We have three August birthdays among our boys plus my niece! Our family has one August party for the four of them!
We made time to go to the lake with friends, and go to Ponca Sun & Fun before starting school!
Thursday, July 30, 2015
August fun
We have three August birthdays among our boys plus my niece! Our family has one August party for the four of them!
We made time to go to the lake with friends, and go to Ponca Sun & Fun before starting school!
Time has flown
I can not believe how long it's been since I've logged on to this. Our sweet daughter no longer has long hair. It almost touched her bottom. We cut it and sent it to locks of love. She's so sweet! She told her Daddy all she wanted for Christmas was a sister. We explained that would be impossible by Christmas. Her sincere reply was "it can be a late gift!" She had me rolling!
The following Monday, after class, she asked why we couldn't have 6 girls and only one boy. I explained that God gave me all my children and I could never give any of them up, boys or girl.
The following Monday, after class, she asked why we couldn't have 6 girls and only one boy. I explained that God gave me all my children and I could never give any of them up, boys or girl.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
July: laundry soap, salsa & bread
July flew by!
We made salsa. Garrett, Gavin and Josh took care of the salsa making! We ground wheat and made bread. Gracie and Jared were our bread makers for the day. We also took time to make home made laundry soap. Jacob and Losha were in charge of making sure that was accomplished.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Welcome July
The kids are elated about the 4th of July! The excitement is building, as this is Jacob and Losha's 1st Independence Day with our family, in America! The boys keep talking fireworks and really want to blow something up :-)! Their Aunt brought them smoke grenades and less harmful things that they set off today and a box of night works, that we'll save for the 4th. On the 3rd, We'll watch a rural town 4th of July parade and go to a cook out. Nana and Papa have planned a BBQ and night works for the 4th
Ending June
Wow! This month has been hectic!!!
I write all this not for sympathy or to be negative, but to show we all will have difficulties and must get through them.
Within the past week, we've had: a 3 day Classical Conversation practicum, Garrett broke down on Hwy 169, our post-placement adoption papers were messed up, and our upstairs central air unit quit!
Even more heartbreaking to deal with is our friend Julie is having surgery to remove a lump from her throat (thyroid cancer). They have 5 children, 3 from Russia.
But..... we enjoyed the practicum. I would have enjoyed it even more, if I had not been so distracted by the adoption paper mess up.
Garrett's car was an easy fix, thanks to my brother!
As of last night at 9:30, the adoption papers should get to where they need to be in order to get back to Russia in time!
A/C problem: So thankful, it was not our downstairs a/c, we were able to have a good night sleep and the repairman is here now.
Welcome July!
This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.
I write all this not for sympathy or to be negative, but to show we all will have difficulties and must get through them.
Within the past week, we've had: a 3 day Classical Conversation practicum, Garrett broke down on Hwy 169, our post-placement adoption papers were messed up, and our upstairs central air unit quit!
Even more heartbreaking to deal with is our friend Julie is having surgery to remove a lump from her throat (thyroid cancer). They have 5 children, 3 from Russia.
But..... we enjoyed the practicum. I would have enjoyed it even more, if I had not been so distracted by the adoption paper mess up.
Garrett's car was an easy fix, thanks to my brother!
As of last night at 9:30, the adoption papers should get to where they need to be in order to get back to Russia in time!
A/C problem: So thankful, it was not our downstairs a/c, we were able to have a good night sleep and the repairman is here now.
Welcome July!
This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.
May was chaos
The day after Gavin had his hospital visit, we had to go to the ear specialist, the next day Jacky cut the end of his left index finger off! He cut it off diagonally, so the surgeon had to amputate more evenly. So....May 3rd-6th we were either at the hospital or a specialist of some sort. Jacky has adjusted well with the loss of his left finger tip, with the exception of playing guitar and bass. It hasn't affected his drumming at all!
We had a blow out on the way to Garrett's graduation, the boys had to change the tire since Jacky couldn't, due to his finger. We bought new tires the next day.
The following weekend on the way to camp, we had a blow out on a new tire. We found out they put the wrong tires on our vehicle and we received a whole new set of tires. Wow! CHAOS!!!
We had a blow out on the way to Garrett's graduation, the boys had to change the tire since Jacky couldn't, due to his finger. We bought new tires the next day.
The following weekend on the way to camp, we had a blow out on a new tire. We found out they put the wrong tires on our vehicle and we received a whole new set of tires. Wow! CHAOS!!!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Closing ceremonies
Classical Conversations is one tremendous homeschool community! I'm so proud of our entire community! I'm so sad to be moving on from this marvelous group of awesome people!
With Gavin's accident, I was so blessed to be able to attend our closing ceremonies Tuesday evening. Gavin played "the prince" in the Latin play! I almost made him stay home, he fell asleep on the way and I decided to turn around to take him home, he didn't want to. He went, played his part, and took tylenol when we got home.
I had a difficult time, presenting the awards to my class. I made it short and to the point to keep the emotions under control. I'm excited about being the director for the Skiatook group this fall, but sad to be leaving this amazing community of friends, we've been with the past 3 years!
We had 21 memory masters! Our son Losha was one of them. We are so proud of his perseverance, of overcoming the language barrier and reciting everything in English! The tested subjects include: History timeline, history facts, science, math, grammar, geography, and Latin. The children must know and be able to recite all the facts from the entire school year, not just the past few weeks. Losha did it!!! He even wore his metal to the breakfast table Wednesday morning!
With Gavin's accident, I was so blessed to be able to attend our closing ceremonies Tuesday evening. Gavin played "the prince" in the Latin play! I almost made him stay home, he fell asleep on the way and I decided to turn around to take him home, he didn't want to. He went, played his part, and took tylenol when we got home.
I had a difficult time, presenting the awards to my class. I made it short and to the point to keep the emotions under control. I'm excited about being the director for the Skiatook group this fall, but sad to be leaving this amazing community of friends, we've been with the past 3 years!
We had 21 memory masters! Our son Losha was one of them. We are so proud of his perseverance, of overcoming the language barrier and reciting everything in English! The tested subjects include: History timeline, history facts, science, math, grammar, geography, and Latin. The children must know and be able to recite all the facts from the entire school year, not just the past few weeks. Losha did it!!! He even wore his metal to the breakfast table Wednesday morning!
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