Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Finishing April, preparing for May

Happy to enter into conversations with my children about how to love people and yet hold strong to Biblical standards. Disturbing events in a television show they follow serve as a springboard for honest conversations of how not everyone is going to agree with God on what morality is. I am glad that they will come to me and process how to respond to friends with differing opinions.

Studying God's word, focusing especially on watching my thought patterns

A talent for the theatrical...singing in the shower, twirling in the kitchen,
can't stop the beat going on in her heart
Brother-sister bonding? I'll take a moment of companionable silence any day over bickering.
ALERT houses: landscaping model work-in-progress
 
 
Paintball wars and helmet hair
 
Finding new resting places for collected things
Antique rug cleaned, ancestors identified, home goods cleaned and sorted
 
Thai food mother-daughter GNO
 
Selective sharing of an after-concert treat...These same sisters later got into a fight over carrots.
Go figure!
Learning the ropes at Quidditch
 

Yearbooks and lit magazines published by the journalism students. First bylines.


Garage re-org, cleaning up seven years of handprints
 

 

 

More laps, gearing up for race day

Flag football games...lessons in perseverance

Saturday exam prep sessions: baking for the "smart cookies"

 

Naming a stress-ball, exploding it in one day, back to customer service

 

Recital preparations: to sing or not to sing, that is the question

Sparkleberry Fair

 

 

 

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