I haven't updated weekly the last couple of weeks.
*Monday, April 5: This was the last day of Unleavened Bread. I rented online "The Greatest Story Ever Told," but we watched a little over an hour (around a third), and it wasn't worth watching, in my opinion. At least I know of a movie about Christ's ministry, death, and resurrection that is not worth watching. Lesson learned. And of course we read our daily proverb.
*Tuesday, April 6: The boys learned two new butterflies (one new to me): Zebra Swallowtail and some sort of duskywing, I'm thinking probably a Juvenal Duskywing. We had the duskywings everywhere, congregating on muddy spots. We did two animal science lesson readings (arthropods and insects), and Jade did a reading lesson. Daily proverb and bible story.
*Wednesday, April 7: Daily proverb and bible story. Jade did a reading lesson. Then we dropped the Complete Curriculum writing section, at least for now, because Jaden hates it. For now I have him practicing on paragraphs--indenting, proper capitalization, and correct punctuation. This will also improve his spelling and of course his penmanship. He writes me notes and tapes them in places where I'll find them. I know he got this idea, b/c I leave sticky notes for my beloved husband sometimes and also sometimes for Jade. The notes are very simple for now, as he still has to ask me how to spell a lot of words. He keeps them usually to words he knows by himself. He also wrote my mother a similar note. After he gets more practice with the paragraphs, then I'll teach him how to write a proper letter so that he can write family and friends letters.
His daily instruction (except for sabbath, when he gets a break from this) is to pick a short paragraph to copy. He can choose any book, whether it be a children's book, an encyclopedia, or any book or magazine or anything else with paragraphs, and copy a paragraph from it. He then has to read it aloud to me, and I'll point out any errors he made. Today he chose to write from a book that I had since childhood, the first of two volumes My Fun with Words, which is a sort of children's dictionary that makes words fun. He chose the entry "black."
*Thursday, April 8: Daily proverb and bible story. Jade chose the entry "bad" from My Fun with Words. I was curious whether he knew how to spell "black," the previous day's entry, since the entries repeat the entry word throughout the entry. He spelled it correctly. I think this was a good idea. Jade also did a reading lesson today from Complete Curriculum for grade 2.
*Friday, April 9: Today was Nathan's birthday. He actually took off on this day! That was nice for all of us. He wrote out some invoices and job bids in the morning, and then we all went out together to eat for lunch. We then spent the rest of the day together at home.
*Saturday, April 10: Sabbath. Due to unexpected circumstances, I was unable to teach the boys' their sabbath school lesson this day.
Youtube videos this week: I didn't save them, but the boys watched videos on surfing, leafy sea dragon, some fire safety videos, some wilderness survival videos (collecting rainwater and making a deer snare), and some moral cartoon stories.
*Sunday, April 11: I have no idea what we did this day.
*Monday, April 12: We went to town to run some errands today. We finished the NT section of the Bible Stories book, and so we will leave that alone now. I have now continued the NT in the bible, where I left off. I'd read Matthew to them after some of the prophets, and for anyone who forgot, I stopped in Jeremiah, b/c it bored them to tears, and I can definitely understand why it would be boring to children. I think I will go back and read Daniel to them, though, at some point (not that Trusten will be listening). So, we started the gospel of Mark today, and we'll be reading through the NT daily in addition to the the daily proverb.
We got to see a scorpion today. I'd opened a window in Liv's future bedroom, and I'd gone to my bathroom to brush my teeth in preparation to go to town. Jaden came running in to tell me excitedly that he saw something that "looked like a scorpion," and he went on to describe it. I told him that it probably was. He and Trusten had been looking out that window, and apparently Trusten knocked out the screen. When Jaden stuck his head through, he saw the scorpion on the ground.
Here's a video of our scorpion discovery.
*Tuesday, April 13: We read from Mark and Proverbs. Jade wrote a paragraph out of a monster truck book, and he also wrote some book titles.
