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Mama's Song: Joy in the Morning Light
Apr. 27, 2007
Weeding the "Lovely Garden Row"
This week is going by very fast. I'm still waiting for computer parts. It sounds like my new used keyboard won't arrive until middle of next week.
I thought I might blog more old photos, but the yard has been calling me every day. Even though weeding isn't their idea of fun, I want the kids to be working out with me anyway. I want them to learn that weeding can be fun. And also, they don't have to be ruled by their feelings.
Feelings are normal. I have lots of them. As a woman I often think in pictures and feelings instead of words. But I have learned that my mind can be ruler over my feelings, so as to dictate my actions and reactions. And that if I allow God to do so, He is eager to renew my mind (feelings?) for me.
My kids have very strong feelings. What they feel, they really feel, and they aren't afraid to express it, since they are also very extroverted. But there are so many times when feelings can't see the whole picture, and the mind needs to look things over and help in the decision. Sometimes feelings just focus on the negative part of the picture and ignore the positive parts. Feelings can remember a past experience and jump to a conclusion that the next experience will be the same, even if it won't be.
My kids would like to be free to do what ever they want to do whenever they want to do it. This sounds like fun. But it isn't fun, when the messes pile up, others feelings are hurt because we are thinking only of ourself, or the weeds grow so high that you can't find the flowers anymore. Then the work of digging out from the results of lazyness is more difficult, then if they had done the work in the first place, putting things away as they go, and so on.
Sometimes work is simply that, work, hard work. But I am learning that in most things, there is usually something fun or enjoyable, if you can use your mind to get past your feelings, and look for that joy. And then if you can convince your mind to stay there, and not go back and start wallowing in negative feelings that may even be imagined, not based on the reality of the situation.
So, I've been trying all kinds of methods to get my kids to enjoy weeding with me. First of all, I'm not sending them out to do it alone. Even I can wilt when I have to do a large job alone. I'm out there setting the pace, providing the tools, and encouragement. Next, I keep reminding them that while we are out weeding together, they have my full attention. They can tell me stories, share their latest ideas, or be silly. My ears are there for them.
Today I was weeding in what I call the rose bed. It is a long strip by our parking area that has rose bushes, daffodils, and coral bells. I was trying to maintain some happy chatter, because they kids weren't really with me yet in spirit. There was murmuring and complaining to equal that of the children of Israel. Poor Moses had it bad, because he had many more then two children to get through a hot dry desert. Can you imagine all those complainers? Even the grown ups were complaining.
I was especially enjoying the coral bells. They are sending up pretty stalks of buds almost ready to bloom. As I pulled grass, and weeds away from them, I felt like I was setting them free. How happy they must feel. If they could ring their bells, surely they would ring them with joy. I started playing with words about the coral bells, out loud, of course, in hopes it would catch the attention of the kiddos. Sure enough it did. It wasn't long before we had composed a song about our coral bells ringing their bells that required the kids to echo what I was singing. It worked. The focus was taken away from their bad feelings and new, better, happier feelings took their place.
"We'll set the Coral Bells a ringing, ringing, ringing.
We'll set the Coral Bells a ringing
In our lovely garden row.
Ding dong. (Ding dong).
Ding dong. (Ding dong).
Ding dong. (Ding dong).
In our lovely garden row."
We made up a verse about the daffodils dancing in our lovely garden row. Then a verse about the roses perfuming our lovely garden row. But of course, we couldn't stay serious long, and my son made a verse about the sprinklers squirting in our lovely garden row. It is very simple music, but it was about what we were doing, and we were making the music ourselves.
Only about one third of what I wanted to get done was completed. One part of me is disappointed. I'd like to be able to look out the window and feast my eyes on my lovely garden row all weeded. But maybe there was some higher weeding that needs to get done. Weeding out the negative feelings and developing good character is a part of education that gets overlooked. And when else do I take the time to compose original poetry and music with the kids. We had a fun bonding time. And because we have more work to do, I have more days to enjoy with my kids in the spring sun, and more chances to work on character growth.
