Our homeschool year is well under way now. And Robert's internship at church is getting busy. The internship is the equivalent of 2 classes so he is only taking Greek this semester. He got to attend the 9Marks weekender last weekend in DC and really enjoyed himself although was very tired! We had hoped to travel and see family around the holidays again this year but it looks like it won't be possible with his schedule. So we are hopeful for another time that will work after the new year. I think until next summer we will be busy enough that I won't be able to update the blog as much as I prefer but that is ok! I will be sure to post pictures even if it's been several weeks! We have been considering upgrading our blog so that we can post videos but haven't decided yet. OH! And I updated pictures on the Kiddos tab above. They are this year's "1st day of co-op" pictures. Ok, the first five pictures are from the Fall Festival at SBTS this year. It was a carnival theme this year. Then further down there are five pictures from our yearly trip to Huber's Orchard to pick apples and grapes. Now we are processing apples. We've made 12 apple pies and several hundred apple rings so far. We hope to make 12 more apple pies. The folks at church love my mom's recipe for apple pies so I wanna make sure I have enough for pot lucks all year! And then there are a few pictures from our co-op's trip to a sheep farm and fiber emporium. We bought some clean, un-spun wool to create stuff with and got to feed some sheep and learn a lot about that whole process.
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I don't have any illusions of grandeur that folks are checking to see if I've posted anything recently so I won't apologize for not posting in August! The whole summer has been busy and honestly I think the older kids get the more work there is. I don't for one moment believe that when you have just "littles" its the hardest! Maybe its just me but 5 years and under are way easier. Maybe more physically exhausting but the older they get the more heart ache, emotional, and spiritually exhausting it is! I choose physical exhaustion, please!! Oh well, the Lord's mercies are new everyday and I believe His promises that He is preparing me for the work He has set for me. What we did in August...we traveled and got away for 36 hours for our 15th anniversary! That was awesome! And the best anniversary we have ever had! Our first 7 years of marriage we couldn't do much beyond a date night anyway because of young children and severe student poverty! Then year 8 was a couple weeks after Jasper died, year 9 was a few days before Wild Man was born, year 10 Robert was deployed, year 11 Robert was in the midst of emotionally breaking down and we had just had two miscarriages, year 12 was a few days before Hulk was born, year 13 I was nursing one baby and 8 months pregnant with Bug, and I sincerely can't remember what we did last year. Probably just a date for dinner but I was still nursing two babies then. This year I wasn't nauseous or super pregnant or nursing a newborn! We had enough money budgeted for a cheap hotel and eating out several times in a row! I got to sleep in a bed I didn't make or clean, and eat 4 meals in a row that I didn't cook or clean up after! We just had a blast. We did mini golf and had shaved ice too! We had a big double birthday party for Bug and Wild Man when they turned 3 and 6. We went to an eclipse viewing party with our Charlotte Mason co-op. They provided the glasses and Tender ran a story station where she read books to the younger kids. Robert's classes started back and my Seminary Wives Institute (SWI) class started. We had a family picnic and orientation for our new co-op, Charlotte Mason Fellowship (CMF). Robert and I started learning how to teach the kids' classes on Wednesday night at church. And Robert's internship at the church started officially. On Thursdays I am auditing a biblical counseling class at 2:30 and then going to SWI at 7pm so Robert has the kids a lot of that day. I found a Chinese woman who is making a trade with Tender! She teaches Tender more Chinese and in return Tender is teaching her daughter English phonics. Huge answer to prayer! A really great experience for Tender, too! So here are pictures. I will try to do better at updating the blog now that summer is over. |
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