College process, FASFA.......what is that????
Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 06:32 by gokings13 - 1 Comments - Link
As we begin the college process,
I am told I need to
fill out
my "Fasfa" paperwork?
Is there a "Fasfa for dummies" book on the market?
I totally do not understand
this college process??
I want to make sure I check under every rug
for scholarship dollars, but don't
know (a) which rugs to look under
and
(b) where the rugs are! HA HA
Seriously, if you have been through this process
and can make some sense of what
to do, I would appreciate
your feedback.
Thanks
Shayna and Jeffie
Dora and her family from church came by last night for me to worm and give their dogs a set of shots. It is so funny how people see things . Dora was watching Jeffie how he was with Michelle (she stopped by for a bit) and she also watched how Jeffie is with Shayna.
Dora told me with tears in her eyes " Shayna is his mom" I gave a sad smile and said I know. She remembers them from church events and other home schooling events. Dora knows Shayna is his aunt (tea as he calls her) and that Shayna has raised him for a lot of his life.
We are blessed that Shayna at 15 years old took on the roll. They have such a strong bond. He cries every time he has to go.
Here are some of Shayna's senior pictures taken last year at this time. Shayna was 17 and Jeffie was 2.5. We bought the hole cd so we have the funny ones too:
   Jeffie will be 4 in January.
God Bless, mj
The Economic Situation. How its destroying humans.
Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 07:41 by gokings13 - 5 Comments - Link
I am watching this economic situation destroy a human being.
What does God have to say about this???
Matthew 6:19-21
19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
I know this, you know this, but I know people who don't know this, and are not approachable to hear this.........it's horrifying.
A month ago this person was smiling, laughing, enjoying what he does (job wise), enjoying life........good mood most of the time......
Today, and for the last 2-3 weeks.........he is surly. He is overwhelmed with anger. He uses foul language, directed towards us. He is not friendly, he is overwhelmed with anger.....and everyone notices. No one wants to talk to him, no one want to work for him anymore........The life has been sucked out of him.
Why?
The huge hit in the stock market.
The huge hit to the economy.
The huge hit to his business.
And it all has to do with money...........
Don't get me wrong. I lost money too. I have 529's for the kids.
I have IRA's for my dh and I. He has a 401k.............
But you know what?
It's just money. What am I going to do?
My kids know the Lord, I know the Lord....if He comes tomorrow, we will be with him for eternity. That's really all that matters.
Really.
These things must come to pass.
Matthew 23 tells us what NOT to do!
Matthew 24 tells us WHAT to expect!
Matthew 25 tells us WHO is going with Him, and who is not!
Pray for those who are lost in the money.
They are real people, really hurting.
Our First Real Summery Saturday
Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 02:10 by Rachel - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Today was a good day. We didn't have anywhere to go (being the last Saturday of the school holidays), so we got up early to get a good start to the day.
I was a bit worried when I pulled back the curtains this morning as there was a red sky in the east, and I always thought a red sky in morning was a shepherd's warning, but the day turned out to be glorious and hot!
Robin says that I must be getting near my third trimester in my pregancy as I've started to get my washing obsession. I don't know why it is, but in the latter months of my pregnancies (once I'm over the morning sickness) I always want to wash everything in sight. I go through the house and grab anything I lay eyes on that can be washed. I'm only 26 weeks - 14 weeks of laundry obsession left!
The orchard trees are starting to look beautiful. Finally the apples are starting to flower, and the cherries as well. This first picture is of my heritage apple called Monty's Surprise. It was a recent discovery from an old tree found on the side of a road I believe, somewhere on a country road in the remote parts of New Zealand. It's my favourite apple tree, given to us by my sister and brother-in-law. I should get another one, because I'd be devastated if I lost it - I think it's my favourite because it is such a unique tree and a fairly new 'old' discovery, so there are not too many of them around yet.
And here is the cherry tree blossom.
