Well, we’ve finished our third week of school and are finally in a routine. Noah has started his gymnastics classes on Monday (look for him in the Olympics in about 8 years.) Victoria has joined the church Youth band on Wednesday’s and on Tuesday’s Elijah plays guitar and gets lessons at the church in preparation for him being in the band next year when he is in Middle School. Cub Scouts will start next week for both boys and they are very excited. This is Elijah last year in Cub Scouts and he can’t wait to get into Boy Scouts as it’s one step closer to getting to be an Eagle Scout.
Victoria and Elijah will start their science class next week at Veritas and I am so excited they will have someone to do LOTS of science experiments with them. They are studying Biology this year and are blessed to have a College Biology teacher teaching them. We will also start Voyagers Co-op on September 10th and the kids are looking forward to being in classes with their friends 1 day a week.
We spent one night last week in the ER with Elijah getting him IV antibiotics. He had a blister on his heel that overnight got massively infected within a few hours. He spent Tuesday evening getting the IV ABT and then came home on oral and were very thankful that hes doing much better.
We’re still doing our couponing and last week in a 10 day period we got over 100+ items free (see the 3 pictures below, everything was FREE.). Some of these are for here, some will be donated to Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes this Fall. We are trying to get ready for
Victoria‘s birthday next month and have gotten $14.00 in free Steak and 2 free packages of bacon this week as very inexpensive cinnamon rolls all set aside for her Birthday as they are her favorite. I am going to try to post some pictures below of all the items we got free in the 10 days. It took about 5 hours of cutting, clipping, list making & shopping, but we are VERY blessed to get all these.
The holidays are fast approaching and we are trying to also look for bargains here.
Victoria is wanting a new bedroom set (bedspread, pillows etc
) but you dont find many coupons for that so we are watching sales. Shes almost 12. The other day she came & hugged me and I was dismayed to find I could not longer rest my chin on top of hers, she was too tall. Shes already as tall as her 36 year old sister.
I am teaching a class here 2 Fridays a month to pay for the gymnastic and science classes the children are taking. Our first class is next Friday and today Oscar is taking the children somewhere for the day so I can get all my papers and supplies ready for the class. Its an Art History and Appreciation class and I have 7 students signed up and hope for 3 more. Victoria, Elijah and Noah will also be in the class so well have a full house. The first week well do Cave Paintings so today I need to find Cave Walls. I also have to steal some hair from our Dog Hannah to use to make paint brushes. They did not have Wal-Mart back then to buy them at!!
Oscar is still employed at Cooper Wiring and will be coming up on his 4th anniversary in a few weeks. We are very thankful that he has not been one of the many that have been laid off in the last year from his company.
If you are in the area, wed love for you to visit us. All our family is far away and my children LOVE to see their relatives! My mom comes on a regular basis, who now lives in NY with my Grandmother, but other than her we do not get to see too many relatives. Wed love for you to spend your vacation with us, or stop in on your way to someplace exotic!
We pray you all are doing well, and not having too difficult of a time in these challenging economics times. Blessings to you all.
