Heart of Wisdom Academy

I don't know if this is a cultural thing, but I've always heard you're not supposed to cut your babies hair until after their a year. I think he is just the cutest little thing, but the hair was a bit unmanageable! My husband tried to make it work. So I took out my scissors and set to work. And voila!! A new do for little pookie bear. He is my little cuddle bear!

In other news: We had a party earlier this month. K is all spiffy with his little friend. I love K he's such a neat little kid. He is very contented and appreciative. I love how we can occupy himself with string and action figures for hours. I love that he still loves his blankie and I'm too soft to get rid of it. I love that he sucks his little finger, even though it's slightly deformed from his sucking. I love that he loves to vacuum. K's favorite song is Matthew West's More.

Yesterday I turned in my last EVER assignment for school!! It hasn't quite sunk in yet, I guess when I see my transcript this week with all 120 credits complete it'll finally sink in. During naptime I was almost at a loss for what to do. Of course I could do the obvious (laundry, cook, clean) or I could do the exciting (go on the porch and read) I chose the latter. Reading in solitude is exciting to me.

We started school today. It was a good day aside from daughters DRAMA. That's the only word I can think of to describe her antics. Is there a better word? She's not quite disobedient, she's just dramatic. It's like the difference between acting on stage and acting on screen. When you act on stage you have to be larger than life so that everybody sees you. Your movements are more exaggerated, your makeup is overdone, your voice is much louder. That's her, she exaggerates everything and some days more than others it wears me down. Today it wore me down. However she does enjoy being busy. I can never accuse her of being idle, I have a child or two that could be accused of such a thing, but not this one. She loves to keep her little hands busy. She enjoys learning and she is a cuddle baby. She loves to cuddle wtih me and I love to cuddle with her. Her favorite thing to do is lay in bed as I read her Alice in Bibleland. Her favorite song is Chris Tomlin's Indescribable.

I typed up a post about our current family read aloud Hedge Fence, but then I lost the book so I deleted the post, now the book is back. I'll type up a wonderful review of this book one day soon and how it has helped our family lately especially my son. One thing I particularly appreciate is that the main character is a boy who is learning how to apply the scriptures to his daily life and his relations with others. I can see how this boy's example has encouraged my oldest son. Last week, we had friends over. The two girls were playing and their mom corrected their imaginative play. I didn't hear my son playing, and the girls didn't say that he was playing with them. After the girl was lovingly rebuked by her mom, my son whispered in my ear that he was playing the same game. I told him to tell his daddy, and I silently thanked God that he chose to tell on himself. I rejoice in small victories. That was a situation where he really could have gotten off, because he wasn't heard and the other girls didn't tattle on him, I really appreciated his desire to clear himself, and his daddy took care of him. He has a few favorite songs right now: Going Through the Motions, The Lost get Found, Give me Your Eyes,and anything Toby Mac. I'm too cheap to buy CD's, I think I own 2. I YouTube all of our favorite songs we can listen to them for hours. I wanted to post their favorite songs for a record. My favorite song at 7 was Atlantic Starr's Always.

I am particularly thankful for my mom. My mom loves her grandkids soooo much. She has taken each of them on a special date the last two weeks. They've gone to outdoor world, the petting zoo, McDonalds, and the ice cream parlor. She cherishes those children so much. I love how she loves them and our family. I wish I had words to express my deep gratitude for how she loves our family. She's taken off of work for weeks when the baby was ill and during my pregnancy to serve my family, watch my kids, grocery shop, school shop, any and everything we need. Whenever we are in dire need she is always there for us. She doesn't grow tired. I praise God for her and I respect and love her so much.

Well now that I have extra time, I might blog more. It's almost diaper production time, I'll get on that soon. I want to decorate the children's room. We're all memorizing Psalms 1, and I'm memorizing Ephesians 4 for the month of Sept. My goal is to memorize the book of Ephesians, I finished memorizing Ephesians 5. I want to blog about scripture memory, music, entertainment, modesty, and put up a lot of notes I've written down from Charity Ministries. There's lots of sermons I want to listen to and books I want to read and reread. But for now It's nearly midnight and we have school tomorrow and a baby who'll wake me in an hour or two.

Until next time...