*Wednesday, April 14: Mark and proverb. Jade read a Rocket Readers book. He did a page of double-digit addition, and I printed off some clock worksheets, and I worked with Jade on his time-telling. He also played Time in a Bottle on Clever Island. He wrote a nursery rhyme from our Mother Goose book in paragraph form. I read an old issue of Wild Animal Baby to Trusten, and he also wanted to look at a shapes book, so I quizzed him on size and shapes. I also taught him how to draw circles. They also watched some Youtube videos, but I didn't track them this week.
*Thursday, April 15: Mark and proverb. Jaden wrote a paragraph from a Little Golden book entitled My Little Golden Book About God. He played with ice, as he did numerous days this week. I got the boys signed up for swimming lessons this summer, and we visited the recycling center, where Jade helped me sort through our plastic.
*Friday, April 16: Mark and proverb. Jade did an Explode the Code lesson, and I answered Trusten's questions about magnets. They watched some YT videos.
*Saturday, April 17: I read a proverb and taught the boys their thankfulness lesson.
We've done some fun things in nature since, but I will stop here and post this week's stuff at the end of this week.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Passover and Unleavened Bread, Repentance Journals, Firstfruits, and Taking Things Apart
*Sunday, March 28: In the morning we read our proverb, and Jade did his Explode the Code lesson. At evening, it was the 14th day of the first month of the year. We observed the new covenant Passover with wine and unleavened bread. I read to the boys out of Matthew. We then washed each others' feet. Jaden wanted to wash everyone's feet, though. He even washed Baby Girl's feet. I washed Jade's feet.
We will not have leavened bread in the house this week, and we will eat unleavened bread each day.
*Monday, March 29: We read our proverb and bible story. I told the boys what would have happened to Jesus the night before and what would have happened during different times of the day. I did it in OUR time but explained that in Jerusalem the time of day is different, but it would have been the time of day it was here, there when it was happening. Well, that doesn't sound well explained, but rest assured the way I said it, Jade understood. This night was the first day of unleavened bread, a holy sabbath day. It was a full moon, as it was the middle of the month, according to the object in the sky which God placed there for us to keep up with the months, namely the moon! Most of adherents of the man-made religion of Judaism (as well as Passover-keepers of the man-made religion of Christianity and also Messianic Judaism [Judaism married to Christianity]) keep the Passover on this day, the 15th day of the month, although the scripture couldn't be plainer that it's the 14th day of the month that the Passover should be kept. The 15th day of the month--mid-month with a full moon--is the first day of unleavened bread. The full moon would have lit up the night if the Israelites happened to travel any by night after the Passover.
The full moon was lovely and should have been a reminder to all believers that God lights the way to righteousness for us. He lights the way for us to leave the darkness of sin and death. Egyptian bondage symbolized bondage to sin. Serving the Egyptians symbolized serving the law of sin and death. The Firstborn's of God death frees us from bondage, frees us to turn and serve the law of God with all our hearts and covers us with grace for our repentance.
*Tuesday, March 30: It was nice to have a day of rest. It was a lovely day outside, so the children and I enjoyed a good time outside. We walked around on our property and took pleasure in the various wildflowers that have bloomed, all the greenery, and the buds on our flowering trees and bushes. We also liked to see all the pretty butterflies fluttering about and the sights and sounds of the birds. The only downside was some sort of gnat-type insect that kept swarming us now and then.
I read the proverb of the day. Then I read some out of Revelation to Jaden. That was an impulsive thing, and I didn't really have any specific reason. Then I had Jaden write in his new repentance journal, and I had Trusten talk to me, and I wrote what he said in his for him. You may remember that the boys have rewards journals for the Feast of Trumpets. For the Feast of Unleavened Bread, they have repentance journals. They write in the repentance journals; Nathan and I write in the rewards journals. They write the sins they need to work on overcoming for this year. Here's a picture of the repentance journals:
Jaden wanted pancakes so badly this morning. He's asked one day last week, and I promised him we'd make pancakes "sometime next week," not thinking at the time about what week it was to be! SO, we made unleavened pancakes. It was simple. I just left the baking powder out. They were flat as a pancake. LOL! Okay, seriously, they were a bit flatter than normal, but they tasted fine, we thought.
