For Mom

This post is dedicated to my dear Mother. She has been missing my updating this blog and called today to tell me so. So just to warn you, this blog will be very grandma-info centered and will probably be pretty boring for most of you. Please don't feel obligated to comment. I have started a draft of a review of D.Q. so I'll try to get that finished and posted as time allows. Tonight though, my supper is not settling well and I can't sleep, so instead of tackling D.Q. late at night and with a queezy tummy, I think I'll just write a newsy blog.
The beautiful quilt you see in these pictures is the one Mom made for Micah while she was here visiting. (I still haven't painted his room to match it.) She also made a pillow sham and curtains to match. Not to mention, place mats and kitchen/dinning room curtains for me. She's amazing. So how many of you would like my mom to come visit? It was so nice to have her, I just hope she'll come back after we worked her so hard.

We just recently started rehearsals at church for the upcoming Christmas Play. I am co-directing it this year with the help of my dear friend Becca. A young lady in our church adapted a play from the book, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It is a funny book with a good message. I know it seems early to be thinking about Christmas Plays, but the play is pretty extensive for the ages of most of the children involved.

Tomorrow ends our 3 week study of Ancient Egypt. I can't say I'm sorry to see the Pharaohs go. We've really enjoyed studying about the Three Kingdoms and the Nile and Mummification, but I was glad to see the plagues coming and I'm ready to cross the Red Sea. We took a week off of working in our Math-U-See book to make lapbooks about Seasons and the Calendar. We learned the Months of the year with hand motions as memory prompts. Ms. Jo taught us a cool song that helped us learn the days of the week too. For Science we have been reading from a Christian Liberty Nature Reader. While I read, Micah listens and Josiah "takes notes" in his note book. He loves to show Daddy his drawings when he gets home and tells him all about the creatures we have studied. Writing is coming along well too. I decided to just go ahead and start Josiah out with cursive. I toyed around for awhile about which way to go, but finally decided to just give cursive a try and if it seemed too tedious we'd try manuscript. So far so good. Reading is exciting, it's so fun to watch Josiah reading on his own. One night I hung "helper words" all over the house. The next day Josiah was so excited he said, "Daddy, I woke up and I saw helper words scattered all over the house!" Micah wants to be right in on everything too, albeit some facts get a bit misconstrued. The other day I was quizzing the boys about Egypt. I said, What is the name of the river that runs through Egypt? Micah replied, "The Nile Delta!"

Matt started building a fort for the boys made from some of the old logs we still had lying in the wood. I must admit, it looks pretty cool so far. We actually did some school out there today.

Well, I think I'm ready to try to head back to bed. Please forgive my late night ramblings.