My kids went to school today...but not like you think.

Today began a long coming journey for our household.  Due to a variety of reasons (probably its own blog post coming soon), my children have left public school.  Adam and I made the decision several months ago that after the Christmas break, the kids would begin homeschooling.  I had been wondering for so long why, after getting let go from Neal at the end of last school year, I just couldn't find a job.  It wasn't for lack of trying.  I literally applied for HUNDREDS of jobs...to no avail.  I was pretty down and prayed desperately for God to show me if I was even supposed to have a job.  He answered.....in a way that none of us were expecting.  As the school year began, it became clearer and clearer what God's direction would lead to for "my" spare time.  In actuality, He wanted to redeem that time for my children's education and my family's growth.  I had been so involved in what I wanted during my summer job search, that I was blindsided by what He wanted for us.  Blindsided in a good way though.  The decision to homeschool was a God-led family decision that we look forward to.  We look forward to having our little ones with us every day.  We look forward to being able to teach them the Bible unashamedly and how it applies to our lives in EVERY way.  We look forward to raising Godly little people who learn to look at the world with His eyes...instead of cookie cutter "tolerant" eyes.

2nd Grade Christmas Play

Last night was the 2nd Grade Christmas Play at W.S. Neal Elementary.  Here's our copy of the video.  It may or may not be a little biased to our little boy and a sweet little girl from church :)
Enjoy!!

Kreo Cityville Invasion Marina Madness Set

I received this set from BzzAgent for my children to play with and review.  

Out of the box, the Kreo Cityville Invasion Marina Madness set looked like your standard building set. The minifigures are simple to assemble. Instructions are straightforward. Blocks....that's another story. My son (7yrs) has no trouble putting together Lego sets that have 10+ age guidelines (he's been doing those since he was 5), but this set was just plain hard to assemble. The blocks were hard to snap together. I even had trouble helping him assemble a few of the items. And while they were hard to snap together, once snapped, the whole construction fell apart at a simple bump on several occasions. After spending almost two hours putting together a seemingly small and simple set, my kids were done with it for several days and weren't even interested in checking out the app associated with it. This is a set they probably will have little interest in ever playing with again because of how often they have to rebuild it. Save your money and buy some Legos.