Ark Academy

Wow...it's been a long time since I've blogged. Life has been very busy. Plus, I have been horrible about managing my time. I love to be organized, but unfortunately The Container Store doesn't have anything to help me put all of the things that take up my time into pretty little boxes.

I have had a lot on my mind, like I said we've been pretty busy. One of the biggest things that my family has been going through is attitudes. Big, bad, ugly attitudes! Not just from the kids either:( We ended up taking a whole week off of academics and focused on Bible studies and doing things together, trying to get our focus back where it should be. I LOVE that I am able to do this! How awesome is it that we can focus a whole week on Bible, or anything for that matter. In fact, today I helped Bear with his math cuddled under a blanket, while it was sleeting outside. Home school has it's ups and downs, but I sure do love the ups! :)

I've blogged quite some time ago about naming our school. We named it Excalibur Academy. This is a great name, I think, but the boys were having trouble even saying it, plus we are just really needing a fresh start. A new beginning for our school. So *drum roll* Ark Academy it is! Ark stand for Armor of Righteous Knights. You see, my knight and I are raising little modern day knights. That is why we went with a Medieval theme to begin with, but it's not just because we think knights are cool, we want them to become righteous men. Men willing and desiring to stand firm in Christ. Plus, the name Ark is also in memory of our son Todd. We did his nursery in the Noah's Ark theme and everytime I see something Noah's ark I think of him. The past few years I've struggled with God not giving me a specific ministry, kind-of in memory of Todd or an outlet for my loss. All along my ministry was staring at me in the face. My family, my children.

I don't have any pictures to share this time...that's one of the things my knight will be doing this weekend :)But soon I'm going to be making some changes to my blog and also blogging more often :) Have a great weekend!