And of course, Saturday is the day I clean out the chicken house and give the girls a new bed of straw. So they get to roam free range over the property. I put my 8 year old son, Hugh, on sentry duty - it was his job to keep the girls off my fledgling vege garden. It was not an easy job either - they would make straight for the silver beet! I'm saving up for a picket fence! I took Hugh out a large drink of juice and a large slice of banana cake to eat in the shade while his Dad and I took our afternoon cup of tea inside. See... there's one heading straight for the silver beet with its bottom in the parsley bed.
I do love watching them scrummage around in the dirt though - and it is nice to see them break into a little trot every now and then. They are being good girls mostly though - we are averaging 6 eggs a day!
Don't you just love a fluffy chicken's bottom!
And this is a photo of Poppy sulking. I had to tie her up for the first time in her life because she was getting rather rough with the hens and even though they were sticking up for themselves I could see that in the end they would come to no good. But Poppy sulked and she doesn't like me now.
It was so hot outside that the children wanted to stay inside, but I wanted them out where I could keep an eye on them, and doing something that would burn up some energy, so I said I'd put the sprinkler on for them if they got into their togs (bathing suits). We don't have a pool yet, and this is the next best thing, and the kids really love it. They had a great time and I could hear lots of laughter and screams as I gardened.
When the chickens were back in their run, we let the dogs off and Cricket (after his ritual dip in the water race outside the gate) smelled out 'something' hiding under a pile of wood scraps and iron behind the chicken house. It was probably a field mouse, as later on I did see something small and brown dash across the lawn towards the vacant field next door. It was rather funny to watch him though. Cricket spent a good part of the afternoon sniffing it out and trying to reach it. As always with Cricket's hunting sessions, Poppy was just content to look on and at times be a little helper, even though she mostly got showers of dirt sprayed all over her.
Here are some pictures of the vegetables that I do have out in the garden, but we're still getting the odd frost, so I'm holding off planting out my seedlings yet. Maybe another week and it should be warmer. I did manage to get a couple of rows of potatoes planted before my energy gave out.
This is the garlic with the chives on the edge.
And these are my artichokes that survived from last summer. I have two plants from about 8 that I grew from seed, but they struggled to grow and it didn't help that I put the hoe through two of them while weeding. I don't know much about artichokes, except that they're yummy, but I'm thinking that I probably won't get anything from these plants until next year.
And these are my peas. The first three rows have sprouted, bless their hearts. I was so pleased with these seeds, because I paid only .95 c for a large packet because this is the last summer before their expiry date and I was a little bit worried that they might not sprout, so it was thrilling to see that little shoot apear from under the dirt. I have three more rows planted two weeks after the first, and I have still more to do - you can never have too many peas, right?
And here is my strawberry bed. I have another smaller one around the other side of the house. The netting is temporary due to the chickens getting into there this afternoon, so Hugh and I quickly threw this over to keep them off the precious plants. A huge thank you to Vickie in Nova Scotia for this strawberry bed idea (I copied hers), but mine don't look as hearty as they should because the poor plants got drowned not once, but twice - in the floods we had during our late winter, but they're starting to come away nicely now and we've even got quite a few flowers blooming on them.
Those leftover blocks from our house-building sure came in handy!
And here is a final shot for the day. It has been a wonderful, happy, productive Saturday. I'm looking forward to the Christmas school holidays coming up in a couple of months when we will get lots of Saturdays like these once Saturday ballet and tennis are finished for the year, and we're right in the middle of the long stretch of lazy summer days.
The Homestead Act of 1862
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 07:23 by amanda - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/may20.html- How blessed these people were. They were probably the hardest workers America has ever seen. Without them, the land would not have been settled. A true testament to the bravery and strength of early settlers.
Bless all who pass this way!
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7
Rules of A Teacher in 1872
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 07:00 by amanda - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
http://www.chamberlaincom.com/articles/teacher.html-
How things have changed.
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7
Education In 1885 (8th Grade) Could You Pass This Test?
