Propped-up Sitting

It seems like we've (Doc, his OT & PT, and I) have been working on this position FOREVER.  I know that is how it's always going to seem.  But, when he did it by himself this weekend for the first time it was sweet.  And again, long enough for me to take a picture even!  Good work little man!  Now that you have this down your therapists can add one extra thing to your daily regime!

Black & White

WARNING: Post is not pc!

There is a LOT of gray stuff out there.  Issues that can't be decided for sure one way or the other.  There are just countless situations which require different and difficult decisions.  But there are still some black and white issues.  With the upcoming election I'd like to go over some of these black and white issues.  These apply to those who believe and have put their trust in God, the One and Only, and believe and trust that the Bible is His infallible Word.  (If you don't believe in God or trust the Bible as His Word, this will mean nothing to you, FYI).

Marriage:
Genesis 1:27-28
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.  God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.  Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'"

Genesis 2:24
"That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."

1 Corinthians 7:2
"But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband."

Romans 1:26-27
"Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.  Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.  Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error."

Children:
Psalm 127:3
"Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him."

Psalm 139:13-15
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in that secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth."

Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you . . ."

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder."

The Economy: don't let the sorry state of our economy deter you from voting morally.
Hebrews 13:5
"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.'"

Matthew 6:25-27
"'Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?"

Haters:
1 John 3:15
"Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him."

John 15:19
"'If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.  As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.  That is why the world hates you.'"

Remember:
Hebrews 13:6
"So we say with confidence, 'The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.  What can mere mortals do to me?'"

Romans 13:1
"Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.  The authorities that exist have been established by God."

AND

Ecclesiastes 1:9
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."

(If you don't believe me look it up for yourself.  I encourage you to study these truths.  These are quoted from the NIV and all emphasis is mine.)

2012-2013 School Year

Half-pint and Big Brother posing for their 2012-2013 school year pics!

I thought I would share what curriculum we're using this year, because I haven't posted anything in awhile and although I still don't have one extra minute today I thought this blog needed a new post.

Big Brother is doing: Apologia Press Science: Astronomy

Apologia Press: Who is God?

Sing Spell Read and Write (phonics)

Story of the World (history)

Horizons Math 1

First Language Lessons (Level 1) (grammar)

and Expedition Earth (by Erica at confessionsofahomeschooler.com) (geography)

My "teeny tot" aka Half-Pint will be doing some of The Letter of The Week (also by Erica at confessionsofahomeschooler.com) as well as listening in on any of Big Brother's school that she cares too.