just one second can save her. really.

our daily schedule

Today we started First grade and Prek4!!!!!!!
I started early so that I could take more breaks :)

Here is a pic of the boys in front of our new black board. First Day!:

I have been so anxious about starting this year, mostly because I am now balancing home-schooling AND  a home based business. I am happy to report that our first day went SO well! And I can attribute that to two things:

1. God laid it on my heart that I needed to buckle down, and respond to His call to have more Self-Control and Self-Discipline, and
2. Sticking like a stickler to our schedule:

I wanted to share a pic of our daily schedule that we are following, and that I have posted everywhere. In the places where you see play time and/or quiet time, that is when I work on my Interior Design Business.

Can you tell that I had a little too much fun making this schedule??

Now you see why I need a schedule! I tend to get carried away!! :)

Why I {still} homeschool

My dear friend Edie has written THE. MOST. BEAUTIFUL. post about why she still home-schools.

after reading her words, I shared this story with her, and wanted to share it here as well.

All of us who scoop up our children in this way are home-schooling!

oh, love! I am bawling. Just last night at VBS, I scooped up some kids who were in their pj's at church, and I told their mom, half-jokingly, "THIS is why I homeschool. It is all about PJ's and Snuggling!!"... then a moment after I said it, I realized, it was not a joke at all. It is in the PJ's and in the snuggling that we share our love and pass on our heritage from the Lord. The truest learning. The only kind that matters...How I loved this post, my sweet friend.

How blessed and privileged I am to get to do it every day!

I hope that you will read Edie's post. Not only will you love her words, you will love her heart.

Kickin it old school

We have VBS this week, and I could not resist sharing the awesome lyrics to our theme song, by Go Fish.
I wonder.... are you kickin' it old school??????

(We kick it old school)
(5x)

Come on, come on
Don't miss the latest craze
Hit it for a minute
Then it's on to the next phase

Easy come, easy go
The markers will mark it
The only change that comes
Winds up in a pocket

Hop on the wagon
Drive the heavy thing
All the while we're missing
All the joy that God can bring

You can take the new stuff
You can keep the fluff
The Bible is our tool
And we're here to kick it old school

Here we go
You know we're going retro
We're cool as a rule
Yeah, we kick it old school

We kick it old school

(We kick it old school)

Brother, we're emerging
Like a moldy piece of bread
We have to see if
The holy word of God is all but dead

All we need to know
Is right there on the pages
Why are we obsessed
With who the guy on stage is?

Dance the hottest dance
Get the latest buzzy
We're gonna find out
Jesus wasn't very fuzzy
Was He?

You can take the new stuff
You can keep the fluff
The Bible is our tool
And we're here to kick it old school

Here we go
You know we're going retro
We're cool as a rule
Yeah, we kick it old school

We kick it old school

(We kick it old school)

(We kick it old school)
(2x)

If you believe the Bible's true
(You're kicking it old school)
And life's not all about You
(You're kicking it old school)
If you know you're in a bad spot
(You're kicking it old school)
And you need the grace that God's got
(You're kicking it old school)

You pray to God on your knees
(You're kicking it old school)
You're making no apologies
(For kicking it old school)
There's one more thing to say
(If you're kicking it old school)
Jesus is the only way...

(We kick it old school!)

You can take the new stuff
You can keep the fluff
The Bible is our tool
And we're here to kick it old school

Here we go
You know we're going retro
We're cool as a rule
Yeah, we kick it old school

You can say we're strange
But we're never gonna change
The Bible is our tool
And we're here to kick it old school

Get the crowd jumpin'
We're Bible thumpin'
God still rules
We kick it old school

We kick it old school

(We kick it old school)

We kick it old school

(We kick it old school)

my current favorite song

I can't stop listening to this song.
It makes me dance all around my kitchen.

get out your clogs, people.

Lately last May, and a Giveaway!

Really? Is it June already??
I guess I ought to post some pics of life lately!!!

First, it would tickle me happy if you would Click Here and enter my giveaway of a super classy house-number sign. I mean, doesn't this remind you of a cheerful European cobblestone corner?

So, we have been gardening, and T-balling, and playing our days away.
Here is a snapshot of our latest fun:

hatching and releasing butterflies:

tired T-ball days:

a day with friends at a full-bloom Peony farm:

lots and lots of playing in the garden and playing with the hose:

Christian's last day of preschool {he got to ride the bus to a special park day!!}:

watching my sister at her horse show. Great job Cheryl!!!:

 our last relaxing mornings of homeschool:

a day at an alpaca farm:

Busy but fun days.
Hope you have been having fun, relaxing days as the summer fully approaches!