Family

I love my family. They mean the world to me. I think God has blessed me greatly.

Joshua, Jen and Alexis Grace.

Shaun, and family visiting the Indianapolis Zoo.

Beth annoying her big brother Joshua. Who is holding Alexis.

This is Zoey and Xavier

My Birthday

Well we have been really busy in our home school classes this winter. Elizabeth and I are working on a lot of different projects at the moment. We are working on a Easter Notebook. It is going to be beautiful when we are done. We have also been working on getting healthy. Last July I found a new website called Sparkpeople. It is an amazing place with so much information it is not funny. There are nutrition trackers, exercise trackers, healthy recipes, coaches and so much more. I have lost 52 pounds since I joined. There are also sister site for teens, pregnant moms, and more. I have been using the diabetic trackers to get my blood sugar under control. And this is the amazing part. It is free. The site was started by a man named Chris Downie. It promotes good health and goal setting strategies that have been extremely successful. If you decide to join tell them rpwilkin referred you. My daughter is learning a lot at spark teen. Check it out at www.sparkpeople.com. I have been motivated by my 50th birthday that is coming up on Tuesday.

Elizabeth and I also have been trying to spend lots of time with my grand kids. Zoey is 5 and she will be turning 6 in May. She has a little brother Xavier who is 3. He will be 4 in May. Their dad is my oldest Son Shaun. He is 31. He is married to Jessica. I have another son named Joshua. He is 30. He has a beautiful little girl named Alexis Grace. She will be 2 in October. He and his girlfriend have been together 3 years and are getting married in September. I am so proud of my boys. They have become wonderful men and wonderful fathers. I love to spend time with my kids. Joshua lives 4 hours away so I never get to see them enough. Beth and I spent some good quality time with them back in January.

Zoey just got back from spending a week in Pennsylvania with her Granddad. He has been relocated there to work. It is about an 8 hour drive so she was so happy to see him. But she sure was missed at home. She has never been away that long before. Xavier spent quite a bit of time with me as he was missing her so bad. All and all it was a good "spring break." I hope everyone else had a great time also.

We are considering moving. It is an awesome place in the country. I can not wait. Where we are now there is very little outdoor space. I want to put out a garden. I want to lie on the patio and watch the stars. I think Elizabeth will be so glad to be somewhere where she can spend tons of time outside. Sitting outside and reading is a favorite pastime for us both.

New Beginings...

Well hello friends. Beth and I are still traveling through a home school journey. She is now in the six grade. I started this blog just to document what we are doing. This last year has been big for us. Because we have been so busy I have not been online in awhile. Well that is going to change. I have updated some things on the site. One I am trying to monetize my site to help finance our school. So please feel free to click on our ads. I am going to college full time also. We are living well below the poverty level at present. I am extremely frugal so we do OK. But there is never money for extras. I am in the General Studies program at Indiana University East out of Richmond Indiana. I am interested in a lot of things but computers are one of my main interests. I love being online and meeting new people. I love learning new things. I love helping others. Beth is very much into music and crafts. She is such a joy to me. She has just become a teenager and is growing so fast. Sometimes it amazes me how fast life goes by.