At our Friday night BibleTalk we played a get to know you game. Everyone was given 13pennies. We all had to share something that we've never done but that we think everyone else has done. If you have never done something that other people have done then they have to give you a penny, the person with the most pennies wins. For fun I thought I would post some things I've never done:
I've Never:
owned a credit card
smoked a cigarette
been drunk
bought a cellphone
stolen anything
bought a car
seen the TV show “Friends”
been overseas
eaten a candy apple
been to Disneyworld
gotten a myspace or facebook account
played the lottery
done drugs
been to the club
had braces
gotten a tatoo

I feel summer coming to an end. I like enjoying all of God's seasons, but Fall is my favorite season! It seems like everywhere I go lately the YMCA follows. I guess you have to do something with all those kids. Most of our new books for the year have arrived. The Webster 1828 dictionary came in today. I sat down and read it, not the whole thing of course! I also got Already Gone and The Duggars 20 and Counting. I started reading both today they are very good.

Everyone is well, the baby has a cold, but is otherwise fine. All the other children are healthy and happy. We go to cardiology tomorrow. I've been trying to think of tricks to get him to stay quiet and still during the ECHO. Usually I have to put him to sleep, but I don't want to be there that long.

I also got the 2nd book in God's Design for Sex series. This book is "the talk". My husband and I have prayerfully been considering when to have the talk. This year we want to start preparing his heart for that talk. We want to create an awareness that God made all things to reproduce. All living things come from living things. (also establishing deeper convictions for creation) We'll study plants this year and see how they reproduce we'll talk about how animals reproduce and finally go into how humans reproduce. Not that this gift is for repoduction only, we'll get into that some too! Dh and I were talking about this yesterday how we also need to help the kids realize how the world perverts and pollutes God's gifts. Although he'll have the sanitized talk, he'll never hear it that way from the world and we need to be sure that he understands that the world has a counterfeit for every spiritual thing and that he must be prepared for the battle that is just outside his door. Just by looking around the world you can see all the ways wicked man has perverted God's gifts. Just take for instance music. Why did God create music? Well as I read the Bible I see how he taught the Israelites songs so that they would remember his commands and not forget his righteous judgments. I see how much God loves songs, in fact he rejoices over us with singing! I see how we are to speak to one another with songs, hymns, and spiritual songs! There is so much information in the Bible about the gift of music. But the world has taken it and make it ugly. They have worshiped it, perverted it, and made it a stumbling block to many Christians. This is just one example of too many. It is important to understand that all or most of God's gifts have been soiled in the same way. Our children have to be prepared for the fact that they will encounter pornography, they will be tempted by the immoral woman or be tempted to be the immoral woman, they will be tempted to compromise, they will encounter sexual advances, their own bodies will try to decieve and betray them. I believe these things to be absolutes! Even though I homeschool, these children are by no means unsusceptible to these evils. The kids could go into a public bathroom and find a porn magazine or play a game of hide and seek at Bible talk and try to sneak a kiss or whatever. If there is any wisdom that comes from being 26 it is that I am not far removed from my adolescence. I remember how easily and quickly evil comes knocking on the door and the Devil shows no partiality. The Devil doesn't care that my kids are "churched" or come from a happy home or whatever. The Devil will attack my kids and they must be prepared for battle, we pray for wisdom and grace as to the way and timing we reveal the plot of the Great Deciever, but the clock is ticking away. Every hour these children are getting closer to engaging in all out war with the Enemy,our goal is to prepare them for battle, we can't fight for them but we intent to fight with them. Our oldest will be eight soon, which may seem young, but if we don't get about this business soon someone else will most definetly do it, and it will not be in accordance with Phil 4:8(whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable. It is important to us that our children have a right view about this gift that the Lord has given to married couples and that we teach them to protect their purity at all costs.

Another book we got this week was The Princess Kiss and The Squire and the Scroll. I am grateful for people who use thier talents and abilities to build up the kingdom of God and encourage the ministry of the saints. My little girl is drawn to princesses. She has never seen Snow White, Sleeping, Beauty or Beauty and the Beast but she can spot a princess a thousand miles away. Her heart is drawn to their flawless beauty and lavish garments. I was so grateful to finally read her a princess book that potrayed a wise, chaste, prudent princess. Books and TV are teachers and there is no neutrality! I don't want my daughter to have silly notions of a handsome prince sweeping her off her feet, catering to her every whim. “There is a real danger in raising picky, un-pleasable daughters who are unable to follow an imperfect man. We have no business raising wimpy ‘prima donna’ daughters.”Scott Brown I do want my daughter to a princess of the Most High King. I want her to be a wise, faithful, princess who is a servant a handmaiden of the Lord, not a diva. For those of you who know my daughter, you know we have a good work to do, let's unite and pray for our daughters and sons. I have just as much desire for my sons to marry Godly princesses. I pray that they have an appeptie for and are attracted to feminine holiness. My daily prayer for myself and family is that we all learn to "love the things that the Lord loves, and hate the things that the Lord hates".