In a few days we’ll be heading for Orlando and I cannot wait.

We haven’t been on a ‘real’ family trip in ages and this will be absolutely fun!  Finally Nyomi’s at an age where it will matter, although Zoe won’t remember a thing.

We’ll take lots of pictures for her, though.

As for homeschool, I need to sit down this weekend and add up the remaining days we have left.  I think we’re actually done already but I just want to make sure.  I plan on having about a month long break with some intermittent 2’s facts practices, but just taking a good, long break from it all so I can regroup and get back organized for our new semester.  My plan is to make some major changes in the way we do school next quarter - adding some classes to the mix and reevaluating whether I should drop some.  I’ll sit down with Nyomi and get her opinion.

Today was fantastic!  We are finally doing some home renovations.  We bricked in the bottom half of our home, and spent the evening at Lowes hardware picking up lumber, cement, and paint for our big renovating project this week.  It was a blast walking around lowes with Hubby and kids while we made plans about how to increase the value of our home.  However, the thought of the clean-up efforts we had back home waiting for us was a bit of a downer… there’s so much debris (mixing sand/mortar, blocks, bricks, plastic wrap, bags, wood) lying around the yard from this morning’s team of 15+ workers who came to lay blocks on our home.  We’ll have to double up our efforts to just to clean up…but I think it’s all worth it.

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My little Nyomi has officially “graduated” her Kindergarten class tonight at our homeschool Awards Ceremony.

It was a nice event with a good turnout.  SO many of our homeschoolers are talented achievers and will grow up to be monumental successes one day.

I’ll try to post some pics of the graduation this week.

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This week has been a busy blogging week at Christian Ladies Connect.

1. There’s the Genesis study I’m doing
2. A book review of A Wife’s Prayer
   
3. An article called “In The Beginning” by Keisha Foster, our Biblical Womanhood Resident Expert
4. A worship video of Hillsong “From the Inside Out“
5. Social networking group for Christian women
6. An article from Biblical Motherhood Resident Expert, Destiny Ezenwa-Ogbanna on Motherhood

And again…I’m always looking for new resident experts in various subjects. Right now I’m in search for experts in:

• Beauty and Fashion
• Home and Garden
• Health and Fitness

Have an interest in heading up any of these? Contact me if you are (just respond in the comment box below).

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This week’s been awesome.  yesterday we went to the park.  It was SOOO beautiful outside.  The weather was about 79 or 80.  It’s a nice break from the turtlenecks and sweatshirts.  I was a bit worried about how the pollen might affect Zoe, but I did take a little cover for her carseat so I thought we’d be fine and we were.  It was really nice and fun to run into a co-op classmate of Nyomi’s. Nyomi got an unexpected playdate at the park and I got some mommy time to catch up with another adult.  It was fab.

This week actually started off painfully slow, but has picked up speed. I’d been asking the Lord to “anoint my time” when I read the scripture about “redeeming the time for the days are evil”.  At first it seemed that we never got anything done.  Nyomi would complain at the end of every school day that she didn’t get to play the games she wanted or didn’t get to do something she really wanted to.  I couldn’t udnerstand why — after all, we had all day…or so I thought…until I realized we’d been doing school practically ALL day most days.  I couldn’t understand what was happening to our time.  School seemed to drag out into this long session that never ended and it was frustrating for both of us. Well after getting up extra early this morning I realized the problem was timing and scheduling.

We finished homeschool in 2 hours this morning and covered 4 subjects!  I was pretty impressed.   So was Nyomi.  She loved it because she’d been up since 6:30 AM.  We started school around 7:55 and 9:55 she was done.  She had the whole day to herself and love every single second of it!  Now, that’s what I call a cool school day.

Zoe’s been enjoying her new food.  Rice cereal has been a pleasant beginning for her.  She’ll start on oatmeal cereal tomorrow.

Wow!

Only 13 more days of our school left and we’re officially on vacation.  Then I’m starting year round school with 2 week breaks off and on throughout the school year.