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Apr. 16, 2007
Forest's Tree Frog
Since you saw Forest's drawing of his tree frog, I thought you might like to a photo of the real froggie. He was crowned "Specific Pacific". And now he is "King of the Coral Bells," because on Sunday we had Forest set him free back where he was first found. I was sensing that he was feeling a little stressed. We had placed in a 10" x 20" fish tank with a screen lid, and tried to make him feel at home, but it probably felt more like jail to him. Forest fed him every fly he could find, be they seem scarce in the spring. He still has some things to learn about being really faithful with keeping the water dish filled and fresh. He was sad to seem him hop away. But I am so glad he could still hop. I don't think I could have consoled Forest, if froggie had died in captivity. I don't think I could have consoled myself for letting it happen. We have already had more then our share of pet deaths on various sad occasions. So I was glad we could watch Specific Pacific hop off to find his own flies. |
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Apr. 10, 2007
Spring Activities
We are already in the midst of a very busy spring quarter. I'm finding it hard to blog regularly. Here is some of the things we are doing.
*Swimming lessons twice a week - This is one of the kid's favorite times of year because of these classes. We have been taking lessons every spring for around 5 years or so.
*Piano lessons once a week - It is hard to faithfully practice with all the good weather and fun activity of spring, but we keep working at it. Improvement does show over time.
*Ham radio class once a week - My husband really wishes that I had my technician level license so I could operate a little two meter radio. I wouldn't mind being able to operate one, but I've never been able to motivate myself to study on my own. But he does know I am a faithful class attender. So, he started a class that meets once a week. There are several other families attending together, women, children, men college students. I"m guessing there are around thirty people who are coming! It is the first time I've ever been in a class taught by my husband. I've heard he is a good lecturer, but now I know for myself that it is true. Unfortunately, I'm not one of his brightest students when it comes to remembering frequencies, electrical terms and formulas, and regulations. Somehow I think that if my daughter could pass the exam when she was nine, surely I could pass. But that is still yet to be known. At least I'm a faithful class attender. And I haven't fallen asleep yet while I was there. I hope that counts for something. I think I am supposed to study out of class too, though, and when I tried that, I did fall asleep. The formula for voltage could not hold my attention.
*Once a week we are going hiking in the foothills of the nearby mountains with a 79 year old friend of mine. She is the one who had the heart attack just a few weeks before my husband. She isn't supposed to go out by herself anymore, so she has been trying to get people to go with her. Most people don't have time during the day when she likes to go. At first I didn't think we did either. Then I remembered that we homeschool, and hiking in the mountains is a perfect P.E. class. She also is full of knowledge about the names of the ridges, peaks, valleys, and rivers around us. I am glad for the exercise myself. I think I am going to start carrying a loaded backpack for the training value. Maybe I will be a better backpacker this summer. The kids are sure eager to go backpacking.
*Every week we meet with some friends for a small group Bible study. Right now we are studying what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Two teen girls have a special program for the kids. They are studying Christian stewardship.
*My trio practices every week. We are working on a couple new songs. We really enjoy singing together, but we also look forward to sharing together and praying for each other. In fact, if we aren't careful, we could spend the whole time doing just that, and forget to sing. Our practice is really just a good excuse for good friends to get together. I've noticed that if women don't make an effort to do so, life gets too busy for friendships. My friendships really bless my life.
*I'm also attending a class about herbs and health. I'm really enjoying this class very much. My daughter is coming with me and we are learning much. I'm really interested in learning to use the healing properties of plants. |
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Mar. 25, 2007
Catching Crabs!
Our little explorer found some girls catching crabs. He was so excited he could hardly complain himself. He had to join their fun. The next day when daddy asked him what was the most fun thing he had done yesterday, he squealed, "Catching crabs! Catching crabs is the most fun thing I've done on the whole trip!!" Well daddy decided that there should be some more crab catching. So later in the day we headed to the crab catching site with a bucket. Sure enough, there were many, many crabs. Crabs were hiding under most every rock!
Forest set right to work. He figured out that picking them up from behind was safer then from the front. He got pinched a couple times when he wasn't careful, or when he was a little slow moving them to the bucket. Now, we don't eat crabs in any form, so this was a catch and release operation. We let him turn rocks and find crabs to his heart's content. He was delighted, to say the least. Most of the crabs were Purple Shore Crabs. They can grow more then two inches wide.
