daybook, june 30th

Outside my Window...an absolutely gorgeous day...85 and Sunny and very low humidity

What We're Learning...Shakespeare and Math

I am thankful for...good kids

From the kitchen...I made Ro*Tel's salsa recipe for lunch...sooo good, having Big Boy Platter for dinner...even better!

I am wearing...Brian's 391st EN Co tee, navy yoga pants, super messy hair, no makeup (and Rin took my picture)

I am reading...all I can about the FIC MOVEMENT

I am praying...my heart can handle July

I am creating...vacation plans

I am hearing...the dishwasher, the fan

I am remembering...to love

I am going...to take Kylie to Youth Group tonight

On my mind...Judah sleeping through the night last night

Noticing that...I'm not ready for Judah to sleep through the night

One of my favorite things...sharing a bed with my Love and our Babies

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...celebrating our Great Country's Birthday with my Soldier Husband and our Patriotic Kiddos

how to be a magic momma

. let them play outside in the rain

. melt Velveeta in the microwave and add salsa and serve it with warm-from-the-oven tortilla chips and give it to them for morning snack... "Where'd ya get this recipe Momma?" ... "Oh, the places I had to go to get this one Darlings" ...

. lay on the floor with them while they're playing with their choo choo trains, or littlest pet shops, or cars

. bake them brownies

. look at them when they talk to you (I guess I don't do this, because it's really surprising them...they seem confused by my full attention)

. hand out "juicy gum" aka Juicy Fruit Gum upon their request

. get completely overwhelmed with the amount of paper drawings they create, spend an hour going through them and separating them into piles: Dinosaurs - Sharks - Military - Animals - Baseball - Fat Stick People, staple them together, and present them as Books while declaring that a Book is not finished until every square inch of it is drawn on (and Heaven knows we don't start a new Book without finishing one first)...I had no idea the sheer JOY this would bring...Magic Momma Indeed...

. say YES to them

. turn off the computer

i complete him. he completes me.

I have decided not to take part in the Completing Him Challenge. For many reasons. (None of which have anything to do with me not wanting to complete my husband)...time and effort that I don't have to put into it...the private nature of some of it...AND...

 

I just don't think we "fit" the idea behind this. Brian and I work more as a team when he is home. I worried about this last fall, when a friend was posting about Becoming a Godly Wife. I worried for days, and then I just asked him about it.

He told me to stop worrying. And that he liked being a team. And that I couldn't possibly do it all. And that I needed his help more than most wives need their husband's help, because we have like a zillion kids...

 

I liked that answer.

We are a good team.

I suppose we complete each other, and we don't need another challenge...it's a challenge just making it through a day here (but one I'm glad to take on).

Our Dating Story is super short anyway. We dated for 4 weeks. He asked me to marry him. He left for Basic Training. We got married. He left for Korea for a year (that seems like such a long time ago)...

children's book monday: snip snap croc

Snip Snap Croc

by Caroline Castle

Illustrated by Andrew Crowson

This is a Picture Book that was specifically written for sharing with Little Ones. There is even a page in the back to help parents create the perfect Storytime atmosphere. Ideas for rhyming and poetry, discussing animals from another land, and studying a map of the Nile River.

The text is simple, and the pictures are very colorful. The story is easily read aloud using different voices, one big, loud voice for Snip Snap Croc, and one smaller and softer for all the other animal Mommas.

As the story starts, Snip Snap Croc is shouting to everyone about her big, sharp teeth...and Mommas Baboon, Meerkat, and Lion are warning their precious babies to stay away.

Then Snip Snap Croc hears a humming sound and feels the ground begin to move, and discovers eggs. And the 23 things that "hammer" their way out of these eggs is very fascinating.

As the other animal babies are watching safely from the riverbank, Snip Snap Croc suddenly snip snaps each of her 23 babies up, and eats them! But the other animal Mommas know what is really going on.

And you'll just have to read the Story to find out for yourself.

This is a very different, but fun story, that helps express to children the kind of special love that is between a Momma and her Baby. TJ has requested it almost everyday since we've brought it home from the Library.

:: Happy Reading! ::

daybook, june 8th

Outside my Window...

gray...we're expecting thunderstorms

 

What We're Learning...

1 John 5, Christopher Columbus

I am thankful for...

hot coffee that my hubby made before he left for Bible Study, we're drinking Starbuck's Verona right now, and IT IS YUMMY!!!

From the kitchen

...we had cheerios for breakfast, ham sandwiches for lunch, and we're going to have something with chicken in it for dinner

I am wearing...

my Chipotle Reds tee, black capris, tan flip flops (we miss Chipotle)

 

I am reading...

anything I can about Classical Christian Education, it seems Brian and I were miscommunicating on our Family's Education Goals, he thought we were Classical, I thought we were Charlotte Mason, he is now INTERESTED...so we are now CLASSICAL (which is fine with me, I started off back in 2007 with a second edition copy of The Well Trained Mind, and Veritas Press' Genesis through Joshua Cards...and somewhere lost my way...)

 

I am praying...

for my Grandma Faye who is having an operation June 22, and I will not be able to be Home for it

 

I am hearing...

the fan, the dryer, the AC unit dripping outside, Connor flipping the pages of Secret in the Maple Tr

I am remembering...

how cute Ben was, clapping and singing at VBS last night

I am going...

Connor has a Baseball Game tonight, but if it rains, we'll be heading back to VBS

 

On my mind...

too many things to list

Noticing that...

I'm always deleting the " I am creating" part of my daybook, how I wish I was creative...

 

One of my favorite things...having ALL the laundry washed, dried, folded (nicely), separated, and PUT AWAY...there's almost Nothing Better!!!

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week..

VBS and Baseball Games

children's book monday: prayer for a child

Prayer for a Child

By Rachel Field

Illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones

 

This sweet poem/prayer was written for the author's little daughter, Hannah. It is a prayer asking for blessing, protection, peace and health. It has all the simple, little, everyday things within it, that are cozy and comfortable to a child.

 

"Bless my little painted chair.

Bless the lamplight, bless the fire,

Bless the hands that never tire

In their loving care of me."

 

I adore this little book because it expresses how safety, routine, love, and care affect a small child. My girls love it, and TJ loves it, he calls it "The Blessing Book".

:: Happy Reading! ::