Everybody's starting to get super excited about the start of school around here! Most of our books are present and accounted for, the shelves are ready, and Mommy's finalizing schedules for the year. By the Lord's grace, we'll be starting on August 13. Ready or not, here we go! :) And for the record, some days or hours I feel more ready (or not) than others. ;)
Day 211. Peter went to bed Saturday evening with a sore throat and woke up with it Sunday morning, so he stayed home so we could make sure it wasn't going to start looking like strep. He kept himself quietly occupied, which was a blessing for his Mommy who wore herself out with painting the day earlier. :) What do you think of his soccer field, inspired by a challenge in his Lego Kids magazine?
Day 212. I must say it's an encouragement to this Mommy's heart to see big brother and sister playing sweetly with their little brother. Just this week Matthew coined a name for Hannah, and he woke up Saturday morning hollering "Boo, Hans! Boo, Hans!" (She cheerfully obliged him with a game of crib peek-a-boo.) He's also become quite the parrot, and mimics us as we count or recite the alphabet for him. It's been fun! :)
Matthew obviously thinks his brother is pretty great stuff! :)
Day 213. It is so encouraging to see the Lord's hand in everything. Justin and Valerie coordinated a get-together for our friends, Jon and Crystal, who were visiting from Colorado. Sadly, their youngest got sick with croup, and Crystal was in the hospital instead of at the party. However ... the men agreed to watch the kids, and the ladies piled in the van to go visit Crystal. The Lord allowed Titus to fall asleep just before we arrived, and we enjoyed nearly an hour of sweet, uninterrupted conversation before he woke back up. What a blessing! Had everything been the way "we" would have planned it, Titus would have been healthy, and the mommies probably wouldn't have enjoyed the fellowship all together as we were able to in the hospital hallway. All things work together for good! (Thankfully, Titus is doing much better, and Valerie has since been able to return her home to its former neat condition.) ;)
Day 214. Our shelves are ready for school books, and the kitchen table will be our desk. A more "official" location is simply going to have to wait for future remodeling. Who knows? We may decide we prefer it this way. ;)
Day 215. We have two scholars very excited about their piles of new books! :)
Day 216. Another special blessing this week ... our family enjoyed the entire pool to ourselves after Peter's last swim lesson Friday evening! It made our family time with Daddy extra special. :)
My cutie! So thankful his swimmie works as well as the ones I remembered my Grandma having for her pre-swimmers.
Peter has one awesome cannon-ball!
Day 217. Along with the rest of the world, we've enjoyed following our favorite Olympians ... we just do it via the Internet with about a 36-hour delay on the full-replay of the races. Nobody minds too much! :) (Earlier, Mommy had been working on homeschool schedules while Matthew napped and Daddy had the big kids at Home Depot.)
And just because ...
My rising 2nd grader ...
And my rising K5er ...
One more week till school ... :)
5 comments:
Don't worry, being excited one minute and petrified the next is a completely normal way to feel before you start homeschooling for the first time!!! I am sure that you will do great and that you will all love it. (We 'do school' at the kitchen table, too, and I love it -- I can load/unload the dishwasher or do some dinner prep during seatwork time!)
Great capture of the "brothers picture" -- love the expression on Matthew's face.
Peter , you did a good job building
your lego soccer field! It's
wonderful!!!!
Thanks for the encouragement, Marsel. And thanks for the word ... petrified is the word I've been looking for and haven't been able to find in the last couple weeks! :)
Love the soccer field. And 'Hans' is just too cute. Thank you for letting me know what Boo Hans meant. I thought that was the nickname. :-)
You are perfectly fitted for being their teacher-you are their mother! Enjoy the moments ahead and thank God for the opportunity to depend on Him so completely!
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