Rosie Boom is a Christian author, home-schooler, and mother of six.
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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While we were in the plane flying to Hanmer Springs, I looked down at the terrain below trying to pick out different towns and the main road. Not so easy! I thought of the many times I’ve travelled the length of NZ. But as I looked down at the vast areas on either side of […]
Some time ago I entered a photo competition and won flights for two people anywhere in New Zealand! As Chris and I had already just had a special time away, he suggested I go with my twin sister, Penny. So on Saturday we flew to Hanmer Springs in the South Island and had […]
Have just been trying to tidy my office and came across a scrap of paper with a quote from Martin Luther. Thought it was great!
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let the husband make her sorry to see him leave.”
Just last weekend I had the joy of attending and speaking at the HEART conference in Matamata (Home Educators Annual Retreat). Just before one session a woman approached me and said, “I don’t know why, but whenever I look at you I feel like crying.” Then she went on to say that each time she […]