A Backward Generation

A few months ago, a friend asked me,
"what's it like to have backward kids?"
(I was a little taken a back)
Looking at it now, I do have backward kids!

There seems to be a move toward simplicity and in this moving forward,
its teaching us skills and activities that were practiced back in the day.
Home schooled and fully equipped with a wonderful curriculum ...hmmm.
That's what I thought they needed right? In the spirit of growth, our days are wildly interrupted by snack making, wanting to read books that are NOT on the reading lists,
questions that have nothing to do with the appointed work,
a deep desire to knock in MORE nails in their treehouse (proudly built by an older cousin),
an urge to look for more worms to put into our veggie patch.
Looking for berries and all sorts of leaves that we could possibly put into our salad!
They are now on a new path and have to catch a bird!
I have on my hands a pair of hunter gatherers!
A backward generation, see what I mean!
My reason for homeschool is to create a desire for others in my boys lives.
To lessen the me factor in their hearts.
We have chosen to be servants a peculiar bunch, chosen to help Humans, the Earth, All God's creatures; and in doing that I pray that God will honor my children like He promises that He will.
I will continue to listen to their hearts and even though the industrialised, tertiary educated me screams NO!!! I will press on and LEARN to teach them what they want to. I hear CS Lewis was educated in a similar way. "wink"
 Our days in captures...

This was taken a while back soon after we arrived back in South Africa. Its something that the Boys do often, gumbooted and having a jol in the veld!

We joined a farming project at our church. It is to help people live healthier and provide food parcels for those in need/hunger.

Last week we decided to make our own...for the boys it was a stuffed Robot.

We chatted about the design and they sewed on their own buttons!

And this was my attempt at piecing it together!

A typical day of homeschooling, well that's when we have a typical day.

Jacques & Lijie cutting up wood that we salvaged!

And some fun...

Its always wonderful to share. I'm trying to break out of myself and feel comfortable with where I'm at. In so doing I'm trying to write more!
Love and Light
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Here in SA for His Love

It has been a wonderful time here.
We have been away for two years and back now for 6 months.
It has been joyful.

God has showered us with love, community, family and friends.
The boys are growing like little Mealie plants.

Jacques and I feel that God has placed a deep desire to be true to His Word.
We have been challenged to live in a Kingdom conscience way.
Its one thing to know how to do this but to do it is a whole different veggie patch.

In South Africa Poverty is real!
Its at every traffic light, in every home across our veld.
Its so close but such a foreign concept to my mind.

"Give us THIS day our DAILY bread," not more than we need and help us to share equally.

I am so challenged, not only by the poverty, but by our reluctance to pray for animals,
especially those close to extinction. I am challenged by what I take out of this earth vs. what I put in.
I am thinking about the clothes I buy and those that sit in my cupboard,
waiting for someone who has no choice but to wear the same thing.
I am challenged by the fact that I have resources that I can actually share.
I have water, there are those in my country that do not.
There are public toilets that my government have put in informal settlements
so that perhaps 10 families can share this ONE facility.
Most of them with the walls broken.
An average household of 4 family members has two full bathrooms.

I AM CHALLENGED.
My heart and my God tells me to do something.




This slideshow is from the past six months.
FIlled with joy, I want to share it with you. The joy that comes from it I want to share with the world.