We received this letter from a friend this week:
Dear [Gus] and [Little Man],
I am sorry for boxing you. And I am sorry you got hurt. please come play again soon.
from, [our friend]
That is definitely one for the scrapbook! Oh, my lands! I can’t tell you the laughter this whole situation has prompted. Our children decided to box with a friend on a playdate. Their was only one pair of boxing gloves involved, and my children weren’t smart enough to request to be the ones to wear them. No one was really hurt, but there was one big, giant lump on one girl’s eyebrow. Same eye that she clobbered a couple of weeks ago; that time she had a huge shiner! I should pray for her safety more. (And just to be sure to sound like a conscientious parent, yes, we were checking on the kids. Yes, they were sneaky and only boxed when we parent-types weren’t looking. And yes, they knew they shouldn’t have been doing it . . . but they did anyway.)
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A friend wrote me the following sentence in reference to our “last day of summer-let’s have lots of fun-day to celebrate and go swimming and eat chocolate chip cookie bars” event:
“I think jumping into a new school year calls for a pan of sugar.”
I couldn’t agree more!
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{wrote this yesterday but was just too tired to actually hit the post button}
While it is still hot, hot, hot outside, the temperature inside has cooled considerably; we spent our day having our first day of school.
The kids woke up to find at the bottom of the steps a pile for each of them – new school supplies, a few treats, and a mom-made All About Me Poster. A little side note: one of the things that I enjoyed this year was that when we went school shopping, the kids opted to save some money and not buy everything new. We did buy a few new things – either things we didn’t have before or things that needed to be replaced – but over and over they said, “I don’t need a new one of those; I’d rather spend the money on something fun!” I didn’t prompt this, but they are learning that smart decisions get rewarded!
We did a devotion this morning from 1 Corinthians, talking about how we should honor the Lord with everything that we do.
Then we dove into a checklist of back-to-school kinds of activities.
Here is list of things to do this week:
- Draw and color a page for the front of your binder.
- Organize bins and binders (each child has a bin where his/her school books live and a binder that is his/her main work binder)
- Sharpen pencils and have erasers ready
- Art Lesson (Yay!)
- “Why Study History?” lesson from Tapestry of Grace
- Calendar (one child decorated around the calendar, one child wrote family birthdays and holidays, and one child crossed off all the days until the 20th)
- Reading
- “All About Me” Poster (The kids were supposed to work on this any time they didn’t have something else to do)
- Put together a time capsule
And that, my friends, sums up the official end of our summer break.
