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January Update 2011

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Update:
The past few weeks have been super busy for us.  We’ve had tons of company, Christmas, birthday, New Years, more company and now this weekend a sleep-over birthday party for the boys.  It’s kept us going for a while now. 

The next few weeks should bring us a much needed break before yet another birthday party comes.  I am thankful since I’m pretty exhausted from this extreme busy-ness of life.  The social aspect weighs in heavily, on both good and bad sides.  The kids enjoy being around others but after a while they grow tired and ready to return to our normal slow and comfortable life without all the hoopla and excitement this time of year brings, until Summer comes around and the active fun starts up again. 

This week the kids have an appointment with a local doctor’s office.  They haven’t been in quite some time, mostly because they just weren’t sick and it’s hard to find a good office these days.  In fact, I’ve pretty much been the only one who’s been terribly sick in the past few months but I’m happy to say that my never-ending cold seems to have finally gone away.  Anyways, the kids are doing great but I felt it was time for a permanent doctor and not an ER one.  I have some things to discuss about Laycie’s speech, Emma’s bedwetting and Winston’s sudden onset of ADHD symptoms, which are probably contributed to hormone changes now that he’s turned 10.  I’m sure these will be relatively easy things to cover at our visit this week and I will be happy to know the answers to these plus a couple of other questions I have. 

I recently downloaded a free program that I hope is the key to improve Winston’s reading skills.  I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet because of our busy weekend but I’m excited to get him started.  It involves a lot of listening and interaction that I think he will find simple enough to grasp but enjoyable to get him where he needs to be in Reading. I also plan to use it with Emma to increase her reading skills but she does pretty well with reading already.

I’ve started bedtime prayers with the kids again.  I don’t know when I got away from them but somewhere along the way they have been pushed aside.  I bought a devotional to do with them and we do it in the girls’ room everynight.  They really seem to enjoy it.  I know I do too.

I have a lot on my mind tonight.  My original intention was to come here to blog about family or something else I can’t get out of my head right now but I hear the Lord telling me to wait, to listen, to be patient and faithful and full of Grace, to let go and move on and let Him (the Lord) handle this.  My heart weighs heavy, yet happily inside of me.  God will make this better, as He always does.

I’m excited my kids have had a wonderful weekend, that life is looking up for us and that I see happiness in their faces most days.  I know they are Home here.  They grow in Love here, though it’s not always perfect.  ButI know God is proud of me, of us and for that I am most thankful.  Till the next time…

Learning To Read Through Struggles {30 Days of Thankfulness – Day 3}

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I had other plans for today’s Thankfulness post but the Lord has changed those to something else.  I have so many things to be thankful for, but tonight I am most thankful for the Lord answering my prayer to find something that my son will connect with in Reading and Writing.

My son is nine and he struggles with reading.  He’s had a hard life in his few years and though I’ve done my best to teach him, I know I could have done better at times.  He has undiagnosed ADHD.  He has all the symptoms and I know his Bio-Dad has it too, so it’s easy to see in him.  This was a big reason why I chose to homeschool him.  I didn’t want him to be medicated for something that doesn’t always need medicine to control.

I prayed a lot about homeschooling before choosing this path.  God quickly answered me with a big old YES by placing things in my daily path to show me homeschooling was right for us.  It has allowed my son to be comfortable with his learning disabilities and to go at his own pace, instead of being lost in the shuffle of public school.

Back to why I’m thankful:  Earlier today my son came to me with some very simple stick figure drawings he had made.  He had this whole book concept developing in his head based on Lego Star Wars, his favorite game at this time.  He asked me to help him write the words that are developing in his mind.  With his ADHD, writing the words out can be hard for him to do alone, especially when there are a lot of thoughts involved in the process.  So he dictates his story and I write it for him, letting him see his words come to life on the paper. 

Lately, I have prayed a ton to find something to capture this little boys attention and just get him reading more.  I have searched for the perfect book or subject for him but wasn’t able to pinpoint anything that would really grab him.  That is until today.  This simple dictated book of his own making is the key to all I’ve been praying about.  God has finally answered me, in my own son!  It’s absolutely amazing to me, and for this tonight, I am MOST THANKFUL!!