Updates

Whew! I haven't updated you all in a while so I figured I will take a min and give a quick run-down of what's been going on for us over here.

After all the home school talk before about what I'm going to use next year, it has finally been settled, bought and hopefully here next week for us to look through. I ended up getting the Sonlight Core 1+2 and their science2 program (with appropriate age level readers for the boys). I didn't get their Usborne World History book though after reading some of the reviews, I substituted a different book in its place. That covers, reading, literature, history and science. Then I have Language arts and math coming in from Christian Light Education. They will be workbooks, again, but you really cant get around that for grammar and math. For Bible, as much as it saddens me to give up the Abeka cards, I've decided to do on our own. We will basically read a passage from the Bible and discuss it together on what it means and how we can apply it into our lives. I've bought a book called The Child's Story Bible, it's an old book first published in 1930s but I will be using that mostly to guide me on where to go and maybe for pictures. :)

In another note, we have been busy this past week in the Mission's conference here at church. It was a great success!! We had a guest pastor (is that the right word? speaker?) from another church some down and preach all week. Boy! He was really good. God has shown me this week some weak areas that I need to work on - so please pray for me. On Saturday, to finish up the "festivities" we had a big international banquet. Everyone brought in foods from different nations. We have some dear friends in the church from Cameroon and they brought in a dish - I was real excited about trying something from their country. They had to give me some instruction on how to eat it (haha!) but it was pretty good!! It was African Yams and greens with beef. The greens and beef were kind of in a thick sauce and you ate them all together. I'm a novice, so forgive my explanation, it was good though! ;)

This week, Dennis has off on leave so we're planning on doing a little local site seeing. Hopefully the weather will be nice. Of course, last week it was warm and sunny almost every day. I hope it is the same this week!

Elizabeth walking!!!!

Amazingly enough I was able to catch the last few steps on video of Elizabeth's first walk all by herself across the room. Before now, she had only taken 2 or 3 steps on her own! Today, she started at one end of the room and made it all the way across (I just only caught the last little bit on camera).

Yay Elizabeth!!

Simple Woman's Daybook

FOR TODAY

Outside my window...
windy and cold, snow and ice partially covering the ground... Spring, where art thou!

I am thinking...
(purposely left blank)

I am thankful for...
a calm, quiet (as quiet as a house full of children can be), uneventful day!!

From the learning rooms...
Sean is learning how to multiply fractions and how to identify adverbs,
Ryan is finishing up learning his final phonics, and how to add digits with 10s place,
both boys are learning about the US Revolution, how to identify different birds in science, and we just finished the last part of the movie The Gospel of John and now are going to finish up our study on the Life of Jesus

From the kitchen...
Tonight we had tacos and salad,
tomorrow I'm planning Chicken Stir Fry over Rice,
the rest of the week is a bit up in the air

I am wearing...
the usual uniform: sweatshirt and jeans

I am going...
to Elizabeth's 1 yr doctor's appointment tomorrow... the dreaded shots
I am reading...
The Screwtape Letters - trying to finish it up before I have to return it to the library

I am hoping...
that this week stays uneventful
I am hearing...
daddy playing with his baby girl

Around the house...
the usual evening at our household. Children running amuck and daddy, well, being his normal self! (if you know him, you know what I mean ;) )haha!


A few plans for the rest of the week:
the rest of the week, hopefully, should remain uneventful! I really hope there are no surprises! We have Elizabeth's doc appt, and a water delivery scheduled for tomorrow, have to make it to the library by Thurs to get our books in on time and on Friday there is a Children's night at church. The boys are going to be learning to draw from our Pastor and us girls will be working on quilt squares.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...
Copper's Baby picture
(just because he gets left out of the blog sometimes)

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Something to add a little JOY to your day!

I caught Ryan and Elizabeth playing today....

Science and art...

... who says they don't go well together?!

Today, the boys did a special art project. They were assigned a task to create a new creature here on Earth.

I said, "What if God told you that you could design your very own creature? Where would he live? What would he eat?"

(you might have to click on these pictures to see the details)


The wheels began turning and the pencils and crayons began scribbling!

Sean created a "Water Lion". He can swim and live in the water but also fly in the air. He eats meat. And just like sea horses sleep with their tail wrapped around a weed... so do these amazing Water Lions. ;)

(notice the green weed extending from the tail - on the right)


Ryan created "Eyeball Eaters". Amazingly enough, despite the name, they eat salad and carrots, not eyeballs. They spend time in the forest but their home is actually in a volcano. They are nocturnal and can see very well at night. The females are very colorful and the males are plainly colored.


(notice the momma Eyeball Eater on the bottom, with her babies)

The boys had fun with their project today. I hope you had fun as well.

OH! and not to forget Elizabeth's special assignment.... learn to walk! HA!HA!