Today is George Washington’s birthday, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter and the day before we’re supposed to go on our field trip to the National Aquarium in Baltimore with our homeschool co-op. I’ve been sick for about 2 weeks now (head and chest cold), praying that the twins and Quinn won’t come down with it (Michael and Sean are sick too…sounds quite lovely here every morning with all of us trying to cough up and out the infection) but Quinn woke up early this morning around 1:00 a.m. telling me that he had a sore throat and sounding a little nasal. I gave him juice and a few bites of poptart (he was hungry too!) and settled him back down. I’ll probably try to get him in to see the doctor today…nothing like trying to cope with an earache over the weekend. I’m really praying that a miracle will occur before tomorrow as I know how disappointed the boys will be if we have to bow out of the field trip.

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Lenten Reflection for Today

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“Here, then, I have today set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.

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If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.

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If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods,

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I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.

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I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,

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by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

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Homeschooling

A lot of blogging homeschooling families are bird watching, participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count, eBird, or Project FeederWatch. I’ve printed out the list of birds for my area, dug out my binoculars (to better identify the birds on the creek), kept the feeder filled and unearthed my Audubon Birds of the Northeast Guidebook from the bookshelf.