There are many reasons that I love home schooling. I get to watch my children learn, play great games with them and I know that they are getting a Christian education. One particular reason has presented itself in my local support group lately and in other autism blogs. Children with autism are not very good at routine changes. While Logan has improved in this area tremendously, he can still get…
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Our new Tradition
This year, we decided on a new gift tradition. We have spent the entire year learning about God. As you can see from my other blog posts, we are learning about following God in all that we do and say. Christmas has really become a secular and commercialized season. To keep the true spirit of the season, we have decided to rein in the gorge of presents. Starting this year,…
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Angel in Disguise
Logan and I got up early this morning (well, early for us) to go to the church’s food pantry to help make up the Christmas food baskets for the needy. I left Madison home sleeping because I knew that I would need to shadow Logan and to scaffold accordingly. God had other plans for us this morning. On the way to the church, our tire went flat. Not a little…
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Serve the Lord Sunday- Teaching the children to help the less fortunate
“There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land” Deuteronomy 15:11 On this Serve the Lord Sunday, I will share what I am teaching the children about helping the less fortunate. God blesses those who bless others. We are all a steward of these earthly possessions. They all belong to Him….
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Meet an online friend part 2
I told you that my computer geek husband could fix it!! And he’s handsome too! What a lucky woman I am!!! Me & Donna
Task #30 Meet an online friend (irl aka in real life)
I was blessed today to meet Donna, a good online friend from one of my autism groups. She is a wonderful woman who unselfishly helps out those who are new to an allergy free diet. I have been incredibly blessed by her wisdom on many occasions. We live about 3 hours away from each other and she is on the way to my sister’s house in Jacksonville. We met for…
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Serve the Lord Sunday
This is a new thought that I had for Sundays. I thought that every week I will blog on Sundays things that I am personally doing to serve the Lord. This way, it will remain in the forefront of my mind to always serve the Lord. Works for me! This blog post is really done on Saturday evening and set to post on Sunday. I’ll tell you why for my…
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Our 2nd Annual Ringing of the Bells!
For the past 2 years, Logan has decided that he wants to ring the Salvation Army bell for a 2 hour shift on his birthday. So , I sign up for a shift at the mom’s homeschool meeting and off we go to the local Publix. This year we got the 4- 6 PM shift which made for some quick driving home to get ready for the party later. We…
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Hip, Hip Hooray! Logan is 11 today!
Logan turned 11 today! We had a wonderful day together and he proclaimed it the best birthday ever. Must have been a success,right? We did have a dark spot on the day but we did not let that deter us in the very least. Logan was surrounded by friends and family that love him dearly and care for him greatly. That is all that matters in the grand scheme of…
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Working on Task #67- Implement an at home ot program
I have started to implement this but we still have a ways to go with it. Some of it is financial (needing to buy the stuff) and some of it is finding the stuff that I need to use. I’ll tell you what we have so far. I will also tell you that I have one major regret in regards to ot/pt. That I didn’t do it sooner. Ok, so…
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