Poor neglected blog....

I am sorry to say I have neglected this blog shamelessly!
Will try to do better about blogging, though I doubt anyone has really read this blog! :)
So many changes in the works with my life and that of my family's life right now....Have a sewing order, looking for a better webpage to put my craft business (now named Blessed Assurance Mercantile), looking into different options regarding moving, staying, something.... We'll see. Homeschooling a good dear friend's two younger kids over the summer, then just one when the youngest sees if she likes kindergarten and kindergarten likes her.....
As I said, SO MANY changes!
More to come later, I promise!

Rain, gardening, and stomach bugs

Well, did it again.
I'm sitting here with a hurt ankle (it's getting better), an upset sore stomach, and it's cloudy and rainy today.
Oldest was sick last night too.
So, today DD18 and I will be trying to take it easy and watching what we eat, I guess.
But, I also want to go over to the store and pick up some cleaning supplies and see what I can do in the way of spring cleaning thise house from top to bottom and also seeing if I can start some plants for the garden and get some work done in the garden.
And avoid getting caught in a downpour....
We'll see what I can get accomplished today!

Simplifying

Simplifying can mean different things to different people. For me, it deals with every aspect of my life.
I have been working for a while now to simplify as much as I can in my day to day life. From how we homeschool to how we cook and do chores and so much more. Life does not have to be full of chaos and confusion and "business."
So, I plan on taking out my Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World again, and reading it as well as the book on homeschooling at the speed of life by Maralynn Rockett and taking a plethera of notes! And forming a better plan.
Right now, we are down to exactly what we want to use for almost all the basic subjects. Grammar, spelling - Rod and Staff. Handwriting - Handwriting with out Tears. History? Well, Mystery of History of course! Reading? Pathway Readers. LOVE them! With a combination of books from the Robinson Curriculum list, books the kids are interested in, and the McGuffey Readers. What for math do you ask? Saxon math has worked marvelously for us, so we are sticking with a good thing. That covers grammar, spelling, writing, reading, math, and history. Now science.....
I would LOVE to do hands on science with the kids. I'm just not sure how. Any ideas would be much appreciated!
Chores? Well, that is a work in progress. I do have down what needs to be done on what days but right now it seem my page is being ignored that I put on the back door every day regarding what subjects need done, if music must be practiced, and what chores must be done. And guess what? I'm ignoring them and so is DH as well.... NOT GOOD.
So, time to get off of facebook, or whatever, and get back into the real world!
We'll start homeschooling two kids that are a very dear friend's this summer, and by then I want everything ... no, not perfect, because we live in an imperfect world full of sin and we are no where NEAR perfect, otherwise why would we have needed our sweet Lord and Savior Jesus to die for us... but less chaotic, more simplified, and running smoother than it is now!
And oh, I promise to try to post more and to try to follow the daily SITS thing!
Now to figure out how to upload pictures to my blog......

I'm back!!! :)

Well, a few days ago, my wonderful husband cleared off the computer, reinstalled several things (though NOT yahoo IM yet), and I am reinstalling yahoo IM as I type this. Yes, the computer is ACTUALLY letting me do at least TWO things at one time! OH MY!
So, now hopefully I will be downloading all of the pictures (though I WILL back them up on disc from now on!) and also taking pictures of all we've done and upload the pictures to our family craft website. :) YAY! So, I'll let everyone know when I've managed to do that.
I have a Tastefully Simple taste testing party on the 20th, and another on the 27th, and I hope to have more than two in April, with lots of orders and more parties stemming off of each new party. DH is going to start filling out applications for places that he can walk to right now (as we still don't have a running car) and I am praying, praying, praying for more TS orders, more students, more orders for handmade stuff, and DH to get a job close by soon. He said he'd take either part time or full time, whatever he could get. Right now, yeah, it has to be close to home..... He can't walk far and we don't have any of our bikes fixed for him to use to get to and from anyplace either. Now... bikes would be NICE! LOL
Ok, I've laundry to hang up, and lessons to give, and my kids and I need to get math and reading and such done plus the day's chores.... Son is doing math with DH right now, he's done reading with me for today. The girls have read I believe, but they need to do the other stuff as well and oldest is practicing the piano right now behind me. I hope my rat a tatting on the keyboard is not bugging her! :)
Have a blessed day, whoever reads this!!!!

Computer problems.... again

Well, I probably won't be on the computer but for tiny bits of time here and there. It seems we need to clear everything from this computer, get a new memory card and also possibly a new CPU. Lovely, huh?

It keeps freezing, keeps just sitting there and doing nothing. And a couple times it's screamed at us! :( Not pretty.

I have a Tastefully Simple party on the 30th, a birthday party on the 7th, and after the TS party I'll have to enter orders and the only way to do that is online. Fun! So, I guess as soon as we can we need to see if Fry's has a memory card and possibly a CPU as well that is at least half way affordable. I'm also hoping that this computer will let me post this blog entry! (come on computer, be a good computer! )

So, needless to say, I know that the Lord is in charge and that this too shall pass and that we can manage to get something computer wise up and running! I'll be back!!!!! hehe

~Lenora

Fully Relying on God

For EVERYTHING.
Have y'all ever had to do that?
I am having to do that right now. It's kinda scary.
I have managed to pay all of our bills in full for this month. I will have paid off the county taxes after today (when I deposit payments from some students who have will have paid me this week and some cash I have) and after that, I'll have around $10 to make it through the rest of this week.... correction... the rest of this MONTH.
So, what do I do about eggs and cheese and milk for the rest of the month? I don't know. God knows, I do know that!
So, FULLY RELY ON GOD!
This month should be interesting.
On the home front, we are getting into a somewhat better schedule. I am working towards listening to God more on what we need to do each minute of each day. J got math and phonics and handwriting in on Monday and Tuesday, and the girls did good with their stuff too. I need to work better at getting it ALL in plus chores plus students plus me time and time spent with God. I'd like to also start the study on Raiding a Maiden of Virtue with my girls and I'd LOVE to be able to buy the books from Keepers of Faith that right now I can't afford. I also need more Saxon math books and I need the fifth and sixth Revised McGuffey readers and the next Harvey's Grammar. If I had those, we'd be all set for life regarding homeschooling. If I had Spencerian Writing I'd be even MORE set.....
Ugh.
Lord where will it all come from?
I don't know but my God is an AWESOME God and I know he will provide our needs.
Now off to get things going and get some sewing done and some lessons done and see what mischief the Lord lets me get into today! :)

MIA - gotta do better!

Well, ok.... I have been SO not posting anything in such a long time. I've been on Facebook and I found twitter and it's hard to think of things to post here! To write about.
But, I will try to be better! Now.... off to think of what to write about for today.....