Family News

“So we’ve got the witch and the wardrobe, but we still haven’t seen the lion.”
— Natasha’s observation when we put the book away at the end of chapter 5 tonight.
We started this book back before Grandma died, when Melody was barely two and Natasha was 3 1/2.
They listened well, especially considering [...]

Let’s see, I don’t have dates for these, but they weren’t happening before, so we’ll get them on-record.
Elisha is jumping now.
It started with jerky one-steps off a low stair and has progressed to a full-grown hurling of himself from any permissible hight to the next-lowest point.
Permissible is defined as anything Mom or dad has not [...]

Background: I’d just brought the kids in from playing outside (before they wanted to), and even hot chocolate didn’t quite counter the blow.
“Coco!” is definitely an established word for Elisha now, though.
Natasha to Melody [bossy, not frightened]:
No! You can’t go outside without a grown-up. There are people who will come into the yard. [...]

I am working on a short fairy tale to submit for publication (sort of a breather from the novel, you might say).
Naturally the language is how I would tell it.
So I’ve begun to go through it with my “Children’s Writer’s Word Book” checking the words I guess to be more challenging than the others.
I was [...]

I’ve gone through the FNSBSD “Curriculum Guide for Parents” and compared objectives for K and 1st grade, making a new set of objectives based on where NJ is currently at (she *so* has K Language Arts smoked. And half of 1st-grade’s, I’d say.)
Under this new organizing the only things she is doing exclusively at the [...]

He corralled three kids for nearly 2-hours worth of shopping and trying-on of things tonight.
He is looking forward to tomorrow when the tables turn and I run herd while he looks through he discounted Men’s section.
Praising God for His provision and timing!
The new clothes were as cheap as thrift-stores’ and much more efficient, as trying [...]

Thursday Night Elisha showed an understanding of… something new.  I don’t know what to call it.

“Oops, sorry that was me.”

He cried out when I bumped him, and stopped when I apologized

Pretending to be asleep

In his car seat.  This comes from copying his sisters who do it wanted to be carried in.
It was hard not to [...]

This is a glue stick.
This is lip-stuff.
And he’s not allowed to apply either one yet.
He is currently moaning in my lap over the unfairness of life.

Melody’s fever seemed to break last night, but she’s still coughing and emotional/clingy today, along with other symptoms.
Elisha has a low fever and isn’t keeping anything down.  We keep feeding and watering him “against orders” because Jay figures if the boy’s going to be throwing-up anyway we might as well make it less painful.
This is [...]

So we really started school today, complete with a visit to the school library and playing on the playground.
I don’t know how we got away with this last one except it was so warm today we none of us wanted to stay inside, and then my impulsive self said, Why just go around the loop [...]