Well, I didn’t think it would take me two weeks to get back to posting our week in review!!! We’ve had a lot happening! If you recall, about two weeks ago, I posted our short week because we were going on vacation. We left that Friday for Kentucky! Destination: CREATION MUSEUM!!! All I can say is, WOW! That place is incredible! We just had the most wonderful, educational, and spiritually amazing time there. The whole family got to experience some really wonderful things. Some of our favorites were: walking through the garden of eden, meeting Adam, Eve, Methusalah, Isaiah, King David, and the Apostle Paul just to name a few! We took in some shows there, too! We got to see Buddy Davis in concert, the Men In White presentation in the special effects theater and took in a few sessions at the Star Gazer’s Planetarium. We even had the honor of meeting and talking with Ken Ham while we were there! The kids just loved being able to meet the man that has written so many of the books they've loved! So many that HOD uses as well! I just can’t say enough for what a wonderful family time this was for us and highly recommend it for anyone wanting to dig deeper into God’s Word!
We were able to tour through Noah’s Ark when he was building it, and learned so much along the way. We also walked through the botanical gardens, and got to meet a camel up close and personal. So what does this have to do with HOD, you ask? Almost everything!!! So many times through our trip, the kids kept commenting, “Mom, look! Remember, we learned that this year!!!” God has really blessed this trip by giving us the foundation of learning that we have with HOD. So much of what we saw went so much deeper into the minds and hearts of my children (as well as my husband and I), because of what we’re learning in school!
I thought we’d be able to pick up with school when we came home, but the kids were pretty tuckered out from everything and we just decided to take Wed.-Fri. to finish out our spring break. My plan was to start up school on Monday. Well on Sunday night we returned home from the evening service at church to find this:
A tornado with 140mph winds hit our property. PRAISE THE LORD we were at church when it happened, and we are all safe and sound! Our house, by the awesome grace of God is perfectly safe, too!!! In the one picture, trees were across our road and lines were down in the road making it impassible until the next day! We did have some damage to some other buildings, although minor, and as you can see we lost a lot of trees! One of the trees pictured was over a hundred years old!
I had started coming down with what I thought was a bad cold on Sunday night, and then by about Tuesday, I couldn’t deny I was sick. I went in and found out I had strep throat and two ear infections! I don’t know if we’ve ever had a crazier week! PRAISE THE LORD, we were able to get a full week out of school anyway! I don’t know how it all happened, but with HOD it was so easy to just pick up our books and have the comfort and stability that it provides. Through all the crazieness, my children were encouraging others and each other by reciting so many of the verses that they’ve learned this year. Most of all I kept hearing Psalm 4:8, “I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.” How true that is! Thank you HOD for allowing God to use this curriculum for His glory!
We really enjoyed so much of our school time this week. I didn’t capture the pictures I wanted to, mostly because we just so enjoyed our time together and I didn’t worry about finding my camera. I think my card was full anyway from trip/tornado pictures!
I did get one of the beautiful meal my son prepared for us, for his Unit 25 Medieval Meal. It was so good and such a great learning experience!
I hope everyone had a much calmer week than we did!
Blessings!
You just have to give us slow westerners time to catch up. LOL