our winter season has been about abiding. falling real short here on overcoming, championing, shining, excelling, celebrating, funning.....
sometimes, it's all you can do to hide in *Him
We've had a really nice, restful Winter break. Lots of family-time, we hosted friends over for our church's winter Bible conference. We had 7 extra guests for a week-end, which dwindled down to 5 quests for the week. (plus our expanded family of 8!)
I dared to buy Emma-the-wonder-labradoodle a bright red winter coat...because it was not really clothes, more of a horse-blanket...so I technically did not break Sky's "no dressing the dog" edict. If genetics rule, then I am in the running for crazy cat-lady and eccentric-old-lady-who-puts-her-dog-in-dresses (no joke)
She looks fabulous!!
Amie and Demi-Sky have been very busy drawing, painting and writing creative stories. I love to see them busy. I love to see them busy on things not dictated by me. The above is a self-portrait in works by Amie, it is pencil and not quite finished.
The only schooling during the break has been our current read-aloud, which is this book by Grace Livingston Hill. She is one of my favorite authors, and I collect her books in hardback, early edition. She wrote during the 1930's and her work are faith-filled. I started this one with the kids, not sure if they would like it, but they are really in to it. Very cool homeschool-mom-moment when at the beginning we ran into the word "fobish" which happened to be a vocabulary word from Sky's study of "The Scarlett Pimpernel" it was ultra-cool to read that word in this novel, kind of like spotting animals in the wild....
So, this has been our winter season, one of hiding and abiding.
I hope the coming year will be full of the fruit and joy that come with abiding in God, for you all, as well as us here at {Home}