Your Opinion-homeschool phonics/reading.

I really enjoy asking people who are homeschooling and have already taught their little ones to read about what curriculum they thought was best for teaching their child to read. My My is READY to learn.

I could really use all of your help in telling me what you use so I can decide what I would like to use next year. Can't wait to hear what you have to share!

I took this pic before church Sunday-HAD TO SHARE!

Our baby chicks are REALLY growing in the eggs-flapping around in there like crazy! So AWESOME! We are down to 17 now. Have a FABULOUS TUESDAY!

The Devil is DUMB!

We started out here last night at this sweet country Baptist church where my father-in-law accepted Christ as his savior as a boy.
They are having a revival this week & we were all ready to attend our second night. All the kids were fed, bathed and in matching outfits-I WAS DOING SO GOOD! AND, we were on time!
THEN THE DEVIL REARED HIS UGLY HEAD as soon as Wy Wy "tripped" and fell out of our party bus-gashing his forehead and road rashing his little sweet face. Luckily, he was the first out so no other unstrapping was needed. We all JUMPED back in the bus and headed for the ER!He screamed all the way there so I held him (along with a diaper on his head to soak up the blood)-SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO. It definitely helped that he had THE CAPTAIN'S hand to hold (as he drove) all the way there. The Captain told the kids Satan didn't want us at church-smart guy.A little super glue & ice cream and he was ALL BETTER! He was more upset about ripping his jeans and missing church than his head!
The blessing of the night was just being together AS A FAMILY. Even if it wasn't a major tragedy, I'm just so thankful that we don't have our kids in TONS of world-pushed activities and we can spend evenings together like this-as it should be.We then turned off all the lights and checked OUR PEEPS! Seems out of 22 eggs-20 have chicks in them-LORD HELP ME!

What on earth am I going to do with 20 chickens. This is the best picture I could get of one of BIT BUTS EGGS-you can distinctly see the veins-little miracles! THE DEVIL AIN'T STOPPIN US TONIGHT! WE'RE GOIN' BACK!

FERTILITY in QUESTION!?

NO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ME!!

This picture was actually taken in the dark, in our guest bathroom while supper was cooking. We decided to CANDLE aka check the fertility (or try to) of our 22 eggs. You do this by going in the dark and putting your egg up to a flashlight.
About 3 or 4 looked like fertile eggs-we could tell for sure (you will see veins & a dark spot). It was so hard to tell PLUS.....WE ARE CLUELESS about it really. We even looked at tons of pictures on-line and they were pretty inconclusive to a first time CHICKEN GROWER! It was VERY COOL how you could see inside the egg though!

We will candle FOR OUR PEEPS again on Friday to see if they made any progress! The below picture is of a "GOOD EGG." Not one of ours but shows what we are looking for. Just to see the miracle of life inside this little egg just makes God even more amazing to me!

Desperate FARM WIFE BLUES.....

Don't get me wrong, I'm SO THANKFUL to be a farmers wife. But, I'm allowed to have feelings too right? I'm going through a BLUE MOMENT.

I miss The Captain desperately when he is away at work flying airplanes 14 days each month. I get fairly lonely. Right now, I feel we are just passing in the night. Sometimes I pray for rain so he'll come inside-any other farmers wives do that?

Here's is the problem.

He changes from his pilot uniform into his farming clothes WAY TOO QUICKLY for me. He headed right out to do farm work as soon as he got home Friday. He was out on the tractor discing all day Saturday. We got to go to church as a family yesterday so that was good but he spent all day in town getting parts for something after church. Granted-he took 4 littles with him on one errand to look at baby bunnies and chicks so I could mop my ENORMOUS floor.
Wy Wy is farm, tractor, combine obsessed so he spends every waking moment with The Captain-work gloves on AT ALL TIMES.

HERE IS THE SOLUTION..

God is ALL I REALLY NEED. I must remind myself at times like this when I get lonely-lonely for The Captain, lonely for a night out with friends-TRUST ME, I have plenty of kids surrounding me but it's not the same.

I must not listen to Satan-THE FATHER OF LIES. by feeling sorry for myself-I am playing right into his lies and games.

"and you have been given FULLNESS, in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority." Colossians 2:10

"Earth has NOTHING I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:25, 26

May you be encouraged today that HE is truly all you need.