February 25, 2011

• More Plagues….

   Well, we are a few days behind….we were supposed to do these next 2 lessons on Wed. and Thursday, but we have a good (I think) excuse for waiting till today!! I’ll tell about it at the end.

   So today the kids each did 2 lessons in Math, since we are going to go spend the day on Monday with a friend in Tallahassee.  Then we did our history/Bible, learning about the next of the 10 plagues that God sent on Pharoah and the Egyptians. Danny was glad when I read that God protected the Israelites from these plagues. He just didn’t think that sounded fair if they had to experience the plagues too….then he wondered if Moses and Aaron were also spared from the plagues. I didn’t read that anywhere, but I am guessing they were??

  A plague of flies has hit the Henry kids….and the love seat!! At least they weren’t buzzing and crawling all over us!

  

    

  Pharoah asked for Moses to go and make a sacrafice to his God and have these flies be gone. {You’d think he would have learned his lesson after dealing with gnats the day before….ugh!}
   Can you imagine (at least those of us who live in the gnatty south) if all the grains of dust turned into gnats?? We think we have it bad some days!! They’d be all up in your nose, in your ears, crawling over your eyes….and lets not think how many would get in your mouth!!  (By the way, the gnats were the first plague that the Egyptian magicians were not able to copy!!)

   So, God takes away the flies….it said not a one was left! BUT, Pharoah STILL had a hard heart. The next day……

  The Egyptians woke up and fed their animals like every morning before….

  

  but imagine their horror when they found them sick and dead!!

  

  I’ve often wondered how the Egyptians felt about all this….were they getting mad at the Pharoah for not letting these Israelites go?? Or were they just as wicked? Hmmm….

   More to come next week……

  Oh, and the reason we skipped a few days. On Wed. we had a lady coming to look at our mattress we were trying to sell. She wanted to come right over the time when we usually have history. I really didn’t want her to show up and see flies stuck all over the kids!   Ended up, she never showed, but another lady came an hour later and till then it was time to be getting supper ready, so we decided to just push it off till Thursday since we have a very light work load in history this week.

   Well, the second lady paid for the mattress and boxspring and said she’d come pick it up later that night. Then in the evening she called and changed her mind and said they would come between 2 and 2:30 on Thursday. Again, I didn’t want the same thing to happen….I was going to make the kids keep the flies on from History time till their Dad got home, just so he could see them. So we figured we’d wait till she comes and then proceed. Well, it ended up being 4:00 till she ever showed! So, Today was the day!!  And I did not make them keep the flies on! They said it felt weird and Dan won’t be home till late tonight, since he went to a conference today.

   

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  Last evening the kids and I went to my friend Jill’s house to show her and her blogging daughters how to change the background on their Xanga sites….in exchange for Jill teaching me how to make a “messy bum bun”. Time went by too fast!! But we had success on both ends! 

   Leah and her “messy bun” Haha!! She was just being silly!! 

  

   I am going to add the video that Leah took of Jill doing my hair….I just need to do it on another computer. My desktop has been acting wonky with video’s!! 

   

   In a few minutes I need to run to the P.O. to ship some Ebay stuff and then go pick up a flat of strawberries [from South FL] and make some JELLY!!  Mmmm, Mmmm!! I think we we may have to have some ice cream with strawberries as a late snack when Dan gets home tonight!  

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