get through

wow! a new blog. thank you Lynne, for taking care of business! can everyone submit your email and receive notice of blog posts?

I read a handful of blogs consistently, at night when my brain is turned off and I'm not thinking of what needs to be done. I love new ideas, new perspectives, and plain entertainment. but it seems everyone is looking for answers and solutions to their current frustration...whether it be energy levels, ages of children, the husbands work schedule, awful neighbors, dietary needs, and home organization.

I love solutions. I'm always looking at different ways to organize my home, teach the kids, cook easier meals, make gardening worth it and every thing in between (which, by the way, are probably the most important things)...

emmett and I listened to a Piper podcast the other night. don't be fooled, we don't sit around and listen to Piper podcasts every night. but, this was a good one. if you want to google it, it's 'the Key to Ministry Longevity.' (which, this makes me laugh..I recently met up with my mentor through college. I hadn't actually seen her since my wedding day. so, it had been 11 years. she could not believe emmett and I were still church planting. she said she'd never known anyone to be ministering in a church that long and she was a missionary in South Africa...makes me feel relieved, actually!) anyways, Piper spoke on John Newton's biography and it centered around one line from maybe a memoir or something...I can't remember. Newton said he endeavors to walk through the world as ministering to the sick in hospitals, and he does the best he can and gets through.

John Newton said he just gets through?? it love it. I feel that deeply, and it doesn't need much explanation. but as you ladies are doing the hard things, day in and day out...it's okay that it is ALL hard. it's okay if we barely make spaghetti...again. it's okay if we cringe just thinking about counseling or praying with a particular person that's been on your mind. it's okay if our kids are driving us bananas and we just don't know what to do with them.

but we are doing the right things. we are clinging to the hope that we have been given, and by His grace, we will indeed get through. it's true.

Update to blog!!!

We have moved the Two Timothy Two Twenty Two blog location to:

supportingoursisters.blogspot.com

Supporting Our Sisters

Please come and join us there.

Lynne

to our friends afar

you are missed, you are loved, you are prayed for.

do not give up, you are doing the hardest things. my prayer for you is that God will give you assurance in these unknown, hot, stressful days. when you feel uncertain, I pray that Father will give you perfect peace...and that He will bless the work of your hands.

may His promises ring true yesterday...as you remember the call....today....as you persevere..and tomorrow....where there is Hope in the unknown.

carry on, sweet sisters! you are not alone!

jenny

Latest happenings at my home....plus a decorating craft idea!

If  you can remember from back in 2014 when I introduced my family, there was not a picture of me nor my hubby. (http://www.thehomeschoolhelpers.blogspot.com/2014/12/introducing-lynne-and-her-family.html)

Well, good news....I got a new camera! I just don't know how to get the pictures from the camera onto the computer yet. A techie I am not! This will be figured out soon and I will post some for the blog world to see. I'll even include some "what is happening around the ole homestead" pictures.

Joel is now a homeschool graduate. He is excited about his future! And boy, I am excited about some things I will be getting further involved with too!!

Since my children are older, we don't sit around doing artsy, paper crafts anymore. So in order to put an idea on here, I went searching over the internet. Shoe box crafts is what I came up with.

Shoe boxes may or may not be something that you have on hand. If you don't have any, you could use cereal boxes, mac and cheese boxes or any box that you have. An amazon box would work. It would just need to be cut down a bit.

One article had a picture of four shoe box lids hanging over a couch. These lids were covered in different colors. You could use spray paint or tissue paper. Or even wrapping paper. If fabric was available, that would look wonderful. For a kids room, you could cover them with comics from the paper. Another idea would be to color them and them put one letter per lid and spell something out on the wall. When finished, these look very similiar to the pricier pulled canvas pieces that are sold in many stores. I hope this makes you look differently at your trash (boxes) now!!!

I want to give credit to the following website for the idea of the above craft.
Shoebox crafts

If you ever want us to research something for you, just leave us a message on any post and we will do it for you. We want to make things easy for you!

Hoping to bring a smile to your face,
Lynne

these daze!

the girls built a wall with mud cement. thankfully, this kind doesn't burn your skin!

check out the load of wood I found in my neighborhood! the Karis got a kick out of it, Nat barely lifted her head from the book she was reading.

this was one of the first warmer days we've had. they were begging to go wading at a place we call the Pocket, but it's a nice 45 minute drive away and it was already mid-afternoon. so, I had them don their water shoes and jump in the rain ditch in the back yard instead. 

Jonathan is playing T-ball right now. this was warming up at his first game. he was so proud of his hat because he is number 3 and there is a  big 3 on the back. he was showing his older, much taller teammates. 

Karis is playing soccer and here she's saying she scored three goals in her game and the final score was 3-0! I gotta say, my head was held pretty high walking off that field. :) 

and what's an afternoon without a little digging in the ditch? 

sometimes we get muddy before changing out of our pj's!

we're also doing some reading, writing, and 'rithmatic, but those pictures aren't nearly so entertaining.

Present risen-ness....

Easter morning was sweet, in my home surrounded by every lit candle I could find on my kitchen table. the kids tumbled into the kitchen, and with Easter music playing, Emmett and I proclaimed Christ's resurrection and how He is the Light of the world...they got it, it danced before their eyes, they could smell the aroma and see the difference those little candles made in the dim light.

and then...Easter ends, and the week begins. and I'm wondering in my own life, how can i live in His risen-ness? His present, daily, conquering of sin....we know 'one day' He will come as that King. we know He did indeed die on that cross, He took on the weight of our imperfections and sin and selfishness and anger...instead of longing for 'one day', how can we experience His resurrection every day?

I think the key is repentance. it's daily knowing that we can do nothing without His resurrection. it's repenting of putting on fronts, so others will see our false pretend selves. it's repenting of falling on others for our strength and grace, when His Word alone teaches us to reach out and be courageous. it's  repenting of believing anything that casts a shadow on the work He has done for us and the current Hope of His risen-ness.

i encourage you to live by boasting of what has been done so that we can be vessels of hope and life today. what does that look like for you?

It's Friday....But Sunday's a Coming

I apologize for giving a link. Hopefully, everyone will have internet usage to view this with. We are pretty much out of usage ourselves until April 1st except from 2am till 8am. We have plenty during that time. 

Lynne

It's Friday....But Sunday's a Coming