Rosie Boom is a Christian author, home-schooler, and mother of six.
It’s been ages since I wrote anything here!! So much happening and such busy days. Maybe I’ll come back and write a few blogs about some of it. But I wanted to write here a few verses which the family have been memorizing and which have become my daily prayer.
Psalm 143:
Let the morning bring me […]
Just a very quick note. My darling mum had a small stroke on Thursday and is in hospital. I am staying in there caring for her, but had a night off last night to come out and celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary. What a blessing being able to be with Mum and help […]
I got an email from a woman recently who shared with me the pain of trying to have children but not being able to conceive thus far.
It made me think of a wonderful quote I have written in the back of my Bible taken from a letter by Samuel Rutherford, a preacher in the 1600’s. […]
On Saturday I went to listen to Eliza compete in the Northland Performing Arts competitions. When we got home at 2pm I found Jacob lying on the sofa, crying whenever his left leg moved. He had come in to our bed at 3am that morning complaining of a sore leg, but it was obviously getting […]
This afternoon I started painting some of the windows in the new house that we are building and they took forever and were really tricky…felt quite discouraged and started thinking we’d be better off getting aluminium ones for the bottom storey - I couldn’t bear the thought of painting all the bottom windows as well. […]
Read a wonderful quote from Rabbit of Winnie the Pooh fame.
“Spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count. You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn’t spell it right.”
Got an email from a friend in London today and he shared this great quote from Einstein.
‘Not everything that can be counted, counts.
Not everything that counts, can be counted’
How true is that!!
A song about how quickly our children grow up! We need to make the most of the years and days and moments when we have them in our home, our lives, our arms. Now on You Tube.
A fun song about some of the challenges that we can face in our homeschooling journey that can make us feel a tad ‘blue’ sometimes. Now on You Tube.
I have just successfully ( I think) uploaded a video of me singing Shepherd’s Call on You Tube and embedded it here on my blog. Hope it works!
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