Boys and Their Toys

For those of you that don't know about Old Red, it was my Paw Paw's tractor.  He bought it brand new and gardened with it for years.  He drove it under his shed one winter and never used it again...  My Uncle decided to give it to Jason a few years ago.  Jason worked long and hard restoring it and got it running. It was music to my ears!  Seeing the love of my life up on the tractor that my Paw Paw used for years to plow up the dirt and feed his family.  Wow!  Best present in the world to this "little girl" or so my Paw Paw called me!  Love him and miss him every single day of my life!

I mentioned in my last blog how gardening is great for homeschool!  Well, we found ourselves caught up with school on Thursday afternoon and next thing I know, I hear Old Red running again!  After an hour of it's low hum, it stopped.  I got up and peered out my window and this is what I saw....

Talk about making a mama's heart melt!  Two of my men chillin' on the trampoline.  That little guy sure does LOVE his daddy!  And wants to be just like him when he grows up.  They are laying and dreaming about the garden and all the work they have done in the dirt.  Give a man some dirt and a tractor and the dreams he can dream are endless...

My little guy disc up the whole garden by himself on his great grandfather's tractor!  Oh, how I wish he could have been here to see it.  He would be grinning from ear to ear and I would be sitting in his lap, hugging his neck like there's no tomorrow!  

Who says the tractor has to be green?  This girl will take a ride on this little red tractor any day!

Starting Back

Well, I did not get to post very much in the last month or so.  We were SUPER busy with field trips, ELO, Scentsy sales and Christmas.  But it was WONDERFUL to relax, visit with family and plan for the new year!  Last week I started working on the boys' schedules for the rest of the semester and realized we only have 18 weeks of our school left!

Yep, that's right.  May 16th should be our last day of school, if all goes well :)  So excited that we will have some extra time off before it gets too terribly hot and the garden starts coming in.  Another reason we LOVE homeschooling!  The first day back this semester, after the boys finished their school work, it was outside to start tilling up the garden spot.  Jamison drove and tilled and Edison added up how many seeds would be needed per row and how much of each veggie we would plant and what the total price would be.  Gardens are GREAT for school!

On another note... I am reading this wonderful book that I just picked up by chance!  I got it at church the other day with a lot of other books that someone was giving away for free(I think I could literally start my own library, sheesh!).  I love it so far.  It basically tells you how anyone can stay home and homeschool if that is what God is calling your family to do.  It tells about their hardships and different ideas and tactics of how it is possible for anyone that is willing.  Definitely recommend it!

Last but not least, I am teaching Jamison how to write a personal narrative this week with his BJU English curriculum.  Lot harder than it sounds!! Trust me!  He chose to write about Christmas Break and some of the funs things that we did.  This is how he summed it up:

Wow!  This really touched my heart.  Maybe my kids are learning something after all.  Academics are great but isn't this what homeschooling is really all about?!  I think I am doing a lot of learning here myself...

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; renew my life according to your word. Psalm 119:37