I'm still alive!!!

Yep, I'm still here. Things have just been so chaotic since we moved. So I'm just going to give some updates...

We moved! Yay! It wasn't all peaches and cream, but it worked out. We ended up staying with my mom for almost a month. (15 people in an 1100 sq ft house, Fun!) Had a really hard time finding a house. Not many people wanted to rent to a family this big. Sad really that people think children are so bad. But just when we were despairing we found the perfect house! It's out in the country. 3/4 of an acre lot, so plenty of room for the kids to run around. The house itself has 3 bedrooms, 2 spare rooms and a family room and living room! Plus a two car garage and shed in back. More than enough room for us and all our stuff. I'm so glad to be done moving and unpacking! The only think I "like" about moving is the unpacking and going through everything and getting rid of so much excess stuff we don't need!

School is going well. We are still using Landmark. I still think it's a good curriculum, but I'm not liking it so much for a large family. Plus opposite of what I was told, it is not really a self teaching curriculum. It takes a lot of teaching on my part. It also is a lot to grade every day. 7 subjects and 5 kids, plus doing school with Emily. (she doesn't want to be left out ya know?!) Just isn't working so well. We are going to be adding some other things and not doing ALL textbooks though. We are going to try out Spell Power and Story of the World. I'll let you know how it goes with that!

The kids are all doing well. Kathleen and Zachary still keep getting croup. I'm thinking it must be allergy induced, but location hasn't seemed to change anything. There's not much they can do for it unless it's bacterial croup and Kathleen has only had that once. It's always just a "let it run it's course" type of thing. They're all doing pretty well in school too. Michelle especially. She's 6 and doing 2nd grade. She's helping her older siblings with their work though. God really blessed her with an amazing mind! They older 5 are all doing piano and doing really well with that. James Michael's teacher is very impressed with how well he's doing. The older 3 girls are all doing sewing lessons as well and LOVE it! Their teacher is the mom of one of my good friends from childhood. She taught me a few times and she's taught 3 of my sisters to sew as well. Jason and Makenzie have birthday's coming up next month too and are very anxious for them to get here! :D I'm not as anxious, as I still have to get working on their blankets. I have Jason's started, but don't have anything for Makenzie's.

This pregnancy is going well. I'm over my paralyzing all day sickness and exhaustion! Baby is pretty active, usually in the middle of the night of course. Still haven't had an U/S, but I'm hoping to have one soon. I usually only have one a pregnancy as I don't really think they're all that healthy for the baby. But I like to have at least one, just to make sure everything's o.k. and to see whether we're having a boy or a girl. We have no names picked out yet though for either sex. Still have plenty of time for that though :)

Well, I'm off to bed!

Blessings, ♥T

Alabama Judge

Alabama
Judge


Some of you may be wondering what Judge Roy Moore has been doing since he was removed from the bench for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom wall. Please read the poem he wrote.


The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama ... Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama ! The judge's poem sums it up quite well.



America the beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.

Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty;
your house is on the sand.

Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine
choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain

From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray

We've kept God in our
temples,how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.

We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges;
who throw reason out the door,

Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not
angry,that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?

How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?

If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:

Then God will hear from Heaven;
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.

But, America the Beautiful,
If you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.

~~Judge Roy Moore~~


Blessings, ♥T

God is not Mocked

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7): 

'Be not deceived;  God is not mocked: 
for whatsoever a man sow, 
that shall he also reap. 

Here are some men and women 
who mocked God : 



John Lennon (Singer): 
Some years before, during his interview with an  American Magazine, he said: 
'Christianity will end, it will disappear. 
I  do not have to argue about 
that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his  subjects were too simple, today we 
are more famous than Him' (1966). 

Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ,  
was shot six times. 

Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ): 
During the Presidential  campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his 
party, not even God would  remove him from Presidency. 
Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day  before being made President, 
then he died. 

Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet): 
During A  show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ), 
while smoking his cigarette, he puffed  out some smoke into the air and 
said:'God, that's for you.' 

He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner. 


The man who built the Titanic 
After the construction of  Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic 
would be. 
With an ironic  tone he said: 
'Not even God can sink it' 
The result: I think you all  know what happened to the Titanic 

Marilyn Monroe (Actress) 
She was visited by Billy Graham during a  presentation of a show. 
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to  her. 
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: 
'I don't need  your Jesus'. 
A week later, she was found dead in her apartment 

Bon Scott (Singer) 
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979  songs he sang:  
'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the  highway to hell'.
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found  dead, he had been choked 
by his own vomit. 

Campinas (IN 2005) 
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went  to pick up a 
friend..... 
The mother accompanied her to the car and was so  worried about the 
drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter  holding her hand, 
who was already seated in the car: 

My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.' 
She responded: 'Only  If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside 
Here.....It's Already Full '  
Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal  accident, 
everyone had died, 
the car could not be recognized what type of  car it had been, but 
surprisingly, the trunk was intact. 
The police said  there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To 
their surprise, inside  the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken 

Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer) 
said the Bible  (Word of God) was the worst book ever written. 
In June 2006 she was found  burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle. 
Many more important  people have forgotten that there is no other name that 
was given so much  authority as the name of Jesus. 

Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.  

Blessings, ♥T