Tax Day.

11 children.

1 baby buried.

Houses.

Jobs.

Better.

Worse.

34 years.

Still together.

Like Goldilocks says, “Not to hot. Not to cold. Just right.” The evening air has no other description tonight.

Sky’s black. In move the clouds. Veiling the stars. But my new Star Walk app shows me right where everyone of them are. In their formations as they parade across the sky.

The children sleep. All is silent. I smell the bread baking. I wait.

The wind howls. The hubby snores. The dog barks. The still beauty is broken.

The timer rings. The bread cools.

I count my blessings. My eyelids droop.

Goodnight.

I see it’s been almost exactly a year since my last post on this blog. No, this shouldn’t be like a dentist or eye doctor visit, and only happen annually. Something must be done about this.

The changes here at homeschool blogger (and my inattention to them previously, due to the extreme busyness at our home) have brought a loss of all my customized content, so it’s time to rebuild. Time to rethink and define the purpose of this blog.

I enjoy hanging around HSB, and the new WP format is nice, since that is what I use on my website blogs. So hopefully it will be an easy transition.

My birthday was this past week, so new beginnings are in store anyhow. I might as well make a new one here too. Hope you check in (more often than I have lately) to see what’s up @ Me & My House.

Greetings from Me and My House,

It’s my birthday and you get the blessings!

(NOTE: This is a 2009 post!)

Our ministry doesn’t have a birthday/anniversary, so MY birthday month is when we celebrate it – by blessing YOU!

We’ve got several great blessings for you this month.

What birthday is complete without a great together? in June we have our  biggest annual get together for Me and My House ministries – Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar LIVE! And YOU could come FREE! And EVERYONE can get The Seminar ‘To Go’ for 1/2 price when you register for The Seminar LIVE! (See more info below.)

We also have gifts of blessing for YOU! For the month of  June we’re offering 3 of our core Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Exclusive Resources for 1 fantastic special price. (See more info below.)

AND we’re offering a taste of Freedom & Simplicity™ of L.E.D. for FREE when you subscribe to our FREE monthly e-pistle (email newsletter,) Me and My House musings. Subscribe to Me and My House musings and get the workshop audio, An Introduction to Biblical Education through L.E.D. – FREE!

We’d love to have you join us for our full day seminar on Biblical home education!

Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~
The Seminar LIVE! 2009

June 13th from 9:30-5:30
Fun, bonus session for registrants Friday 7:30 pm-9:30
North Platte, NE

Registration for The Seminar LIVE! $30
Get The Seminar LIVE! and ‘To Go’ (audio downloads) for $45

The full day seminar will take you from establishing a Biblical foundation, philosophy and principles of education, to learning the Freedom & Simplicity™ methods of home education through L.E.D., to the practical application of scheduling and planning. Discipleship yoU! follow-up exercises will help you apply what you learn.

Join us for the LIVE! Seminar – presented by Lisa Hodgen, mom of 10, home educator of over 22 years, and founder of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ – and get your Biblical principles, lifestyle education off to a great start.

Click here for more details and to register – AND info on how you could come for FREE!

At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @Me and My House
Discipleship for Life!™
Also Blogging Here – home ed
and There – family living
and also Where – Christian worship and growth
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We serve a Risen Savior, who suffered and died for our sins, but rose to life victorious over sin, death, and hell, that we who believe in Him would also have eternal life.
Halleluia!

Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen:
Luke 24:5-6

May you all have a Blessed Resurrection Day!

If you haven’t been by our Clear Vision blog for a while, check out our last four posts on What is the Gospel?

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @Me and My House
Discipleship for Life!™
Also Blogging Here – home ed
and There – family living
and also Where – Christian growth
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in the middle of the road?

A dead squirrel in your ceiling!

Want to know how I know?

For the last couple of months we’ve had an awful stench, that comes and goes, in our master bedroom closet. At first I just thought it was dh.    Then we removed all our shoes, and things from the shelves, and cleaned everything well, thinking there was a dead mouse in there somewhere. Nothing. When the smell returned last week, worse instead of better, we removed all of our clothes, as well as everything else, and put them in another room. The smell seemed to grow worse.

By this time the idea of a dead mouse in the walls was becoming a dead body under the house – well, at least a possum or a cat or something. Surely a mouse would have disintegrated by now.

While I was gone last week, after I’d removed everything from the closet, dh set out to investigate. First crawling under the house. Of course, our closet is in the far corner from the opening to get in the crawlspace. Nothing.

He told me he was checking the ceiling next. He didn’t. He decided to tear out a wall first. Nothing. Finally, he pulled down the ceiling. As he shifted around the insulation —- down it came! some insulation paper with a dead squirrel in it. UGHHHH!

I’m glad I was gone.

Now – dh is re-drywalling the ceiling. Re-drywalling and mudding the wall.

My clothes are still in piles, covering the bed and desk in the guest room. My shoes are still in trashbags covering the floor of the guest room. Awaiting the repainting and applying of the trim in the closet.

But at least the smell is gone.

The pattering of little feet across the roof of the house isn’t near as cheerful a sound as it was a few months ago.

At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @Me and My House
Discipleship for Life!™
Also Blogging Here – home ed
and There – family living
and also Where – Christian growth
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Greetings from Me and My House,

I went to Homeschool Convention this past week. On the phone with 4yo ds the day I was coming home, I told him I was coming home and asked if he missed me. Was he ready for me to come home?

"No."

OK. The next day at home, as he was getting ready to go to his brother’s soccer game, and I was staying home, he said, "Bye Mom. I’ll miss you."

Fickle or convicted, I’ll take it.

Stay tuned for the excitement at home while I was gone. You won’t want to miss this one.

At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @Me and My House
Discipleship for Life!™
Also Blogging Here – home ed
and There – family living
and also Where – Christian growth
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Greetings from Me and My House,

New update to our children’s vocabulary misunderstandings.

Overheard at lunch today, by 4 year old son, spoken about his sister.

"I’m a male. Shekynah is an email."

BTW, 6 yo son is now praying "Dear Heavenly Father," not to our "danly" father.
Hopefully, we’ve also brought understanding to the 4yo that girls are Females, not emails.

At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @Me and My House
Discipleship for Life!™
Also Blogging Here – home ed
and There – family living
and also Where – Christian growth
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Greetings from Me and My House,

It’s been too long since we’ve had a book to read in our favorite series. BUT…

The Kingdom series is one of our all time family favorites. And now the sequel series, the Knights of Arrethtrae has its second book due out Feb. 28th. This newest title is called Sir Bentley and Holbrook Court and can be pre-ordered now.

Read the rest of this article here.

At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @Me and My House
Discipleship for Life!™
Also Blogging Here – home ed
and There – family living
and also Where – Christian growth
Order Christian and Home Ed Resources Here

Greetings from Me and My House,

Out of the mouths of babes.

Ds6yo – about ds4yo: Mom, he’s praying wrong. He started, "Pray Jesus." I start right. I say, "Danly Father."

Lessons on enunciation in order?

At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @Me and My House
Discipleship for Life!™
Also Blogging Here – home ed
and There – family living
and also Where – Christian growth
Order Christian and Home Ed Resources Here