Our season ON Covenant Acres Begins!!!

 After much prayer and hard work our journey to Covenant Acres begins!!


Proverbs 29:18  Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

After much studying God's law word on many aspects of our life, we continue to follow the path of obedience to His law! We decided early on that if we were going to shorten our children's learning curve, it would take drastic steps on our part to begin our vision!

This is not for most families........................or is it?


 Our journey would begin with selling our house (1098 sq. ft.) city home and moving into our thirty four foot R.V.  No it will not be an easy task, with three children under seven, most would say it is impossible! But scripture teaches other wise.

Luke 1:37  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

It was through much prayer that we cultivated the vision of taking back farming and bringing reformation to this area of our culture. I will post more on this as we transition to the farm!

Upon sitting down with our realtor and them doing a market analysis of the homes that have sold in our area, everything came back that we would not make very much off of our home. However we sold it way above market value!!! The Lord placed a number on our hearts and that's what we listed it for! In the housing market we are in now, one would think there is no way we would sell our house above market value. Well the house was on the market for eleven days and it sold! After a few minor repairs, we had to wait upon the termite inspection and a home inspection. Neither of the two found and significant problems with the house, which was built in 1962.

  Deuteronomy 28:1-2  And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

God blesses obedience and curses disobedience! Father's must re-evaluate their vision and purpose for their families! Read Deuteronomy for more on this.

Our ceiling should be their footsteps!

Our journey continues.........

Eight Great "Back to {Home} School" Articles

1) Can I Homeschool for Free?

"So you're sitting there looking at the family budget with a visor on your head, a pencil in your mouth and a large calculator in your hands. No matter how hard you work at it, there is no corner to cut in order to squeeze out a few pennies for homeschool textbooks. Our family has been in this position before. What does a mom do?"


By Mrs. Bambi, mother of 8, @ In the Nursery of the Nation
Bonus Link: Homeschooling Shouldn't Be Stressful

2) You Can't Cover All the Bases

"If you were to ask a new homeschooling mom what her biggest fear was about teaching her children, what would she say? Nine times out of ten, she'd probably remark that she's worried about covering all the bases. The truth is, no one covers all the bases. No teacher in any school can ever teach your child everything they need to know."

by Mrs. Jacinda, mother of 3, @ Growing Home

Bonus Link: 4 Essential Subjects to Teach Your Child

3) How Our Son is Graduating from
College at Age 18

"The point of this post is to unpack one example of how it can be done if you are willing to get off the conveyor belt and look into all of your options. Once you are free from the culture box, you’ll be surprised…and delighted…to find out what could be available to your particular child down the road!"

by Mrs. Natalie, mother of 9, @ Visionary Womanhood

Bonus Link:  7 Strategies for Home Schooling Moms

4) Learning Disability or Gift?

"Time and time again we see evidence of the beautiful gifts and amazing talents God has given to those who are labeled with various “learning disabilities.” Our daughter, Abigail, probably would have been considered “different” by many in the public school system. Perhaps we would have been instructed to medicate her; or maybe she would have grown up feeling like something was “wrong” with her. But in God’s providence, our sweet blessing is learning at home; and we are watching her blossom."

by Mrs. Stacy, mother of 10, @ Your Sacred Calling

Bonus Link:  Raising Maidens of Virtue

5) Begin Homeschooling With a Goal

"This question came from Allison:  

'My biggest question is “How do I begin?” What is the very first thing that you did when you started this process. With so much to choose from, I can’t seem to focus on any one thing.'"

by Mrs. Amy, mother of 7, @ Raising Arrows

Bonus Link:  Does That Count as School?

6) I Was a Brain-Washed School Teacher 

"Understanding the fact that different kids have different bents has escaped mainstream thought. I think one of the most harmful things the conventional classroom does (by default) is define the “success” of a student by a grossly narrow measure. That’s the only way to mass produce “education”.

I remember when I taught high school, with great shame, giving a tongue-lashing to an 18-year old student, towering over me with tears in his eyes. I had been brainwashed too."

by Mrs. Kelly, mother of 9, @ Generation Cedar

Bonus Link: The Secret to Your Child's Success

7) Give Your Child a Life Long
Love of Learning

"Learning is not mundane and boring! If it is - stop what you're doing, don't give up - there is hope! Here are the basic subjects and creative ways to make learning FUN!"

by Mrs. Hannah, mother of 6, @ Cultivating Home

Bonus Link: The Goals of a Homeschool Family

8) Who's Afraid of Homeschooling?

"Any mother considering homeschooling for the first time will be able to sympathize with the dread I felt of trying to replicate the classroom experience in our living room, my flood of doubts over whether I had the patience to make my children sit at a desk for six hours a day, and whether I was even qualified to teach them everything they would need to know. After all, taking full responsibility for a child’s life-training and preparation for the real world is no small matter, especially according to the standards of the modern education system that dictates that it can only be done by trained, qualified, and certified professionals (which most of us ordinary parents are not), in expensive, state-of-the-art institutions (which most ordinary homes are not)."

by Mrs. Victoria, mother of 7, @ Western Conservatory of the Arts and Sciences

Bonus Link:  Curriculum Advice from Victoria Botkin

Resources You'll Want to Get:

What to Show People Who Don't Like Your Decision to Homeschool

God's Word is the Best Curriculum Choice

A friend, and homeschool mom of 3, calls this book her "sanity".

What articles have encouraged you during this back to {home} school season?

Five Trees in One Day!

All over our property the drought has taken it's toll on several Oak tree's with one of them being very tall, after much planning we decided they needed to come down. Every time the wind would blow a big limb would fall out of one of them. For the safety of our children they had to come down. When the big Red Oak came down the earth shook tremendously. However we will take that wood and convert it to fuel for heat for our house in the winter.

Family Man, Family Leader

by Philip Lancaster

When Adam fell in the garden of Eden through Autonomy the Lord cursed the ground (Gen. 3:17) and made it very hard to work. Each time I grab a sticker bush, it constantly reminds me of the fall and the results from it. You can't imagine how many sticker vines are on eleven acres of un-improved property in Texas. 

However even after the fall and even though the land has been cursed we still have the job to take dominion in every area of life. Whether it be a famous Bulgarian writer, or a man that works in a convenience store, we are to teach all the nations (Math. 28:19). 

This needs to start at the family level, the family should be your children's first Garden of Eden on Earth. It should be the safest place they will ever be, this should be there first Church, first school,first job and the list goes on! 

So I will leave this to the Fathers and Mothers: is your home your Children's first Garden of Eden?

She Wanted to Go Hunting

Yesterday was my Uncle Henry's birthday.  When I read his facebook status, which wrapped up what the world might call his day, I just knew I had to share it.

WOW what a Day! It went as follows........

1.) Temporary crown put on a broken tooth to start the day off!

2.)Then off to Covenant Acres to spend the rest of the day with my Beautiful Family.

3.)Took the AK-47 down to the deer stand and sat in there for about 2 hours with Hannah Jane, looked for wild pigs. However we saw three on the way to the stand! She was pumped!!

4.) Nothing came out to the feeder, but we did get to spend a wonderful time speaking to each other and just lettings her sit in my lap and watch her grow! 

Children are such a blessing especially when you ask all three of them which one wants to go hunting she is the first to jump up and down raising her hand! Blessed evening!!