This season is hard!

     This year has been so different in so many ways.  I have homeschooled and had only one child living at home before but, this is so different.  H was my first child to homeschool. Girls are so different than boys. I also had a group of  homeschool and stay at home mom friends who had children around my daughters age. In addition we had a neighbor girl who was 3 years older than H and she played with her almost everyday. With J there are no neighbor boys to play with. Sure there are boys in the neighborhood, but they are on the other side of the neighborhood. They go to public school and have different schedules. Although I know plenty of moms in my neighborhood I don't know them well and don't consider them my friends. Homeschooling one child who doesn't have any real friends, is tough. Its lonely for both of us. I think its even harder in winter. There is not much to do inside for boys. The past 2 years he has played sports. I thought that would make us both some friends. NOPE. Last school year he went to private school. He had 3 kids he said were his friends, but once he no longer went to school there none of us kept in touch. I don't really know what the solution is to my problem short of joining a homeschool group which is already to late to do this semester. I hope next year we can put him back in private school.  We stopped driving the 45 mins to church( he didn't have any real friends there anyways) and hardly go with my husband to the church he leads at( no real friends there either) which is a 1.5 hr drive. We did visit a local church 2 times, but so far I have not felt like its where I need to go.  Im in limbo.  I'm in limbo with everything it seems.  I miss H and C so much and it truly puts me in depression most days. 

Its already 2019!

Lets face it.... I'm horrible at keeping this blog updated. With the new year here and so many changes over the past 2 years I thought it was high time I dropped a few lines.  We are almost empty nesters. It wont be long now. Time has already gone by way to fast.  Our girls are both officially adults
 18 & 21. In 6 months our son will be a teenager.... ugh... I'm so NOT ready! Our daughter C moved in with friends in 2016.  I have only seen her a handful of times since then.. Long story.. another post... Our daughter H is following her dream as an intern and learning about worship leading about an hours drive from home and we miss her so much when she is gone. Neither one of our girls have their drivers license which is completely their choice.   H wants to get hers soon. Our son J is currently being homeschooled by me, but that could change at anytime.  We had him tested at a learning center and although he is 12 years old, his maturity and learning is that of a 6 to an 8 year old... We haven't told him the results of the testing because we don't want to harm his self esteem, and frankly I don't think he would really even understand it. He already doesn't understand why he can't do things other boys his age can do. He played football for the second time, first was at age 5,but does that really count? He loved it, but didn't get to play to much.  I think the coach realized he is not good at following directions...HAHA!
I've been loving my job for the past year and a half working at a wedding venue. Dream job.  Right before that job started my daughter H and I started a company dressing up as princesses for birthday an tea parties.  It was fun while it lasted. Now I need to decide if I will continue alone or just sell everything. Husband has been killing it in the Texas local country music scene with his band and leading worship at a church on Sunday mornings. My little stinker Scout passed away in May 2016 and shortly after we got a new fur baby Audrey, and she is truly my baby.  I take her with me when ever I am able.  She has even stolen the husbands heart, all 6lbs of her. We still have the two boxers as of now. A year ago the husband rescued a kitten from  a friends yard. We gave her to J.  She sleeps in doors at night and in the day runs around our street with two other fat cats who come up and steal her food on our porch. Our house is still a work in progress.... Hoping this is the year it is DONE!
Id love to put it up for sale and move.  Well that's the short story.... until next time.

Christmas 2014

The past 6 months have been rough.  We have had 4 family members on Clint's side of the family pass away.  Last week Bro. Clark a sweet man from church Clint and I both have Ironically known most of our lives passed away, he is also my sister in laws uncle.  Tennie,  Clint's Aunt who shares a birthday with him 11 years apart (and one of my close friends)  went to be with the Lord this Summer.  She had Cancer. STUPID CANCER!  It happened so fast.... way to fast.... Although we were able to see her through out the time she was in and out of the hospital and say goodbye 2 days before the lord took her.... it just wasn't enough time to really say all the things to her I wanted to.   I wanted to beg her not to go.  I know she didn't want to. I know she didn't have a choice.  None of us do.   Aunt Paulette had liver failure.   Aunt Barbara died from Cancer too... STUPID CANCER!!  Cousin Tonya Daniels sweet 2 year old passed away from a stroke.  Its been a really heart breaking  year. REALLY SAD!  So how do we find JOY in all this Saddness?  We have to focus  our Gratefulness on the people we do have left.  Make the most of the time we have on this earth.  Make every day count.  Relive the memories we had with loved ones gone. Be thankful for those memories.


