Let me know your thoughts on this broadcast.

The school bell is getting ready to ring!