I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted...! Just where exactly did August go? Oh my goodness. A camping trip with hubby's family, a garage sale flop, lots of organizing and trying to get ready for our crazy school season and a final camping trip with my family. (I'm trying to get pictures to post of our amazing summer fun soon... stay tuned!) Oh and of course, let me not forget... summer softball season ending (Geoff was the coach for one of the four teams) and straight into fall ball for the fall city softball league which Geoff is heading up now.
All of a sudden, BAM, it's school time. Geoff started the 31st of August, I began the day after that on September 1st and then I had the kiddos started on our first year of homeschool on Wednesday the 7th. Whew! Tired yet? I am. ;P Haha. I stayed up until 3:30am the night before my kiddos first day... boy was that an adventure. We are settling in pretty well now, just a little more effort and I think that next week will be about right and we should be good from there. We seem to have a fairly balanced schedule that is working so far. We shall see as the weeks get even busier how it will be working out for us at that point. The good news is that we are taking a relaxed approach to school and learning as we go from life and fun projects.
And speaking of projects... that is exactly what I wanted to share today! I knew that I wanted the kiddos to have some fun with paints yesterday, but the morning took us out on a couple of errands and I wasn't sure how we were going to work it in before lunch, naps, etc. But, I got an idea based on something I had seen on Pinterest (yes, I will probably reference that wonderful time-consuming site often... and yes, I can admit -gladly even- that I am oh so very addicted to it). So, we got home and I got busy getting all of our supplies ready, kiddos in old t-shirts of mine as their smocks, paints (that I approved of the color palette for each canvas), three canvases, a few craft brushes and some paper letters glued to our canvases. Ready... set... go! I'll take you along with a picture timeline so you can see the fun we had and what we got for all our creative work. :)
"And these three remain... faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:13
