You know it is summer when VBS outreach has occurred and the pool is open every day. Today we did some outreach with a friend since it was raining last night for our last official time and it went great. Afterward we all enjoyed hitting the pool; our first time to get there this year since weekends are so busy in June.
It is such a great feeling to have my oldests high school records to date all set and ready in the binder. Her transcript looks terrific, thanks to her dad. We're doing all we can to prepare her for whatever God calls her to; it will be a joy to learn what that is when the time comes! As our oldest has gotten to this point in high school, we are so glad we didn't keep her a year ahead academically. She will be reluctant to leave the nest as a normal aged senior in high school, let alone one that is a year younger than the norm. When she was in 4th grade we made this call, realizing that we weren't going to want to send her out in the the world as a 17 yr old girl. She did 4th grade a 2nd time, though we kept advancing her academics. Now she is simply ahead in some areas with high school, but also right on track in others since it is easy to make adjustments along the way. One plus to doing things this way is that she finished AP Latin as a 10th grader, giving her the freedom to have more time for languages in upper high school should she want to take a 3rd foreign one.
Raising Christian daughters is challenging. In this liberal culture to train them to be a submissive wife is one thing, but then to instill as best you can Biblical roles and values, but educate and equip them to stand on their own and make a good living should they not get married (but be willing to give up whatever career they've been preparing for should they be so blessed...). With sons it is just so cut and dry--make as good a living as you can, for yourself or hopefully, for your wife and kids one day. Mothers of sons, rejoice in this! Seriously.
Tomorrow is Father's Day. What a joy to celebrate godly fathers that lead and sacrifice for us.
It is such a great feeling to have my oldests high school records to date all set and ready in the binder. Her transcript looks terrific, thanks to her dad. We're doing all we can to prepare her for whatever God calls her to; it will be a joy to learn what that is when the time comes! As our oldest has gotten to this point in high school, we are so glad we didn't keep her a year ahead academically. She will be reluctant to leave the nest as a normal aged senior in high school, let alone one that is a year younger than the norm. When she was in 4th grade we made this call, realizing that we weren't going to want to send her out in the the world as a 17 yr old girl. She did 4th grade a 2nd time, though we kept advancing her academics. Now she is simply ahead in some areas with high school, but also right on track in others since it is easy to make adjustments along the way. One plus to doing things this way is that she finished AP Latin as a 10th grader, giving her the freedom to have more time for languages in upper high school should she want to take a 3rd foreign one.
Raising Christian daughters is challenging. In this liberal culture to train them to be a submissive wife is one thing, but then to instill as best you can Biblical roles and values, but educate and equip them to stand on their own and make a good living should they not get married (but be willing to give up whatever career they've been preparing for should they be so blessed...). With sons it is just so cut and dry--make as good a living as you can, for yourself or hopefully, for your wife and kids one day. Mothers of sons, rejoice in this! Seriously.
Tomorrow is Father's Day. What a joy to celebrate godly fathers that lead and sacrifice for us.
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