SoCalVal hosts weblink Wednesday. This is the best place to find any and all Homeschool links on the internet. My offer this Wednesday is a new Curriculum from Voice of the Martyrs along with Sonic Flood.

http://etools.781net.com/a/vomso/bg_vomso_wdbm_351.html

It is called UnderGround Reality;Vietnam

The Voice of the Martyrs announces a new youth curriculum based on the bestselling-DVD Underground Reality: Vietnam. This dynamic nine-week study includes a leader's guide, five full-color student field manuals, a DVD containing weekly video segments hosted by top-selling recording artist Sonic Flood and a CD-ROM containing printable handouts, sound effects and other material.

Head over to SoCalVal's blog for more links today.

I am starting this post a little early because tomorrow is Tirzah's thirteenth Birthday. I am amazed at where the years have gone and so blessed to be the Bubbe of such a young lady. She was here with her sister Kezziah today and we took pictures. One of Tirzah, One of Kezziah and one of me. We than took a picture of the three of us.

This is Tirzah on her last day of being 12 years old. It is also the end of her Bat Mitzvah Year!

This is Kezziah...January will be the Beginning of her Bat Mitzvah year. She is now about two inches taller than her big sister Tirzah! That really makes her smile.

This is me wondering where the years have gone......

BUT That is not why we are taking these pictures.

We are taking these pictures because tomorrow for Tirzah's Birthday, we are all getting our hair chopped off for Breast Cancer awareness month! Our church is having a chop-a-thon. The girls are so excited. Tirzah has done this before, but Kezziah has NEVER cut her hair (except the tiem shewas suppose to be in a wedding and Tirzah cut it for her.

 

SO COME BACK TOMORROW FOR THE RESULTS!!!!

And to make this the best Tightwad Tuesday I ever had...How do you get your haircut and styled for free....

You let it grow until there is a donate hair for Breast Cancer fund raiser. Yep all we have to do is show up and we all get our hair cuts for free.

Tightwad Tuesday is hosted by Canadagirl and when it comes to doing things for less, she is queen.

 

 

Okay.... I just tagged everyone hit the wrong button and you are gone!!! Gone are my answers ...gone is the tag....

I have been asked by Misty at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/MistyKrasawski/

to share about 6 unspectactular, quirky things about myself.  It will be difficult to find just 6, but here goes!

 

1) I eat M &M's by color group and amount. Like this 4 Green 3 red, 2 blue etc 

2) I also eat good and plenty in color groups, but in threes ...3 pink, 3 white

3)  I like to eat ice cream and pickles. We used to go to Farrells when I was a kid and they had a pregnant ladies special of Ice cream and pickles...I was hooked!

4) When I ride my stationary bike I have to complete the ride in mile or half mile marks . Either 2.5 miles or 3 miles...never 2.8 hee hee

5)  I also have to have full minutes on my treadmill and the rowing machine the treadmill 30 minutes the rowing machine 5 minutes although the other day I was at 5:39 and had to continue to six minutes (: 

6)  I really love Saturday Morning Cartoons on NBC! I wake up to watch veggie Tales, Larry Boy , 3,2,1 Penguins, Jane and the Dragon and Jacob Two-Two which they took off the air.

That was fun!

Okay, so now I'm tagging . . .

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Passionforpurple

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/quietcajun/

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/kidcraze/

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/bbullard/

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/MamaBugs/

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/SuzyScribbles/

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
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Leave a comment on each blog to let them know they were tagged.

I love this time of year, the leaves letting go, the tempertures dropping and the Fall Festivals. Not Halloween or Harvest Festivals, but the High Holy Days, Rosh HaShana. Yom Kippur and now Sukkot! We have gone from Repentance and the sounding blasts of the Shofar, to the Fasting hunger of redemption and now the favor of the Lord brings about the Season of rejoicing!

Here in Northern California as we begin to put up our sukkah we are blessed to have Myrtle brandches ( Bay tree) and palm leaves to lay across the roof which will be fragrant and freshly cut. Seven Days and nights of peeking through the branches and getting a glimpse of what God has created and wondering aloud at what is yet to come. It is here out in the open exposed to the elements that we recall how dependant we are on the Lord our Provider. His people and brought them across on dry land. Theis is a shaky shelter, a temporary shelter for just as they were heading to a better place a land flowing with milk and honey, so is this just a temporary dwelling place a shelter that will not stand forever.

Verses for Sukkot:

Lev. 23:33-36,39-43

Deut 28:1-2,15, Lev 26:14-39

Numbers 29:12-38

Deut.16:13-15

Psalm 42, 81

Ezra 3:1-4, Neh. 8:14-15

Joel 2:28, Isaiah 12: 3, Isaiah 44:3, Eze. 36:24-27

John 7:37-39

John 14:17, 1 Cor. 12:13

Psalms 120-134

Some of my favorite sites

http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/sukkot/sukkot.htm

http://www.chadiscrafts.com/fun/ediblesukkah.html

http://www.biblicalholidays.com/tabernacles.htm

http://www.aish.com/holidays/sukkot/default.asp

http://joi.org/celebrate/sukkot/thanks.shtml

http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/yomtov/sukkot/skpages.htm

Chag sameach!!!

 

I wanted to tell you one of the things that Tirzah has been doing That I have not mentioned before, well, I don't think I have. Over the last six months Tirzah and her mom have been having some of their friends making baby hats for her to take with her to the AIDS Orphans in Rwanda. One by one they have been mailed to her. She now has over 60 hats! She is so excited when one comes in the mail.

