Heart of the Matter -- February Edition
The February edition of the Heart of the Matter online homeschooling magazine is up!! I have two articles this month. There is my regular feature A Square Peg as well as an article for helping military families who homeschool. The magazine is even available for pdf download this month! How cool is that?! Please take a look and remember to leave comments to encourage ALL of the great ladies who are volunteering to put this magazine together ;-)
My husband and I have been able to work out a good schedule for the PTSD radio show and will be participating in that in mid-March. If you'd like to listen in, please email me and I will give you all the details of when and where.
I am working on the last of my archives from Life As It Happens as well as trying to set up a new blog for myself. The new one will still be Everyday Me but the tag line will be seaside tales now instead of life as it happens or blahblahblog. It seemed an appropriate name since we are moving to the coast of North Carolina. Plus, we really love the ocean and so the pics I've used for my blog header are all from shells we've collected from our previous homes by the sea (except for the wreath).
I honestly am not sure I am ready to really blog again but you have to take baby steps and start somewhere. A lot of hurt happened and honestly is still happening. I have great respect and love for my inlaws and one of the main reasons I took my blog down was because mom asked me what I could do with my blog to help stop some of the things that were going on. Not blogging seemed to be a solution but over the past month and a half I've realized its not. Initial complaints against my blogging have morphed into other complaints. The hard truth of the matter is that I've learned in some instances and circles I will never be accepted. No matter how hard I try and pour out my heart, not everyone will get it or understand that it is in anquish that I cry out and not hostile spitefulness. I have to work hard to remember that. I've also come to realize that every prayer request my husband and I have shared over the past several, or maybe even our whole 16 years, have sometimes been used to twist and turn and create opinion about us that aren't true and seem to be stored in a stockpile just waiting to be thrown in our face again, or used as gossip fodder. My husband has been asking me to blog again. Mom, too. I guess its time I put on my tough skin, ignore the complainers, and try. There are more good than bad out there in blogland and ya'll are the ones that give me sunshiney days and rainbow smiles! Try, try, again, right?!
I haven't started the blog up yet (maybe this weekend if I finish archiving this old one) but here is a banner to give you a sneak peak of what it's gonna look like:
This documentary was shot on location in Iwo Jima and it brought together the sons and fathers of WW II. These warriors are now in their 80's and returned to Iwo Jima to be mentors of what real Christian manhood looks like. These aged warriors share their love of Christ, and family, and country with a new generation that has risen up to honor their legacy! Some of these young sons never got to meet their father but have love letters from them as a lasting memento and a living legacy of what it meant to be a warrior and a man of God. I'm excited to offer it to you for free!! 