My friend Jamie encouraged me to bring the girls to RGH for the Christmas party.
Tab, Hanny, and Katriel joined me for pizza, air brushing, and Santa.
Jamie’s five and three of mine.
Johanna
CBS Christmas offerings
Another year of CBS blessings, as the students gathered to sing praises to God for His indescribable gift of Jesus.
Johanna and Katriel majored in enthusiasm. And my images pretty much stunk.
I guess I was too busy enjoying the singing.
Field trip to Wild Wings
Johanna, Katriel and I bundled up for a field trip to Wild Wings. Katriel did her own hair.
We met an owl in the office before we headed out to see the rest of the animals.
It was colder than these images suggest, but the girls didn’t grow tired of meeting so many raptors. Johanna had some very intelligent questions and was quick to share that she knew all about how vultures make themselves vomit to scare away predators.
I do NOT love fall, but I think this made for an excellent photo.
Outsourcing
One of the hardest parts of homeschooling is getting it all done in a day.
One of the best parts of homeschooling is seeing fruit in my kids’ lives.
This picture shows fruit:
Not that Hanny is growing in her math skills, but that Marie invests in her sister and her mother. I love my people.
Daddy Fun Day
Daddy took a half day while Mama took Marie to soccer in Elmira.
Daddy, Tabitha, Johanna and Katriel headed over to Long Acre Farms for a few hours of silly fun.
Of COURSE fried cakes!
They bounced themselves silly; Marie won her game. And fall marches on.
More Friday Fun
I was happily surprised to hear that for the month of September RGH employees can visit the Strong Museum for free. We dropped Marie off at MOPS to babysit, and Johanna, Katriel, Tabitha and I headed to the museum. It was plenty busy, but not painfully so. We spent FORever in the mini-Wegmans. And we ricocheted around the museum like every other family does.
She wrote that cursive Katriel herself!
We went back to Wegman’s after lunch in the car.
Look what someone wrote on the board before we got in here!
I think I was the oldest mother in the place. Heh. I was younger than plenty of the grandmothers!
We peeled ourselves out of there at 2:30 P.M. so that we could be home in time to take Nigel to work. It was a very full, very fun day.
Sweets from Stewart
Stewart has been crazy busy. He is working 30+ hours a week at two different jobs, and school has resumed. He’s tired of hearing us say how much we miss him, but we don’t mean it as an accusation. They just genuinely miss him.
When we woke up this morning, Stewart had left treats for each of us on the table.
Later, Katriel and Johanna decided to search through the dress-up clothes. Katriel was delighted to put together a whole lion costume!
Curls and cuts
Sometimes you wear the curls and sometimes the curls wear you.
Hanny was due for a haircut. Actually, both girls got a bit of a trim.
First Day of School–homeschool version
Friends invited us to join them at the beach to celebrate “First Day of Not-School.”
We’d never been to a lake beach and I’d always wanted to give it a try. Although it poured buckets as we looked for the place, the skies cleared and we had a lovely time.
I’m shy on photos, but that’s because we were all having too good a time to take many.
I definitely want to do this again! Sadly, it will have to wait until next year at this point!
Dayspring Disciples 