Very inspiring day!!!

Okay, so I have not been using blogger much. I am a horrible blogger! :) Promise to do better in the future. Yesterday was one of the most inspiring days I have had in a long time. It was my first day of the homeschool conference. The mayor of Winston-Salem was even there. Considering we are about to move to that area it was a major encouragement. I learned a lot today. There were things about curriculms, learning styles, and so on. The main thing I got out of today though was a christian aspect on love and marriage. Bet you didn't expect that hu? LOL! Neither did I. It was very insightful and useful. God really does work in mysterious ways. I know I can not explain this as well as the speaker did but I will try. Basically worldly love is a form of Idolatry. We all love people when they are doing good things but maybe we care a little less when they aren't doing what we want. We blame other people for making us unhappy and really no one can make us unhappy unless we let them. We marry people or have relationships with people because we think they can make us happy but they can't. We are using them but actually thinking what we are doing is loving them. We are nice to get something out of them and when that stops working we have a tendancy to be mean to get our way. The people who give us the biggest trials are the people we should be the most thankful for because God has put them there to give us an opprotunity to love. It is his way of teaching us to love like him. We can not love to get something (which we do a lot of times not even realizing it). I mean if you really stop and think about it the times you are most focused on God are the times that you are having hard tiems. However we are usually praying for him to fix it instead of thinking him for the opprotunity to show his love and grace. Basically we can only get full from God to go out and give to someone else with no expectation of return. Ofcourse this was much more interesting when the speaker said it. LOL! But hopefully the message got across. Maybe it was just so moving to me because it was a message I needed to hear. Here are some passages that go along with it: Matthew 22:36-40, 1 Cor. 13: 1-3, 1 Cor. 13: 7-8, 1 Jo. 4: 7-8,Gal. 5:14, Deut. 5:7-9. Also to be honest I had been wondering if Homeschooling was the best thing for my children or not ever since I started. I have always wanted to but now I was doing out of neccessity to keep them with me when I traveled. Well God gave me the opprotunity to figure that out yesterday on the way home from the conference. The shuttle driver who was taking me back to the hotel asked me what we did at the conferences. So I told her that we basically go to learn about curriculm and learning styles but mostly for encouragement and to know other people are going through the same kinds of things. Then she asked if homeschoolers start homeschooling their children from infancy. I explained that some do that, and some start from pre-k age, and others actually pull their children out of public school. Then she asked why I homeschool. I had not been asked that question yet really. I had people tell me they thought it was great and ask how I do it but never why. So I really had to think about it. Would I have homeschooled my kids even if I was not traveling? Probably so if I didn't have to work a normal job in an office. Why? Well ofcourse their is the family togetherness because of my traveling. Other than that though, I really do believe they will get a better education. I mean as for socialization....I don't really want my children learning certain things from their peers. I mean they can pick up some very negative things at school and their are a lot of distractions. Other than that for some reason most public school kids hate learning because they get burnt out. It''s not made very fun. It's very regimented. They teach the way that MOST people learn. But what about the kids who don't learn that way? I mean the schools just don't have the time or money to evaluate every kid and adapt to them. Well I do have that opprotunity. I want my kids to grow up loving to learn and realizing how much fun it can be. I want them to grow up learning how to think for themselves, not just knowing a bunch of facts. I am definitely not saying homeschooling is for everyone or that public school kids are not going to thrive. It may be the best choice for other people but it just isn't for my family. So now I realize I am doing what is best for my family. I really believe that God had that shuttle driver ask me that question so that I could realize that. Also I would like to ask everyone to pray for Jessica Hulcy. She is the creator of the konos in a box curriculm. It is not the curriculm that we use but she has been such a blessing to so many people who homeschool their children and touched so many lives. She was on her way to speak at a conference in Fla on Mon when she was hit by a fire truck en route to an emergency. She is still in critical condition. So please pray that God will give her Dr's the knowledge to heal her. Also pray for the firemen that hit her as I imagine they may feel guilty. It was not their fault. They were trying to get somewhere to save other lives. Also a fellow church member has a baby girl Klaire in the hospital. If you could please pray for Baby Klaire's lungs so that she can come home soon. She has been in the hospital a few weeks now. They say when her lungs clear up that she can come home. I hope that this blog has touched some one and given them as much insight as my day yesterday gave me. I also need to repent for all the people I have carved on (unintentionally) and it is a very long list. I will list just a few here.
Kevin Huggler
Susan Taylor
Charles Roberson
Thomas Taylor
Matthew Ingram
Suzanne Hall
Stacey Richards
Various teachers
Kyle
Stephen
Jeremy Toney
Miller Brown
Ferozkhan mudupully
Nasko Dimitrov
Robert Davis (and believe me it takes a lot for me to put him on here!)
Heather
Terri Karchella
Jonathan Ingram
Frankie Terrell
Laura Brailey (takes even more to put her on here!)
Tiffany
Nikki Watson
Marie Stout
Christal Vilchis
Jennifer Wilson
Brandy
Christy
Stacey
Crystal
Zane Huggler
Justice Huggler
Zoe Huggler
All of my pets
Kim Kline
Christina
Joyce Ingram
Will dowling
Jeff Veneman
Mark Jacobs
My customers (past and future)
Terri Coleman
Steve Coleman
Tim Coleman
Jamie Coleman
Jamie Olson
Rachelle Roberts

HMMMM>>>I am sure there are hundreds of others but these are the only ones I can think of. Also please do not be offended if you see your name here. I didn't realize I was doing this. I do consider you all friends and would never intentionally do anything to hurt you.