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 06:51 by amanda - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
 http://www.chamberlaincom.com/articles/1895Exam.html-
Amazing is all I can say.
Bless all who pass this way!
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7
Interesting blog on home schooling...........
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 06:27 by gokings13 - 1 Comments - Link
Sarah over at "Gonna Get There Someday" has a great blog entry that I wanted to share. I also shared my answer. Check her out!
We 'public schooled' thru the 6th grade.
5 star school rating.
Middle class part of town.
Low crime rate.
Brand new high school.
It looked great, on the outside.
Inside?
No physical science. Nope none. Only "social science".
Anti-American projects for grades.
The removal of the National Anthem.
The feminization of the boys.
The masculinaztion of girls.
My daughters 5th grade teacher was SO STONED when we did the parent teacher conference, I told him next time he showed up that high I was gonna call the police.
He laughed.
13 pregnant 6th graders (650 total 6th graders, you do the percent)
Porn is not seen as disgusting.
I could go on and on....
So. We prayed, together, every single day when I dropped them off..........every day for one school year.
God said "GET THEM OUT".
I said "Ok".
Funny you mention unkept, nonverbal kids.
We don't do home school groups, co-ops, youth group, or any "group" activity.
My daughters were just complimented the other day for their ability to carry on an intelligent, and interesting conversation with adults. She went on to say that most kids she encounters they talk with their heads down, and mumble............
Hmmmmmmm
Mine were raised from the time they could hold their heads up........EYE CONTACT.
So I guess this falls on the parents.
If they don't train the children to be IN the world, not of IT, they are doing them a huge disservice. And they are not doing what God has asked of them...........which we all know that's not going to end well :-)
I see your point. It's a good point.
Public School and God's Word didn't line up.
He called, we answered.
And I take "train them up in the Way they should go"........seriously.
Great post!!
Laura
Check this out Statist Education Is history repeating itself ?
Do a google search of Adolf Hitler brainwashing through the school systems.........it's chilling.
Test the Spirits
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 06:09 by gokings13 - 0 Comments - Link
1 John 4
Test the Spirits
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
Muslim fingerprints in Obama's history
By Janet Porter
I've misspoken before. I've misspoken before on national television. I've mixed up words, reversed orders, but I have never once misspoken concerning my faith and the God in whom I trust. Even in the most heated debate on Islam, never did I ever utter the words "my Muslim faith." Nor, even when talking about Buddhism, have I ever slipped up and referred to "my Buddhist faith." Ever. Why? Because my Christianity is so ingrained in me, so a part of who I am, that the thought of adhering to a false religion is so foreign, so blasphemous, that the words would never cross my lips.
Not the case for Mr. Obama. On ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, Obama said:
"Let's not play games, what I was suggesting – you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."
Watch it online.
Matthew 12:34 says: "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
Notice that Obama didn't correct himself. He was "corrected" by George Stephanopoulos who interrupted Obama, with the words: "Christian faith."
Let's just say he misspoke. Did Obama misspeak when he told the New York Times that blasphemy was one of the "prettiest sounds on earth at sunset"?
That's right. In a Feb. 27, 2007, interview with the New York Times' Nicholos Kristof, that's how Obama described the Muslim call to prayer. That prayer, which Obama recited with a "first-class [Arabic] accent," begins with this:
Allah is supreme!
Allah is supreme!
Allah is supreme! Allah is supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet ...
Really? No god but the false god Allah is the prettiest sound on earth? Really.
Speaking of slip-ups, here's the clip of Obama saying he's visited 57 states. He's such a "global citizen," perhaps the 57 member states of the "Organization of the Islamic Conference" was more second nature to him than our own 50 U.S. states.
While Obama's campaign site declares: "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim" and "was not raised as a Muslim," the records say differently.
