Thursday, September 19, 2013

House guest

Garrett brought home Curious George from Kindergarten.  He came with a suit case FULL of stuff.  I spent this afternoon washing his clothes and gathering his things to go back to school tomorrow. (Really? I was thinking...I'm folding a monkey's clothes?)

The assignment was to scrapbook our time with George to go in the kinderbook.




Garrett is sad to return him!  He carried him around all week and even laid out his clothes every night for "school."  I gave George a little "bath" in the washing machine today because Garrett has had a yucky cough.  

Good bye George!
See you again in three years:)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Pull over

I have found that it's hard to blog from the driver's seat of my car.


It seems that is where I spend more and more of my time!

Today, I was driving Allie to cheer, and she said, "Mom pull over, Jesus is coming back...well actually we would have missed the trumpets if that were the case, but it's so pretty!"

I did pull over because it was on a country road, and Allie and I just stared for a minute.

As the kids get older, I'm realizing the need for boundaries and "margin" and the need to even pull over on the side of the road sometimes.

Our Pine Cove speaker recommend this book:


It's by Richard A. Swenson, M.D.  

He's a Christian physician who discusses our need for balance in the age of technology where everyone is in contact with each other and we have the capabilities to do more, but is more better?  Interesting read...

With four kids, this battle is not going away, but surely I can be wiser with my time so that the time I have with them is not fragmented which is often the case.

Garrett started flag football with Upward.


Oh yeah.



He was a little nervous about it, but he had a great time at his first practice.

I'm really proud of him.  He had a rough start to school, and he has worked so hard to correct it.  He had a perfect week last week!








Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Labor day and first day

 We had a very laid back weekend.  A dear friend turned 40, so we did a little celebrating.



All three kids finished their summer bridge books! I was so proud of them because they worked so hard.  Garrett bought this little flyer toy.  He played it all weekend.


Daddy worked and slept.


Big boy. 


He picked out his name tag..


and waved good bye!
He said, "Ms. Sheila says no fits. I happy boy."
What a difference a year makes:)