October Update

Total chaos. I suppose anyone with kids can understand where I am coming from. I think at the moment the chaos is somewhat controlled. I went to AWANA last night and the girls had a lot of fun. One of our girls has downs syndrome. She had emergency surgery on Monday, her growth plate in her hip slipped out of place. Please pray for her. Her name is Libby. Anyway at the end of club, I had one of Christopher's Sparky leaders tell me how smart he was. She said that he would read the verses and then change the worlds he did not really understand to words that meant the same thing so he was sure that he knew what he was learning. I am so happy for him. He is finally able to focus enough to show the world how smart he is, something I have known all the time! Cassidy is at a girl scout event right now. She sold over 200 boxes of cookies so far. She is so proud of herself. Barry loves to come home from school and tell me everything that happened over the whole day, to him and his friends. Today and tomorrow the kids are not in school. Their teachers have inservice. Christopher's teacher went on maternity leave on Wednesday. Cassidy got a new teacher about two weeks ago. Her teacher got a new job. Barry is the only one so far that did not get a new teacher yet. I hope he does not. Christopher's teacher comes back in January. (She is having a boy, she thinks!) Anyway, I just thought I'd update everyone.

Just a quick thought -> I am SO not ready for snow!!! (The weather report says we might get some on Sunday!!) TOO SOON!!!!!

AWANA

Well, everything here is pretty normal so I thought I'd tell you all about AWANA. For those of you who do not know, AWANA stands for Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed. It is a church club with Bible memorization, instruction and of course games. The club is divided into age groups- Puggles (2 year olds), Cubbies (3 and 4 year olds), Sparkies (kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders). After Sparks, the clubs are divided by sex also. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders are in Truth and Training. (All three of my kids are in Sparks!) For the junior high and senior high, I know that there is a club for them, but our church does not do those clubs. I am the director of the girl's Truth and Training. We have done a lot of fun things in there. Last week we had a mom and daughter game night. We had most of our girls there with some of their moms. They had such a good time that they said we had to do it again! We are going to do two service projects. I hope to do one this month and one in the spring. We are doing a Missionary project with Bethesda as soon as they get back to us about what they need help with. We have about 12 girls that come every week. They really seem to enjoy coming. There are 4 books to do in T&T. No matter when you start you begin with the first book. We have two sixth graders who are in the fourth book. The books are designed to be done one a year, but any girl that starts late can move through the books as quickly as she can. We have a fifth grader who is in book 2, but she will probably be done with book three by the time the year is over. I just thought I'd let you know what is going on with me every Wednesday night. :)