Angie

I am a child of the KING! I am also a full-time mom, the home school teacher of 2 wild but precious boys for going on 7years now and I have been married for 20 yrs to the love of my life!! I am B.A.M. (born and made in the image of God) and I love my Creator, Lord, Savior, and Friend with all my heart!!

A Day in the Life of a Charlotte Mason Inspired Home School

 Homeschool Habits  20 Responses »
Aug 062012
 

A Day in the Life of a Charlotte Mason Inspired Home School.

(Family time – an important part of our lives together)

I have been using or should I say inspired by the Charlotte Mason (CM) method since I started home schooling. But lately I haven’t been following it as much as I had planned. My goal this coming school year is to fully get back to the CM method. I found it when I first starting researching home school and I knew it was the right way to go for our family. Over the last two years, I unfortunately got lazy and started leaving out the beautiful extras that the CM method has. Or I started falling into a more traditional method for the core subjects. So my plan for this year is to go back and follow the CM method just as much as I possibly can.

So as I came up with the plan for this upcoming school year, I kept this goal in mind! Right now I have to say that this post is more of a “hope to be” a day in the life of a Charlotte Mason inspired home school. This is the goal but it has never in all my years of home schooling been daily reality! This is a new year and a new season of life and I am hoping (in the LORD) for this to be reality for most of our days! I know one thing I have to do to make this a reality, I must work on Habit Training for my kids and especially for myself. I always say I am a work in progress and I acknowledge the LORD has a lot more work to do in me and through me. So I know for this to become reality (at least most days), even with habit training, and hard work in all areas of our life, it will still only be by HIS grace!!

*Here is the daily SCHEDULE I created to help me have days like I describe below.*

* See my All about Charlotte Mason post HERE*

(Creation *Nature* Study  and Nature Journals are a BIG part of the Charlotte Mason Method)

  • Wake-Up (Me: 6am (Bible, Computer Time , and hopefully  a little exercise). The boys: 7:30am)
  • God & Me Time (This is where the boys have their own time with GOD)
  • Breakfast *8:00am (Read from one-two of our table books * Poetry, Church History, AIG resources, VOM magazine, etc* )
  • Morning Duties (morning chores, taking vitamin, get dressed, etc…)
  • Practice Piano

  • Bible* 9/9:30am (This is our time to get in the word together), keeping with the idea of short lessons, and using narration as a key component to the lessons as CM suggested.
  • Exercise or once a week a Creation walk

(Walk outside, observing and enjoying GOD’s amazing Creation)

(Hands-On-Art) 

  • The Extra’s*1:45 Outside Time, Artist/Picture Study, Music/Composer Study, Hymn Study, Folksongs, Hands-On-Art, Handicraft/Life Skills, Piano Lesson, P.E. games, Park-day, Creation Study & Creation Walk, Driving Range, Golf game, board/card games, blogging, e-mailing friends/family, Educational websites, t.v., dvd’s, games, etc.
  • Free Play*3:30pm
  • Dinner *6/6:30pm (Read from one-two of our table books * Poetry, Church History, AIG resources, VOM magazine, etc* )
  • Evening Time: Outside play, a walk, game night, movie time, literature read-a-loud, and free time

(Golf with daddy)

What is your inspired method of homeschooling or parenting?

 ~ written by Angie @ The One Thing

Today is for Reflection

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Jul 262012
 

What is REFLECTION? According to Webster, reflection is consideration of some subject matter, idea, or purpose and a thought, idea, or opinion formed or a remark made as a result of meditation.

I think everyone should spend sometime reflecting on the good, the beautiful, the bad and even the ugly in their lives. We should first spend time on GOD, HIS ways and HIS word. We should spend time reflecting on our kids, our parenting, our good habits and our bad habits, our spouses, our relationships, our ministries, our past, our present, our future, our plans, our convictions, our environment (people, things, and circumstances around us), our hobbies, our home, our choices, our perspective, and our free time!

When we reflect; we remember, we think, we ponder, and we wonder. In the wondering, thinking, pondering, and remembering; we can find peace, joy, laughter, a memory, an answer, and maybe even correction. No matter what else the reflection might bring, there is a very good chance that it may bring emotional and spiritual growth!

So as you live out your day-to-day life that GOD was so good to allow you to have, I encourage you to take some time for REFLECTION! Let GOD use these moments to continue HIS amazing work in you!

I have spent time in my life reflecting on many things, and a few of them I decided to blog about, so I am going to link you right HERE to my personal blog, in hopes that something I was reflecting on, might be used of GOD to BLESS you in your day-to-day life with HIM!!! I will list some of my TODAY is for REFLECTION post below, but to see all of them just click on the word “HERE” above!

TODAY is for REFLECTION: When is Enough, Enough?

