Emily proclaimed that I am a rock star. We've had a fun day, and I guess that is her way of saying so!!
We had our first "stay at home" day in quite awhile -- those rare days when we have no where we have to go and can just do things around the house. We did school (including a meal of beans and cornbread like the Colonial people we are studying, and a colonial craft project), had quiet time, played Chutes and Ladders, had dinner, painted, played Webkinz, read stories, and the kids are sleeping together in Emily's double bed.
Tomorrow we are going on a field trip to the Science Center.
I am content.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Amazing Progress
Gymnastics was awesome tonight!
Emily did a back walkover by herself, first try. She's been working on them for a couple of weeks but tonight it just all came together. She will now be in a class with older girls, which is a great change from the giggling group of girls her own age! I expect her to learn a lot more. The new coach was great, too.
Daniel did a back handspring on the trampoline for the first time. He's never even worked on it before today! I expect he'll be doing it on the floor in no time. Next week he gets to try back flips. He is currently the only kid in his class, with the great coach he's had for some time, so he's basically getting a private lesson.
It was a good day all around, so this was just icing on the cake (which is of course, the best part....)
Emily did a back walkover by herself, first try. She's been working on them for a couple of weeks but tonight it just all came together. She will now be in a class with older girls, which is a great change from the giggling group of girls her own age! I expect her to learn a lot more. The new coach was great, too.
Daniel did a back handspring on the trampoline for the first time. He's never even worked on it before today! I expect he'll be doing it on the floor in no time. Next week he gets to try back flips. He is currently the only kid in his class, with the great coach he's had for some time, so he's basically getting a private lesson.
It was a good day all around, so this was just icing on the cake (which is of course, the best part....)
Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Last Time They Saw God
My kids know that God gave them life.
E then interpretted that the last time they saw God was when he put them in their birth mother's belly, and that they would see him again when they died. I'd never quite thought about it that way before.
I wondered if it was a one-time comment, but both kids were talking about it again recently.
I love that they see the world this way.
E then interpretted that the last time they saw God was when he put them in their birth mother's belly, and that they would see him again when they died. I'd never quite thought about it that way before.
I wondered if it was a one-time comment, but both kids were talking about it again recently.
I love that they see the world this way.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
First Sleepover
The kids had a friend sleep over. Lights out at 8:30, no complaints and just a few giggles.
Maybe I should have let them all sleep together in my bed?? They sure looked cute like this when they came to see me in the morning!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Check it out
If you get the chance, check out my blog link to Patrick Thomas. He is a 5 1/2 year-old boy with Down's Syndrome just brought home from the Ukraine by friends of ours from church. Patrick is now part of a family of 8!
I got to meet Patrick at church today, and the happy tears just started flowing. He is a beautiful child, so happy and sweet and loving. To see him with his mom -- wow. Lots of things take me back to when we adopted D and E from Russia. (Wish I had remembered to use some of my Russian with him!!!)
What a blessing, all the way around!
I got to meet Patrick at church today, and the happy tears just started flowing. He is a beautiful child, so happy and sweet and loving. To see him with his mom -- wow. Lots of things take me back to when we adopted D and E from Russia. (Wish I had remembered to use some of my Russian with him!!!)
What a blessing, all the way around!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Blogiversary
Today is my one year anniversary from starting this blog. I remember being inspired to do so by some friends who were talking about theirs when we were out for coffee.
It was really easy to get started -- more so than I imagined!
I've enjoyed sharing the interesting, the mundane, the inspiring, and the annoying! Having a place to put videos and photos for friends to see is great, too!
Thanks for tuning in!
It was really easy to get started -- more so than I imagined!
I've enjoyed sharing the interesting, the mundane, the inspiring, and the annoying! Having a place to put videos and photos for friends to see is great, too!
Thanks for tuning in!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Who's the Teacher and Who's the Student?
This year I'll be teaching Science to 1st and 2nd graders at a new home school group. I'll be covering Our Planet Earth and Our Weather and Water.
The first book of the series is Our Universe, which I opted not to teach to the group in terms of time, the types of activities involved, and my own lack of true interest in it. For the last 20 years I've gotten National Geographic Magazine, I have only looked at the pictures of articles on space. It has just never been my favorite thing.
I already had the Our Universe book, so I thought I'd at least go through some of the lessons with my kids as an introduction prior to teaching about Our Planet Earth in the home school group starting in August. I knew I'd have to do my best not to translate my lack of interest to the kids.
I have to say the lessons are going amazingly well, and at times I am wondering who is the teacher and who is the student! The kids have already learned a lot about space from movies and stories and such! D knew what gravity was, and E had a fantastic explanation of her own to describe it. Yesterday we were talking about objects in the sky -- stars, planets, moon, clouds -- and we learned about star clouds, nebulae. I told them we'd talk about more objects tomorrow, and E said, "like those rocks floating around in space that sometimes come to earth?" Asteroids? The kid knew about asteroids/meteorites??? I took advantage of the interest and we talked about asteroids. Today we will cover meteorites.
Wow! This is much better than I thought it would be! And I do love the Answers in Genesis curriculum!!!
The first book of the series is Our Universe, which I opted not to teach to the group in terms of time, the types of activities involved, and my own lack of true interest in it. For the last 20 years I've gotten National Geographic Magazine, I have only looked at the pictures of articles on space. It has just never been my favorite thing.
I already had the Our Universe book, so I thought I'd at least go through some of the lessons with my kids as an introduction prior to teaching about Our Planet Earth in the home school group starting in August. I knew I'd have to do my best not to translate my lack of interest to the kids.
I have to say the lessons are going amazingly well, and at times I am wondering who is the teacher and who is the student! The kids have already learned a lot about space from movies and stories and such! D knew what gravity was, and E had a fantastic explanation of her own to describe it. Yesterday we were talking about objects in the sky -- stars, planets, moon, clouds -- and we learned about star clouds, nebulae. I told them we'd talk about more objects tomorrow, and E said, "like those rocks floating around in space that sometimes come to earth?" Asteroids? The kid knew about asteroids/meteorites??? I took advantage of the interest and we talked about asteroids. Today we will cover meteorites.
Wow! This is much better than I thought it would be! And I do love the Answers in Genesis curriculum!!!
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