It’s kind of weird because Nyomi is graduating from her kindergarten class at her group co-op next week, but she’s been in 1st grade since January and is half way through her 1st grade curriulum even now.  By September when her co-op starts up again she’ll be doing 2nd grade work.  The beauty of homeschooling is, it’s okay!  I’m okay with that.  We’re still learning our math facts in Math-U-See, but I expect we’ll be at a mastery point with most of our facts by August or September — but no rush.  Math is something I want her to grow to love and never feel pressured about.

Okay, well gotta start an early school day again tomorrow.

I’m loving this schedule so to bed I go…

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If you’ve read my previous post about Oprah WInfrey and Eckhart Tolle’s “New Earth”…well here’s a video that shows a bit about the background of Oprah’s stance.

Watch and see for yourself if Christians should be involved in the new web class:

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Wow, what a week.

Life is definitely different now that Hubby is back home.  different but good.

Zoe is still growing up.  Here’s my little angel:

Then there’s my Nyomi who is growing by leaps and bounds and just hit another growth spurt not too long ago:

(I was playing around with my digital camera, attempting to take a good closeup in front of our house near a small tree):

I have lots going on in my personal life.

1.)  Our homeschool year is nearing completion.  Our community co-op meets only three more times before Summer Break…so we’re winding down a bit.  I’m going to begin the process of planning out our new school year for the upcoming year, which I’m contemplating it being year round with small 2-3 week breaks in between.  I just don’t like the idea of taking off a whole summer (3 months).

2.) I officially accepted the call into the ministry to teach the Word of God, as of April 2nd.  Ministry opportunities have been increasing for me immediately after I accepted this holy  charge.  I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to head up a bible study group at the Pink Collar Club.

I’ve always known God had called me to teach the Bible, but for some reason ran away from the stigma of “minister” because of the mode people place tend to pigeon-hole you in when you say that are called into the ministry.  So in the past I never wanted to portray myself as a minister…but that is exactly what each Christian is in a sense.  I no longer run away from this.  I embrace it because it is what God wants for me and for the world.  He has a purpose.  I was already doing the work, but just running away from the idea of the traditional sense of it.  But it is what it is.  God will use me in my own personality to deliver His message His way and I’m open to that. In fact, it’s such a strong calling that if I ran away from it ever again I’d be going against His will. I have to give an account for how I lived my life on this earth, and answering HIm when He calls is part of my accountability.

During this process of accepting the Call, I also discovered how to help others accept their call.  At ChristianLadies.net, I’ve invited several godly women to come on board with me and share their experiences as Christian women and special topics of expertise that God has gifted them to share with others.  So far the Lord has brought people from as far away as Nigeria to be a part of this and I am honored beyond measure.  Read more about our resident experts here:  http://christianladies.net/resident-experts/

3.)  I began a few more social networking groups as add-ons or sister sites to WAHM University and Christian Ladies Connect.  They are:

 http://wahmuniversity.ning.com

http://christianladies.ning.com

Piece by piece, it’s all coming together.  From the outside looking in it may seem confusing to some, but there really is a method to the madness.  There is a plan to all the projects that I’ve begun.  Sometimes it feels like it doesn’t make any sense to me, but I know the urgent call and the shift in seasons and the times to pick up a brick and begin building, or the seasons to put down the bricks and stop building.  I’ve had to submit to both.  Even though I don’t clearly see the whole picture, the vision is becoming clearer with time.  Meanwhile, I walk in faith and I don’t answer questions liek “WHY?”  or “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

I get the raised eyebrows, the questioning looks of wonder when people see the degree M.S. next to my name but notice that I’m home all the time.  I simply smile to myself.  It’s different indeed.  I homeschool a 1st grader, care for an infant, manage my home, run a home based business designing websites and podcasting, run an online women’s ministry, plus manage over 15 domain names/websites, and still have time for my husband at the end of the day…hmmm…

And what’s more is, I ENJOY it!

So I might be a little on the odd side.  But I love my life!

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