Book Review: The Answers Book for Kids Volume 3 and 4

The Answers Book for Kids Volume 3: 22 Questions from Kids on God and the Bible and Volume 4: 22 Questions from Kids on Sin, Salvation and the Christian Life by Ken Ham are great resources for helping your children try and understand some of the big questions they having rolling around in their minds.  Thses books are great at helping guide the child to find out those "Why" questions and to dig deeper into the Bible.

 Each page has a question from a child, a response and extra scriptures that you can use to learn even more of what God's word says about the question.  Some of the questions are, "Who made God?, How big is God?, Why does God let the bad guys win sometimes?, How does God get His power? Where does He get it from?" 

This was also a great resource for me, as a parent, on my journey of faith and wrestling through some of the more difficult questions of life.  I really enjoyed the pictures used on each page.  They were creatively put together to help match the question asked.  I have not yet read Volumes 1 and 2 but I am sure they were done with the same quality and accuracy as Volumes 3 and 4.  I would definitely recommend having these in your home library, town library and/or church library. 

Book Review: The Creation Story for Children

If you are looking for a book to engage your child and tell God's story of creation, look no further.  Helen & David Haidle have written, "The Creation story for Children" that captures the beauty of God's creation through pictures and God's word.

Some of the pages are also fun to use as a "seek and find" because there are so many pictures used to show what God created on each day.

I am encouraged that the authors stick close to God's word and not just another paraphrase of the Genesis creation account.  At the end of the book, they go through amazing creatures, amazing senses, amazing shapes and colors in depth and show animals in each category. 

I really love this book and highly recommend you add this to your library.  It will be the only creation book you will need to teach your children the truth about God's creation.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I once again had great vision of sending out cards by mail this year and it slipped my mind.  I was really preoccupied with an interesting gift this year that took up most of my brain power.  My grandmother collects nativities so we decided that our family was going to pose as the nativity, frame it and give it as the most unique nativity she will ever possess.  The angel on the right is my aunt and she lives in Canada so I actually superimposed her into the picture....amazing complicated but the Lord provided an amazing picture for us. So Happy New Year from the Fleishours and belated Merry Christmas our Savior has come!!

Oh, How They Change

I cannot believe my babies are not babies anymore.  Big Bub is well on his way to becoming a gentleman and Peanut is developing into quite a fine young lady.  I have been enjoying watching them search out who God has created them to be and what things in this world pluck their heart strings.  I have made two collages that I feel capture some of their uniqueness and little passions that are growing inside each of them. I have so much to be thankful for this Christmas season and these two gifts from God are top on the list. (Big Daddy is my first and best gift ever!)

Peanut wants deeply to be in the Nutcracker Ballet!

Big Bub loves to be creative with his costumes and pretend play.  He still loves dinosaurs a ton.

Mistress of the Domain: Redeemed

  

  I posted the fallen part of this aspect previously and I am glad to be posting the best part...the redeemed.

     The most beautiful part of this aspect is how we are redeemed. God has had a redemptive plan from the beginning. He knew He would need to reach down to us. Mouser puts into words our wonderful salvation,
"We deserve to be hauled in to the capital and hanged for treason. But Christ was hanged for us. This is what His death on the cross means; He paid the price of a traitor's death....Adam and Eve broke the trust. But trust is re-established when we receive God's offer of new life and re-assert our allegiance to Him." Our mind is to be renewed and enlightened and our conscience is purged from dead works. This is great news!!!

      In conclusion, we were created in the image of God, the Fall has brought sin nature to the image we bear, Jesus has died to pay the penalty we deserved to die. God has given us our domain for a purpose and is fashioning our lives that we might bring our whole being to Him.

Next aspect....Helper-Completer (and it is so good!!)

Picture borrowed from http://sharecare.wordpress.com/2008/03/

Family Photos

Our dear and favorite friend, JMay, took some fun photos of us.  I forgot about them until I was sorting out pictures today so here they are.  Check out the amazing background God gave us....that is as rich of red as you can get...amazing.  Thanks so much JMay for capturing our family :)

My best friend.  I love this man dearly and we have our ups and downs but I am committed till death do us part.

My baby girl!

Silly!

I told Big Bub to touch cheeks with Mommy....I guess I forgot to mention look at the camera too....he was so cute...he kept his cheek on mine for a whole minute!

This is our family.  Somehow we have developed this little family cheer where everybody puts their hands in and then screams, "Go brothers and sisters!!"  It's become a trademark.

The Lord is good.

The Lord is good, even when its raining.
The Lord is good, even when I am crying.

The Lord is good, even when chaos surrounds me.
The Lord is good, even when I am angry or frustrated.

The Lord is good, even when life doesn't make any sense.
The Lord is good, even when you feel lonely.

The Lord is good.  His character does not change.  My emotions and feelings towards God change like the wind but I can settle back into this beautiful truth....The Lord is good.....

Journey ReEnactment Concert Featuring: Dan Flower

Big Daddy and I got to go see our Uncle Dan Flower rock the in a tribute concert to Journey.  I was impressed and Big Daddy and I had so much fun that we want to see them again.  Here are some pictures and the websited where you can check out more of their songs, concert listings and alittle about the band:  Lights: Journey Tribute Band Homepage

 

Behind every man is the woman who supports and loves him and here she..... Mrs. Flower.

Little Bub's Thumb!

The Adventure of Little Bub

He was playing with his bro,

and they were running to and fro.

They have been told "Do not slam the door!"

but Big Bub forgot and Little Bub cried alot more.

Big Daddy was first to arrive on the scene,

and his little thumb was caught in between.

I was upstairs baking some bread

and I did not know that his thumb was so red.

Big Daddy then tried to straighten it out

but he could not move the little thumb about.

The doctor called to see what was the matter

and he asked, "Is it getting any fatter?"

Dr. Void gave his thumb alittle tickle

but that little thumb was still being fickle.

So he sent us away to the hand doctor,

his name was Richter the Rocker.

Dr. Rocker did not make us linger,

He said, "Oh...that's a trigger finger!"

You will need to go to the hospital,

but don't worry son they will give you a popsicle.

So that was the adventure in a nutshell,

and yes, Little Bub did yell.

But he squeals with delight,

and now he will have a thumb just right.

Written for: Little Bub

By: Mommy

Book Review: Dinosaurs Stars of the Show

Dinosaurs: Stars of the Show written by Amie Zordel and illustrated by Joanna Borrero is a must have for your children's book collection. I have a dinosaur lover in our family and I grow weary of the heavy evolutionary material constantly presented through other dinosaur books.

This book was a breath of fresh air as it presented truth based on the Bible. I love the example of the little girl in the book that when she questions something she runs straight to the Bible as an authority instead of the internet or library. It is a great book to use as a unit for homeschool study as well. (for preschool, kindergarten)

My children have enjoyed this book and we have had great discussions from reading it together. It is important for me to teach my children how to think and be able to figure out what is true and what to measure truth by and this book is going to be a great tool in teaching them.

The illustrations in this book are so colorful and inviting. I adored the artwork. I also enjoyed the rhyming story. (it makes it more fun for me to read)

Overall, I would recommend this book as a "must have" for any parent who wants their child to learn early what truth is and where it comes from.