Tis the Season for building again!!

Little Rivyr is building again! This is his latest design! Since we live in a yurt, I often wonder what our children will live in someday! They will probably really be outside the box!! HeHe!

Will they read our words?

I've been reading Noah Blake's Diary to the children and they have been enjoying hearing what a boy their age was interested in. We broke out the feather pen and ink so the children could try it. It was a hit!!! They loved drawing and writing!

So Much Wonder!

So much beauty, so much wonder and
so little time to catch it all!!!
Life is fleeting!
I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by! I remember as a child how time seemed to stand still and the years seemed so long and now the more children we have it seems like we are living life that much faster!!
Our life is 6X faster!!! Agh!!
I am realizing it's not how long we last here but what we do with each day that is given to us.
So many moments of grace and opportunities to reach out and touch eternity!
My beautiful flower above is the perfect picture of our lives.
It bloomed, was absolutely gorgeous to me, made it's surroundings more wonderful
then it was gone.
Have courage whether we live tomorrow or not what we do today can echo in eternity!!

Making Old-Fashioned Santa's with Grandmother Dear!

Traditional Popcorn Stringing!!

This is our first time in our little family that we have tried stringing popcorn together! It was so fun even Andronicus was able to poke a few! I remember doing this every year as a child, so many good memories!

A Child Will Be Born Unto You!!

Thanks to our friends in one of the community fellowships the children were able to be a part of a wonderful Christmas Play!! Iylland was the wise man bearing gold, Rivyr was the fuzzy little donkey in the stable and Llyonesse was my little sweet angel!! We wish you could have seen them, it was so precious!
I just love watching the children as they are growing and learning so many things. We have been going through the book, Man of Valor with the boys. They have really been enjoying it! It discusses all the Character or Virtues that are becoming of a Noble Man and things that will help them develop into the Men of Integrity that God is calling them to. My whole life I prepared and trained and absorbed as much as I could to help me be the wife and mom that God would use to raise a family of Christ honored vessels He could use and here I am in my element!! I love teaching the children, I am so grateful to my husband for blessing me with this opportunity! Everyone of them is so unique and so special in so many ways! Up till now we have been teaching them precept upon wonderful precept from our Abba's Scriptures and recently we are starting to see the lights go on in their little minds as they are starting to piece it together and why God has designed it this way and what part they get to play and how the family unit needs every one. For me this is the most amazing thing in the world and I am loving every minute of it! The good times and trying ones for me as well(my growing and trusting times) :) Life is so amazing and beautiful and so temporal. Our lives are like grass, here one minute and gone the next! Make it the most you can and don't forget what is the most important.
Love from a mother's heart!!!

The Sledding Hill! Open Season!!

OH YES!!! It finally SNOWED!!!!! We've been out all day and in the dark!! Grandpa puts up lights all the way down the hill so that we can sled 24/7 if we have the energy for it!
Sledding at our place is an EXTREME SPORT for the older boys. They are crazy!!!! We finally had to make a new rule, No Sledding without helmets! (We homeschool, it's expected! He,He!)
Llyonesse is a dare devil! And this year Andronicus is a Snow Monster! He wants everyone to keep taking him up and letting him go down! He's having so much fun!
One of the best things about sledding is the friends we can have out to sled with us!