About Simply Susan

We started investigating home education in late 1997 and it was during the Nov/Dec break of the same years that we started homeschooling. Although we homeschooled for about 19 years I consider that we homeschooled all of them, all the way through – because what happens in utero is important and then we go on to teach our babies all those essential learnings. There are many other people who had walked many more miles in this journey than we have. I cannot and do not aim to teach you, the reader, anything nor do I feel that I have anything astounding to offer, except the blisters on my feet from walking round and round the garden path so much because I can be so stubborn and set in my ways.

Abi, R, J and C were all homeschooled. Master Jax goes to a private Christian school as we’re not as young as we used to be.

Baptist?  Church of Christ? CRC? Reformed? Presbeteryan? Pentecostal?Actually I’d say I’m all of those and none!

I do not like labels. I don’t like to ‘follow’ or adhere to any particular preaching or teaching. However, for those who really need labels to help define a site or person it might be said that I lean toward a slightly more Reformed and Calvinistic mindset. 🙂  You can see my thoughts here on even calling myself a Christian! Why do we need labels? Why do we feel the need to rally together under any other banner other than Christ?

But I, brothers, could not address you as  spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.  I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
1 Cor 3: 1-9

I have been joyously married to my love John, for over 33 years and together we have four, five or six children, depending upon how one looks at it. Confused yet? Yes, we are a blended family which only adds to the vitality, energy and choas!

I was not raised as a Christian – very far from it! My childhod was… shall we say – um, colourful. Something that those who were raised in the ways of faith will not understand – and thankfully so. Suffice it to say that I carried some baggage with me into my marriage and parenting years. I learned the hard way how to be a parent. In fact, I am still learning even now – as a mama to an 8 yo!

This blog is an attempt to journal my day to day thoughts, struggles, growth and learning in the process of wifehood, motherhood and being a Daughter of the King! Sometimes I may share recipes or the like, as it may be something that I’ve had to type out for a forum so to save typing it again one day, I will post it here. I don’t expect or suppose that others will find this blog to be very interesting or academically stimulating. That’s okay. I primarily post for me…for this is my journey and writing helps me to process my thoughts. I also periodically print my posts out and keep them in a box, just in case my children should like to read them one day, once I have moved on/graduated.

Code Of Online Ethics

I hold myself to certain standards of conduct. They are:

• I guard my online relationships
• I am careful to visit websites that do not compromise my life in Christ
• I take care that my written communications reflect Christ in my life
• I guard my time to assure that my time online is kept in proper balance with the rest of my life.