Update on my kids. Still Homeschooling all 3 kids.  H is learning the Bass.  She picked it up in NO TIME.. She is a natural.. I think she will one day be better than her Dad. She is still a Disney Nerd. She Recently has become obsessed with Mermaid Tails.  I cant wait to get her one for her 15th Birthday. C is breezing through her SR year and making plans to go to Cosmetology School next Fall. She still is not Driving. Thank God!! We plan on putting her in Drivers Ed in Spring 2015.
Little J  didn't go to Karate long but I hope to take him back in the Spring.  He loves to play video games. His favorite is boxing.  He has improved on his reading, writing and math skills a lot in the past 6 months although he loves to tell people he NEVER does school work...LOL!

Update on Sturgeon Family summer 2014

This past two years have been hard... not going to go into great detail. The jest of it is... Our house is still unfinished . the addition started in 2009.  The contractor did half the job and never returned. Recently we have found out that the electrical and the plumbing was not done correctly and we have to get someone to fix it.  A friend of mine came and tiled our upstairs shower for free.. Quite the blessing! We have painted some and are still very slowly working on finishing.  Restoration church came and put the siding on the back of the house.. another blessing.   I am so ready to sell this house and move to the country.
Jo has been quite the challenge to teach to read.. he just turned 8 and is still reading at a kindergarten level. Try as I may... and I do every day he cry's and trys to get out of reading.  His hand writing has improved a small amount.  Most of the time he likes math, but is still not on level according to his age. He is getting pretty good at basketball by playing at home with the family. I recently signed him up for Karate.  He has only been 3 times so far and loves it.  Hannah as become a great artist. She loves to draw Disney characters.  Her other hobby is baking.  She is making cupcakes as I write this.  She has learned to love to read, but only if its her choice of book. She back talks me now, but will usually say she is sorry. She is still hating math along with her sister Courtney.   Courtney will be 17 soon and that means one more year until her independence.  I know she is counting down the days.  So far the worse things she has done is wreck the golf chart twice  one hitting a tree and once our truck. She is still not driving a car. Sassy mouth at times.  Tries to wear clothes I don't approve of.  Got a FB account behind our backs and a texting app. Got her phone and Ipod taken away for good two years ago. Typical teenage stuff.  I think having her at home and not in public school has kept her out of major trouble. Clint is now the music minister at a new church and I am the leader of Griefshare at our church. Our marriage has had a lot of challenges but we have overcome them through counseling with pastors and prayer!  We added another dog to the family. Raliegh.  A male boxer.  Last summer he and Mia had pups.  We sold them all and were sad to do so.

Frosted Glass Jars

I got this idea from pinterest. Mix elmers glue with food coloring. Paint on any glass surface. Then I added my own design of stringing beads on wire an wrapping around glass jar. Put candle in jar an u have a pretty candle holder.

Sturgeon kids at Easter 2012

Look how tall they are

Up date on Family

Spring is finally here.. I love sitting out side and watching the birds and butterflys. We have a nest in a bird house on our front porch. we all got to peek in on them last night.. theres 5 babies.  we got to watch the mom and dad built the nest a few weeks ago. It was very educational and fun to watch. My kids are growing like weeds.  Hannah is now 12 and shes taller than me and has a foot larger than mine.  Courtney age 14 is the same height as me and also has a foot larger than mine.  I cant believe how time flys... boy does it fly.. Josiah will be 6 in 5 weeks.  He has been talking about his birthday since January. to the point of annoying me..!!  He too has gotten so much taller and very skinny.. no more babyfat on him. :(   well  I say its time to adopt another baby.. LOL!  Mia is alot bigger as well .. she is now a year old.  Scout and Mia love to play together but they are to wild  so we keep them apart most of the time. Mia is a sweet dog...she Loves attention and is very hyper. she also is very protective of her yard and family.  Our golf cart is finally fixed after sitting for two years. The girls are tearing up the yard driving that thing around!! The kids have already been in the Lake twice recently and its not even May yet.  Im busy with my new business JUJUBELLE  and forming a new Ministry called Graysons Gift Ministries which I also write a blog about.  Thats a short update on the Sturgeon 7.