Goodbye, farewell, we'll meet again
Somewhere beyond the sky.
I pray that you will stay with God
Goodbye, my friends, goodbye.
Larry Norman 4/8/1947 - 2/24/2008
He was one of my life-long favourites ~ along with Randy Stonehill and Keith Green ~ making radical Jesus music before it became "contemporary".
My prayers are with his family and friends.
ht: Christine
Just about 11 years ago I had four little girls ages 6, 5, 3, and 1. Daddy had been working full-time and going to school full-time, so I was home alone with the girls all day and half the night; we loved our time all together, but I wanted to have some special individual time with each of them.
So we created Person-of-the-Day. During our quiet time every afternoon while the toddler napped one of the older girls got to stay up with me for the first 20 minutes or so for a cup of tea, a little treat, and my undivided attention to talk about whatever they wanted to, read a special book, color, or perhaps do a simple craft together. TeaTime has become a family tradition that each child has begun at age 3. God has blessed us with seven children, so each child gets a different day of the week. Along with TeaTime the P.O.D. gets to be my special helper around the house.
We also have a Person-of-the-Week. The P.O.W. gets to go with my husband or me when we run errands and has a study date with Daddy at some point during their week. I also try to have a Special TeaTime with that person ~ something outside of the house of their choosing ~ a trip to a local coffee shop or bakery or the park or even a fast food joint with a playplace or an Art Gallery or everyone's favourite bookstore.
And, yes, even my two sons love having TeaTime; although we have had less conversation and more bear hunts on their days!
I wrote this post for the Simply Lovely One on One Fair. 
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edited to add:
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We are easing into our formal studies. These last two weeks we have done:
Next week we will add math for the youngers and history, then literature and nature/science the following week. Copywork will come if I ever when I finally get it organized as well as workbooks for handwriting and Greek when I can afford them.
The house ~sigh~ is. a. wreck. But the year is young, and that is another post anyway.
We celebrated tonight with some dear friends that we haven't spent time with in quite a while. We feasted on roast chicken, mashed potatoes, vegan mac and "cheese", steamed veggies, and delicious homemade Cuban bread. Then we cheared the burning of the Christmas tree. It was so good to be with them again. Back at home we read a children's version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; we were going to watch a dvd of it, but it got too late. Tomorrow after church we will read the story of the magi; i will give the children their gifts; we will have cake and put away the Christmas decorations. (Maybe we'll watch that dvd, too.) I hope to be able to spend some alone time Sunday evening getting things ~ and, more importantly, myself ~ ready to begin our new school year on Monday.
It has been a terrific holiday season. Of course, many of the things that were on my wish list to do went undone, but I am learning to let that go, realizing that it will probably always be that way, and trying to enjoy the here-and-now more. I did have a lot of time for peaceful reflection to just "think about Jesus" which I kept telling my family was all I really wanted.
I have several partial posts drafted that I hope to finish soon ~ thoughts on goals and schedules and de-cluttering and book lists ~ something about starting a fresh, new year always seems to put me in this mindset.