I went over the feast map that I downloaded several years ago from United Church of God's sabbath school section for children. I have copies for each of the children and myself, and they're colored. It makes it more fun as we go through each step, and I quiz them (mostly Jade right now) on what each of the feasts and holy days mean as it pertains to the plan of salvation.
We didn't have a real lunch this day. We just snacked all day. Then for dinner I fixed some very delicious chicken fajitas, with of course unleavened bread (tortillas), tomatoes (canned, as I can't have anything close to raw), and fresh red bell pepper. Oh, and we added some fresh organic shredded cheddar cheese. They were so very good!
*Wednesday, March 31: I can't remember the conversations of this day. It never fails; if I don't take notes, I forget. I know we read our proverb and bible story. I also know the boys watched the following Youtube videos:
Survival: fresh drinking water, making a snare, making a bow
Moral cartoon story: "The Crocodile and the Monkey"
We had delicious chicken and dumplings, with the dumplings being tortillas I cut into dumplings, and green beans.
*Thursday, April 1: Proverb, bible story, and Youtube videos.
Survival: making an arrow, dehydration
Moral cartoon stories: "The Fingers," "The Crow and the Necklace"
We tried ground turkey for the first time (excepting pre-made turkey burger patties that we've had a few times), since I've not fixed beef much in the past few months, except for special feasts and usually leaner red meats only on the weekly feast day. The things, like tacos, that I normally used ground beef for, I've fixed vegetarian, with beans in lieu of meat. Well, tonight we had soft tacos with ground turkey, and they were super! We have things made with tortillas (unleavened bread--no yeast) all week during the week of unleavened bread each year. It's an extra reminder what the week is about every time we sit down to dinner (which is overcoming sin, yeast being symbolic of sin).
*Friday, April 2: Proverb and bible story. Jade also played on Clever Island, playing "Time in a Bottle" to work on his time-telling and a game he really loves called "Meer Cat Mob" in which he has to shoot at meer cats (or maybe their signs) that have the right words labeled in front of their holes and get them before they go back into their holes. There will be a category, like "verbs," "adjectives," or "food words," and so he is supposed to only shoot at those kind of words. A screen shot from "Time in a Bottle":
We had vegetable-venison stew for the sabbath, but we had tortilla triangles to go with it for a change. We had a mixture of chocolate and vanilla pudding for our dessert.
*Saturday, April 3: Today was the sabbath day, and I read the daily proverb and then a lesson out of Choosing Thankfulness, about how David praised God and was a man after God's own heart. I worked on the book I'm writing, God's Law of Love: The Perfect Law of Liberty, and I'm nearly finished with the sixth commandment. It was also a very gorgeous day, and I got to spend plenty of time outside cherishing the gift of creation by the Wonderful Creator. I walked around with my Liv and then sat her on the grass so that she could pull at flowers and kick the grass back with her bare feet. She got her feet dirty. She really tore that grass up! :-)
*Sunday, April 4: The day after the sabbath during the week of unleavened bread is First Fruits. It's not a feast of any sort, not a holy day. Under the old covenant, though, the priest would wave a sheaf of the first fruits of the harvest to be accepted by God. When Jesus the Christ ascended to God after his resurrection, he fulfilled this. He was the firstfruits of the spring harvest (I Cor. 15:20), as laid out symbolically in God's feasts that lay out the plan of mankind's salvation. So, I explained this to Jade and how ironic it was that this year it happened to fall on the same day that Christianity keeps its feast of Easter, on which they claim their christ rose from the dead, known in ancient heathen religions as the "sun god." Easter is the name of a heathen goddess, also known as Ishtar, Astarte, Eostre, Isis, etc., depending on which culture and language is being used. She is a fertility goddess, hence the big deal over sex-crazed rabbits and eggs.
