Here goes…our first blog entry.  Please bear with us as we attempt to record our family thoughts, ideas & happenings.  We hope this helps us remain better connected to extended family & friends as well.

Fall is such a splendid season.  It is a breathtaking swirl of color & crispness that seems to capture the thrill of discovery of both Heaven & earth.  The bustle of activity all around us is invigorating even just to observe. 

We have been participating in some autumn activities as a family with great enjoyment.  Particularly, we gathered with several other families recently to make apple butter in an enormous copper kettle over an open fire.  We had great conversation as we diligently stirred the apples for more than seven hours.  An assembly line made the canning quick & brought about much laughter.  An annual family tradition begun!

The Lord has been showing us tremendous grace & mercy each day to wait on Him for the sale of our house.  He may desire for us to stay on our property & this time be a refining process.   We are often reminded of His words through Isaiah: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts "(Isaiah 55:9).  We pray for His will to be truly worked out in us & through us, not without us.

We are praying to adopt & hoping to have our home study complete by the end of January.   We are excited to see how the Lord continues to lead & guide us.

Our homeschool has been such a joy.  We are thoroughly enjoying using Christian Light’s Language Arts & Reading curriculum this year, especially the readers.  We are moving along in Mystery of History 1, with plans to finish it in conjunction with our Easter/Passover celebration in the Spring.  It is a wonderful curriculum from which the Lord has revealed much to us of His story.  We continue to all learn from Math-U-See.  Can you believe math has become great fun to me?  Our science has been fun learning about the “heavens”.  Extraordinary.  We are frequently detoured by all the exciting animal happenings on & around our property.

Our rabbitry is in full swing.  With one Californian breeding pair & one New Zealand breeding pair we are learning much.  We reserved one male & one female offspring of the Californians for future cross breeding with the New Zealand’s.  I have been experimenting with recipes & have come to the conclusion that I can use any chicken recipe & substitute rabbit.  It really is better than chicken: sweeter with a finer grain & chewier texture.  Even better, rabbit meat has more protein & fewer calories than any of the popular meats.  It has a low cholesterol content and is easy to digest, too.  We have two litters expected mid-November that should be ready for butchering mid-February.

I hope to blog regularly to keep all things current.  Again, please bear with us. To you we pray...

"The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace".              Numbers 6:22-24

Much love to you in Christ Jesus, the Author & Finisher of our faith.

Martha for all