 There was one green fellow that was different. Our best guess is that he is a young Dungeness Crab, as he was only about 1 1/2 inches, and these fellows can get up to 5 or 6 inches. The interesting thing about this fellow is that he is missing two left hind legs. You can see he only has two on the left. Apparently he has already had a close call, but got away with his life and six of his 8 appendages. He still seemed to get around fine, even with his disability. I rather liked the fellow.
Last summer when we were looking at Tide pools on the beach at Newport, Oregon, we picked up a book to help us with identification of the creatures we saw. Seashore of the Pacific Northwest by Ian Sheldon, a Lone Pine Field Guide.
This book was used constantly this week, and we found it very helpful, though it didn't contain every tide pool creature we found, and hence our uncertainty about the identification of the little green crab.
After the bucket was getting crowded,
they were dumped out on the shore again.
 Lest a seagull swoop in to pick up dinner, Forest watched over them until they all found a rock to hide under once again.
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Mar. 24, 2007
Free to learn about Things
Edna Breazeale donated her family's property, the place she grew up free to learn about things, to the the department of Ecology. to be a place for learning for kids today. It is now called the Breazeale Interpretive Center. It is in a beautiful location on Padilla Bay, near the town of Anacortes, Washington. The center has some interesting displays about tides, the water nearby, and the creatures that live there. There was a hands on room with books, games, puzzles, and puppets. This great saying was over the door as you walk in.
I'm so glad there are still places to take my children where they can be free to explore and learn about things in nature. It was so much fun taking my children to the beach and the tidepools. We had so much fun exploring together. There are so many other things we could do with our kids. So many kinds of entertainment and distractions. But there is nothing like getting out of doors and seeing the things that God has made. It expands the mind. It brings energy and excitement. And it creates great family togetherness.
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Feb. 23, 2007
The Egg Drop - 2007
Yesterday the kids got to participate in the egg drop at a local school put on by a local chapter of Mechanical Engineers.
And yes, that is snow you see in the photo. The temperature was right around freezing and the flakes were huge, like someone had broken some cosmic feather pillow right over our heads.
The kids were still excited. They have been planning their entries for days, debating on the phone with friends about just what would be the most successful entry. They would just love to win a prize. Unfortunately, they are competing with senior engineering students also, so their chances for a prize is small. Still, in the past, kids have won prizes. And just the process of working on a project and seeing what happens is worth time. Next year they will have another chance.
The goal is to take an "official" egg, package it up in some protective way, and then throw it off the top of a three story building, and try to get it into a frying pan 35 feet from the building, without it breaking.
It becomes really tricky to get it out that far away from the building. They also have a formula they use that factors in the weight of the package, and the number of parts it is made of. So, it is to your advantage to make it light.
Emily Rose took a Nerf ball, cut a slit in it to insert the egg into them middle, and attached a parachute of sorts.
The only problem was that on part of the parachute detached, and didn't help in the fall, and she couldn't throw far enough to get even close to the pan. Her entry was called "The Flying Grape". It probably should have been called "Grape Juice", though her egg did survive breakage.
Forest put his in the middle of a couch pillow I don't use any more, and called it "Sweet Dreams". He said his egg was sleeping inside. "Shh. Don't wake it up." Unfortunately It was too heavy to fly far, and landed close to the building. His egg broke.
I don't think the kids were discouraged though. They had a wonderful time with other homeschooled friends who came to participate. The snow was exciting. And there is always next year.
By the way, 1st prize went to a college fellow who had a good aim and had taken two of those pillows of air that some companies are using for packing material now. He secured them together with some packing tape, an placed the egg in the middle of them. I don't think you could get lighter then that, with less materials, or closer to the frying pan. |
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Feb. 20, 2007
Sledding Fun with Daddy
Yesterday, being President's day, is the only official vacation day my husband gets in winter quarter. True, he has had more then his share of days away from the office this quarter, but they were in the emergency room, ICU, and recovering from both. As my most faithful readers might remember, the day that my husband made his trip to the emergency room, the kids and I were on our way up to go sledding in the mountains. Since he needed us, our plans for playing in the snow got postponed. I promised the kids we would try to go sledding at least once before the snow melted and hopefully we would get to take daddy with us this time.
Well, yesterday got to be the day! We had a nice drive up to the snow, all four of us together. It was so nice to have my dear husband along, healthy and strong enough to join in the fun.
