Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

by Robert Robinson

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.


Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,
Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I’ll begin;
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.


Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood;
How His kindness yet pursues me
Mortal tongue can never tell,
Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me
I cannot proclaim it well.


O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.


O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.



This is one of my FAVORITE songs and I really can't believe I have never posted it before!  You can listen to it here.

What We've Been Up To

This was our first week back.  To be honest on day I started to get a little fussy because the kids weren't falling into line as I thought they should. THEN, the Lord really checked me.  I was reminded that we had been off school for several months and that I really needed to relax my standards.  I realized that I needed to just enjoy our schooling together.  Once I had the right mind set, it was like heavenly angels lifting a huge weight off my shoulders.  After that the week (we only school M-Th) went quite well. 

This year I decided to take everyone outside for "school pictures," I really wish I had been doing this all along but never thought too! 

The Lil' Chef now in 5th Grade.  WOW!  Where does time go!

My 2nd Grader, Computer Girl.

Alpha Boy our little Pre K'er.  Excuse the poison ivy.

Little Bits is only 2 and not schooling yet but he is still right in the middle of everything.  And besides I just love his picture face!

The Whole Class

We did our first week of MFW- Creation to Greeks.  We studied creation in Genesis Ch. 1, dinosaurs in Dinosaurs of Eden and we are planning on having a Sabbath Dinner this evening.

While I was reading the creation account in Genesis and about the dinosaurs living with Adam and Eve, the kids made a model of what I was reading.....

See, the dinosaurs (or dragons as they used to call them) really did live with people.

Not sure if the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really made from Mega Blocks or not.  But this is LSG's version of the Garden of Eden.

The kids also used our Usborne Dinosaur Stencil Book  to make dinosaur pictures for their history notebooks.

We made homemade butter and buttermilk.  More on this next next week, it will be exciting I promise!

My very 1st attempt at making yogurt.  At first I didn't think it had set up right, but after it was in the fridge a few hours it was great.  I added it to some fruit smoothies today, Yum-Me!!! 

We also had a hamster funeral : (  When we had came home from camping the rebel hamster that had was sick.  We had someone staying at the house watching the critters when we were gone, so I am not real sure what happened.  I tried to help her to get better and was going to take her to the vet but she died the evening before our appointment.   She is now buried outback by the cat. 

Today (Friday) we just kinda chilled and had a movie day.  I had picked up some more movies (all on sale and I had a coupon) from the Christian Bookstore for us to watch.  We watched Soldier Love Story, Mandie and the Secret Tunnel and Hachi.   They were all really great, I cried at the end of Hachi. 

That is about it.   How did your week go?

Camping with the Family Part 2

We are home now.  It is great to get away but wonderful to come back home.  Remember that rain I was talking about?  Well, we did end up getting some, but like the Hubs said considering all the rain we were "supposed" to get we made out pretty good.  I did take the advice of a friend and stopped by the Christian bookstore and loaded up on their $5 & $6 so that was helpful.  We watched Heartstrings and Little Angels, both were pretty good.  We ale also ended up renting Letters to God from a Redbox, good movie from what I saw.  I did end up falling asleep, not because the movie was boring, I was just wiped out.

My aunt lives near Ocean City so we were able to visit with her and her hubby.  We met them at a great little pizza place outside of Ocean City on Rte 50, it was called JJ's Pizza.  As we were pulling into the parking lot my husband was shocked we weren't meeting them at The Dough Roller (a very popular pizza place) and like I told him locals always know where the good food is.  I was right!  This pizza was delcious!  My Aunt and her hubby got a white pizza which had fresh basil, tomatoes and RICOTTA CHEESE.  I am definitely going to have to make that, it looked heavenly!  Got pics of my aunt but forgot to take a pic of the pizza.

We were also able to go to the Ocean City Boardwalk.  We ate dinner there, I got two bathing suit tops (love them end of the season sales!!), the kids rode rides and the girls got their EARS PIERCED!  I have been holding off on the ear piercing because I really thought they were too young .  Driving to the beach I thought it might be fun for them to get their ears pierced while we were here.  I finally concluded what's the big deal, it's just earrings.  I am really not sure that they have ever been so excited!!  Really! 

