Week Four
Friday, June 26, 2009
A Few Drawings From the Last Few Months
Naomi rat (wrote) this
Wit (white) as snoe (snow)
Naomi's Daddy and Naomi's Momma
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Grandad and Granna Camp
SWIMMING!
We had a ton of fun at Grandad and Granna Camp! Thank you Grandad and Granna!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
A few random thoughts on a book--
I just finished a Newbery Award-winning book that has been on my shelf for a while. I was pleasantly surprised. Essentially it's about a girl working through the fact that her mother has left her. At the end of the book, you find out that "leaving" means dying.
At one point her Gram tells her, "Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears. If you have three or four--or more--chickabiddies [children], you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over--empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up."
In the book, the main character, a thirteen year old named Salamanca, tells the story of her friend Phoebe. Phoebe's mother was a perfectionist housewife until the day she left. She just couldn't handle not feeling like herself. I'm pretty sure a lot of us housewives can end up like that--"pulling up our bootstraps" so that we look perfect. And just like Phoebe's mom, we can either whither away or snap.
As always, I advocate reading fiction for learning. And maybe this book is a good one for learning, as housewives and homemakers, to lean on Someone who really can handle all that we must do.
I just finished a Newbery Award-winning book that has been on my shelf for a while. I was pleasantly surprised. Essentially it's about a girl working through the fact that her mother has left her. At the end of the book, you find out that "leaving" means dying.
At one point her Gram tells her, "Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears. If you have three or four--or more--chickabiddies [children], you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over--empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up."
In the book, the main character, a thirteen year old named Salamanca, tells the story of her friend Phoebe. Phoebe's mother was a perfectionist housewife until the day she left. She just couldn't handle not feeling like herself. I'm pretty sure a lot of us housewives can end up like that--"pulling up our bootstraps" so that we look perfect. And just like Phoebe's mom, we can either whither away or snap.
As always, I advocate reading fiction for learning. And maybe this book is a good one for learning, as housewives and homemakers, to lean on Someone who really can handle all that we must do.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Bethany's Surgery
Bethany's surgery went well this morning. Thank you to all of you who prayed. It was quick and relatively painless. Here is Bethany singing a little song about it.
Friday, June 12, 2009
BALLET!
The camp is held at a local Cheron's Dance Studio at the Body Fit Fitness Center. It's a great place to dance!
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