We ate out at Las Palmas, a Mexican restaurant, for a late lunch today, and then when we got back, Nathan put together our new ceiling fan for the living room, while Jaden took apart the old one. The other day, Nathan replaced a couple of our door knobs, and Jade took apart one to study it. When I asked him the other day what his favorite thing to do currently is, he said, "I like to build, but I also like to destroy, and then when things can be fixed, I like to rebuild them after I tear them down."
Well, that's it until next time. It will soon be the last day of unleavened bread, starting this evening, a sabbath day. So, tomorrow I'll be going over the feast again with the boys and the entire plan of salvation.
We will not have leavened bread in the house this week, and we will eat unleavened bread each day.
*Monday, March 29: We read our proverb and bible story. I told the boys what would have happened to Jesus the night before and what would have happened during different times of the day. I did it in OUR time but explained that in Jerusalem the time of day is different, but it would have been the time of day it was here, there when it was happening. Well, that doesn't sound well explained, but rest assured the way I said it, Jade understood. This night was the first day of unleavened bread, a holy sabbath day. It was a full moon, as it was the middle of the month, according to the object in the sky which God placed there for us to keep up with the months, namely the moon! Most of adherents of the man-made religion of Judaism (as well as Passover-keepers of the man-made religion of Christianity and also Messianic Judaism [Judaism married to Christianity]) keep the Passover on this day, the 15th day of the month, although the scripture couldn't be plainer that it's the 14th day of the month that the Passover should be kept. The 15th day of the month--mid-month with a full moon--is the first day of unleavened bread. The full moon would have lit up the night if the Israelites happened to travel any by night after the Passover.
The full moon was lovely and should have been a reminder to all believers that God lights the way to righteousness for us. He lights the way for us to leave the darkness of sin and death. Egyptian bondage symbolized bondage to sin. Serving the Egyptians symbolized serving the law of sin and death. The Firstborn's of God death frees us from bondage, frees us to turn and serve the law of God with all our hearts and covers us with grace for our repentance.
*Tuesday, March 30: It was nice to have a day of rest. It was a lovely day outside, so the children and I enjoyed a good time outside. We walked around on our property and took pleasure in the various wildflowers that have bloomed, all the greenery, and the buds on our flowering trees and bushes. We also liked to see all the pretty butterflies fluttering about and the sights and sounds of the birds. The only downside was some sort of gnat-type insect that kept swarming us now and then.
I read the proverb of the day. Then I read some out of Revelation to Jaden. That was an impulsive thing, and I didn't really have any specific reason. Then I had Jaden write in his new repentance journal, and I had Trusten talk to me, and I wrote what he said in his for him. You may remember that the boys have rewards journals for the Feast of Trumpets. For the Feast of Unleavened Bread, they have repentance journals. They write in the repentance journals; Nathan and I write in the rewards journals. They write the sins they need to work on overcoming for this year. Here's a picture of the repentance journals:
Jaden wanted pancakes so badly this morning. He's asked one day last week, and I promised him we'd make pancakes "sometime next week," not thinking at the time about what week it was to be! SO, we made unleavened pancakes. It was simple. I just left the baking powder out. They were flat as a pancake. LOL! Okay, seriously, they were a bit flatter than normal, but they tasted fine, we thought.
I went over the feast map that I downloaded several years ago from United Church of God's sabbath school section for children. I have copies for each of the children and myself, and they're colored. It makes it more fun as we go through each step, and I quiz them (mostly Jade right now) on what each of the feasts and holy days mean as it pertains to the plan of salvation.
We didn't have a real lunch this day. We just snacked all day. Then for dinner I fixed some very delicious chicken fajitas, with of course unleavened bread (tortillas), tomatoes (canned, as I can't have anything close to raw), and fresh red bell pepper. Oh, and we added some fresh organic shredded cheddar cheese. They were so very good!