The kids started sliding down the hill right away. There was a few inches of powdery snow on top of some hard, bumpy, crusty snow, but the kids didn't mind at all. My husband did mind some and said something about feeling a little old, but he was a good sport, and kept playing with the kids as much as they wished. My son decided he didn't like long runs, so he found himself a little spot down near the bottom and he went up and down that for a long time. The problem was that when I took pictures of him, he was just a little dot. You can see him in the center of the following photo.
Emily Joy had a wonderful time going up and down the hill on daddy's lap.
We didn't stay a really long time, but it was long enough to make for some happy kids.
Snow was falling the whole time we were there. It really was a fun outing!
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Feb. 17, 2007
Blue Skies and Snails
| Oh, it was a beautiful day here, and I didn't remember to take even one picture of it, but I've got the memory of clear skies and fresh 70 degree air tucked into my noggin. We got to take a slow drive up into the hills to visit some friends. It was so worth the drive! The wheat was coming up in the fields like a freshly cut lawn. They merged with snow capped peaks, and blue skies where ever I looked. Breath taking. At our friends house we had a lovely lunch together, then a walk around their property. Forest enjoyed their pond. Two weeks ago it had been covered with 8 inches of ice. Today it sported snails, water bugs, and a frog that got a way. Lucky frog! The Snails came home with us in his ever ready bug box. They are different then the ones he found at a park in town. Those snails have been living in a jar in the window sill. He has loved them as much as any boy could love a pet. And now they are going to have some new friends. |
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Jan. 31, 2007
Driveway Exercise
Getting exercise since I've had kids has been a continual problem for me. For years I used to do step aerobics either at a club or with a friend at home. I tried to continue that after giving birth to my first child, but it just didn't work for a variety of reasons. My husband and I started walking together in the evening. This worked pretty good with our first child, but for some reason when we added the second child life got too complicated to keep it up. After that I would only get occasional walks at random times. Now that the kids are bigger, they are capable of walking on their own, and really do enjoy going for a walk, but when going with them, they are either wanting to go much slower then I or faster then I. The exercise seems minimal and the stress of getting them ready, and going and keeping them going seems to make it more effort then it is worth. My son is always watching the gravel along the road for "treasures". If there is a screw to be found, he will find it. He usually carries home some "neat" thing that someone else lost from their car, broken tail lights, broken pieces of metal, some wire or whatever might be there that day. He walks really slowly and then lags even farther behind. My daughter may walk along fine, or may whine about wanting to say home and do something. It seems I am making this sound worse then it really is, but it gives you an idea of what happens.
With my mom here, we started getting her out in early January to get some fresh air and walk up and down the driveway. It was then that I got a good idea. When I took mom out, the kids came too, and would walk with us. Why not have all of us out there walking every day. We needed the fresh air and exercise too. I decided to set a timer for 15 minutes, and then over time increase the time until we got up to 30 minutes at day. The wonderful things about this is that everyone can go at their own pace. I was afraid that there might be some complaining, but there wasn't. We do it in the morning after breakfast clean up and worship. The kids have a lot of energy then and are ready to go. The thing that has surprised me is how fast they go. They grab things to do while they are chasing up the driveway. I've seen them kicking balls, bouncing balls, jumping rope, and riding a scooter. The funniest one is to see Forest grab the wheeled grass seed spreader, and go crazily running away, chasing it. It that if they have something to occupy their attention that they go even faster. There is no way I could keep up with them. But that is the beauty of the idea, everyone can go as fast as they wish. And I can go at my even, steady pace.
We have measure the driveway and it turns out that 12 laps make a mile. I usually go about 3/4 of a mile in 15 minutes. I'd like to increase that, and I think I will, if we keep on getting out there every day.
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Dec. 27, 2006
A Cradle Prayer
On Friday night, December 22, our church had a Christmas Candle Light Communion Service. Greenery and lights were all over the church. The overhead lights were low. The Service started with musics interspersed with poetry, stories, texts and Christmas thoughts. My son, Forest, presented one of the musical pieces. He dressed as a shepherd boy, in a robe, sash and head piece. Under one arm he carried a sweet stuffed lamb. In his other hand he carried a child sized staff. He started on the right side of the stage , then slowly walked to the left side where there was a manger set up by the piano.
He sang a song by Rebecca Saint James, A Cradle Prayer.
