praying for the pollocks

We have known the Pollocks for a long time and adore the whole family, even those little ones we haven't met yet.

Bryan is battling cancer (well technically the whole family is) and we are praying for them. They are blogging their experience and struggles while putting their faith in our Lord. We love them and they are teaching us to be faithful in all things God gives us.

May God bless them.

horses

Ava had the amazing opportunity to go see the Lipizzanner Stallions in McMinville last night. Dave and Melba took their granddaughter Lizzie and invited Ava to go with them. Dave & Melba are like grandparents to my kids so it was extra special for her.

Anyway, Ava could hardly contain her excitement and paced all day. She didn't get home until 11:30 pm that night but still had a smile on her face. She LOVED it and I loved that she loved it. There was a lot of love going around ;)

dirt

Fun....

my new table

I had this table sitting in the corner for a year now. It holds my laptop and it was UGLY. Since I've been on a decorating kick lately, I decided to paint it yesterday.

Before:


After a couple of coats of my favorite muted turquoise blue:


I adore it now. You can see the new curtains I'm making for the front windows in the back. I'll take pics when I'm done. I love them as well.

overheard...

I gave Graedon a box of Pop Tarts and told him to go outside and share. As he was running out the door, I said "Don't eat the whole box."

He stopped, turned around and gave me a quizzical look and then said "Why would I eat the box? I won't eat the box." Then he ran off.

scheduling

I've never been a strict scheduler. Sure our day would follow a loose schedule of mealtimes, snack times as well as naptimes but nothing written down.

Well now I'm rethinking that a little and only as it pertains to school. Our whiteboard listed which subjects we would be studying that day but not like "from 8:00 am - 8:30 am - Science". I'm still not sure I want to do it that way as I like the flexibility in going longer or shorter depending on what we're studying that day. If I went over, I would be stressing that I was going over schedule.

However, I feel disorganized during the school morning and need something.

The subjects we are currently studying are as follows:

Math
Math drills
Classical Music
Drawing/ History of Art
World History - currently Middle Ages
Student writing: Middle Ages
Vocab/Spelling
Science - Maddie & Ava: Botany, Lauren: General Science
Bible Study: Proverbs
Memory Verses
Read out loud: 50 Famous Stories as well as Trial & Triumph: Stories from Church History
Piano lessons: Thursday
Practice piano: 30 mins daily

Lauren has as well:
Logic
More writing
Latin (to be added)

Then Ellie:
Math
Reading/writing

Grae:
Numbers/Shapes

Wow. That is quite the list. We don't do every subject everday so see why I need a schedule! I guess I just need to sit down and work it through. Not my favorite thing. If I do manage it, I'll post it here.

playing

Playing on a sunny day building a Playmobil farmers market.




Grae doing his own thing with his new Zoobs.