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A Tribute to Our SonWelcome to Through the Windowpane. I’ve been the featured blogger before, but this time I have the joy of introducing my son Eric to you. Eric is 16, and not old enough to be a featured blogger because of legal technicalities, but you can visit his blog at the link below. He loves to write and his blog is filled with the heart and humor of a homeschool teen. Eric is the computer brains behind our home-based publishing company, Remembrance Press, and I want to share a little bit about what that has meant to our family over the last three years. Very few of us know what the future holds for our children when we embark upon this exciting and often challenging journey of home education. In fact, we can’t even imagine what the possibilities are and how God will use our children. I’m always amazed as a child’s gifting becomes more apparent as they mature. Kids who seemed to take forever to learn how to read and write, suddenly take off and spread their wings, and everything begins to fall into place. You’re absolutely astounded at what they begin to accomplish if you let them develop at their own pace. My husband was told by a professor in college that he should go into creative writing (he has always been a gifted storyteller), but as a young man he didn’t have any other encouragement to follow that path, so he missed his calling – until now. I had been an artist as a child and eventually became a graphic designer for David C. Cook Publishing company in the 1980’s. We never dreamed that our family would one day be running a Christian publishing company from home. What started as a fun idea – a way to make writing real for my daughter Claire – has become a home-based business, ministering and equipping the body of Christ all over the world to write and draw from life. I marvel at what the Lord has done and how He has used everyone giftings under this one roof to accomplish His will for our family. It is often said that God has already given you everything you already need to walk in the good works He has prepared for you. Remember the saying, "God doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called?" For our family that’s certainly true. He has placed editor and writer types (my husband and oldest daughter, Claire) designers, and computer technicians all within the same family (we don’t even know what the little girls bring to the mix, yet). I never dreamed that I would care to know the difference between HTML and Java script. For me uploading was throwing the groceries into the back of the pick-up truck, and downloading was hauling them in the house after we got home. And cookies? What mother doesn't know how to bake cookies? What was this stuff about regularly cleaning them off of your computer anyway? I learned the hard way about ram, memory, and external hard drives (words that weren’t in my vocabulary) until I froze our used and somewhat ancient computer by scanning in too many graphics in at one time. At first my husband helped me with all of our computer related problems. But slowly over the years (as Eric began to show an aptitude for the technical end of things), Robert was eventually delegated to his rightful position as editor and chief. What started out as an innocent home school project (and probably would have remained just that) has become a full-fledged home-publishing business with everyone finding his or her niche. Because of Eric's commitment and dedication, and his desire to have his own family business, we continue to grow and bless others through the ministry of Remembrance Press. Please take some time to visit Eric’s blog The Voice of Experience. He struggled with writing as a child and The Gift of Family Writing flowed out of the things I learned while discovering a way to teach all of my children how to write, including those with an auditory leaning style. These are some of my favorites posts from Eric’s blog. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BlogBoy/87623/ The Great Flood of 2006 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BlogBoy/248766/ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BlogBoy/222284 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BlogBoy/136269 Blog Sayings and Computer Slang http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BlogBoy/90677/ Only a Cheapskate Like Me Would ask a Question Like That 4:03 AM - Feb. 15, 2007 - post comment
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 Jill Novak shares from her heart and the pages of her journal about God's faithfulness through life's everyday teachable moments.Jill encourages families to write and draw from life. She and her husband Robert have been married 28 years and are the parents of five children. Together her family has founded Remembrance Press, publishers of The Pebbly Brook Farm Series: Character Building Stories for Boys and Girls, Becoming Gods Naturalist, The Gift of Family Writing, and The Girlhood Home Companion. Home View my profile Archives Email Me   Categories Nature Journal Making Snowflakes On Gossamer Thread Drawing Hollyhocks Basic Supply List for Nature Journaling My Nature Journal - Swamp Milk Weed Becoming God's Naturalist - Make a Nature Specimen Library SketchBook Summer School - Write and Draw from life! Basic Supply list for nature journaling From My Nature Journal Blogging Dueling Bloggers Are you a words of Encouragement blogger? are you a physical touch blogger? Are you a Quality time blogger? Are you a gift giving blogger? Uninspired Know you audience Spiritual diary He Touched me! Art Road trip to Tasha's - part Three Road trip to Tasha's - part two Road trip to Tasha's - part one Drawing From life - Figure Drawing and the Homeschooler What if we threw away those coloring books? Growing Future Authors and Illustrators Growing Authors and Illustrators - Part 1 Journaling With childeren Writng with little childeren - shared journal entries, shared fun! Help childeren of all ages journal there life stories Family Two Letters The Gift of Words Putting your pen to paper Homeschooling Mommy take good care of your self, you belong to me significance Journaling For such a time as this Upon the white log-in with the lord Truth is Stranger then fiction Links The Gift of Family Writing The Girlhood Home Companion  The Pebbly Brook Farm Journal  Recent Entries - Check Out The Hopeful Farm Benefit - A Delightful and Profitable Way to Pass a Dreary Winters Day - A New Tradition - Over the River and Through the Wood to Sarah's - The Challenges and Disadvantages of Homeschooling - Gods Creation and The Tools of the Trade - Milkweed Monday - Drawing Hollyhocks - This Pile of Stuff on the Floor - Annas Amazing Discovery or How to Draw a Toad - Nature Journaling Interview Friends TOSPUBLISHER Tami tn3jcarter ByHisGraceInColorado parkwaymom EmptyNestMom spunkyjunior Academy252 BlogBoy WritingTips CindyRushton leebenvic RedHeadRyann Belinda Cornflower Mariel mom26kidz creativehsmom SBadgley DreweLlyn MaggieHogan DandelionSeeds Lilacs grownathome TEACHmagazine homeschoolhelp gracefuljourney Stacy EclecticBibliophile LittleEblingsAcademy KerriHopkins TammyC Bioluminescence elljazz joymommy Boltbabe cynthiarobin COMamabear mrskbrook gottsegnet Galatians69 Cre8iveMom MyChildrenAndMe Melkhi Juliestew Joyfulhrt iluvtheland Dell mctenpenny mistresninos Redeemed JoelKing BarbaraS dolphindancer quietcajun BooksandBairns dumspirospero mycrazylife ElCloud akabain JewelSea JeanaG Rebeca REInvestor deedeeuk Hagertroops7 Beverly Margaret MyLittleWomen Louscrew MorningLight rjdjohn316 Jocelyndixon SuperAngel JacqueDixonSoulRestES annointed kurjian4school theheartofthehome ExperimentalKid kcomom 4evrHischild homesweethomeschooler lolly01 InkTraveler PennyRaine tiredmom belovedbooks DixonContestBlog 4kiddos4me SongOfTheSagebrush YoungManInTraining SincerelyAmanda momma9x westward PricelessPurity mariah debbiecorley nancysnook moreofhim ChristineRead stampalot lahbluebonnet srostollan BreezyTulip RaspberryPixieMuffin SchtuffClearance |
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