So the problem this has caused...A suitcase that will fit them and her clothes. Her birthday is next week, so her Great Grandpa's job (which she does not know about) is to find her an Expandable Suitcase. Since the Airlines only allow one suitcase we have had to come up with a creative way to bring these hats and Tirzah's underware to Africa! So we are thinking Expandable and Tuesday Morning for value.

My mom is here visiting And the thought of her great granddaughter going to Africa makes no sense to her. I am so glad it does to Tirzah. Pray that my Mom gets a glimpse of Tirzah's Passion while she is here.

Happy Tuesday! Hugs to you all.

Zemeira was invited to go to a Garden Tea Party at the Gate's Mansion last weekend. It was a perfect day filled with firsts. First time to a Mansion. Really this place has a grand Pipe organ in the Grand entry way. The whole house was built around the Pipe organ! There are waterfalls indoors and out.

Another first is she went without siblings!

Zemeira was also the first to arrive ( Pa was afriad he would get lost so we were early :0) Her best friend joined her as the next to arrive.

The Birthday girl had a pretty princess dress made just for her. All three princesses had a lovely day.

They came home with China tea cups and flower garlands in their hair. They had such a lovely afternoon.

Show and tell is hosted by Canadagirl. Please head over there and see what Everyone is doing.

Lastly please take time to read my next post and pray for MamaSmurf's Family.

I was just at the Homeschool Lounge which has a heartbreaking announcement on it. It seems our beloved MamaSmurf has gone home to the Lord. Her blog still has a post that says they hope she will be up and around soon. But on this side of heaven that will not be happening.

Please pray for her husband and her 13 year old son. Although this was a possiblity hope was always before them. They had hoped she would be coming home to them, not home to the Lord.

Lord God, Thank you for cyberspace and the opportunity to have gotten to know MamaSmurf and to love here. She was always a bright spot in my comment box. Thank you for welcoming her into Your presence, for we know to be absent from the Body is to be present with the Lord. As surprising as this is to us Lord, this was not a surprise to You. You have numbered our day before even one of them came to be and we honor You in the midst of our sorrow. Send the Holy Spirirt to comfort this blessed family. Surround them with Your love. Use this for Your glory Lord. May her life and her faith touch the hearts of those that have not yet met You and draw them to Your side.

Because of Jesus, Bobbie

Here is MamaSmurf's blog http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/mamasmurf

 

This is my weblink Wednesday link! Please join this Army and then get EVERY woman you know to join this Army because we need to win this war. And this is a way we can take some control. Please consider joining this research. And when you do, get every woman you know to join this Army.

Bobbie has invited you to the Army of Women website

The Love/Avon Army of Women offers women the opportunity to partner with the scientists who are conducting research that will end this disease--once and for all. Breast cancer has been around for decades, but it does not have to be our future. We can be the generation that stops breast cancer once and for all by figuring out what causes this disease and how to prevent it! Sign up for your sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, best friend, and the woman you met last week. This is YOUR chance to be part of the research that will end breast cancer. It takes a just a minute to join. But the impact we will have will last a lifetime. Please Join Me in Being One in a Million! Join the Army of Women

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I got a phone call from My daughter tonight. She said her heart was saddened by what she had just heard and asked me to please  check it out for here.

Well I did and it was true. It seems last year it was Ted Haggard, this year is is Ray Boltz who decides to come out as a homosexual man (somehow Gay just doesn't seem the right term here). He has divorced his wife and decided to come out to the public because he is now doing concerts in Churches that encourage Homosexuality as a pre-born condition. 

Now I do not want to debate this here, I just want to ask you to pray for the Christian men in your life. Pray for the men in their lives that influence them. Pray against the Porn that is immasculating Men and demeaning women and men.

This probably should not be connected to Weblink wednesday. I will let Valerie decide that. I just want you on your knees praying for your husbands, your sons and even your fathers and grandfathers. The enemy is targetiing the home, he always has. Be it adultry, divorce, sex outside of marriage, Porn or homosexuality, it is an attack on the family.

So if you chose to read Ray Boltz excuses for his sin or want to verify this link HERE it is. All I can say is "Behold the Lamb!"

What a week this has been! It began with with the First deadline! We had to have 70% of Tirzah's support in by the 28th. We had about 55% and no idea where it was going to come from at all. God has an amazing sense of humor so as the money is coming in, as Tirzah's dad is working on a sermon about worrying and as the days get closer to this being a reality..... God does what He does best, He builds our faith. Tirzah as of the deadline had 72% of the support she needed. I giggle over the two percent God adds incase my math was off and to show me and Tirzah, He has it all under control. She now has 77%. Which is great because she has to have 100% at the end of the month.

I told you Tirzah had to get shots on Friday and that she had a slew of them. Today we are picking up her malaria prevention Medication. She had one difficult night, but the rest was good.

Let me tell you about yesterday. Yesterday we went looking for boots for Africa! Boots she can tuck her jeans in, boots to keep her safe. It is Autumn in Nor. Cal. Do you know what are problem was???High Heels and Fur! Fur lined everything! Finding a boot with out a fur lining proved to be a challenge, but after four hours in five stores with six kids we managed to find them! They were at Sears , they have a touch of style of course we are talking Tirzah here...hee hee and are functional for jungle trails. We even got a ten dollar coupon which was a blessing and they were on sale!

My sister was so excited to hear Tirzah's fund raising was going so well and asked for prayer about her and Uncle Charlie's support as well. Please keep Chris and Charlie in your prayers as well.Their hearts and love for missions is great ( they will acually be returning to full time missions in Jan) so they can use all the prayers you guys can send up.

Hope you week is filled with Joy.

Because of Jesus, Bobbie