Raising Blessings

On Monday last week Sariah turned 6 years old. She is such a wonderful older sister to 3 siblings. She loves to help take care of them and be a good example. Usually we do 5 school subjects each day, however on her birthday I told her that we would do just 3 and she [...]

We participated in the Rex Lee Run again. With 4 little kids, of course we walked but we didn’t just walk … we were slow! We came in 4th and 5th LAST!!!  That is mainly due to JJ’s “I want to be last” attitude.  I think it’s a southern thing…. Anyways it was fun and I [...]

One benefit to homeschooling through K12 is that the students can move up in each subject once they have mastered all the concepts for the subject even if it is before the end of the school year. Sariah had her last kindergarten lesson and assessment last week so we threw her a little family graduation [...]

Have you heard about the youngest pacemaker patient? I love reading “good news” and this is one of the best I’ve read in a while. Even though I have never had any pregnancy complications, I still became so nervous when it came time to check the baby’s heartbeat at each midwife appointment. I can’t imagine [...]

My Little 4 year old, Rebekah is such a fun child. She loves to dance and sing. It is so much fun watching her dance. She was up all night dancing at my cousins wedding when she was only 2 and a half and more recently on New Years Eve. Here is a picture that [...]

This years Valentines was very nice. JJ surprised me with this very cute and yummy cookie when he came home. He then took the Sariah, Rebekah and Miriam to the church where they were having free babysitting! While JJ was gone I nursed Joshua down to sleep and then we enjoyed a nice candlelight dinner [...]

We were recently at a friends home. Their family is quite musical, they have great voices and they play the piano and one of them plays the guitar. He got a guitar second hand for a really good deal and was wanting to play some songs but it took forever to get the guitar correctly [...]

My babies are growing up so quick! Joshua turned a month old yesterday and Miriam is 20 months today and she has learned so much! She can sing her ABC’s and she knows that letters make words. A lot of little ones her age only focus on pictures in books but she points to the [...]