We are in the middle of our second "warm up" week of school. We've been focusing on Bible and character building (still on the topic of obedience), and then the kids are doing a little review of handwriting and math. Well, to be specific, NATALIE is doing some handwriting review. Ethan is doing handwriting PREview. It's amazing how much improvment I've already seen on his pencil control since we've been focusing on it. He's learning how to work the scissors, too. I have him tracing curved and straight lines with his pencil, then he cuts the same line with his scissors. He calls the cutting part "crafts time".
His tooth hasn't fallen out yet, but he asked me today to try to pull it out. I... haven't yet... I'm going to give it at least another day. (Yes, I am procrastinating that. I really don't enjoy yanking teeth! Besides, it's not REALLY ready yet, right?)
So I wanted to briefly touch on some highlights of our Anchor gathering on Sunday night. It really was an incredible time. We started by going around the room and sharing what God has been showing us since we last met (three weeks ago - too long!!). I shared my "square watermelon" story. Other people shared other things. What was neat was that everything shared related to the same thing that Phil was teaching about later on. Amazing how God works that way. After everyone had talked who wanted to (about an hour!) we decided to sing a few songs. We just sang them acapella, and I played chords on the piano for one of the songs. (One change we wanted to make was to let people pick out songs they wanted to sing or share a song that had been in their mind a lot lately, instead of me always picking out a "worship set" every week. It just flowed very naturally.
I guess that's all I'll write for now - we're heading out to take Natalie to her swim lesson. Then, home again home again jiggity jig, for BBQ ribs!
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