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This is just a quick post hopefully I'll have another one later tonight.
My wife remined me the other day of something our daughter once told us. When we first got Emma as a Foster Child she had never been to church really. The church we were attending was a mission church and we were meeting in a local community centre so our church wasn't a real church building. So one day while driving she declared that she finally realized what the "T" was on the top of churches was for. Now were interested but we explained it was a cross, she was insistent that it was a "T" and it stood for "T"he Church So thats the insight of a five (maybe six) year old.
She's now aloms 9 but she still comes up with some interesting observations.
*Another note: I forgot to mention our Canada Goose died over a week ago, Ema came in after showing some girls the Goose on Saturday the 8th declaring the Goose seems to be sleeping well it wasn't I still haven't disposed of the corpse but luklily it's been freezing so I'm sure little decompositionhas actually happened.
Category: Home School Dad
I went away for a little bit both from blogging and actually physically away last weekend. I would like to extend my sincere apologies to those of you who depend on my daily dose of wit and enlightenment (all one of you)
So what have been up to??
Quite a bit actually. I've been working on my 2008 Home School Catalogue for Upper Room Christian Books This is proving to be quite challenging. It is my first "real" catalogue, up until now I purely relied upon the Internet and actual store sales. I've given into the pressure of people at homeschool conferences I attend who are looking for something more tangible to take home with them. I can't possibly fit everything I carry into one catalogue so it is more of a sampler. I have selected items for each grade and subject. I hope to produce two other catalogues one for Family / Christian Living Related Books, and One for Theological Books. Each catalogue will be about 30 - 40 pages. I'm still pretty cheap so I'm probably going to print few but will put them on a cd or dvd along with some other promotional items, video audio etc.
So right now I'm working on the Homeschool one I'm half way through Grade 2 and it's taken about 3 or 4 evenings of work to get this far. I'm finding it difficult for a couple of reasons I'm trying to make sure I have a good balance of price/quality and uniqueness as well as Canadian content when possible. I'm using some of the items we have used ourselves, and some items I would of used if I had seen them previously. After Grade 4 should be significantly more difficult as we have not home schooled that far yet so I will be relying upon advice from friends and reviews on the internet etc. I'll feel much more confident with teh Family and Theology catalogues which is why I started with this one, get the tough one done first as it will most likely take the most time.
At the same time I am updating my prices on my web site as the strength of the Canadian Dollar has allowed me to drastically reduce some prices. And alot of items I have listed I have never fully added information for so I am slowly doing that when I come across such items when writing the catalogue. I'm sure 7/8ths of the items I have on my site are missing graphics or descriptions, but I also intend on reducing the number of items I have listed in the new year. I basically put every homeschool item my suppliers carried up to see what items would be popular when people searched my site. This has actually proved quite helpful and I should be in a better position come spring as I work on my site.
On another note I have had some great time of fellowship the last few weeks 2 weekends ago a family whom we attended church with in Halifax were visitng PEI and they came to church and we had a great time of fellowship. On US Thanksgiving I had the long weekend off because I work on a US contract at my real job so we went to the Annapolis Valley and stayed with our old Pastor and his family, it was a great time, very refreshing. We returned Saturday night so we could participate in communion at our church and following the service as per usual on communion Sundays we had a fellowship dinner following the morning service. And I have been having some great talks with another homeschool dad (actually the only other homeschool dad) in my congregation.
I'll update some more tomorrow as I try and get back to regularly blogging as for now back to writing my catalogue.
Category: Home School Dad
My son Sebastian Harold Andrew Nash (quite the monicker for a little guy) turns six tomorrow (November 14th). It's really hard for us to imagine, we got him as a foster child when he was just 2 1/2 and adopted him and his older sister a little over a year later. In some ways he's so innocent and young it's hard to realize he's growing older.
He's a pretty bright kid, he does have some speech delay from the neglect of his early years which contrbutes to his seeming young, that and he is a little small for his age. His speech and vocabulary have pretty much caught up now. He has a quiet raspy voice because he has Nodules on his vocal chords which he'll be seeing a speech therapist at the end of the month to learn how to compensate for.
Sebastian is a boy in every sense of the word. He had never seen a comic or a superhero movie but he took to spiderman, batman and superman just from seeing a picture of them, he loves to wrestle and play sports, he was picking up things and shooting them like a gun before he ever saw one. He loves adventure and has a great imagination. He's always building forts with blankets or amongst the trees and bushes in our yard.
He's tough, he once fell off our couch he was playing on picked himself up looked at my wife who had been warning and scolding him earlier about doing so, he got his compusure looked at her and said; "me ok, me no break neck" When he first arrived he could fall and scrape his knee and not even shed a tear, he would just point at the blood and grunt, now he'll play us for suckers to make sure he gets attention if he gets the slightest scratch.