"Jesus, I love you, my Lord, my friend,
Where would I be without You.
Here in the quiet, the still, the night,
I am in awe of you."
"Trials may come and friends they may go,
What really matters is you, my Lord.
Jesus I love you, my Lord, friend,
I am in awe of you."
"Why would you, creator and king,
Come as a baby for all, for me?
"Beautiful Savior, my Lord, friend,
I am in awe of you, Lord,
I am in awe of you."
He sang so confidently in such a sweet little boy voice. It melted his mother's heart completely. Paying attention during practice sessions was so difficult for him. He would have rather been doing most anything else. But when he got up to sing when the audience was there, I could tell he was really singing from his heart, his love for Jesus.
And the most wonderful thing of it all was that my sister brought my mother to the program to hear him sing. She came just in time, and left right after, but Jesus gave her enough strength to do it. That made us all so happy. |
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Dec. 14, 2006
Christmas Recital
My daughter, Emily Rose, played at her teacher's annual Christmas recital this past Sunday. Her two pieces were challenging for her, and she really had to pour herself into practice the last two week. I wasn't sure she was going to be ready to perform, but I kept my mouth shut. When the day came, she did wonderfully. She sat up straight at the piano and played with confidence, "Morning Mood" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". My husband commented afterward, "She played like a professional."
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Dec. 13, 2006
Dollars for our Church School
Just when I finally had time to post a new entry or two and even something to write about, homeschool blogger went down for maintenance for several days. It looks like it is back up now, so I'll give it a try again.
Can you see what this boy of mine is doing? At our church, just before the children's story, all the kids are invited to walk among the congregation and collect dollars to finish paying off the debt for building our local church school a new building. Even though my kids don't attend that school, they are eager to help. My son moves quickly up and down the isle, saying a loud "Thank you" for each bill given him. There are always more hands reaching out to him so by the time he gets back to the front of the room, his hands are full and overflowing. It's not unusual for his chin to have to come into service also and help him hold all that money. Here he is trying to figure out how to stuff it all in the model school house at the front of the room. He's glad to be of service for Jesus. |
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Oct. 30, 2006
Leaf Pile Surprise
The wind was blowing like crazy yesterday morning, stripping the leaves off the trees in blizzard proportions. The kids could hardly wait for the potatoes to finish frying for breakfast before they went shooting out there to make themselves a giant leaf pile. Unfortunately the wind was pulling leaves off the top of the pile as fast as they were raking them up, almost like a giant leaf blower.
Sometime after they started playing, my son came rushing in to call me out to see what sister was doing. I slowly found my camera, as I figured something interesting was up, and meandered out to the back yard. What I saw is what you can see in the picture below.
Forest went over to the pile and called to it and look what happened.
My daughter sat up out of the pile to "surprise" me. Both kids thought it was the greatest joke. I thought they looked mighty cute. Emily Rose said she had her hands covering her face the whole time. I think this is her most patient time ever. How long she waited for me to get out there, I don't know. If I had known she was waiting to be resurrected, I might have hurried a little faster.
Today was a still clear day, so I got my husband to start the leaf blower before he went to work. This meant a change in our routine, but if the leaves were going to be corralled I was going to have to do it then, because I can't start the machine myself. I kept blowing leaves, even when my arms were tired, until it ran out of gas and stopped. I wasn't done yet, but I'll try to finish tomorrow, that is if I can move my arms in the morning. My muscles were so warn out by the time I came back in the house, I could hardly move them. Really! I couldn't get my hand up to my face. It gave me a lot of sympathy for people with disabilities.
Tonight, by the time it was dark, the temperature was down to
freezing. I think this is going to be our killing frost of the
season. We have had repeated light frosts that only leave evidence on
the north side of the house, but don't get around to the garden. It
really felt like the cold was settling in tonight.
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Oct. 30, 2006
Flying Squirrels
This weekend we had company at our house, a friend from college days. The lady is a professional clown now, in addition to teaching Spanish in an elementary school, and caring for her disabled son. She clowns at birthday parties, and at the children's hospital in her area. She brought a few tricks to do for my kids, and had balloons to blow up. She spent quite a bit of time with my kids and they loved every minute of it, so much so, that my daughter has decided that she will be a clown too. She is researching clowns, and starting to build her own kit of tricks. She has a pretty clear idea of what she wants to wear, and if she could only settle on a name for herself, she'd be set.
