A Typical Day... Updated

My how things change in 2 years! I have been going back, reading old blog posts and saw what our household schedule looked like in 2011. It has changed quite a bit, and yes people still assume I do absolutely nothing all day long. I wish!

7am Eric gets up for work and occasionally Tabitha and Grady will eat breakfast with him, then go back to bed.
10am Everyone gets up for the day, eats breakfast, laundry (usually diapers) is started
11am School work is started.
1pm lunch
2pm Finish any school work not done before lunch, Emmett naps
3pm clean something, change laundry
4pm do some sewing, crocheting or more cleaning
6pm dinner is started
8pm Eric usually gets home, unless a sales call is far away, then it's more like 10pm
10pm Tabitha and Grady go to bed (yes, they often do not get to see Eric until the weekend...)
12am - 1am Everyone else goes to bed

We still only leave the house 2-3 times a week for milk day, groceries, errands, and co-op.

I really don't know how I would get everything done if we were out constantly. It's all I can do to keep up with chores, since I have no help 95% of the time. I do not require my children to clean, except for toys and the occasional putting away of dishes. I want them to have time to be children. So, all aspects of a clean home, cooking, schooling, and sewing are on me. Yes, even on the weekend. Eric helps as much as he can, but he has many other things that need his attention when he is actually home.

Today

Today, as the Feast of Unleavened Bread comes to a close, I am saddened yet again for all of the Christians who have yet to open their eyes and understand that they are following the path of least resistance.

If you participated in and Easter egg hunt with your children, have a beautiful basket set up for them for when they wake up, so you can lie to them that a fictional rabbit came in their home and left it over night, just so they can do what all the "other children do", you are a fraud.

Jesus never said that following him would be easy. Why do we think that if main stream does it and we give it a little twist, it is perfectly fine?

Where in the Bible does it say to make a holiday and celebrate his rising? I only see where we are supposed to celebrate his death.

I also know very few that celebrate the Bible's Holy Days, as specifically directed by God to do FOR EVER!

Too many are following the teachings of Constantine, not the Bible, unfortunately. If you don't understand what I mean, I highly recommend researching what role Constantine played in creating all of these "biblical holidays" the physical churches celebrate.

I pray anyone reading this will open their hearts and read the Bible for your teachings and stop depending on the physical churches of the world to do it for you. God gave every man, woman, and child a brain, so as I tell my children daily as we read the Bible together, USE IT!

I am blessed that God has given us the tools to learn about these things through homeschooling. I learn something new from the Bible and the curriculum we use all of the time. God gives me little pieces most of the time weekly to digest and discuss with my children. We learn things I never learned, especially going to a Christian private school for 7 years of my life, because the books written and the teachers were blinded.

May God un-blind you today and help you to see the very narrow path he has before you. Jesus did very unpopular things when he was alive, shouldn't we follow in his footsteps?

Time to plant 4

It is now time to get those brassicas out into the cool weather to harden them off and get them growing in the ground.

It is also time to get the squash started and direct sow all of those root vegetables, such as radishes, beets, and carrots.

On a mission

I know I may be border line obsessed with this, but here it goes...

First off, I highly DO NOT recommend Springhill Farm in Newark, Ohio. They have stolen our money and we can't get ahold of them.

We signed a "Pay As They Grow" contract last year, so that we could make monthly payments on free range pork that we knew we liked. Well, the time has come and gone when we were supposed to be contacted for which cuts of 1/2 a Tamsworth hog we wanted. We were also supposed to be picking up our order this week or next, but we have tried for weeks through phone messages, emails, Facebook messaging system, and Twitter to get ahold of him. According to the BBB, 2 others in the past few months have had the same thing happen.

I contacted the Licking County Sheriff and was told what our next steps should be, but that was not enough for me, so I launched a call him every hour of the day and leave messages mission today. So far I have left 9 messages, and still no response. I will fill his message box until it tells me there is no more room, then, I will call the next day to make sure it is still full. If it is not full, then I will know someone is at least emptying the messages and I will have proof to go to step 2.

People need to understand that they don't mess with me or my family. I will get what is owed to us one way or another. With God and the Stark and Licking County sheriff on our side, we will prevail!