Millinery

She loves hats. “I wanted to make it really beautiful Mom, so I put these leaves on top” I think I’ll keep her.

How Great is our God!

Here in the Nyveldt homeschool, we are currently studying ancient history, specifically, Egypt. Being the type with an inquiring mind, I was prompted to do some more research about how and where the Hebrew nation fit into the Egyptian timeline. I was curious to know if there were any significant marks and effects left by the supporting role of the Jews in Egypt from a secular point of view. I was not coming up with too much until I compared a timeline of ‘key dates of ancient Egypt’ and a timeline of ‘Jewish history’. From the World History point of view,  1550 BC  is noted that Egypt, in a phase called the ‘New Kingdom’, is at it’s largest and wealthiest. On the Jewish timeline 2216 (1546 BC), Joseph was sold into...

Fear No Eagle

It is always quite humorous to hear the botching of perfectly good lyrics, words and phrases that children come up with; sometimes eyebrow-raising, even embarrassing, but yes, always funny. I spent a good deal of time today thinking about how one of my children has interpreted a certain verse out of Psalms 23. “Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no eagle” Perhaps it begs some explanation as to why a small one would hear, absorb, and conceive this as making sense. A while back, my husband procured a game for the kids to play on the Ipad called ‘Oregon Trail’. In this game, you choose your characters and various criteria about food, money, and I don’t know what all, as you travel by covered wagon...