For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23
I hope you have had a lovely Christmas season. Ours was very nice. All three of us have been healthy. Everyone was pleased with both the gifts they gave and the gifts they received. We were able to participate in some activities at church. Overall, we were very blessed this year.
I’m looking forward to the next week and a half of vacation from homeschool. I have lots of plans regarding what I hope to get done around my home and here. We’ll see how it all unfolds.
Merry Christmas!
I hope you had a lovely day celebrating with friends and family. We had a quiet Thanksgiving of just we three. All of the food turned out well and we are all healthy. Those two things alone make it a very good Thanksgiving!
We toyed briefly with the idea of also putting up the Christmas tree and decorations today, but decided it would be too much. So we plan to take care of that tomorrow and Saturday. It’s such a short time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year that it will fly by before we know it.
There’s been a lot going on behind the scenes the last few weeks. It’s been one of those seasons in life when several different threads all kind of connect at once. It’s interesting how God orchestrates something like that, isn’t it? I look forward to sharing more about that in other posts.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Caroline and I decided yesterday to take a fall homeschool break this week. We did a soft start of our homeschooling in the summer. We’ve been back at homeschooling “full-time” for about eight weeks and we’re both dragging. I’m hopeful that taking a week off will help us push through to Thanksgiving and then Christmas.
Our year is going well overall. (If you are a newer reader, this is Caroline’s first senior year. We made the decision to add a year to her high school which I wrote about here: Homeschooling a Fifth Year of High School.) I’m not going to take the time to write about what we’re doing this year in this post. I’d rather write a separate post about it.
That said, I need some time this week to do some homeschool planning. It’s time for a bit of a part-way-through-the-year taking stock of where we are and where we need to go.
I also have many what I call “open tabs” around the house. Things that need to be taken care of and are only partially completed. I hope to finish up several of those things this week. None of them are huge projects. They simply need to be completed so I don’t have to look at them and I can remove them from my mind.
I’m sorry things have been so quiet around here in recent months. I have so many ideas and such great plans. But there’s only so many hours in the day.
Homeschooling my daughter during her high school years while there is an ongoing communist coup of my country wasn’t on my lifetime bingo card. And yet here we all are, doing the best we can.
I have several partially written posts about a variety of topics. I hope to finish those up, one after another this week.
We celebrated Caroline’s 18th birthday at the end of September and I haven’t even put up a post about it. Sigh. Yes, that’s kind of how things have been.
I hope your fall has been a good one so far. Please leave a comment and let me know how you are doing!
Caroline turned 18 today!
Our little girl is growing into a lovely young lady.
The graphic is one David put together to share on Facebook.
It’s hard to believe it has been 18 years.
We’re so thankful for our Little Miss Peanut.
Thank you, Lord, for sending us this child to love.
