Walking Therein

I am hosting the Carnival of Homeschooling on May 27th right here at Walking Therein. My theme is going to be “End of the School Year - Or Is It?” Something like that. Be sure to submit your articles starting on Tuesday, May 20th for my carnival. You can submit to the other before mine too!

You can send in a submission via Blog Carnival by going here.

Jocelyn is also accepting submissions for The Homesteading Carnival.

You can go to the THC blog and find submission information or you can click on the rooster!

blessings~

I had the best swap gift of all of you this time. I got to actually meet my swap buddy irl. No, I am not gloating. At all. Ok, well, maybe a little. Here is my swap gift that arrived via FedEx a few days before she came. I am sick the we didn’t get a pic of both of us with it! I guess I will have to take it with me to Austin when we go visit on vacation!

I am not sure if my info sheet says I collect mugs, but I do. This is a “Really Woolly”. I thought it was funny that my sister asked me if it was a “Woolly”. I love green too, so it is such a great gift! I may even have to buy some more teacups and the teapot that goes with it, so my girls and I can all have matching ones!

This is all of the blogger gals outside of Chipotle’s in Fort Wayne. This is Heather’s favorite restaurant. It has kinda’ become a running thread on the HSBA yahoo group with all of us… who has been to Chipotle’s and in which, er, how many, states. So, that was fun!

There are so many more really neat photos, but I am posting this since I am so late on getting it posted!

blessings~

If you want to join us next time, you can read about it and sign up: May & June 2008 Swap!

I was emailed about the news about the Duggar Family’s new baby, due in January 2009 by my friend, SisterLisa. Then, their name even came up at Jocelyn’s birthday party. I have to admit, I’m a bit jealous after thinking we were going to be expecting before the end of the year, but we won’t go into that right now. This post is about the video on their website that shows their home. Amanda said she thought it was a bit extravagant, because it looks like a hotel, and I asked her what it was supposed to look like when they are expecting their 18th baby! I love our farmhouse, and I will hate to leave it, but - oh! - all of that open space inside the house! Ahhhhh….

So, if you would like to see a very well-planned-out home for a large family, take a look at The Duggar Family Home. That big, long dining room and table… that is one thing on my list for our new home. I have a great list, you know. Two years into the addition on our house, our children almost wrote to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition about helping us finish it, but I pretty much discouraged that. We don’t need it all torn down and started over, just the next 25% of the job completed! Jocelyn’s letter to them that I found in the trash was really cute, though! (Anyone looking to donate time, email me!) But, I digress… I love their kitchen and laundry room set-ups too. Two stove tops and two sets of washers and dryers would be great. That is on my list too.

The funny thing I noticed is that we have already come up with some of the ideas they have implemented. We have a laundry room that is quite large almost finished, and we had planned to put all of their clothes in it and get rid of dressers. Matt already wants them to hang up all of their clothes, so that would make it easy to do it right off of the laundry area. No dressers in the bedrooms makes for plenty of rooms for beds, too. Rachel would love that, since she would love to share a room with Amanda and Jocelyn…

I never would have thought about a cafeteria tray rack, but it makes sense. I love the windows. I could get used to all of those huge windows.  And a real prayer closet… Anyway, I went through the video a few times. The third time, I used the pause button so I could read and inspect. I love the layout. Let me know what you think!

blessings~

I just realized this week that I am missing out on some of my favorite blogs! And, furthermore, I don’t have to! I have tried using a reader, and that just does not work well for me. Let me tell you what usually happens about reading my favorite blogs:

• I am writing on my blog and I see their link
• or I get an email
• or I find a comment from a friend on another blog.
• I think, “Oh, man, I haven’t read their blog in forever, I wonder what they are up to,”
• I go to their blog and spend a looooong time looking over posts I have missed for days or weeks, sometimes months.
• I spend a whole bunch of unplanned time online, and I don’t get other things done;
• or I forget to visit them entirely.

So, I have decided that to keep up with my friends, I need to subscribe to their blogs. I need the post delivered right into my inbox. It has worked out rather well already. I can read the post right away and comment right then if I want, instead of spending hours catching up.

Here are some blogs that I subscribe to. Hopefully I will better keep up with my friends better this way!

The Daily Planet
A Pondering Heart
Bunny Trails
My Home Sweet Home
Sprittibee
SisterLisa - The HomeSpun Life
Heart of Wisdom
Growing in Grace Magazine for Girls
Training Hearts

Some of my friends’ blogs, I can’t get by email, because they don’t have a feedburner by email subscription that I could find.

If you are reading Seeking Rest in the Ancient Paths in a reader and would like to subscribe to this blog, Walking Therein, you can Subscribe in a reader for that too.

If you would like to re-Subscribe by Email, you can do that below.

blessings~

>Please continue to pray for the Lirette family who lost their husband and daddy.<

Sarah, the daughter, wrote about what happened.

The Fort Wayne Homeschool Expo is this weekend. We weren’t planning to go, but is anyone else?? We can go. We only live about 20m away. Here is a link to the info: Fort Wayne Expo.

Friday, May 16, 2007 starting at 6pm

There is a preview that will be held at First Assembly of God Church from 6- 9 p.m. Workshops are also being planned.
Parents will actually be sharing their own materials, and there will be informations sessions.

Saturday, May 17, 2007 8a-5p
Memorial Coliseum. Curriculum fair with many workshops.

The registration fees for the Expo Preview and Resource Expo are as follows: Adults and Teens - $3.00, Children (ages 3-12) - $1.00, Children two and under -free, maximum charge per family - $10.00. Those who attend the Expo Preview will be given a free pass to Saturday’s Expo. Parking fees at the Memorial Coliseum are $4.00 per vehicle.

They also have a list of vendors on the site.

If you are a seasoned homeschooler or a new one or even thinking about homeschooling, it would be a good way for you to check into it and meet some homeschoolers in our area.

My friend Robin has a blog with other homeschooling information for homeschooling and homeschooling in Indiana.

Please pray for a dear family on HSB.
Dixiecajun and her daughters blog on hsb, and I just learned that her husband was tragically killed in a car accident last night. You can leave a comment and read about that on Dixiecajun’s blog. He was a much loved husband, father, and grandfather. This family has been through a lot, and I know they would appreciate your prayers. They moved to Alabama after losing everything to Hurricane Katrina. I don’t know them as well as the girls do, but I have read their blogs, and they are fine Christians.
Their children’s blogs are:
• Sandy
• Celeste
• Jordan
• Sarah

We at the Dixon house are so sad right now with this family. We don’t know them personally, just another family God has placed in our lives through blogging that we have come to love.

blessings~