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Well, you can call it the most expensive homeschool lesson, and you can call us inexperienced homeschoolers. 

Last week, our theme for the week was leaves - letter L, I will live and grow in Christ.  On Monday night, we had school at the local park and did a hike and bike trail to gather leaves for our various projects during the week.   All week long, projects got put off for one reason or another.  It was just one of those weeks.  Then, Wednesday Ben had his poison ivy outbreak and we tossed all of our leaves.  We realized as we were driving home from the urgent care center how God had protected the girls and I all week from that bag of leaves sitting on the kitchen counter. 

This weekend we had to make 2 more trips to the emergency room b/c Ben's reaction kept getting worse.   On Saturday morning, they advised us if he began to have difficulty breathing to call 9-1-1 and if his condition worsened to return to the ER.  On Sunday afternoon, his eyes were still swollen shut, and his rash had spread to his chest and even down to his legs.  He had been on steroids for 4 days and his body was not responding.   On Sunday afternoon, they gave him a stronger dose of steroids and another antihistamine.  I called our church and finally posted on FB for prayers.  Within hours his eyes were opened and you could see Ben again.  He is still having problems with itching, but we are believing he is coming out of it.