on January 4, 2017
Cover to Cover Challenge 2017 (day 3, let’s talk about covenants)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsWe read through Genesis chapter 15-22 last night. Jackson Linton was here visiting and joined us in our reading time. All the kids did great again sitting and listening. Benny, being three, does move around a bit from person to person. He also is at the stage of noise making. So, often, we have soft
on January 2, 2017
Cover to Cover Challenge (Day 2)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsThis evening we gathered in the living room after dinner and read Genesis 8-15. It took us exactly 30 minutes to read it together. Everyone was alert and focused to the end. To help us prepare, we all stretched and did a few exercises to get our blood flowing. We discussed afterwards the many sons
on January 2, 2017
Cover to Cover Challenge 2017 (Day 1)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home SchoolingLast night we began the 2017 cover to cover challenge. After dinner, our family gathered in the living room with our Bibles. Everyone, Benny age 3, Anna age 5, Mary age 7, and Stephen age 7, David age 13, Zach age 9, Joshua age 11, Jeremiah age 13, and Rebekah age 16, Brenden age 17,
on December 31, 2016
Time for a Challenge (Cover to Cover in 2017)
Bible Reading Challenge . Family . Home Schooling . Katie's RamblingsIt is that time of year again. Time to take the challenge. Here at the Hirn house we are all going to do the cover to cover challenge again. We will be starting the cover to cover challenge. Starting tomorrow evening we will be reading through the Bible as a family, out loud each evening.
on December 23, 2016
Is Christmas and Easter Pagan? Does it Matter?
Family . Holidays . Katie's RamblingsI love history and especially ancient history. So I read a lot of ancient documents and transcripts of them. I love it. Do I think there is evidence that Christmas and Easter are pagan or have pagan roots or traditions? Yes, I do. But can someone else come and find documents to argue against my
It is that time of year again. You know when we think abut what we accomplished in a year, and hope to accomplish new things in the new year. So I thought as long as everyone is thinking about such things, I would give a challenge for the new year. I call it the