*Wednesday, March 31: I can't remember the conversations of this day. It never fails; if I don't take notes, I forget. I know we read our proverb and bible story. I also know the boys watched the following Youtube videos:
Survival: fresh drinking water, making a snare, making a bow
Moral cartoon story: "The Crocodile and the Monkey"
We had delicious chicken and dumplings, with the dumplings being tortillas I cut into dumplings, and green beans.
*Thursday, April 1: Proverb, bible story, and Youtube videos.
Survival: making an arrow, dehydration
Moral cartoon stories: "The Fingers," "The Crow and the Necklace"
We tried ground turkey for the first time (excepting pre-made turkey burger patties that we've had a few times), since I've not fixed beef much in the past few months, except for special feasts and usually leaner red meats only on the weekly feast day. The things, like tacos, that I normally used ground beef for, I've fixed vegetarian, with beans in lieu of meat. Well, tonight we had soft tacos with ground turkey, and they were super! We have things made with tortillas (unleavened bread--no yeast) all week during the week of unleavened bread each year. It's an extra reminder what the week is about every time we sit down to dinner (which is overcoming sin, yeast being symbolic of sin).
*Friday, April 2: Proverb and bible story. Jade also played on Clever Island, playing "Time in a Bottle" to work on his time-telling and a game he really loves called "Meer Cat Mob" in which he has to shoot at meer cats (or maybe their signs) that have the right words labeled in front of their holes and get them before they go back into their holes. There will be a category, like "verbs," "adjectives," or "food words," and so he is supposed to only shoot at those kind of words. A screen shot from "Time in a Bottle":
We had vegetable-venison stew for the sabbath, but we had tortilla triangles to go with it for a change. We had a mixture of chocolate and vanilla pudding for our dessert.
*Saturday, April 3: Today was the sabbath day, and I read the daily proverb and then a lesson out of Choosing Thankfulness, about how David praised God and was a man after God's own heart. I worked on the book I'm writing, God's Law of Love: The Perfect Law of Liberty, and I'm nearly finished with the sixth commandment. It was also a very gorgeous day, and I got to spend plenty of time outside cherishing the gift of creation by the Wonderful Creator. I walked around with my Liv and then sat her on the grass so that she could pull at flowers and kick the grass back with her bare feet. She got her feet dirty. She really tore that grass up! :-)
*Sunday, April 4: The day after the sabbath during the week of unleavened bread is First Fruits. It's not a feast of any sort, not a holy day. Under the old covenant, though, the priest would wave a sheaf of the first fruits of the harvest to be accepted by God. When Jesus the Christ ascended to God after his resurrection, he fulfilled this. He was the firstfruits of the spring harvest (I Cor. 15:20), as laid out symbolically in God's feasts that lay out the plan of mankind's salvation. So, I explained this to Jade and how ironic it was that this year it happened to fall on the same day that Christianity keeps its feast of Easter, on which they claim their christ rose from the dead, known in ancient heathen religions as the "sun god." Easter is the name of a heathen goddess, also known as Ishtar, Astarte, Eostre, Isis, etc., depending on which culture and language is being used. She is a fertility goddess, hence the big deal over sex-crazed rabbits and eggs.
We ate out at Las Palmas, a Mexican restaurant, for a late lunch today, and then when we got back, Nathan put together our new ceiling fan for the living room, while Jaden took apart the old one. The other day, Nathan replaced a couple of our door knobs, and Jade took apart one to study it. When I asked him the other day what his favorite thing to do currently is, he said, "I like to build, but I also like to destroy, and then when things can be fixed, I like to rebuild them after I tear them down."
Well, that's it until next time. It will soon be the last day of unleavened bread, starting this evening, a sabbath day. So, tomorrow I'll be going over the feast again with the boys and the entire plan of salvation.
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