We are home after a fun time in Missouri. Pris and Kezzi especially had a grand time hanging out with the young people there. I spent lots of time with the young people too, hanging out and sitting down for meals and snacks with them. What a nice (and fun!) group of kids. Too bad they live so far away.
I bought quite a few things at the fair. I met the new owners of Lifetime Books and Gifts, Gus and Shirley Solis, and what a delightful and beautiful family they are. Shirley is so warm and friendly you immediately feel like you have always known her. She allowed Priscilla to move up from the basement, where she was not seeing much traffic, to share a little of their space. Priscilla immediately started selling more books. We listened to a couple of Shirley's workshops on the way home and Kezzi asked for copies to put in her hope chest. They were very good. Priscilla was a part of a panel of homeschool graduates that held a question and answer type of workshop. She did a great job, as did all of the graduates, and I was very proud of her.
On the way home I pondered an idea for a summer routine and decided to come home and try an experiment. You can read about it here on the Shadybrook daily blog.
A homeschooling family of nine moves into the blogging neighborhood, thankful for a little space to run and play and call our own...
"May we remember as parents that we are His children, and that He is about the business of changing our hearts, of repairing our ruins, of remaking us. And though He has not finished with us, He has placed in our care His children. May He in His grace keep our hearts aflame for these children. May He give us minds like steel traps that we would never be distracted, that we would not forsake our calling. May He, the great Steward, make us faithful stewards of children, the most precious gifts, of which is the kingdom of God." RC Sproul, Jr.
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The Shadybrook Acres Kids
From left to right:Candace, Abel, Kezzi, Annalise, Priscilla, Hope and Luke
About Me:
I've been married to my husband since January of 1987. In November of that year our first daughter arrived. Twenty-one years and seven children later, we are living a full life in rural Tennessee. Our children are ages 22, 21, 19, 17, 15, 13 and 9. We've homeschooled from the start ~ back when two little girls sat at their desks filling out preschool workbooks. Boy, have we learned a lot! Now we don't own any desks at all but instead we prefer to gather at the large kitchen table or in the living room with cozy blankets and hot tea to read many wonderful books. I really do love my life!
Pastel on Black Paper by Kezzi
Priscilla's Drawing of Kenyan Kids
Kezzi's latest painting
Links
- Shadybrook's Daily Journal
- Candace, previously of Shadybrook Acres
- Priscilla of Shadybrook Acres
- Kezzi of Shadybrook Acres
- Sister/Aunt of the Shadybrook Acres clan
- Hope of Shadybrook Acres
- Heart of Harmony
- Streams in the Desert Devotional
- Great,Free Homeschool curriculum
- The Baldwin Project
- The Common Room
- Dominion Family
- Bona Vita Rusticanda Est
- At Granny's House
- Here in the Bonny Glen
- Buried Treasure Books
- The Beehive
- Dewey's Treehouse
- Liberty and Lily
- Beck's Bounty
- Screaming Penguin
2 comments:
I definitely like the Solis family a lot. Did she get help with her baby?
Since we left the next morning, I didn't hear. I was hoping you guys had heard something. Let us know if you do, will ya?
The girls really enjoyed hanging out with you, Zach. Thanks for being a gentleman.
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