Feeding Fairies

Well miss Meri Ellis has a new hobby....catching and feeding fairies!  Did you know that they eat apples and water and that they need milk so they won't get sick.  If you see glitter there has been a fairy.  Also if you hear a baby laugh a fairy is born!  Merideth is convinced of all this!!  She is a lot of fun!

Better late than never to post this one!

I think it would be really easy to fall back into the terrible routine of "just barely" doing school.  By that I mean doing "just enough" to count as school.  Not truley education my precious children.  I have not and am not doing that.  This is my JOB and I love it!  ...well most days!  Somedays it would be nice to not have a job and just drink coffee and sew!  Which leads me to I am getting that set up today!!  OH HAPPY DAY to have the sewing room/closet again!

We are going into week 4 this week.  I still have not begun foreign language or spelling for Dale.  I am not worried about those two, well maybe spelling.  We have been consistent in getting it all done otherwise and that is good.  I am ordering his spelling today.  Living here makes it hard just because there are no education stores.  But I have the internet! 

Meri Ellis is doing good.  She falls into the routine of, "I can't do this" and whines...OH JESUS HELP ME!  She needs me to be right by her the entire time she does school.  And that is different than Dale.  He is pretty independant at his work.  Oh she is a toot!  LOVE HER!

I was talking with a precious friend last week about being able to share and be real with others.  It seems to me that secrets or trials love the dark and it would be best to bring them to the LIGHT!  So I am gonna be real here.  (I think I have been mostly!)  Here are some prayer requests!
*Me and food, health overall and getting to the gym!
*School for kids
*Pray we can get into a routine!
*Godly friendships for all!

Stephen's dream shop is almost done!  It is a 30x50 and I pray he doesn't move out there!!

Gotta go!!  LOVE YOU READER!

week 8

YAY....week 8 sounds so great!  We have covered most of North America and will head on down to South America when we begin week 9.  The schedule is working out so well, we are going to take 2 weeks off then begin again!  During the 2 weeks off we are going to travel.  I am so excited!  We are going to Albuquerque for the hot air balloon festival.  We will be back for the weekend then we are going to Texas to see our family.  Can't wait!!  It will be a quick trick since we live closer and can go visit more often!

Meri Ellis is doing so wonderful with school and piano.  We are so proud of her.  She is reading so great and is really in love with books just like I am!  I can't believe we let her but she can drive a small motorcycle too!  I think she prefers the 4 wheeler though!!

Dale is great too.  He is enjoying the country life by catching spiders, tarantulas and other sorts of bugs!  He had a snake but it died, THANK YOU LORD!  He enjoys working on his fort and just being outside.  He is fascinated with WWII now and is so knowledgeable too!  He and his Papa have enjoyed watching and reading commentaries about the different battles and air craft!

I better run, Meri Ellis has piano and we need to head to town!!

Just living!

Not really a lot is going on here....just trying to keep posting!!

UGH, I did find out I  DEFINITELY have celiac disease. I had a dr think maybe the other dr was wrong and had to do all the testing again.  That really stinks after 3 months of gluten binging, I mean eating!!  So almost 2 weeks of g free eating, surely I will feel better soon!!  Part of not feeling well has to do with change.  Being in a new place is always an adjustment for me.  I am so thankful to be out of the big city, but long for the friends we made there and also the conveniences.  We do really love the smaller town and are enjoying our new home.  I bet in a month we will be all settled in and feeling like we have been here forever! 

Merideth is getting baptized next week!!  We are so excited for her!  She is ready, and has been waiting for this day for a while!  Her sweet Nonnie and Poppy get to be here and her Poppy, my Daddy, will baptise her!!

Well I better get school planned for the week!!  Lot's to do, funny since I said not a lot going on!!

We begin piano on Tuesday, company over for supper.  Bible study on Wednesday and then my parents get here!!  FUN WEEK!  And we will get all our school done!

2 weeks down! ...30+ to go!!

So far I am loving the My Father's World again this year! Last year we used a different curriculum and well it was overwhelming!! This year we are easing into school by actually going by what MFW recommends!! WHOA they are smart! So next week we are adding in the foreign language and spelling for Dale. Merideth will do the language also just not on his level. I am going to go back to the English/Grammar we used last year. It is Bob Jones and we use the workbooks, it is just a much better fit for our family! Just a disclaimer here~!! Homeschooling is not always pretty or perfect. We do brush our teeth before we begin our day and we do get dressed. BUT we may be cranky or messy and you know what "that is okay"! The kids aren't perfect and I am certainly not!! But this is what our little family is called to and we will do it, daily with HIS grace!!

This is not our home!

You know things don't always go like you "plan". I am not quite sure of what I am suppose to be learning in this newest season of life but am seeking His face during this time. I know it sounds so silly but I am still so sad and well ANGRY about the robbery. I know in my mind it is just "STUFF" but it was my stuff. The pictures are the hardest right now, to loose. If you are a little lost; our home was broken into on April 28th. We had gone camping and had a wonderful time. When we got home our house had been ransacked and two cars stolen!! "Remember Elizabeth it is just STUFF!!" 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17

HOME

For the past 3 or so months we have called our 36 foot RV HOME! This is due to a military move to a new state. Our home we are building was not finished. It has been interesting to live in such close quarters for this long. You really don't have any privacy!! Or convinenent storage space. BUT you sure do get to spend some good quality time together!! We have really enjoyed some aspects of this experience. We have learned to live with less, we have gotten more organized and I have figured out we sure don't need as many clothes as we have! Surprisingly I haven't missed the TV either!! I know family and friends have wanted to see where we are...at least it is a pic of the RV right?!! So in the pic is the couch/bed for the living room/kids room! Scouts kennel and Roys tank!! The recliners/captains seats!!...This is all multi purpose!! Since the photo we have made better window shades!

Thank you Kathy!

Thanks to my sweet friend Kathy and her blog I was able to login to mine, for some reason my iPad remembered my passwords and then I was able to get back on here!! I will post more later!!!