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The house is still in the mornings, and before the kids get up I find myself staring at the birds outside of my office window. They are such beautiful creatures. No point to be made, just observation.

Today is Aspen's birthday and we woke her up singing and with a pudding filled chocolate cake that she insisted I make. She had bought me this betty crocker fill n bake a year ago and I thought the instructions were to difficult, so in my cabinet it sat until the other day when I asked her to tell me what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday. So I got the dust off of it and tried again to make sense of instructions. The cake turned out yummy, but my husband said it looked like a big breast. No matter how it looked, it was a great morning of cake and singing and opeing up of birthday presents.

finally

OK Mandy I am making a new post! I just now was able to get back on my account. Old age has made me forgetful I guess.

So much has happened since my last entry and I am having trouble trying to figure out where to begin.

Home schooling is going great and Aspen and I have found a new peace with each other. She has been jumping to my defence in a lot of situations, and a few times I have had to get her to back off of being such a guard dog. Mark calls her my little side kick. My mother in law does the English part of the lessons and leaves me with the math, science, and history. I am loving the time I get to spend each day in prayer and study with my daughter. The Lord knew this was something that would draw us closer to Him and to each other.

The home life is getting more peaceful as well. I find my husband outside on most nights reading his bible and trying to heal from his past hurts. So, although this journey has been long, I am glad to have taken the road I did.

Not having to go to work is AWESOME!!!! So thankful not to have to deal with a certain stress that will remain nameless. I am still working on Sundays as an Adult Sunday School Coordinator. Still not too sure what all this involves, other than making coffee of course. :)

We just went on a trip to Mount Lemon with the middle school kids from our church. This is a picture of Aspen blowing up the giant soccer ball. She really is full of hot air.

Also, April is birthday month for my girls. Jordan had a great party at the Oro Valley Park and instead of getting presents she decided to have people donate money to a charity of her choice. She chose Teen Challenge which helps get troubled teen help to fight addictions. She raised 290 for the place! But, most of all she felt so wonderful doing it. She knows first hand how drugs can ruin people and she had tears in her eyes when we were reading the website the Teen Challenge has. She does not want any other family to go through what she went through with her Biological father. I think my daughter has a real heart for God, and I am so thankful for her.

Shakespeare festive is coming up and with this time comes hurt feelings with Aspen, but joy with Jordan. Jordan has many speaking lines in her 2nd grade program, while Aspen was not allowed to participate in the program at all. I hope all goes well, and will be putting pictures up of the event. Cornerstone is such a blessing.

I was nominated for secetary of the Cornerstone school board for the next year. YEAH!!!!!! Ballots go out next week and this is a weird situation for me as I have never ran for anything before.

That is all for now, but will try to go into more detail later on