Goals for 2008-2009

I am speaking that this is going to be a year of great growth for our family. I believe we are going to come to a higher level of understanding of God’s word, sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, great increase in interpersonal relationships in our family and outside of our family. I believe our Character will grow stronger to display the fruit of the spirit with each other and that it will bring peace and joy into our home (more of it). Mercy, grace and love will lead our thought process and decision making to bring Glory to God’s Holy and Mighty name and therefore create a stronger bond between us as a family.

As a mom I fully commit my days and my life to walking out my salvation in humility and true submission to Jesus Christ and obedience to His word. To the best of my ability and with the Holy Spirits help and counsel I will stay submitted, sensitive to His voice, stay in repentance for choices I make and stay in forgiveness and not be easily offended with situations that arise with others keeping prayer and the word as my lifeline on a continuous basis through the day. It is my desire to be a godly role model to my children and for them to become all that God has for them for His glory and for His kingdom. I pray that Jesus will be seen through my life to all I come in contact with starting first in my home and that my life will be a reflection evident to all of Jesus Christ the author and finisher of my faith.

Craig and I are committed to the training of our children. We have the greatest desire as their parents to see them succeed and grow in the love of Jesus. No one loves them here on earth as much as we do. As their parents we want them to have a blessed, peaceful and joyous life as they walk out their salvation and to have a Spirit of excellence in all that they do.

As a born again spirit filled Christian I have the confidence in God’s word to believe He will continue to direct my steps. I know He cares about every little detail of my life and that I can go to Him with all of those details and He will give me the direction, help and answer that I need. I believe He will hear the cry of my heart and bless me with those desires for His glory. I believe He is my protector and will defend me according to His word in Psalm 35:1-3 as I walk out the plan He has for my life. I believe the right people will be placed in my life along the way to bring me encouragement, guidance, support and love and that I will be divinely protected from the wrong ones. I also believe this for my husband and children. I believe that godly mentors and friends who love the Lord Jesus Christ and have a true love for His people will be placed in my life, Craig’s life and our children’s lives at the right times to help us in whatever way we need it at that moment. That the love of Jesus will gift those people to minister to us and help us with whatever it is that we need. And as we have been ministered to, we in return will show the love of Jesus through our lives and do the same for those we come in contact with being led by the Holy Spirit to minister to them in the way they need us to giving God the glory.

Educationally I am believing we will come to a higher level of understanding and revelation in God’s word and how it is intertwined through everything and to be used to bring glory to His name. We will make new connections in History, Science, Math, English, Writing on how the Lord uses these and has used them in the past to lead people to Him and that His hand at work will be evident to us. I believe we will have clear minds and we will be able to focus on tasks at hand, finish what we have started and persevere when we want to quit. Our attitudes will be a reflection of Jesus Christ and we will keep in the forefront of our mind that everything we do, we are doing it unto the Lord.

For each child I will follow the instruction of the Holy Spirit and the insight He gives me as their anointed mother to help them in what areas they need growth in and to encourage them through the process. Along with giving me wisdom and discernment in their strengths, I will do my best to enhance all areas of their education. I am committed to continue to instill in them a “love to learn” throughout their lives.

The specific area Craig and I are in agreement on that needs to come to a higher level this year is there writing. I will be using a program called Foundations in writing and will focus in on this skill. The other area of continued work is in their spelling. For Mason we will be continuing to work on reading and reading comprehension, using narration as a tool to increase his retention of what he has read. I am believing that he will develop a love to read this year and will fully understand/comprehend what it is he is reading. We will continue to grow stronger in the areas of their strengths such as Math, History and Science using all of these tools to enhance the areas of growth that need to be addressed in other areas this year. I will continue to work with Talya on reading and math. My goal for Talya is that she will be reading and have a love to read by the end of the school year.

The End is in Sight!

Praise God! The beggining of the end is near! I am almost done spring cleaning. May-August (probably will finish in September), although Craig and I have cleaned everything out and gotten rid of so much and our home feels so great. Now I'm thinking about moving my girls in together to share rooms, Talya sleeps so much better when she is with someone else and that someone needs to be someone other then Craig and I!! Big sisters are good for that, I'll have to run my new thought by my husband.

I am also excited for another reason. I have written up my goals for the year and that is always a wonderful feeling being led by the Holy Spirit as a wife, mom and teacher!! I have a verse for the year. All of this I will be posting later, once my Laptop internet connection is back up and running from switching to Mediacom. But, this morning I'm heading to my 3 hour gestational diabetes test for this pregnancy, I can taste it now-thick, syrupy, sugar water flavored with lemon and lime. Oh yum, the anticipation-he he. I hope you know I'm kidding-YUCK!

Since writting up my goals Craig and I have decided to add the study of Greek and Latin to our childrens (and ours as well) list of goals to learn this year. I ordered my program the other day and am in the process of making the charts. I am so thrilled to be starting this. It wasn't even a thought before and as I have been praying through EVERYTHING for the year and each of my children I knew we needed to add this and Craig had that peace as well. How the flow is going to go this year, who knows? But, either way with the Holy Spirit as our guide-it will be annointed, blessed and wonderful. How great it is to serve such an awesome God, I am so blessed to be covered with the blood of Jesus and called by His name. And my gratefulness increases daily for what He has done (and only could have done) in our lives.