Speechless Sundays: Jesus Loves Even Me

This week we have Vickie doing "Jesus Loves Even Me". She's so energetic- I love it!
This hymn was written by Major Whittle in 1870. I'm so glad that Jesus Loved each of His people enough to die on the cross for us!

Enjoy!

New School Year! Homeschool off and running...

Hi all! Sorry it's been so long since I've sat down and written anything other than a Speechless Sunday posts.

We are officially in the new school year! I now have a 4th grader, 2nd grader, a Kindergartner, and a Pre-K (plus the 18 month old Curious George!).

And surprisingly the first week went well. The only thing is.... 1. The curriculum I bought for the second grader is the wrong box/grade level (can't find the right one on sale and don't have $400 for a new curriculum), 2. I started the year without cleaning my homeschool room (opps), and 3. There's still not enough time in the day to do everything I want to teach (because I get over zealous and want to teach everything there is to know all at once).

So this weekend will be a number of things- 1. Clean my school room. 2. Break out a calendar and actually organize when we will "tentatively" cover subjects I want to cover. 3. Keep hunting on ebay for the right curriculum and praying hard it goes on sale.

All this goes along with preparing to assist in teaching my first ASL class to homeschoolers, keeping up with my fitness goals (training for The Color Run- my 1st 5K in October!), Lego League for oldest son, dance for 2 girls, karate for middle daughter, American Heritage Girls for 1 daughter,  AWANAs 4 out of 5 kids, church commitments, and a million other things.

Can we just skip to summer now?

I promise to back soon with some tips on organizing and how we actually teach our Deaf daughters- SOON!

Blessings to you-

Speechless Sundays: Views of a Medical Home

Hey everyone! This week our family had the honor of being part of a video being made to promote Deaf Awareness in NC. Strangely this isn't the 1st video we've done for NC on Deaf Awareness :chuckle: and hopefully not the last.

I'm hoping that I don't get in major trouble for posting this clip since I don't own it BUT since we're in it and it's for information only purposes maybe it'll be ok (if I call from jail you know why)!

This is a throwback from 2008 if you can imagine. And before we had our last 2 babies and before we knew Ayrianna was indeed Deaf as well.

Enjoy!

For correct crediting this video was made and produced by: NCPH (North Caroline Public Health), DHHS (North Caroline Department of Health and Human Services) "Views of a Medical Home: Six Families Share Their Stories" distributed in June 2008. This is a clip of 1 of the 6 families featured.

Speechless Sundays: Children's songs- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Jesus Loves Me

Hi all! It's been crazy as usual around here and that means less busy on the blog than normal. Since I've missed a few Speechless Sundays I thought I'd make up for it a little today by posting not one but TWO videos! They are children's songs we all know and love-

"Jesus Loves Me"      and               "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

Now the Jesus Loves Me I actually did twice- once with voice and once without so you could see the major differences in visual and conceptual understanding. Without voice is MUCH better ASL in my opinion. And my voice is...well.... scary- so sorry! And another note- not all Deaf people can sing like me- I was late-Deafened (after age 10) so keep that in mind ok :) 


Enjoy!!

                                                                      Jesus Loves Me

                                                           Twinkle Twinkle Little Star