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.

Learning all the time

Since I last wrote about us starting "school"  again I have learned a few things. 
 If we dont get to something I had in mind to do it will still be there the next day.
Learning happens ALL the time. You learn something new every day.
All of my kids learn in different ways.
IF somethings NOT working I need to Quit doing it and try something else with them.
My kids are sometimes moody, and they have "bad " days too.. just like I do. I just need to accept it and move on.
Reading to my kids is the best thing I can do for their education and our relationship.
I have to make Bible lessons number ONE over anything else I teach or else Im not doing my job as a mother.
I love being with my kids more than I like working out side the home. (and I love being a Dental Assistant)
My kids are growing up WAY to fast and Im glad I have lots of time to spend with them.
Homeschooling is Gods plan for our family and Im so glad I am blessed to be doing it.

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Home Learning Has Begun

My children were so eager to Learn Something they asked for two weeks straight when we were going to start school.  Well we finally started this week and so far all is well. The girls have buried themselves in books about the Titanic. They are now working on Lap book to show what they have learned. Pics will be posted shortly :)
Josiah is learning all about Transportation. Planes, Trains, Boats etc .along with all the other usual preschool things like letters and numbers. I will post some of his Art work along with this post.