As was documented by Jerome Corsi in his best-selling book, "The Obama Nation," in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at his primary school under the name Barry Soetoro. Even the Associated Press has released a photocopy of the document where Barack Obama is registered as an Indonesian citizen of the Muslim religion. (Listen to Dr. Corsi on yesterday's Faith2Action radio program at www.f2a.org discussing it).
Obama also claimed he never attended a mosque. Not so, according to eyewitnesses. As was reported in WorldNetDaily, childhood friends and even his school principal said they saw Obama attend the mosque with their own eyes. In response, the Obama campaign issued another statement: Instead of claiming Obama was never a Muslim, as they had previously posted, they then claimed he "has never been a practicing Muslim."
Even in Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," he called his school "a Muslim school" and admits he studied the Quran during his formative years from age 6 to age 10: "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Quranic studies."
He could have never made faces in Quranic studies if he wasn't studying the Quran.
So this weekend on national television, he referred to his "Muslim faith." Last year he said that praising Allah as the one true god was the prettiest sound on earth. He said he was never a mosque-attending Muslim, but eyewitnesses say otherwise. Despite what Obama and his campaign have claimed, by his own admission, he studied the Quran.
Add to the fact that on June 13, 2008, Obama's half brother, Malik Obama, who lives in Kenya, told the Jerusalem Post that "if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people despite his Muslim background."
In that same article was a picture of Malik with his half brother Barack in traditional Somali elder dress with a turban on his head in 1985. Like many pictures of Obama in Muslim attire readily available on the Internet, he was not between the ages of 6 and 10 when the photos were taken.
Let's pretend all of this is just part of some smear campaign. Forget everything that I've said and take a look of who's backing this guy.
According to Islamic expert Brigitte Gabriel, author of "Because They Hate, A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America" and her new book, "They Must be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It," there are some very interesting campaign supporters of Barack Obama. Beyond the support of unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, Obama has backing from some other notorious groups, from "al-Qaida to Hamas, to Hezbollah," to "Islamic Jihad" to the "Muslim Brotherhood," to "all the terrorists organizations" who "are coming out in force for Obama for president," stated Gabriel on the Sept. 3, 2008, Faith2Action radio program (on the "Archives" section of www.f2a.org).
On the same program, she spoke of the Muslim Brotherhood project for North America, in 1982, whose plans were to get Muslims actively involved in politics.
Gabriel claims that the Islamic websites and terrorist organizations are calling Obama the "first Muslim president of the United States."
As far as they are concerned, said Gabriel, these groups claim "Obama can say anything he wants to get elected – he is a Muslim." They claim that if he had renounced his Muslim affiliation declared early in life, he would have changed his Muslim name.
What is interesting is the Islamic world has not renounced Obama for becoming a Christian – a capital offense under Shariah law.
What is perhaps more interesting is that Sen. Barack Hussein Obama has never renounced his Muslim ties. He was too busy pretending they didn't exist until the documents and eyewitness accounts surfaced recently.
Let's not play games. By way of review, on national television Obama "misspoke" about "his Muslim faith." Last year he said the words "there is no god but Allah" were "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." Then he said that he's been to "all 57 states" (57 states coincidently belong to the "Organization of the Islamic Conference"). According to eyewitnesses, he was a mosque-going, Quran-learning, Muslim (according to official documents released by the AP). His friends say so. His principal said so. His own brother said so. He wears the Muslim turban and Somali elder dress for photo-ops, apparently for fun. While he hasn't renounced any of this, not one Islamic extremist has called for his death as an apostate from Islam.
Obama is right about one thing. Sen. John McCain isn't talking about Obama's Muslim faith. But the rest of the country is beginning to.
Obama Nation? Abomination? Which is it? Or is it the same?
Distributed by www.ChristianWorldviewNetwork.com
Living In A Barn- A Depression Era Reality
Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 02:31 by amanda - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
 http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-109290- I found a lot of stories from CNN on stories frim the Great Depression. To think that we get upset if the cable or IPods go out.
Thank you Lord for ALWAYS meeting our needs.
Bless all who pass this way!
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7
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