Update

Hi all!
Things have been busy here. It’s Fall!!! I love Fall!!!
Let’s see, last Saturday, we were able to go to part of Jacob’s (our nephew) football game. His team won, of course! 🙂 Jacob is 12 (will be 13 at the end of Sept., I think) and almost 6′ tall already! He’s taller than Jef, so he’s more than 5’10”. I can’t remember what position he plays, but I know it is on the line. I think he’s an offensive lineman. 🙂 Anyways, that was very fun! After the game, we drove out to Orting to Josh & Anita Cline’s house. Their son, Rye, is heading off to college (I feel so old!). They had a going away party for him. It was really fun. We had a good time visiting. The kids had a blast & everyone liked them! 🙂
I’ve been helping make a quilt at our church. There is a guy who has cancer. So the ladies are making him a quillow. It is a quilt with a pouch, so you can fold it up and it turns into a pillow! 🙂 It has been a lot of fun. I’m learning all sorts of new things and getting to know the ladies better. This morning we worked on putting the front & back together and securing the batting. Tonight we will be tying it. That is where you take yarn or thread and make knots on the quilt to keep the batting from shifting. This morning, we just secured the batting with safety pins. I am hoping to go back, but I think I will be late. We are making focaccia for the after-service snack on Sunday. Since it needs to sit in the fridge overnight, we have to make it today.
Saturday we have a community kids gardening thing at Lakewold Gardens. Then we have a birthday party to go to. Then at 6 p.m. we have an AWANA potluck to go to! So we are pretty busy.
Hopefully the kids will get their curriculum soon. I have them working on parts of speech and math in the meantime. I’ve enrolled them in a virtual academy through the public school system. We will have to see how it goes. Some people don’t like it because they think it is another way for the government to take away your rights as a homeschooling parent . I haven’t signed up full-time, though, so I am still considered a homeschooler. I am most interested in the free curriculum! 🙂 I’ll keep you posted.
Oh, the boys took the placement tests! That was fun. Jonathan came in right at third grade (however, he was sad, because he thought he was supposed to be in fourth grade!! Poor thing thought he’d done poorly on the test & got held back!!!). Daniel came in at first grade, second semester for math (because I haven’t taught him time or money yet). He also came in with a third grade reading level. So we are letting him do third grade language arts & science, but second grade history.
That is all for now. I need to get back to work!