Linda's Lunacy

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Our Homeschool Week in Review

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This week found me sick, and then the kids starting getting sick. sigh. The first official cold of the season, unfortunately.

Abby hasn’t got it yet, so she was able to go to her regular activities this week. Volleyball practice on Monday, band practice on Tuesday, church on Wednesday, CR on Thursday, and a church hay ride tonight, Friday. Oh, you noticed. She has something every night! Her parents are more tired from driving her around, then she is from all her activities. lol Thankfully, church is only about five minutes from our house!

Zach doesn’t have all the activities that Abby does. He made it to church Wednesday night, before catching the cold. He’s missing the hay ride tonight. Poor little dude. He loves the hay ride.

Not feeling well the last two days has afforded him more time for listing to the (affiliate link) Stories of the Pilgrims. This is our first time listening to it. It’s a great audio book. Full review coming soon!

I took my son Calen, 18, for his yearly childhood cancer survivor doctor visit today! we have to wait for the lab work to confirm that nothing is going on, but he is doing great. He was diagnosed with leukemia in October 2000, and finished treatments in December of 2003. It’s been almost 13 years since he was diagnosed! If you know someone that has a child with cancer, check out my Childhood Cancer page linked above.

Zach has been enjoying reading Top Story, the middle school edition of God’s World News. This is a great curriculum supplement. Check out my full review of  God’s World News.

 

And that’s Our Homeschool Week in Review. See you next week!

 

To see more homeschooling posts, visit Weekly Wrap Up.

 

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Glittering Promises Review & Win an Italian Feast!

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Glittering Promises is the third book and final book in Lisa T. Bergrens’s Grand Tour Series. I reviewed Book 1 Glamorous Illusions and Book 2 Grave Consequences, so stop by to check out those books.

In Glittering Promises, Cora Kensington is still traveling Europe on the Grand Tour with her siblings and family friends. After a dangerous incident, Cora’s birth father also joins the tour to provide extra protection for his family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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God’s World News Review

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As part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew, I received a subscription to God’s World News. God’s World News provides six grade level publications for students to learn about the world around them from a Christian perspective. The six levels offered are PreK-Kindergarten, Grades 1-2, Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6, Middle School, and High School. I received the Middle School edition that I used with my 7th grade, 13 year old, son.

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In the Kitchen with Linda & Dinner Menu

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I didn’t do anything major in the kitchen this week. Unless you count cooking supper for 7 every night. lol Oh, and how can I forget the fact that they want to eat the other two meals a day, plus snacks! Some weeks, though, I just have to do the basics, with nothing extra.

This week, I really must get the apple jelly and apple butter done. Well, started at least!

 

Now…. to answer the question that I get asked about a hundred times a day……….What’s For Dinner? See my menu below!

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I am Blessed Beyond Measure

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I just finished watching my 15 year old daughter sing in church online. The service is being broadcast live by my 18 year old son who is mostly self taught. I’m not in the service this morning because I’m not feeling well. My not feeling well is what first prompted my son a couple of years ago to learn how to broadcast the services live. I bought some equipment, he bought some, and using a borrowed video camera and my laptop, he started a ministry.

Now, he not only broadcasts both Sunday services live, he has the church’s website set up with all the video so anyone can go and watch past services anytime they want.

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So while I was watching my daughter sing in a group this morning, I started crying. Sometimes watching my kids serve the Lord makes me cry.

I don’t discuss my medical condition online, but I’ve said a few times that I don’t feel well. Most days I don’t feel well. Most days I can’t go anywhere. While I manage to cook every day, I also struggle every day to keep the dishes washed.

Four years ago, after I first got sick, I was crying and praying and God told me that this sickness wasn’t to death. Since that moment, I have tried to follow God’s will for my life and do the work He has for me to do. Even on the days I don’t feel well. That may sound easy, but it is not. I just remember that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and do the best I can.

Sometimes I just sit and look at my six children, ages 13-27, and just marvel atwhat God has entrusted me with. And what He is doing in their lives. Sometimes, like this morning, I cry.

I would rather be here with them every day feeling bad, even if I can’t go places like church with them, than to not be with them.

You see, even if I feel bad most of the time, watching my kids makes me realize how truly blessed I am. I truly am blessed beyond measure.

 

Return to Me Book Review & Kindle Giveaway

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Return to Me, the first book in The Restoration Chronicles series, is set during the time period that the Jews were exiled in Babylon. It tells the story of Iddo and his oldest grandson Zechariah. Zechariah is just 12 when the book opens, studying for his Bar Mitzvah.

Kind Cyrus has declared that the Jews, who have lived in exile in Babylon for decades, may return to Jerusalem. Iddo is very excited to be able to take his family home to Jerusalem. His sons, however, have grown up in Babylon and don’t want to leave.  Iddo, and his wife Dinah, are heartbroken to be leaving their children and grandchildren behind. Young Zechariah, is the only one of the family that is going with them.

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