The itinerary went like this:
Kids wake up & find the kitchen table set up with their goodie bags (design your own travel mugs filled with Hershey's kisses & silly string), construction paper, markers, stickers, etc...so that they can design their placemats & travel mugs. They find the chocolate chip banana nut muffins & eat up as they design away.
Grandpa arrives and we hang out with him. They play outside. We take our first day of school pictures. Daddy takes the kids to the yard and they have "silly string fun". We hop in the mini van, with their newly designed travel mugs filled with (a special treat) tea with cream and sugar & a corn muffin for each. We drive to our church & our local schools to pray for the kids, teachers, staff & the up coming school year. We get back home and watch a movie. We eat dinner and give God the glory for the gift of being able to homeschool. We bring out the cake & daddy goes around the table praying for each child & thanking God for each of their individual personalities, individuality & gifts. We told jokes for about half and hour and finally everyone was off to brush their teeth and head to bed for the night.
Tomorrow we start the first day of our curriculum. I've done My Father's World kindergarten twice already & am thrilled at the chance to do it a third time now with Jojo. I love this curriculum & couldn't be happier to be doing it again. Luna will be totschooling with a mixture of shelf work and totboxes. Lily and Mathias will be starting My Father's World Exploring Countries and Cultures. I'm so excited about this school year, the older kids will be learning about missionaries & so much more but mainly I'm excited about the emphasis on missions work.
That was today in a nutshell. I think I slept 3hrs because I was up baking and preparing the goodie bags. They each were specially designed, they had individual scriptures & other things I was doing after they went off to bed. It's time to call it a night. Tomorrow will be a learning day for me as I figure out how to balance schoolwork with Jojo, Luna, Lily & Mathias. In the past most of Jojo's totschooling was done independently of me so that I could get school done with Mathias and Lily. I'm a bit intimidated but I know that the Lord will sustain me as long as I keep near to Him. He is Good!
I pray your school year is full of blessings and joy. God Bless.
This is what they woke up to this morning.
Even Vida got involved...
Silly string fun...
Mugs and muffins ready to go.
Chocolate Cake, prayers and blessings...oh and knock knock jokes... 😂
I like the way you started your school year. I hope it is continuing to go well. Be blessed!
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