Please pray for Dozer's family...

Marsha lost her 3 yr old son, lovingly known as Dozer, in a tragic accident on Tuesday. After being missing for a couple hours, he was pulled from the pond near their home around 10 pm.

Marsha is well-loved in the homeschooling family, and although I didn't know her personally, she has blessed so many with her blog and other contributions to homeschool resources.

To Dozer's Family:
I'm praying so hard that God will heal the heartache that you are going through. No family should ever have to go what you're going through, and I don't know what else to say to you other than - I AM PRAYING.

Small tribute to a fun and funny Dozer:


Cards or Correspondence can be mailed to:
David and Marsha Drews
c/o Rachel Harris
12830 N. Cypress Lane
Tomball, TX 77377

Marsha has requested that in lieu of flowers or other monetary gifts, donations be made to her church’s missions ministries.

The vege garden and chickens ;)

I just realized that I never posted pics of the completed (for now) vegetable garden! We've left some grass in the ground in the area we don't have plants for. I've read it's better to have something rather than nothing. Once my clover seeds arrive, they'll replace the grass. Here's the pics:

And here are our most adorable 3-week old chicks!

Our "down" time is nearly over!

I plan on finalizing my plans for the next school year next week while the kids are at VBS. This summer has been so jam packed that I've hardly had time to think about it. Which is a good thing. Or is it!?

We also have some busy times ahead. I'm beginning to think that that's life - busy. Wonder why it's taken me so long to figure that out! I think my biggest challenge is going to be to learn to be consistant with school, even though the rest of life is so incredibly busy.

Off to organize the school room, which has move. Again. Pics to follow...

Summer-itis!

Does anyone else have a case of Summer-itis as badly as I do?! The humid, in-the-high-90's weather makes me sleepy and I have to work on my attitude which takes up more energy than it should. So I've been busying myself with things I enjoy, and things we enjoy doing as a family.

Our most recent project stems from a decision that we would like to become homesteaders (more on that later - it deserves it's own post!) We are starting small with a vegetable garden in our back yard. I'd like it to be as pretty as it is functional, and I'd like it to be a garden of joy! It's going to be a process, but this is the beginning of installing it:

I'd like to add an arbor, and make a path from the back door to the garden.

We are planting:

• Tomatoes
• Broccoli
• Green Bell Peppers
• Celery
• Basil (2 types)
• Blueberries
• Lettuce
• Cucumber
• Bush beans

And the decorative part (that is also functional in attracting butterflies and bees for pollination) is:

• Yarrow
• Sunflowers
• Chrysanthemums

We hope to provide for our family with this vegetable garden, and we hope to provide more than food. One can learn responsibility, patience and hard work with a vegetable garden (but, sssshhh - don't tell! They haven't noticed yet... )

Win the Essential Babywearing Stash from Along for the Ride!

I don't post a lot in the way of freebees or contests, but one of the most important things that is helping me get through home schooling with a baby is babywearing! I certainly went through my share of slings and wraps trying to find the one that suits us best. In the end, there are a couple of different styles that suit us for different purposes, namely the wrap and the pouch sling.

"Along For the Ride" has a contest where you can win 5 different babywearing items and I think it is well worth the time to enter their contest if you are pregnant or have a baby you need to wear.

Win the Essential Babywearing Stash from Along for the Ride (one Beco Butterfly, one Hotsling baby pouch, one BabyHawk Mei Tai, one Zolowear Ring Sling, and one Gypsy Mama Wrap)