Mother of Seven + 2

When we started into our journey of home education, we thought long and hard about the purpose of our choice.  The verses that stood out to us were from Deuteronomy 11:18-21. "Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.  Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,  so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth."  NIV We wanted time to teach our children the ways of the Lord.  As they approached school age, we realized how much we still needed to teach them. When we contemplated sending them off to school, we saw very few hours left in the day for the family.  As the verse above so aptly imp...

This is the graduation speech that Ryan delivered to his graduating class a year ago.  If any of you know our son, he is shy, reserved, and quiet.  Yet he stood up there in front of several hundred and delivered this speech.  It became utterly still in that gymnasium when he began talking about God at the end of his speech.  As his mother, I cried. God was taking my boy and making a man out of him.  Isn't that what parenting is all about?  We have to trust God with our feeble human efforts, and He then does His work. From Dependence to Dependence Graduation June of 2012 by Ryan Miller Today, the lines that have connected us to our parents are diminishing. We will no longer be completely reliant on our parents or guardians, but rather increasingly independent. I know that I and my fellow students have worked long and hard for this moment. It makes me tremble to think that we finally made it. For that reason, let me cut to the point. P...

Homeschooling...it's a subject that I've hesitated to address on my blog.  Why?  I guess mostly because I've been scared of a backlash.  I don't like to stir up controversy.  I am not an expert on the subject.  I don't have all  the answers, and many people will not agree with our decisions.     There was a time when I thought I had answers.  I was extremely opinionated.  That was my early days of homeschooling.  Then the days passed, life happened, and I found myself the one searching for answers. In the next several posts, I thought I would share some questions we have faced or are facing concerning schooling.  I'm not sharing with any agenda in mind or to try to persuade anyone to do what we have done.  Rather, I'm sharing because the schooling of our children is a personal but important decision that each family has to make.  I want to encourage you to pray about the decisions you make concerning your chi...