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Archive for April, 2008

Really needing prayers, please!

Posted in Living the Family-Centered Life, Real Living on April 23, 2008 | 12 Comments »

I am pregnant with my 8th child (7th pregnancy)…and something weird is beginning to happen to me…
There are times I don’t know how to keep on coping with my symptoms. What are they? Good question!
I suffered through them during most of 3 pregnancies and now they are just beginning to happen again. [...]

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St. John Bosco on education

Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Tending to Virtue on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Remember that education is a difficult art, and that God alone is its true Master. We will never succeed in it, unless He teaches us the way. While depending humbly and entirely on Him, we should try with might and main, to acquire that moral strength that is a stranger to force and rigor. Let [...]

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What have I been up to?

Posted in Living the Family-Centered Life, Real Living on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

well…lets see…
I am trying to shed the last of this first trimester nausea….I have come up for air and I have found that my house needs a fire hose and a snow shovel to  make it look better.
…and no volunteers in sight!   wonder why….hmmm…
We were just survival-schooling for awhile.   Meaning…taking it slow and hitting the [...]

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Mom?

Posted in Family Centered Homeschooling, Kids say the darndest things!, Living the Family-Centered Life on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dd (7yo) was doing some independent reading and when she finished the book, she sighed, closed the book and asked:
“Do you think Noah had a place for the fishes too?”
Me: “Noah?”
Yes, you know, like Noah and the ARK?
oldest twin dd(14:  “I think the big place that he prepared on the outside of the Ark was [...]

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7 random facts

Posted in Just for Fun! on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I was tagged by Donna at Island in the Grove
7 Random things about me -

I am very devoted to the Blessed Mother.
I am only 5′3 and my dh is almost 6′9 proving that God has a sense of humor…
I love to cook food from scratch…trying to use as healthful foods as possible and don’t [...]

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His heart loveth much

Posted in Kids say the darndest things! on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was eating my quick impromptu dinner which was loaded with salsa…I was trying to get done so I could power-walk at the park.  I was very thirsty and my lips were beginning to betray me and threaten to leave my face as they were on fire.
I asked in general…”can ANYONE get me a big [...]

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