Tales of my journey in lifeAdventures in achieving work-life balance…

I talked about a spat I had with a relative.

My daughter reminds me about the lesson they had about forgiveness. As we prayed together before we went to bed, my daughter reminded me to ask help from Jesus so that I can forgive my relative.

My husband bought a cola.

My daughter remembered the discussion about the go, glow, and grow foods. She reminded her dad that the cola is not healthy.

My husband had to throw the contents in the sink.

My husband was reading in the dark.

My daughter scolded him for reading in the dark for this will hurt his eyes.

Our helper threw a trash in the side street.

My daughter reminded her to throw trash in trash cans. And she discussed the effects of improper waste disposal to our environment.

With homeschooling, it is not just our kids who learn. We learn to walk our talk.

• the homeschooling adventures which continually opens our minds and hearts, which bonds our family closer to each other
• for the chance to help couples repair their marriages and for seeing the happiness restored in their eyes
• for the good health of my kids  and my husband
• for the trials we went through and continue to go through which make me become a better person today, which make me see what really matters in life
• for the chance given to me in spreading the word of the Lord (On this note, I would like to say I am jittery and there are thousands of butterflies in my stomach right now for I am scheduled to give my first full-blown talk in our community tonight. Lord, please give me the wisdom and the discernment so that I would be able to impart the message you want me to share with our community members)

Be blessed,

My middle child Ayen played with the camera and took pictures of herself. I love how the pics capture her eyes..

"Sandwich, please!", I holler from the bedroom. Then I hear my kids scampering, giggling, and trying to outrun each other. When they reach me, I get the best sandwich ever!

Got the idea from a book I recently purchased. The idea is you or one of your kids is the cheese. Then all the others will be the bread and envelope the assigned cheese. You will then find yourself in one big group hug.

Try it! You’ll be amazed seeing how it delights the kids…

Cheers!

I had been away for so long from the blogging world. I attended to my personal life (which was in shambles due to family issues), to our homeschooling adventures, to financial challenges, and to my new responsibilities at work. These things needed my 101% attention and I gave them my all. Now that things are settling down, I decided to go back to the blogging world.

Today is my first day after being away from blogging for a month (my last post was July 21). It feels weird. I forgot some of the tools and I can’t remember how to update my cpanel. Weird, really…

Anyway, I hope that there is still a space left for me…

Cheers,

Want this button?  

My blog is almost always down. I do not understand why and it pisses me off. I can tolerate not being able to access my blog. But what irks me is I also cannot access my mail account. Time to move to another host…

Who hosts your site? Do you have any suggestions as to which is the best host?

It has only been four weeks but I have seen how much homeschool has helped our family life. We are just at the starting line and it is not that easy. There have been major adjustments and we had to face a lot of challenges. But as I ponder on what it did for us, I can only say we made the right decision.

Homeschooling helps our children be each other’s BEST friends. They have playmates other than their siblings. They do interact and mingle with other kids. But I can sense very well the synergy between the three of them. When my youngest son hurts himself while playing, my eldest daughter who is playing with kids her age at the other end of park can tell that the wailing she heard is from her little brother and she immediately dashes off to us to make sure his brother is okay. At bedtime, they always insist to sleep beside each other. It is so  heartwarming hearing them share stories, laugh heartily, and pray for each other.

Because of homeschooling, we spend a lot of time together. And because of that, I can honestly say I know my kids, their likes, dislikes, what peeves them, what gives them joy, how they express their anger, their love, how they fight, and how they make amends. My husband is also amazed at the discoveries he had about our kids when he started teaching our kids.

Homeschooling has made us appreciate our family as a source of friendship, fun, and support. My eldest daughter is not bothered if she doesn’t have the new fad she sees in her friends. She can not even recognize those new things unless her playmates point it out to her. But my daughter is not affected. What made me happier was instead of reacting as if she envies her playmate, she said she is happy that her friend has the new toy.

Homeschooling has made our family much closer, turned our children around and instilled a stronger foundation of our faith and morals. It has also given us wonderful opportunities to become a closer knit family which I love!

Because of all these, we now see homeschooling as a way of life for us and not just an educational choice.

Be blessed,

I am overflowing with gratitude as we celebrated my husband’s birthday yesterday…

Happy birthday dad!

We love you so much!

From all of us…

Jo Ann, Yeng, Ayen, and X

Happy birthday to my dear husband!

Love you!