Today is a day of personal dissapointments for me~things not working out the way I thought they would, my sin refusing to be quelched in the area of impatience and a decided lack of mercy with other peoples areas of weakness(weakness I cannot identify with)~but God is bringing this about to do a good work in me; I need the sanctification of trial to slowly rub away all the rough spots ;)

Despite all of this, today will be a God-glorifying day in home schooling here at 'The little church on Gregg St.' as our pastor would call a family home(enter your address;because I will be obedient to God in making it so, at least from my end~ which is all I can gert (some,lol) control of anyways... ;)


Today we are of course tackling the Daily 7~ Bible,Science,Math,Geography,History, Language Arts and Logic studies~ and we are also adding into the fold more of our ongoing studies on the Asain culture (China & Japan), so today we will be studying the Histories and Geographies of these 2 areas. We both like to do them both at once, so that we can compare and contrast as we go along. Though both in the greater Asai area, China and Japan couldn't be more different. Maybe the area they are most alike, it seems so far at least, is in their superstitious natures? I have not visited in either area, nor known anyone *well* from either area (does reading a lot of Amy Tan's stuff count?? lol), so I don't know a lot about the culture there from a real, living-it families perspective. It would be really neat to interview someone about that,though! Maybe Anna S. over at
@ http://ccostello.blogspot.com/, she seems to be very close to her
(what seems like a )very traditional family?
Accepting or declining, Anna S.? :)

In addition to our studies on the Asian culture, we will also be starting up in Generation Joshua today. You can join anytime, really, and we just heard about it recently,so... "it is an American Christian right youth organization founded in 2003 that aims to encourage the involvement of 11-19 year-olds in civics and politics. Generation Joshua's mission is twofold: it teaches its members Conservative Christian political principles and then organises them to campaign for candidates for public office who share its views....in supporting conservative candidates, the group hopes to implement a "Judeo-Christian America" based on Conservative Christian views. The children are ferreted into Student Action teams(CAP'S) : Typically, 25-100 volunteers are delpoyed to selected races of endorsed conservative candidates. In 2006, HSLDA PAC deployed more than 1000 individuals on the Student Action Teams.GenJ's national offices are at the Home School Legal Defense Association, which is also the campus of Patrick Henry College.
Michael Smith, president of the group's parent organization, the Homeschool Legal Defense Association sees Generation Joshua as part of a larger movement....
By training students (often homeschoolers) in the principles of conservative Christian political views and encouraging them to be active politically,
Generation Joshua seeks to fundamentally influence the next generation's involvement in government." All in all, it sounds like a very interesting project and my only concerns are just how these parents will feel if we do not stuanchly support only Republicans, as we don't always do? The club does not specifically say it is a Rebublican club, but every candidate they have supported in 2006(that's the only year I investigated) were all Republicans. I have to be honest here; I didn't vote for Bush. And, I have trouble believeing that he is truly saved, based on his fruit. But, that's a different post. Besides, only God can truly discern the heart of a man. And if God didn't want him in office, he wouldn't be~ so I will trust that God is working out whatever what He wants to through using him.


Tyler is excited about the opportunity to join GenJ, as he is already very interested in politics(far more than I would expect out of a 12 y.o. boy.)Oh well, he is always surprising me...lol!


Hope you have a great home schooling day, and bring lot's of glory to God in the midst of it all by leaning wholly on Him and giving Him credit for all He works out in your life ;)

XOXO'S Stacey <3