Well, enough rambling.  Wanna see some more vacation pictures?

For those of you that don't know Ocean City, MD, let me just tell ya, you can't go to Ocean City with out going to the boardwalk.  We really enjoy walking the boardwalk, riding the rides and checking out the shops.

This is the end of the boardwalk where all the rides are.  The kids started getting really excited as we pulled in to park.

 

We ran into some friends on the boardwalk.  I think they weirded Alpha Boy out, he did NOT want to take a picture with them, LOL.

Now this guy was a different story, Alpha Boy was very excited to see Spidey!

Walking on the boardwalk looking for our favorite boardwalk pizza place.

We have started a new tradition a few years ago.  This is where we go for pizza on the boardwalk.  The pizza was great but we missed having Aunt Cindy Lou and Uncle Dan with us.

Marking the ears.  Computer Girl was so thrilled, she didn't even care that pain was involved.

She was such a trooper!

Can you see the excitement?!!

The Lil' Chef wanted her ears pierced but I think she was a little nervous about the pain.  But....

In the end she did great and we had another THRILLED little girl!

After all the piercing excitement we went to ride some rides,

do a few obstacle course and

ride the merry go round.

Again and....

again.

This picture is special.  We used to vacation at the beach with my mom.  Our last vacation was the summer before she died, Lil' Chef was 5 and Computer Girl was 2 at the time and I have a fabulous picture of my mom with the girls on this very ride.   It is one of my favorite pictures because of the smile my mom has on her face, they all looked like they were having such a great time.

They played some games and...

won some prizes. 

Of course we ended up with hermit crabs.  Not that we really need another critter over here but it's just something you do.  You go to the beach and come home with a hermit crab. 

Aunt Bonnie and Me.  It was so nice to be able to see her and to catch up a little.

Aunt Bonnie and the kids

I didn't know that they had sharks at Frontier Town! 

While I was in the gift shop, the Hubs had some fun with my new camera.

 

The loved this shark.  They just thought it was sooo cool to be in the mouth of a shark.

We also had a great time at the park which was down by the pier.  It was so nice that there was so much to do right inside of Frontier Town.  I enjoyed really being able to just relax and do fun little family things instead of always rushing around.  Lord willing, I'd love to go back again nect year!

Howdy Partner!

This was part of the pier.  We walked to the end and saw tons of people catching crabs and fishing.  We were going to do a little crabbing but the rain happened again.

The End!

Menu Plan Monday

We are getting back into the swing of things here at the LSG house and mama is so thankful for that!!!  For me, part of keeping things running smoothly in my home is menu planning, so I am back at it.  Here is what we are feasting on this week...

Monday
Breakfast
Waffles or Pancakes & Fruit

Lunch
Ham & Cheese Quesadillas w/ Strawberries & Bananas

Dinner
Baked Chicken w/ Rosemary, Carrots & Rice

Snack
Yogurt


Tuesday
Breakfast
Bagels & Fruit Smoothies

Lunch
Mac & Cheese w/ Hot Dogs (mixed in) & Melon Slices

Dinner
Shepherd's Pie

Snack
Pretzels

Wednesday
Breakfast
Oatmeal & Fruit

Lunch
Nut Butter & Honey Sandwiches w/ Apple Slices

Dinner
Ham (from the Freezer) & Mashed Sweet Potatoes w/ Green Beans

Snack
Popcorn


Thursday
Breakfast
Waffles or Pancakes & Fruit Smoothies

Lunch
Turkey & Cheese Roll Ups, Chips and Mandarin Oranges

Dinner
Chicken Stir Fry w/ Rice

Snack
Yogurt


Friday
Breakfast
Oatmeal & Fruit

Lunch
Chicken Nuggets, Sweet Potato Fries & Fruit

Dinner
Breakfast Night (usually we order pizza but I am sick of pizza at the moment, although come Friday we may be eating pizza)

Snack
Popcorn


Saturday
Breakfast
Kids Choice

Lunch
Egg or Tuna Salad Sandwiches & Fruit

Dinner
Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup & Broccoli

Snack
Pretzels

Sunday
Breakfast
Cereal

Lunch
Nut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches & Fruit

Dinner
Spaghetti & Salad

Snack
Kids Choice

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