I think of all the balloons that our friend twisted up for us, the one in the photo is my favorite. I like it because it is very easy to make. It is the first step of some of those little dogs you see, with no hind legs, and a very long tail. Our friend calls it a flying squirrel. It reminds me of a kangaroo rat. You put the tail between your fingers of one hand with the head in front of you fingers. Pull on the tail and then let the balloon go flying. If your fingers don't get in the way, you can make it go pretty far, and hit a target. It doesn't hit hard enough to hurt, so we had fun shooting them back and forth to each other.
And then I got a demonstration on how to make one myself. Pump up one of those long balloons a little ways, maybe 9 -10 inches or so. Make three twists in the balloon, which makes four segments. The one closest to the tie off is the head, the one closest to the tail is the neck. Fold the balloon in half so the first and last twists meet. Twist those two twists together. The two middle segments are now ears.
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May. 14, 2006
Mommy! I Got to Go Up in a Hot Air Balloon!
This morning, around 6:00 a.m. my husband took the kids to the hot air balloon show that is going on. This meant I got around two hours of peace and quiet. I really didn't know what to do with myself. After the commotion they made about trying to be quiet as they left, I could no longer sleep. So I got up and enjoyed the morning in my very peaceful house. I checked my email, and then sat in the sun on the deck for a while. I resisted the urge to make breakfast myself for them, because I knew my daughter would want to make it herself when they got home.
When the kids came bursting in the door they were so excited! Mama! I got to go up in a hot air balloon, they both exclaimed at once, and then again and again gave me all the exciting details. Apparently there was a Coco Cola sponsored balloon, and a nice lady was taking kids up for a short "ride". My kids told me they were up above the tops of the trees, higher then any of the other kids went. Here are some photos of the event. 
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Mar. 19, 2006
A Nice Weekend
The weekend went by fast. We have so enjoyed having my husband around in "vacation mode" as he calls it. He was so relaxed. On Saturday afternoon we went for a walk at a nearby lake. There were little bits of spring around, poking up out of the ground among the dead grass. We heard a screech owl call several times, or at least I did. The kids were too busy chattering to hear me quietly say "Shh" And by the time they caught on, the owl was quiet again. But they were having fun. Emily Rose had a tiny notebook in hand and so did I. We made scetches of whatever caught our attention. I had fun drawing Forest Glen walking down the trail in front of me. He has a hat that matches his daddy's and looks so cute in his proud six year old grin with freckles. His grin is sporting his first wiggly tooth. A bigger reason to grin, I would say. He had fun tromping down through the dead weeds to the feeder creek to accidently scare up Mallards. He wanted to see the Mallards, but he still hasn't figured out how to walk quietly. I am sure that will come. He did have fun watching them fly away.
At church Emily Rose and I sang special music. We sang the Hymn "It is Well with my Soul" She told the story of the hymn from memory before we sang. Se sang solo on the first verse. On the second verse she sang melody and I sang alto. On the third verse I sang solo. Each time on the chorus, she sang alto. That was a real big step for her, to sing alto. She did so well. I just love having someone to sing with now, and she is so easy to harmonize with. Every where we went in town on Sunday people were complimenting her on her special music.
Today I went around to a few garage sales. There wasn't much available, but garage sale season is starting. The rest of the day I spent time reading homeschooling books, searching for new ideas to keep my kids interested and learning. And for a while I was outside with a 1/2 pound package of red poppy seeds. Forest Glen and I sprinkled them along the road, and all over on our hill. It made me feel like the "Poppy Lady" friend of the Lupine Lady, for those of you who have read the wonderful "Lupine Lady" book. Emily Rose came and helped a little while at the end. We prayed that God would bless those seeds we spread, and that they would bring glory to Him. That they would grow and cause people who see them as they drive by to pause and rest in their beauty and the care of their maker.
I plan to dedicate tomorrow to sewing. I need to finish a couple small projects and then I have a large quilt made of small squares to conquer for Emily Rose. I have been putting it of. It is made in her favorite bright colors. But it is turning out to be more tedious and difficult then I first expcected. I think it is probably the hardest quilt I have made. But I do want to finish it. I 've put too much money and time into it already. I know Emily Rose will really like having it on her bed.
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