About Me

I’m just a simple stay at home mom who homeschools a few kids. We live on a small farm and I help my dear husband run his carpentry business (I do the paperwork and he does the physical work). I like to read, but I don’t have a lot of spare time these days. I love to make our Sabbath meals each week, what joy! I am interested in a natural, holistic and eclectic approach to all areas of life – health, education, matters of the heart, etc. I enjoy our large vegetable garden even though I am fighting through the early years of transforming our clay soil to something more suitable to grow food in. I enjoy working with the animals we raise – beef cattle, sheep, goats, chickens and turkeys. I enjoy music – praise and worship, country, classical, jazz, instrumental, whatever. Mostly I love being home with my family and working to make my G-d, the Creator of the Universe, the center of all I do. My daily goal is to bring Him joy and glory as I live my life and hopefully, I’m able to reflect His majesty to those around me. Oh, could I really be so blessed??

To make a long story short, you can view my testimony (written in December 2005) here. Remember, though, that I have continued to grow since I wrote it. You can’t steer a ship that doesn’t move, right?

About Our Family

We are the W family. DH is a self-employed carpenter and I am a stay-home-mom. We were both raised in Christian homes and in the past 8 or 9 years we have discovered the definition in life that the Torah brings to the lives of believers. Currently we worship at home as a family on Shabbat with an open door for friends and family to come spend the day with us, as sometimes happens. Sometimes we refer to ourselves as Messianic Believers but a phrase that seems to be better understood is that we are Law Abiding, Hebrew Rooted Believers. Whatever we’d be called we believe that Yeshua (Jesus) is HaShem’s (G-d’s) Messiah spoken of in the Torah (Scriptures). We believe that the fullness of Scripture is relevant and applicable to us today and much of what is called the “Old Testament” is not only applicable today to believers but has not yet been fulfilled. G-d does not change and His desire for how His children should live has not changed either.

Our children:
Yishai is 19 and working at Starbucks. He lives most of the time with his mother in another town but he spends time with us most weekends and holidays. We’re pleased to have him with us. He enjoys acting and loves to be around people. He’s a good boy.

Eliezer is 17 and is in the Running Start program through our local school district.  This affords him the ability to graduate from High School with an Associates Degree from the local community college.  He plans to get  a transfer degree and pursue a degree in engineering at the state University.  He raises sheep with Miriam.  He is a hard worker, a “steady Eddy” and a no compromise kind of guy with a tender heart and a good sense of humor. I sure enjoy having those “deep thinking” conversations with him!

Miriam is 16, we homeschool both her and Shalom. She has been raising sheep for 8 years now and is a tremendous joy to be around.  She is my right hand.  She has discovered her wonderful ability for Hebraic dance and is also quite the artist, pianist and has recently discovered a tremendous talent for the violin too. She is full of compassion and has a very tender heart, yet she is strong and unwavering in her faith and actions. She has an incredible understanding of, and memory for, the Scriptures. She is blossoming into an amazing young lady – one who is quite often my own role model.

Sara is 15 and in 9th grade. She also lives with her mother in another town with Yishai. She enjoys Davidic dance but she likes jazz dance, ballet and tap as well. She loves to be a domestic engineer and is looking forward to someday having her own home to run. She is a blessing. She also has a heart of compassion and steadfastness.

Shalom is 13 and homeschooled with Miriam.  He is a Cadet in the Civil Air Patrol. Soon he will be participating in the Ground Search and Rescue team and working with the county Sheriff’s department for search & rescue.  He loves it!  He has quite an amazing talent for music and finds joy in playing the piano. He has discovered he has an artistic talent like Miriam does. Shalom is a boy through and through! It is absolutely encouraging to watch him grow. He is such a blessing. He is a “black and white” kind of guy with strong convictions that he can be very verbal about. He’s a strong young man, a good protector.

Our family is a blended family, all mixed together. We have had our share of significant bumps in the road as one would expect any family or any blended family would have. But we come through to the other side better off for our trials and troubles. We have felt like Job at times and we have regularly felt the flames of the Refiners fire. I can’t say we’ve always handled those experiences in the most honoring ways, but I can say that we grow a lot each time and I pray that our family reflects Him more and more each time. Our marriage has grown stronger and stronger each year since we’ve discovered the grounding of the Torah and have accepted His Torah as a blessing for our own lives.

Hopefully this blog will be yet another record of our families growth both together and toward the Creator of the Universe.

My Testimony, in short

After growing up in a Christian home and having accepted Jesus as my Savior when I was 18, it wasn’t until about 2001 that I found my true foundation. I had struggled for years thinking, and saying out loud, “There has to be more. This really can’t be it, can it?” I have always had an interest in history, particularly ancient history, and trying to reconcile the events in history with the events in Scripture. It didn’t always make sense.  I really needed to know why a particular thing was recorded in Scripture, what significance it had that it found it’s way there.  I’m the kind of person who needs things to make sense.

Slowly HaShem began to reveal His Torah to me. Ever since I began to follow Him in this way, I have been utterly amazed and thrilled. He showed me that the foundation I had built my faith on was full of holes. That doesn’t mean that Jesus wasn’t really the Savior or that the Bible was wrong. What that means is that I simply didn’t get it. Here I thought that I was feasting on steak when in reality I was still drinking milk and nowhere near ready for solid foods. I was not as mature as I thought I was. He began to show me Who He really is through His Word. And not only that, He began to show me what He wanted and expected from me if I was going to wear His Name and live a life that brings Him joy.

As is common I began this journey before my dear husband did. My being home and teaching the kids afforded me a lot more time to read and search out what I was being shown. He, however, still had to work all the time. A little bit into my journey he decided that we’d read through the Scriptures in a chronological order together as a family every night after dinner. It was through this time that HaShem began to show him the very same things He had been showing me, and new things that my dear husband could teach me. Since this time our marriage has grown by leaps and bounds as have all the relationships within our home. We are truly blessed!!