Love Letter to Jesus

Dear Jesus,
Thank you for loving me when I was and am unlovable. You chose me when I was not worthy of choosing. Your love is not something I deserve, not something I could ever earn. You give your love to me and anyone who will accept it... for FREE! All I had to do was accept your choice of me and do my best to live my life for you. Because you love me, I can love others. You have given me so much. I have a husband that loves me, three beautiful, healthy girls, one sweet baby in heaven, family, church family, friends, etc. The list goes on and on. Your hand is always at work in our lives. I'm so thankful that you revealed yourself to me. Thank you for saving me out of the pit I was in. Thank you for creating a new legacy for my children. Thank you for breaking generational curses in me. I love you Lord. I fail daily and yet you still love me. Please never stop working in me. Change me continually to be more like you.
I love you, Kim



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Our First Good Snow

We woke up to our first decent snow of the year yesterday.  The girls were excited!   It snowed a little last month, but not enough to play in.  Yesterday it was kind of an icy snow, but we played anyway. 

I need to buy new snow bibs for the older two girls.  They were a tad bit short!

Sliding is much more fun of an icy slide!


Snow angels are a little difficult too...

It started raining while we were playing.  So they only were out for about 20 minutes.  It helped to ease the pain of having to do school work when public school kids were not.  I'm not going to tell them that school was canceled today as well!

Blogger Friend School #13

My friend Nancy is now hosting BFS.  This week's assignment is to introduce you to my Bible.

1. How old is your Bible?
    My Bible is 18 years old.
   
2. Why did you chose this Bible? 
    It was a Christmas present from my parents.
   
3. Do you highlight/mark passages in your Bible?
    Yes, I do both. 
   
4. If so, what is your system for marking passages?
    I mark passages that are special to me, that speak to me when someone else is teaching, that friends give to me for certain circumstances, all kinds of things.
   
5. Do you have notebooks to record things? 
    I have kept notebooks in the past.  I do not currently have one that I take to church with me.  We have a note taking section in our bulletin that I use.  I keep a prayer journal at home that, as I get time, I copy the notes into.
   
6. If so, how many and what do you record?
    I have about 7-8 from years past.  I recorded sermon notes mainly and some notes from personal devotion times.
   
7. Where is your favorite spot to read your Bible?
    I read at the kitchen table out of necessity in the mornings.  I would love to someday have a special little area where I kept all my devotional materials. 
   
8. Are there any special thoughts about your Bible you want to share?
    My Bible is battered and torn.  The leather binding is torn and cracked all the way down it.  There are a lot of memories with this Bible though.  I have things marked in there from my youth years til now.  I would never throw it out because it reminds me that I too am battered and torn, but God still loves me and has a placed prepared for me.

Thanks Nancy for heading this up.  I hope I can keep up with all the assignments.

VALENTINE

My aunt sent me this in an email.  I really liked it and thought I would share it will all of you.

  "For God so loVed the world,
        that he gAve
            His onLy
            begottEn
                  soN
                     That whosoever
        believeth In Him
           should Not perish
        but have Everlasting life."
      
                         John 3:16

Pretty cool, huh?

Safety in the Storm

We had really bad storms last night.  A friend of ours called us around 1:30am to make sure we were awake.  We were not.  The only noise that wakes me is a crying kid.  I can sleep through anything else.  Once we did wake up we heard the tornado sirens.  James and I got all the girls out of bed and into the hallway.  He watched the news and we were right in the path of tornadoes.  After about 10 minutes it had passed by us.  Praise God we were unharmed.  The girls were a little stirred up and had a difficult time going back to sleep.  It was still storming.  We have old storm windows so it always sounds like they are going to rattle right out into the floor.  We were not in bed for two minutes before Monkey came strolling in. 

So if you needed one more good reason to homeschool -- it is not having to get the kids out of bed early in the morning when you are awaken in the middle of the night and lose sleep due to tornado warnings.  I did, however, forget to put our dinner in the crockpot this morning.  Frozen pizza anyone?

Olympus Mons

We are loving our Astronomy study this year.  We are using Exploring Creation with Astronomy by Jeannie Fulbright.  I love this book.  The past two weeks we have learned about Mars.  For our project, the girls built a model of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system. 

They had a blast working with the salt dough.  After the model was dry, they were ready to make 'er blow.

Lil thought this was pretty cool too!  The side trough is not part of the actual volcano.  The girls wanted to add their own personal touch to God's creation.

When 3 Year Olds Are Supposed to Be Asleep

The other night I put the kids to bed.  I still do not have Lil to the point where she will go to sleep without me in the room.  She is a repeat offender of getting out of her bed, annoying her sisters, the whole bit.  So, for now, it is just easier if I sit in the floor. 

She was very quiet, laying on her side, giving all appearances of being asleep so I left the room.  James was watching TV so I hopped in the shower.  When I got out of the shower I saw that the girls' door was wide open.  I finished up in the bathroom and went to make sure she was still in bed.  Monkey was in the bottom bunk, no Lil.  So I stepped up and looked in the top bunk.  1 Lulu, 0 Lil.  I went in the living room to ask James where Lil was.  He said, "She's not in bed?!?"  As I turned around I was greeted with this coming down the hall.

While she was supposed to be sleeping, she was in the dark school room coloring her arms and hands with a marker.   She never ceases to amaze me with the workings of her brain!

***Side Note ***  Lulu just came in the room to read this post.  At the top I had that I jumped in the shower.  She informed me that it would make more sense to say that I hopped in the shower.   I would have hated to have made that mistake.