Then Peter said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?” ~~Matthew 19:27 When is enough, enough? We are tossing around the idea of getting a new camper. We really have out grown the one we have. We have looked at about four different camper places … Read more

TODAY is for REFLECTION: When…

When words fail to come, comfort, strengthen, heal, encourage, worship and love When hands fail to touch, serve, hold, work, worship and love When  arms fail to hold, comfort, serve, work, worship and love When feet fail to walk, run, move, stand, serve, work, worship and love When all else fails Jesus NEVER fails! So daily make the choice … Read more

TODAY is for REFLECTION: Comparing

Comparing… yourself and what you do to others can really bring on discouragement. It can be so depressing when you read a blog post, an e-mail, articles and books from people who do the same thing you do or are the same thing you are such as; parenting, home schooling, teacher, dad, main breadwinner of the … Read more

TODAY is for REFLECTION: Renew

RENEW in the NEW I believe the Lord put the above statement in my spirit last night when I was thinking about the new year. What does RENEW actually mean? Renew- To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re/establish; to recreate; to rebuild. ..To … Read more

TODAY is for REFLECTION: Why?

Why do I immediately think of the worst thing when my kids get sick? Why do I pray for God to heal my kids, hubby or myself and while I pray the thought pops up “what if He doesn’t”? Why do I get anxious for no apparent reason? Why do I worry when I know I … Read more

WHY? A Psalm 51 Prayer

 Habits for life, Heavenly Habits, Homeschool Habits  1 Response »
Jul 092012
 

Why do I do what I don’t want to do?

Why do I say what I don’t want to say?

Why don’t I do more of what I should do?

Why do I say NO more than I say YES?

Why don’t I look them in the eye and give them my full attention?

Why is making plans more important than carrying them out?

Why is this happening?

Why do moments like this and days like that come so often?

Why does the cyber world have such a hold on me?

Why do I sit when I need to get up and move?

Why do I struggle with following through?

Why am I unsure?

Why do I feel like I have failed?

Why have I stopped doing things I meant to do?

Why do I struggle?

Why am I busy with so much of what is not the most important?

Why do I waste time?

Why am I selfish when I should be selfless?

Why don’t I really get it?

Why do I question?

Why am I disappointed?

Why do I expect so much more than I see?

Why do I wonder?

Why am I not who and what I want to be?

Why, Oh LORD do You put up with me?

Lord I pray Psalm 51 to YOU with sincere heart. I pray it over my entire life; my relationship with You, the one with my husband, the one with my boys, as a wife, a parent, a homeschool teacher, a daughter, sister, aunt, niece, cousin, friend, fellow homeschooler, fellow church member and even as a stranger.

Oh, Lord, may all my WHYs be answered according to your grace, power, and plan. I need You Lord, Your word, Your guidance, Your power. I need all that You offer! I thank YOU for a new heart, a right spirit, a new moment, day and season in this life You have given me! I thank YOU that when I am so very weak You are amazingly strong!

Oh, Lord, love abundantly through me, work powerfully in me so that I do, say and act according to Your plan, not mine!

Psalm 51…Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned…Behold, you delight in truth in  the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart...Let me hear joy and gladness;  Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a  clean heart, O God, and  renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not  your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit…..

~By Angie, The One Thing

One of my favorite ideas for our Home Educating life

 Habits for life, Homeschool Habits  8 Responses »
Jun 192012
 

I will share with you something simple I did in my home to try to help establish a habit of feeding the spirit (and brain) at each meal. For my center piece on our table I set a basket with a bible, devotion book, history book  and poetry. I am not talking about having a long lesson or bible study but just taking 5-10 minutes to read something that will help, inspire, bless, encourage and maybe even correct or rebuke us. With this basket right in my face at the table it just makes it harder to forget the habit that I am trying to establish for our family.

Over the last six months, I have let this slide but I intend to get back to it a.s.a.p.! This truly was one of the best ideas that I have ever established in our home educating life. I also switch books around every so often, just to spice things up but I do keep what we read at the table to be of the most spiritually and emotionally uplifting kind!

A New Season is an Opportunity…

 Habits for life, Heavenly Habits  1 Response »
May 152012
 

to be conformed more and more into the image of CHRIST!!

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—

A new season may bring beauty, joy, and all kinds of wonders that our flesh and even our spirit enjoys, but it can also bring physical, emotional and spiritually sickness, pain,  grief, loss,  sorrow, and all sorts of other difficulties. Yet, it is through these trials that we can grow in dependence, in trust, in love, in grace, in mercy,  and it is in these times that we grow to maturity.

Embrace a new season with its trials, because when you do, you actually embrace HIM and HIS work in you. When we embrace, we actually submit, and when we submit, we gain all that HE plans for us to have. In essence we gain our victory in and through HIM. Our victory means that we have been conformed more and more into the image of CHRIST!!

Romans: 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, wea have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Through him we have also obtained access by faithb into this grace in which we stand, and wec rejoiced in hope of the glory of God. 3More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

James 1:2Count it all joy, my brothers,b when you meet trials of various kinds, 3for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Ecclesiastes 3 ….. A Time for Everything
1There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—2A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. 3A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up. 4A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance. 5A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. 6A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. 7A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak. 8A time to love and a time to hate;  A time for war and a time for peace. 9What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.
God Set Eternity in the Heart of Man…..11He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. 12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; 13moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God. 14I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. 15That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.

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