CBS Christmas offerings

December 5, 2018 | Stacy

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.

Outsourcing

October 23, 2018 | Stacy

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.

Mini Knights photo shoot…

October 16, 2018 | Stacy

Finally had a day where we had sun and both girls and it wasn’t a minute too late!

Marie’s post-season game today was to determine if they would advance to the championship game.

Tab is still playing in-season games.

It was a divide and conquer day.
Dad and the boys went to cheer Marie on; Mama and Tab headed over to Rochester School for the Deaf. It was brisk and cold and I stopped by to say “Hi” to the Genesee River.

Tabby got her first goal today, on what is her half-birthday!

We headed home c-c-c-c-c-o-l-d with a quick stop at Dunkin’.

It’s what we do.

September 20, 2018 | Stacy

I’m not even sure how we pull it all off, to be honest.
The games are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for the most part. And we have to be there by 2:45 in most cases.
The girls have Spanish on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 12:30 P.M.
This means school for Tuesdays and Thursdays has to be done by 11:45 A.M. or so.
Survey says….. it isn’t getting done.
Marie is on top of her studies. And Tab really is, as well. The thing is, it’s hard for me to get school done with the younger girls, and prepare meals, and get to our away games, AND did I fail to mention that we have to get Nigel to FLCC by 2 P.M. on Tuesdays and Thursdays? Yes, really.

Nan has been helping. And John has taken some half days. And I’ll let you know if a few weeks how it is going.

Tournament Time

September 15, 2018 | Stacy

First ever tournament for Marie. We rode to Binghamton with six other girls and another mom. The girls played three games and watched three of the boys’ games. It was a gorgeous day and I enjoyed a ton of fellowship with other parents. They won one and lost two and we enjoyed dinner at Cracker Barrel afterward.

First Day of School–homeschool version

September 5, 2018 | Stacy

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!

She made her first cake.

July 24, 2018 | Stacy

When she asked if she could make a Winnie the Pooh cake, who could say no?

Marie is 14

July 13, 2018 | Stacy

This beauty turned 14 today.
Time has flown from the first time I heard, “It’s a girl,” and this day.
She was a busy toddler who transformed into a mommy’s-little-buddy on her third birthday.

She loves to write, play for her beloved Scarlet Knights soccer team, and play piano.

We celebrated with dinner with the family, lots of fun presents, and an amazing cake she picked for the date.

Mother Daughter Retreat

May 6, 2018 | Stacy

In January, a friend from church shared information about the May Mother Daughter Retreat at Camp Hickory Hill in Varysburg, NY. We’d never gone on any such event, and it did not have a limit of one child per mom, so I decided I’d embrace my newly acquired camping gene and sign us up. I also told my friend Lindsay about the weekend and she signed up to join us.

It was pretty cold and rainy as we drove down, but we met our friends at Mark’s for dinner and continued on to our destination.

I didn’t take photos of our lodging, but our church had a large enough group that we were placed in a lovely building right next to the bathrooms! SCORE!

We headed to the game room for a while

As we were playing games, my girls rushed to the windows. They saw princesses walking by. It wasn’t long before we headed up to the fellowship hall to see what was going on.

The theme for the weekend was Princesses…. since we ARE daughters of the KING of KINGS.

We played a “who am I?” game where we had to ask questions to see if we could guess who we were tagged as.

We had singing, and some games, and ice cream!

It was maybe the worst night’s sleep ever…
Having JUST gotten over the bad back I had endured for about a week, the rock-hard bunk I slept in was enough to cause me to have spasms hour after hour through the night.

My little girls and I were awake bright and early, so I took them out and around to keep the cabin quiet.

We headed back as others were rising, and then we all enjoyed breakfast at the hall.

I realized why my purse was so heavy! Thank you, Stewart, for getting me the flashlight, etc., I may have needed.

Tab and Janessa are special buddies.

Our first assigned activity was archery. This was a lot of fun.

We then did kayaking and canoeing. And then Katriel met this “friend.” (She often embraces the scary to get ahead of it. Not a bad tactic, if it works.)