Kayla has really improved her basketball skills this season. She’s even playing aggressively enough now to draw fouls!
Day 151
Excuse the terrible picture. My wonderful husband and father to my kids neglected to take a picture of his date night with Kayla. This is what they brought home. We are trying to do “date training” around each of the kids’ birthdays where the parent of the opposite gender takes the birthday child out for...
Day 150
It was a long week, so Patrick and I were super-excited to get out with friends to try a new foodie place to celebrate our friend’s birthday. It turns out we ALSO got to celebrate that they are going to be parents!!!! P.S. And the Raven’s played the most amazing game ever!!!!
Day 149
Guess who turned 14?! It was a day with lots of little surprises including video chatting with her friends back at her orphanage.
{Classical Conversations} Cycle 1 | Week 15
In addition to the specific resources for this week, we are also listening to Story of the World (SOTW) on CD, watching selected episodes of Drive Thru History, and keeping a cummulative timeline of things we learn in history. I am planning appropriate activities for Mia that are a little less complicated than last year...
Day 148
Our field trip co-op holds this really neat international luncheon where each family presents on a country and brings a food to share from their country. We chose Kenya this year since PJ’s World Vision child lives there.
Day 147
Hanging out with the Red Brick Firefighter after dinner with Grandpa, Grandma, and Uncle Al.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
“Get your running shoes on, ladies. You can run while I make lunch.” This was The Bad. I probably should have warned them ahead of time…like at breakfast. That’s how it started. We have this weird lag while I make lunch, and I thought it would be a great time to fit in the girls’ movement....