He has an unusal outlook on growing up. There's a fellow in his early 20's at our church who comes over to our house regularly and was a leader along with myself at our church camp Sebastian just adores him and has actually invited him to his Birthday Party, if you ask Sebastian about him he'll say he's still a boy and not a man, now he doesn't make this assumption because he still lives at home or he's not married, but rather Sebastian astutely claims he is a boy because he doesn't have a beard, men have beards, and when I pointed out other men we know who don't have beards Sebastian astutely observes but they have kids.
He is my little buddy and I'm his "big buddy" We play swords we joke around together. Sometimes when I'm in the shower he comes in the bathroom and sits on the floor just to talk to me, he mostly just makes small talk but it's something special that he does and his sister doesn't. If you were to say something mean about me he'd growl at you and defend me vehemently. If Emma or my wife try to tickle me he'll quickly jump to my defence to ward them off.
When he grows up he wants to be a race car driver and a pastor, we wanted to be a bee keeper because he loves honey, but he decided being a race car driving pastor would keep him to busy so he wants to marry a bee keeper instead. He wants to build his house in our back yard over by the swing set is the spot he has picked out.
He is and always has been musical, he can't read all the words in our psalter but he has always been able to keep a tune humming or making "musical" sounds while we sing. He's written a few songs of his own including his Epic "Big Boy From America" the words aren't always the same but the tune is. He taught himself to play Piano but just watching his sister (who just started lessons) practice. He loves listening to music. And will break out in spontaneous song when he thinks nobody is listening.
He loves God, it's not just in being able to say the words but he lives it out in his life, one day a few weeks ago he was walking through our kitchen we have a a poster of the 10 Commandments on the back of one of our counters (at about my knee level) he walked by it and started to hug it, my wife wondering what he was doing asked him, he said "it's God's word, I love it". I mentioned earlier he wants to be a pastor, not an idea we put in his head one he has had for a year or so, he sometimes practices preaching, he has a whole little church service, his 2 stuffed dogs "Crusher" and "Oh Oh Puppy" are his church's elders he will make us sit and listen as he sings reads from his kids Story Bible (even though his reading isn't the greatest he explains the stories) he preach's a small sermon usually it's on the theme do good be nice to people, love God etc. he even delivers a benediction, he raises his hands and says "Bye bye guys" then leaves. He's learning the Westminster Shorter Catechism and can even recite some of the Longer Answers. And he loves to pray, though he sometimes gets embarassed when asked to when we have guests.
He's kind and generous to people and he has a loving caring heart. And he has a good sense of humour. The other day he made up a joke. We were out feeding the chickens and I asked him if we should bring in some food for Quack Quack (his stuffed duck ) he replied no he feeds him already. I asked what he ate, he promptly replied "Quackers"
My little Boy is turning six tommorow, I'm sad to see him grow up as I'll miss my little boy and am not looking foreward to that in the coming years, but I also can't wait to see the man he'll become and how God will use him. I Love you Sebastian and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
 
LITTLE BUDDY
Category: Home School Dad
Just to give a reassurance to one and all I am all right now, no need to worry.
Wednesday Morning our Social Worker - (for the adoption, process is still going on but thats another story I will share when it's completed) called she was suppose to visit us in the morning at 10, she had to cancel because she had gotten a cortozone shot and wasn't able to sit. Anyways I sleep in until between 9 and 10 am because I work until 1 at my "real" job. So I got up and was getting up and Michelle (the wife) says that she had called to reschedule until Thursday afternoon.
The Island Homeschoolers just started a bowling morning on Wednesdays recently and Michelle asked me if I wanted to go since we didn't have an appointment. I said sure showered and we left pretty quickly, I didn't even eat breakfast, not that I usually do. Bowling was in Charlottetown about 40 minutes away and we had about 15 minutes before it started. So we arrive alittle late and we bowl. I beat my wife which (in bowling). Things seemed to be fine with me, we left and went out to lunch at a nice Italian Eatery in Charlottetown. We went to Home Depot as it's the only one on the Island and we were looking for a new shoe/glove mitt cabinet for our entrance.
So in the store my hip starts really hurting me, now I'm a guy I can deal with pain really good, in fact Michelle aoften complains that I don't let her know when things are wrong. So we go out to the car and I am really in pain now, I decide she better drive and she better drive me to the Hospital, we head to the Summerside Hospital because it's closer to home (though past it) and we thought it wouldn't be as busy, well we were wrong. It was extremely busy and I had to wait almost 2 hours to see a doctor.
They weren't sure what was wrong probably a pulled muscle of some sort but just to make sure they gave me 2 kinds of drugs. The Dr. thinks it was most likey a result of the bowling, maybe I moved wrong etc. Well they don't seem to be helping too much as I'm still in pain (though I did go back to work today) and if anything it's getting worse, but I really hate to worry Michelle, so she doesn't know yet and probably won't for a while until she reads my Blog if she does.
Category: Home School Dad
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