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Today is the best of all week and just so I don't spend much time writing it will share a story I read for the children a few minutes ago! I truly hope you can read if for you and for your children's gain because surely "It comes from above" May we also learn to say in every situation: " It comes from above"  Happy Sabbath Kindly Lucy :)

"  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the  Lord , thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end ." (Jeremiah 29:11) Seven months without writing in this blog... There's a lot going on and that's one reason why I haven't written in so long! We still learning and reading from Sonlight Education Ministry, learning daily from it, we are now on  Year 2 Quarter 3, learning about the life of Jesus! So much to be thankful for! We finally said goodbye to England and moved forward on August 20th. We said goodbye to dear friends that will be in our hearts and memories! We got to visit the beautiful countries of Spain and Portugal and also dear friends there!  Then it was time to leave Europe behind and start a new journey!! Aren't we only pilgrims on this earth?  Logan and Larissa at the airport Logan drawing on the plane I will continue to write more about our journey and the country we are

"For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is  a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body"                                                                                                   (James 3:2)  When I read this verse today I started to think of all the wrong words I've said to the people that are close to me! I felt really awful and asked God to help me to change and to specially help me to control the words I speak. Reading a commentary about that verse I found this: One of the Highest Gifts : T he talent of speech ranks with the highest gifts.                                                           ( Manuscript 92, 1899, Ellen White) Wow, what a call!! I started to review my day again and all the thoughts, the negative ones came straight back to my mind, thankfully I could ask God for forgiveness and repent, asked Him again for a change of heart, and that every thought, word and action might be for Hi

For this week then character quality was obedience = the willingness to follow the commands of God or His servants( the parents) Our tadpoles are growing and getting bigger each week. Now we have only 3 since we donated two for a couple of friends that came by our house on Tuesday and we had a nice homeschool meeting, however I took no pictures :( we also made a lactose free, gluten free mozzarella cheese, it was good, of course I forgot the pictures but here's the link with the recipe. After we spoke about health and made our recipe we enjoyed a beautiful day, without rain at the park, lots of kids went to the skate ramp, lots of fun together. http://www.dimensionvegana.com/el-mejor-queso-vegano/ This Wednesday we didn't follow on with our raw day, but ate some yummy quinoa vegetable soup since it was a rainy and cold day. Thursday, after we finished our homeschool lessons we went to the park under a cold rain and some wind, we were brave enough but it

The character quality for the week of April 27- May 02 was kindness. We tried to practice the character quality for the week as we did our daily tasks.  We heard a really good story on BBN and there we learned 3 ways that we can show kindness: BEFORE YOU SPEAK ASK THIS: --IS IT TRUE? -- IS IT KIND? -- IS IT NECESSARY? I truly saw difference in my children when we remembered t use this rule. And since we are learning about birds for this quarter we studied about the " Blue-Footed Booby" Isn't it cute! It looks like a paint!  As we learn about birds and their amazing variety we see how little is our knowledge about it and how big is the creativity of our Creator God!  We draw some paper dolls and played all day.  We went to the park and for our surprise we didn't find the baby ducks anymore!!  I asked someone at the park what could have happened with all those baby ducks. There was more than 10 babies. Someone said they could have been eaten by Herods!? What is a Herod?

Last week's lesson was about King David and the character quality was about being honorable or worthy of respect.  We tried our best to practice honorableness and respect each other.  Daddy went to the big market and bought lots of fruits so we had lots of extra boxes to play with. Here's a little bit of what we've done. We build a castle out of boxes.  Since we are learning about king David we did shiny crowns  and thought about that day " Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him ."( James 1:12) We had our raw day at the park and enjoyed the beautiful spring weather.  We enjoyed playing in the skate ramp and tried to practice our character quality for the week.  As the kids played I watched from affar and in once instance Larissa fell down as she tried to slide from a bigger ramp. Logan was up there but when he saw his sister on the ground he left his