Hi everyone! It feels like awhile since i've blogged. Things have been crazzy around here. Friday School finally ended. I will miss everyone tremendously but I was ready for a break. Awana Graduation was tonight and the friends night that the kids have been doing while we've been doing a bible study at the Avon church, will be over in a few weeks. Boy am I looking forward to summer! I'm hoping that the weather will pan out a bit more.
One of the local firestations near here has a reader board that says something such as: "LOST.. the Sun. If found, please return." I had a big ol' laugh over that a few days ago. Really made me smile!
I've been doing the ezine for first class homeschool ministries. Which has been hard yet a treat. I enjoy being in touch with the people that write and I enjoy posting it all... but working with Constant Contact the ezine service has been a "growing" experience.
Rod's chess class had 29 students in it and he ran a round robin chess tournament. It was great at display night to give the kids awards. There were three different age groups.. and Josiah took the 'gold' for the 3rd-5th grades and Jedediah took the 'gold' for the 1st-3rd grades. Rod was funny and said that 'they didn't gold just because they are the teachers kids!'. They really did win them on their own. Jedediah didn't lose one game! It was a fun experience!
Our teens group is going every SO much better than expected. Not that we haven't had satan try to sabotage our events and time together... but I thought It would take well over a year to get to the point we are at. We love the kids, they love us. Match made in heaven! In June, we are taking teens and some of their parents River Rafting... (Eddie are you gonna be there?) with Youth Dynamics Adventures. We'll be on the Wenatchee June 12. I hope it's sunny but wet suits and all it'll be a great day either way. We have more people that want to go than they gave us spaces for! They gave us 20 spots. They told us that after May 15 that if there were any spots in the session open, they would open them up to us..
A few weeks ago a friend of mine who did the annual test administrating for a few families last year, told me that they might not be doing it this year. So I looked into doing it myself. Then someone asked if anyone locally administered the IOWA test on our Friday School google group, I said that I can... Turns out that there are quite a few families that want me to test their kids! Uh... that's not really what I intended... but none the less.. I guess I'm going to do it. It'll work out that I will probably break even for this year.. maybe make a few bucks. We'll see how it goes. I told Rod.. I didn't ever think of myself as a Test Administrator but I guess I am now! I will be administering the IOWA and the Stanford Achievement Tests. I was recently approved as a tester. So now i'm looking into the actual details of buying tests and helping others with a part of homeschooling that they really don't enjoy. One thing people seem to appreciate is that I'm willing to test year round instead of just in the spring.
Update on the kids... Josiah's baseball team isn't doing so well... but the coach has said that he will be invited to play or invited to try out for the All Star team. How ever that works. A select baseball team for 9 &10 year olds. We haven't told him yet, but we've decided that if he 'makes the team' he can play. He's also in Youth Level 6 in swimming... which means that he's only got one level to go. If we want him to continue swimming, we are going to have to make a decision in the next year or so about joining a swim team. Which is sort of a big decision...esp. if I want him in a league that is not a YMCA league.
Jedediah is very much into chess and paper airplanes. Both were classes at Friday School. He is sad that Rod's not going to teach the paper airplane science class again.. because he loves paper airplanes SO much. He's excelling at chess, and in the fall we may look into doing chess competitions again. Jed just turned seven this week. He is so good with homeschooling that I think i'm going to have to find work for him that is harder to do. He zips through everything I give him!
Jaden and his multi expression little self is doing great! Just finished cubbies... so next year if we do Awana he will be in the Sparkys. He was in Kindergarten at friday school and loved every minute of it. Jaden isn't really into school yet. He still wants to play with playdough and do mazes. He seems a little behind academically but he's still involved.
Julia is the family doll. She just recently learned how to swing on the swing in the front yard.. that's her new favorite thing. She loves her brothers and can't seem to live without Josiah. She does "school" too, which is sooo funny. She'll sit at the table and color or draw or whatever for a little bit almost every day. She's been drawing faces alot lately and it's amazing how much detail she puts in there (for a 2 year old!).
Well, I guess that's enough for now... Zindra
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