Craziness

Where have I been?

Blogging is one of my most favorite things to do so if I don't blog for a while then you know that I am really really busy!

The thing is that I kinda sorta have about 4 jobs. Fun jobs. Jobs that I like. All, however, are time consuming.

One of the 4 is that I am teaching at a day school and we have our first day (a half day with a parent meeting) on Thursday. So, my co-teacher and I have been trying to get our room ready. Well, on the teacher workdays I went blank about bulletin boards. Literally. I think Jennifer (my co-teacher) really thought I was loopy.

Anyway, here is what we came up with and I think it all turned out to be pretty good. I am happy. ((Don't tell my boss but one is not completed yet!!)) :-)

Here is what is on the outside of our room. The grapes are actually a stolen idea from my friends Rachel and Sharon. They did this for VBS in their room when we were talking about the Fruit of the Spirit. I thought it was a great welcoming bulletin board.

Also, on some of the larger "falling" grapes we put the names of our kids. Jennifer did a great job of writing them in the shape of a circle.
Inside the classroom I wanted to incorporate the Fruit of the Spirit for the beginning of the year because I like to use these words when asking the children to do something or explaining our rules. For example - instead of saying don't be so rough with the toys I could ask them to be gentle, or instead of saying wait a minute I could say please be patient.
Again, we wrote their names on the apples in the apple basket. ((Hopefully we will have pictures of the children to put up on the boards soon.))

This is not a bulletin board. It is just he wall. But this is the Alphabet wall. Each week we will take a pictures of one of the children holding something that starts with that letter and put it beside the letter. I think this wall will be so so beautiful at the end of the year.

Our Sunday Pictures

Sorry So Late!!

2 problems:

#1 - I can not get Justus to stop saying "cheeeese" when I say smile.

#2 - I can not get Hannah to stop tilting her head to the side when I say smile.

It all just cracks me up.

This Girl

Hannah is becoming more and more fun. She is really starting to explore and ask great questions. She is learning so much. She is so fun to be with!!

I have been keeping a list of things I wanted to blog and remember but I keep getting behind...

Here They Are!

• Hannah came home from the neighbors house and told me that the little girl (age 5) over there calls her church building "church." I couldn't believe she noticed. This young! We say that we are going to the church building to worship and not that we are going to church.
  
• She can now, in a booster, turn around and look behind her. When I am backing up the car, she turns around, and "directs" me. "be careful mom, you are getting close to that car" or "you have lots of room, mom" Makes me laugh and drives me crazy. (Don't worry, I don't trust her words - I look and do my own thing.)
• We were on our way somewhere and we saw some police cars up ahead. Hannah told me that she thought there was an accident and then after we passed by, she said, "See Mommy, I was right - somebody got damage" (and there was a car on the side of the road that had damage from the accident.
• We were at Target and there was a lady there in one of Target's wheelchairs. I had to do a lot of work to get around her with that big 2-seater cart (not really all her fault at all). We were ALMOST past her when Hannah (who has been staring at her since we got near) whispered to me (not so quietly with her hand up to her mouth) "Mommy I think she could walk but she doesn't want to."
  

Our Sunday Pictures

Saturday's Sign

When you see the two-way street sign you should think of:

1 John 3:21-22

Dear Friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from Him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases Him.

Thank You Mrs Donna!

Last Sunday morning Hannah came home with a wonderful thing from her Sunday School Class!

They had talked about helping. And so they brought home a way to measure how much they help.
Every time Hannah helps she gets to move a bead from the left to the right. Then at the end of the day we count how many beads she got to move and praise her for all her helping.

At first she just thought she was cool because she could count the beads. But then I showed her how it worked. I wasn't sure she was really going to "get it" but she absolutely did. From after her nap until bedtime Sunday night she got to move 9 beads. It was great. I was happy she was helping. She was happy she got to move beads.

It is quickly becoming a tradition for Daddy to count the beads she got to move at night before she goes to bed. She just beams out a smile when her Daddy tells her how proud he is of her.

It is really easy to make. They just cut sentence strip paper, punched holes in it, put a pipe cleaner strung with big beads in the holes and taped them to the back.

Thank you, Mrs Donna, for this wonderful project. It has been lots of fun.

My God and I

We sang this during worship last week and I have been thinking about it ever since.

My God and I go in the field together;
We walk and talk as good friends should and do;
We clasp our hands, our voices ring with laughter;
My God and I walk through the meadow's hue.
We clasp our hands, our voices ring with laughter;
My God and I walk through the meadow's hue.

He tells me of the years that went before me
When heavenly plans were made for me to be;
When all was but a dream of dim reflection;
To come to life, earth's verdant glory see.
When all was but a dream of dim reflection;
To come to life, earth's verdant glory see.

My God and I will go for aye together,
We'll walk and talk *and jest* as good friends do;
This earth will pass, and with it common trifles,
But God and I will go unendingly.
This earth will pass, and with it common trifles,
But God and I will go unendingly.

Hearts Uplifted

Please keep the Conner family in your thoughts and prayers as Terre (Dennis' wife) is now living with an untreatable cancer.

Our Sunday Pictures

Sunday Pictures were not a great experience today but... that is OK. What do you expect when you try to take a good picture EVERY week?

Silly.

What a Wonderful Prayer

1 Samuel 2: 1-2

My heart rejoices in the Lord;
My horn is exalted in the Lord.
I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation.
No one is holy like the Lord,
For there is none besides You.
Nor is there any rock like our God.