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My Roots – From Christianity to Hebrew
My Roots – From Christianity to Hebrew
July 27, 2012
My Story
I was blessed to have grown up in a church where the “traditions of questionable origins” of the holidays were not promoted… we never had a Christmas tree in the church nor did we have Easter egg hunts on church grounds…Halloween was always spoken against although individuals at church did all these things at their homes, these things were never church sponsored. So to me that part was always thought of as “secular”.
Austin’s “bar Mitzvah”
Austin’s “Bar Mitzvah”
October 15, 2011
Turning 16 is a pretty big deal. I wanted to do something for Austin to honor this “rite of passage.” We had all heard of a Bar Mitzvah from TV and so I looked into it a bit more. The word “Bar” means “son of” and “Mitzvah” means “commandments”. Now I am not big on following rituals and traditions from any culture but I kind of just took the idea and went my own way with it. In a nut shell, for Jews this is the celebration of a Jewish boy becoming a man and therefore responsible to keep God’s law and he is no longer under the covering of his parents spiritually. This usually happens around 12-13 years old. I would not have thought of my child as a man at 12-13 but at 16, I do. Austin is a very wise and responsible young man. I am extremely proud of who he has become and I do consider him mature enough to start making decisions for himself. What better way to tell him that… throw him a party!
I wanted him to be clueless to the fact that the party had anything to do with him. Just so happens this year Feast of Tabernacles fell on his birthday week. I just had him thinking everyone was coming over to join in the feast day with us. His birthday is the 12th but Saturday worked out better for everyone to be able to make it.
We barbequed and all ate our fill outside by our “Sukkot”, then while I had Austin taking in some of the leftovers, I snuck his gifts out.
Astronomy
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Astronomy
September 25-27, 2011
We were studying about “Astronomy” in science and so that took us out to the “Long Bridge” with our telescope in tow to see what we could see!
We set up the telescope and started to look around at the brightest stars.
Gourds of the Spirit
Gourds of the Spirit
September 17, 2011
I wanted do a craft with the kids that would make a harvest wreath for Feast of Tabernacles (Lev 23:34-43). I also wanted to label it with the fruits of the spirit (Gal. 5:22-23) The only “harvest” items they had at Dollar Tree was gourds, now I know that anything containing seeds within it’s self is considered a fruit so I decided they would work just fine!
We started with a vine wreath base ribbon, the gourds, and some fabric fall leaves of various colors.
Rope Safety Test–Failed
Rope Safety Test – Failed
September 26, 2011
The kids wanted to play outside in the nice fall weather. They wandered off to the pasture where Stewart had attempted to build a tree house a few months ago. He abandoned the idea when a storm came through and messed up the frame work. Adam had a bright idea to tie two loops on a rope and pull himself up with it to sit on the board. From what I can understand you was suppose to do this with two people one holding and pulling and the other with their foot in the loop being pulled up.
Anna being the big sister felt the need to test the rope before letting Adam on it. She put her foot in the loop and grabbed the other loop with her hand trying to balance her weight on it.
