“Please, Mom; please can I get some protein bars? Surfers get caught in my teeth.”
Matthew 15:11
It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.
Nigel
Another semester
Nigel took Public Speaking down at the Canandaigua Campus last June. He now is taking ENG 101 at the Victor Campus. It blows my mind that my little boys are college students.
It is such a blessing that God opened these doors for my family. It’s always been His homeschool.
Making music move
The oldest three sang with the adult choir for Christmas, and Tab and Johanna sang with the Children’s Choir. Both groups went to a local Senior Living facility tonight to share some musical Christmas joy.
Though you can’t see him… Nigel is there too.
You’re a mean one…
Happy Help
It’s amazing how much a busy mom can accomplish on a busy Saturday morning when she has two joy-filled teenagers working to help her.
Nigel brought his Johnny Cash CD and they both provided elbow grease and happy hearts.
I Thess 4:11 – And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Last day of soccer pizza party.
How we do things…
Check out the clock on the wall.
They have already done their devotions and are into the meat of chemistry.
Best part of homeschooling?
Finding what works and loving it.
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness
Seabreeze, 2017
Once upon a time “summer” equaled “Seabreeze” for these disciples. How is it, then, that our family hasn’t been there in a few YEARS and the littlest Butler has no memory of it?
I think it’s a combination of having a pool, having bigger kids getting busier, having the prices more than double from the first year we bought them, and having the big kids get a little TOO familiar with the place.
My work made tickets available for $13 pp for up to six people. A co-worker helped me secure three additional tickets. I got the tickets back in June and we proceeded to sit on them foReVEr!
FLCC classes and Toronto weekend made June a poor time to visit.
Costa Rica and VBS and Prince Edward Island wiped out most usable dates in July.
August found work schedules and camping ruling out most days.
So in the waning week of summer we found a day we could visit. And it was chilly!
To be fair, summer never showed up this year. Oh. It phoned it in a few days, but it never stopped in to stay. Overnight temps were cool for most of August, and the water at Seabreeze reflected this.
BRRRRRRR.
We didn’t spend long in the waterpark. We had some lunch around 12:30 and headed for dry rides. While once upon a time my big kids would have front row seats for the acrobat shows (we’d watch more than one a day), we only paused on our way through to watch them today.
The big four visited a lot of rides on their own, although I did skulk around admiring them from afar time to time.
Hanny got her first ride on the Jack Rabbit.
I can’t know if it was the cool weather or the lateness in the season that made the crowds small. In either case, it benefitted us tremendously as we owned the park.
Nan snapped some photos of the big kids.
And one of the rest of us.
My how we’ve all changed.
We were surprised when at 4:30 P.M. we were pretty much done with all the rides! They’d done each one multiple times and it didn’t make sense just to stay to order a pizza. As John had met us there, he took one van to BJs for some frozen pizza and honey BBQ wings, and I took the other van to Walmart to pick out a bunch of ice creams.
Home for dinner and dessert and the official last day of Butler-summerness-fun.
Ok, school year – here we are.
A Monster Among Us
I can’t remember when my kids weren’t performing. As youngsters they would retell their favorite movies, much as all kids do.
Then it was reenacting favorite stories with stuffed animals.
Somewhere in the mix they got involved with Music Makers at Webster Bible Church.
And then it was using video cameras to make sweet stories.
And acquiring better cameras.
Then writing scripts.
And getting better software.
And now – it is entering independent projects into Film Festivals.
And tonight we got a sneak preview of their movie.
I’m exceedingly proud of them. This final movie represents at least (at LEAST) 200 hours. There are a few things that ended up on the cutting room floor. And a few things that I wish had gone differently. But, mostly, I am over the moon.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him
Dayspring Disciples 