Learning About Colonial Times in School

We have had so much fun learning about what it must have been like to live with the pioneers who founded America.

Today, we did a little sewing project and the girls did such a good job. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves too! Lexie pretended like she had her own sewing show the whole time she was sewing. Too cute!

Then.... after I explained to them how one of our favorite family blankets had originally been made on a weaving machine, Leah said, "Wow, this is just so complicated. How can all those threads make this big soft blanket?" And yes, she used the word: complicated. : )

Tomorrow's activity with our history lesson: Soap Making! That should be fun!

Just Between Friends Sale

Recently, I took Lexie and Leah on a special trip - mommy-daughter-daughter trip. We went to St. Louis and spent some time with one of our good friends, Tristan Wampler and her family. We had such a good time visiting with them and the girls had a blast playing with their little boy, Blaine. During the visit, we went shopping at a "Just Between Friends" Consignment sale. Oh my! What fun we had! I had my list ready and knew what I was after! I have to say, that only God could have worked everything out like it happened. I came home with 90% of the things on my list. I got exactly what I was looking for. My best deal of the trip was a gently used "Leap Frog Leapster" video/educational game. It sells for about $70 at Wal-Mart. I got it for $4! Yep, I was so excited and the girls have been having so much fun with it. We're already on our 2nd set of batteries with it. Of course, after 3 girls play with it, it doesn't take long for the batteries to go down.

Anyway.... we had a blast and I was so glad to spend some special time with just Lexie and Leah.

Below is a link to the kids sale if you are interested in finding one in your area!

www.jbfsale.com

Yellow Eggs

We have been having eggs more often here lately. I've been trying to make them a bit more interesting for the girls since we are eating them more regularly. I've been adding food color to the eggs. We've had all sorts of colors as you can imagine. But today, Mary Ellen asked me if we could please have yellow eggs. She asked in such a way that she thought it might be impossible for me to do. I told her I would try my best to make her some yellow eggs. And I did. We had amazing yellow eggs this morning. Now isn't that neat?

Happy Birthday to Nanny

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday

God Bless You, Nanny,

Happy Birthday to you!

We love you Mom and Nanny!

We hope you have a great day!

St. Patrick's Day Homeschool Fellowship

Today we had our St. Patrick's Day Homeschool Fellowship at the Iberia City Park. We had 5 families attend, that's a total of 16 kids and their parents. We all wore green clothe and I gave out an award to the the kid that was the most festive, (all the kids voted). I gave the winner a certificate with a one dollar bill on it. I told him he had to use the money to serve someone else, just like St. Patrick would have done.

We then ate lots of yummy green food. We had green kool-aid, mint pudding, clover cookies, spinach wrap sandwiches, pistachio pudding, green bean casserole, pear sauce, broccoli with ranch, and green grapes. Yummy!

We then went on a clover hunt and finally found a very tiny patch of clover. I taught the kids about the Trinity and how St. Patrick compared the Trinity to a 3 leaf clover.

At the end, I read "Green Eggs and Ham." Needless to say, we had a blast!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone out there!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Just wanted to thank all those of you out there that remembered my 28th birthday. I received lots of cards, phone calls, etc. Thank you so much. I am so blessed with lots of precious family and friends! I thank God for another year of health and pure joy being His child.

My New Maids

The girls have always helped me with washing, rinsing and drying the dishes. But today, Lexie and Leah teamed up and did the dishes all by themselves. Leah washed and Lexie rinsed and stacked the dishes. They actually did a pretty good job, too. I hope we can keep this up. The hard part is keeping the kitchen in a place where they can always do the dishes!

Lexie Reads a Book

I have been teaching Lexie phonics for two years now. I have been waiting and waiting for the moment when she would get excited about reading and want to do it on her own. Today was that day!

I asked her to pick a story from her Phonics Reader school book. This book contains about 15 short stories, each with about 10 sentences. She not only read one story, but all of them... the entire book, with very little assistance.

I am so proud of her! I'm definitely a proud mama today!

Thank you, Lord!

No training wheels!

Greg and I have been working with Lexie and Leah as they are learning to ride their bikes with no training wheels. Our front yard has a nice slope, complete with "mole" hills, so that they can practice going down through the yard. Today, Leah tried riding in the parking lot. She did pretty good. Lexie wasn't interested today. Maybe tomorrow. A few more weeks, and they should both have it down pretty good. It should make for an interesting summer!

First Children's Bible Quiz

Lexie and Leah participated in their first Nazarene Children's Bible Quiz on March 5th. I was so proud of them. They were the youngest kids there and did great for their experience and age. I look forward to watching them grow older and hopefully fall in love with Bible quizzing.

Sorry no pics of the girls with their medals. I have 3000 pics on my camera card and it takes forever to download! I hope to get a new card soon! However, you can not buy such a thing in Iberia, MO! Ha!

Catching up !

I realize it's been a while since I have posted on our blog. The last month has been quite crazy! We have definitely had our battles with winter colds and sickness. I believe I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel! Ha!

Keep our link in your "favorites" list and come back ever now and then... I just might post some pics!