Preschool - Term 4 - Week ???

This week we moved.  Yep, moved from a very big house into a CARAVAN.  Chloe is just finishing up her Go for the Code book B.  Still working on Earlybird maths.  Here she is colouring Goliath and David.

I am on a new laptop, so I am still trying to work out how to add pictures and do all the nice stuff when posting.  :)

Hope you can join us for Preschool Corner this week. :)

Something interesting

The necessity of countering the vices with virtues was long recognized by Christians. Francis of Assisi, a 13th century reformer, describes the power of the virtues in destroying vices in his poetic discourse on The Praises of the Virtues (Salutatio Virtutum)26




"0 most holy Virtues, may the Lord protect all of you, from Whom you come and proceed. There is surely no one in the entire world who can possess any one of you unless he dies first. Whoever possesses one (of you) and does not offend the others, possesses all. And whoever offends one (of you) does not possess any and offends all. And each one destroys vices and sins. Holy Wisdom destroys Satan and all his subtlety. ...Holy Charity destroys every temptation of the devil and of the flesh and every carnal fear."

Isn't that interesting? 



Seven Deadly Vices / Virtues


Pride is killed off by Humility

Greed, avarice, coveteousness is killed by Liberality, mercy

Lust is killed by Chastity, continence

Anger is killed by Patience, meekness

Gluttony is killed by Temperance, abstinence, self-control

Envy is killed by Love of God, love of neighbor, love of enemy

Sloth is killed by Fortitude, courage

Mammon

Strongs Concordance defines "mammon" as:

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A common Aramaic word for "riches".

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

If you are spending all your time working and building materialism in your life, I just need to remind you that you have forgotten God.

Choose this day whom you will serve.

Thursday 26th

Ohhhhhhhhhhh - wow. Ok. Where to start, what to tell.

I got over the gum infection super quickly - once I heard from God and obeyed. I didn't delay - so I got healed super quick. But then I picked up what the kiddos had. So I had the vomits and squirts over night.

Feeling pretty good now though. So it was a one nighter.

Catching up with emails, facebook, blogging.

Still need to get printer drivers put on the new laptop.

Still need photo software put on to - then I'll be all set to start popping photos on the blog as we go along.

Not a lot of school happening yet. Still getting organised in the caravan.

I am able to wash clothes in the washing machine in the caravan now too. Yay~!! We also have mains water to it as well now.

Wednesday 25th

Today has been way much better. God told me to "open my mouth to the sun". So every time I walked outside yesterday I did that, and I'm almost healed already. My mouth was like an Ebola experiment gone wrong. It was that bad and painful.

Hubby is back with us. The house settled at lunch today. Went and did some shopping. Planning on going to the pools later on, and then making pies for dinner.

I am going to start a new feature - How Much Does It Cost? Just wondering if anyone would be interested to see how much our venture costs us. With 2 adults and 6 children. How much this new lifestyle is going to cost us day to day, week to week, month to month. I won't make it super detailed, but I thought that I might just show totals for petrol and shopping and stuff.

I think our new lifestyle will be considerably cheaper than our last lifestyle. You know we spent nearly $17 000 on INTEREST on the house alone last financial year. Goodbye to HIGH USURY ( which is an abomination ). Praise God.

Tuesday 24th

Last night was shocking. Sleep deprivation. Sick vomiting children. No hubby to help. My gum infection. I'm over it.

My sister and I can't work out how to fill the caravan with water. So I can't do dishes in there.

I have a stack of washing to do. I still haven't eaten for the day and it's almost lunch.

The new owners of the house are swear words.

There you go, I bet you NEVER thought I could say THOSE words.

I hate this world. It sucks. Because the more righteous you are, the more crap you get. Not that I'm all that righteous ........

I'm not happy at the moment. Can I say that?

I'm exhausted.

I can't even tell you how many tears I have cried in the last couple of days.

What are we doing?
Why is it being so difficult?

I need some food. Bla bla bla. I want to be a sook. Even if it is only while I'm blogging today.

Hannah Update

Little miss 7 months and 6 days pulled herself up into a standing position today while holding onto my sisters lounge. Pretty impressive.

I caught her the other day pulling herself up on her knees.

She sure is in a hurry to grow up.

What I'm listening to this afternoon

Kevin Swanson over at Sermonaudio.com

Sorry I can't give you linky link links..... my copy and paste isn't working at the moment.

He's got some awesome easy to listen sermons. Very highly recommended.

Caravan Update

Just a quick wave hello from my sisters house. We spent our first night in the caravan. The car towed lovely. We have a lot of organising to do. It took us 4 hours to pack the van. It's still a bit messed up - I still have to work out where to put some things. We had breakfast in there this morning. I'm tired. We will have to buy different plastic boxes as the other ones were close, but not perfect for the spaces. Hope my post isn't too disjointed. LOL. Super tired. Been working a ton.

The Enemy

Stuff satan. He's nothing. The real enemy is ourselves. It's our own flesh.

Update

Well, the frantic end rush has begun. The packing, the moving furniture. Settlement is only a week away. So if you don't hear from me for a few days - you'll know why.