My name is Renee. I am 36 years old. Married to my best friend, Chuck.
We have fourteen children. Five adopted (through foster care, private adoption and from Liberia, West Africa).
I gave birth to the first eight in nine years! Then came our grand finale, Apollo XIV, in June 2010.
Our three oldest children (adopted as teens from Liberia) have moved out.
At the moment I homeschool everyone except for Mordecai (9) who attends school and Apollo, who is only 1.
I love reading, writing, knitting, Jesus, photography, chocolate, and of course, coffee.
I own my own photography business Little Earthling Photography where I specialize in birth and newborn photography.
I write about a little bit of everything here on my blog.
Grand finale? Say it aint so!
Praise God for your beautiful family… thanks for sharing.
Fell upon your blog site and really enjoy reading about your family and life with all your wonderful, beautiful children. Also love to read blog sites where people are Christians as I am myself. Thanks for sharing your stories!
Hi Renee!
My wife Jill and I really enjoy your blog. It’s one of our regulars. Keep the faith about Apollo. Our Esther had a very complicated heart operation (PAPVR) when she was four. She’s six now and doing great, praise God.
I am writing instead of our usual lurking because I wonder if you’d be interested in reviewing a book for your blog. I know that you are very busy being a Christ-follower, mom and wife. I know this because I married one. Jill and I homeschool our five kids. In my day job I run a ministry called South Side Mission. In my spare time, I write.
My first novel just came out. Homeschoolers, Hippies & Heirloom Tomatoes is the story of the Masats, a tugboat-living, heirloom tomato-growing, homeschooling vagabond family that spends its time traversing tributaries of the Mississippi River, dodging truant officers and flying Asian Carp. In between farmers markets, the family encounters the sasquatch of the Midwest–the Catawumpus. The story is told from the point of view of Grace, a 12-year-old hackeysacking, tie-dyed missionary who spends her free moments preparing for the Scripps spelling bee, which serves as the culmination of the story.
Homeschoolers, Hippies & Heirloom Tomatoes is a Christian Young Adult Fiction book that tweens and teens (as well as parents) will love. The book has been endorsed by Christine Dente of Out of the Grey and can be found on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble’s site bn.com.
Here’s where you come in, if you’re interested. I would love to promote this book mainly through Christian means and I think that prominent bloggers like yourself would be the book’s best audience and advocates.
Would you like me to send you a free advance copy of the book? I would appreciate it if you would review it on your blog and help me get the word out. Of course it is entirely possible that you’ll hate the book, but I’m willing to take that chance because the things I write about in the book are things you enjoy too.
Are you interested? I just received the first advance copies in the mail next week. If so, send me your snail mail address and I’ll send out a copy right away. Thanks Renee and God bless you!
Yours in Christ,
Philip Ward Newton
pandjnewton@yahoo.com
I’m praying for Apollo, that his body will accept it’s repair and heal super-on-the-naturally well. For his body to regain it’s strength, his mind to continue to acquire knowledge and with that understanding. That Apollo would KNOW the love of AbbaFatherGod. That He’s the giver of every good and perfect thing.
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As Apollo heals, as pain leaves his body in Jesus Name, as he feels his family’s loving touch, he comes to know in a deep, life filling way how much FatherGod loves him and has PROVIDED for his every need according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus.
Apollo will declare to the Glory of God His goodness, His wonders and His provision for him, his family;and for all the family of God. In Jesus Name, amen~So Be It.♥
You, your mommy, daddy, brothers & sisters are loved. Loved by AbbaFatherGod & me!