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First Day of School of our 10th Year

I promise it wasn’t this week!! It was September 5th. Even though we homeschool I still have a “first day” of school each year. It’s the day we start new curriculum and it usually comes after some sort of break. This year we took the whole month of August off. Next year I’m aiming for most of the summer!

Samantha is in the 7th grade and 12 years old.

Matthew is 9 years old and in the 4th grade.

Alex is 6 years old and in the 1st grade.

Hannah is 4 years old and is in Preschool.

Hannah likes to pose – had to include it!

Leah is 2 years old and only sits at the table when she chooses. Except for Bible first thing. Then she has to sit there. She complains about it though!

All of them getting ready for our first lesson of our new year -our 10th year of homeschooling!

On a side note, we have always sat wherever at the table. This year I have 2 little girls that were causing some issues, so now everyone has assigned seats for school and for meals – the ones you see them sitting in are not their current spots! I had to put Hannah closer to me.

Memories of Times Past

This past weekend the kids and I got away for a few days. I’ll post more of our events later. We left Thursday and got home Sunday and had a great time. On Saturday we visited with our dear friends from Virginia. While we lived there they moved to Maine. Then we moved to 29 Palms. And then they moved to the Camp Pendleton area and now we get to see each other more often again. Such is the life of military friends!

When we first met Amy’s son was about 3 months old and my Alex was about 11 months old. Less than a year later Hannah was born on one of Amy’s daughter’s birthdays. I was looking for a different picture totally unrelated to Amy and came across these gems.

This is Alex pulling Caleb. Alex is just over 2 years old so Caleb would be about 1 1/2.

Hannah was 5 months old.

Caleb just adored her! He was always wanting to kiss her.

Caught you!!

So sweet!

I had such a great visit with Amy and her children. I can’t wait to see them again. We were talking about how we had known each other for over 5 years and that it really feels like we’ve always known each other. We can talk about anything and that is what makes our friendship so great. Do you have a friend like that?

Christmas Play

*Found this in my drafts also.

Last Christmas, the children did a Christmas play the week before Christmas. They did a great job! It was based around the story of the candy cane.

Hannah walked down the aisle to music and presented the big candy canes.

Alex was a shepherd boy and the cutest one at that!!

Matthew was the choir conductor who happened to be the husband of the woman that thought of the idea of the candy cane.

And Sam was that woman. The children did a really great job and my kids had a lot of fun doing it!

A School Day Peek

This was one day last week. Just a little peek into our mornings. Matthew, Alexander, and Hannah sit with me at the dining table.

Matthew is writing a report on the sun.

I don’t let him ask me how to spell things. I just want him to write. Write whatever!

Alex was reading a Bob Book.

I think he was frustrated with me right here. LOL

Hannah has lots of fun things to do. Here she is practicing writing. Some of her worksheets are printouts that I have laminated. Then she uses a dry erase marker so she can do them over again in the future.

She was practicing counting on this day also.

Sam walked in. She does her school work in the study/guest room.

She needed to make a copy of her scientific speculation sheet.

She was making fossils using 3 different types of materials and then speculated on which would work out the best.

Here’s my seat. Coffee. Bible.

School check list. Bible Reading Plan.

What is Leah doing? Sleeping!!

I had to wake her up though. It was time for lunch! She was so happy!!

Next up….all the things I should be doing instead of the things I am doing.

Photos with Your Children

I wanted to talk about pictures. Photographs. Been in one lately??? Do your children have pictures of you with each of them?? If you or your husband are gone for any amount of time, it is wonderful to have photos of each child with each parent! Before Roy deployed last year I knew that I wanted to get portraits taken of him with each of our children.

I wanted to get outdoor pictures done but we ran out of time and so we headed to Sears. I purchased the disc so I could print the pictures myself.

I took the pictures and cropped them into squares and printed them as 10×10′s and framed them. I gave each child their own.

For awhile, each child found a special place for his picture, but eventually they ended up in the living room where they could be seen each day. The little girls especially loved to talk to HER daddy.

I know that having this picture really helped Leah to recognize Roy when he got home from deployment.

We do family portraits about every 18 months or so. I think it’s important! I’m usually the one behind the camera, so I don’t have many snapshots of myself with the kids. I need to change that.

I even got one of us together. It sat in our bedroom and reminded me of our love, and his commitment to our family, even while he was on the other side of the world.

How about you? Have you taken a family portrait recently? Does your husband travel? Take some pictures!!!