Happenings

Yesterday went by so fast. Church was in the morning. We came home and ate a light lunch then started in on cleaning the house. My house has been neglected the past few weeks due to Willy Wonka Mania. Later in the afternoon we met my family at Longhorns for dinner. My dad treated us all to a great dinner. After dinner we headed over to my sister's house and play cards for a couple of hours. Grace went to a friend's house for a planned sleepover. Since Grace wasn't at home last night I caught up on alot of TV that I haven't been watching and some reading. When Grace came home this morning she informed me that they stayed up until 5:00 this morning and then slept till about 10. She has been moping around most of the day because she is so tired. But she won't lay down to nap. We read a couple of chapters from our Christmas book and may do some more later. I think tonight is going to be an early night for us all, unless she wants to stay up and watch our normal Monday night of Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives.

Lunch with a Friend

Today was fun. Out with a friend for lunch(just Blimpies) and off to the used book store for two hours of looking and choosing. Lots of good conversation. I got a couple of drawing books, three chapter books, and one on country living. Went out to dinner tonight with a gift card that was given to us. Tonight on the agenda is constructing a gingerbread house and watch A Christmas Carol.

Art Blog

I just stumbled upon a blog that I need to share. It has many art ideas including many Christmas ideas. Go visit http://www.kidsartists.blogspot.com/. You will be so glad you did.

Lots Going on

Tonight was the Fine Arts Showcase for all Fine Arts classes at Trinity. Grace sings in the chorus. They sang 6 songs and did very well. They look very professional in the white shirts and black pants.

Our Drama class also performed a Christmas skit tonight. Due Willy Wonka consuming all of our practices we only had two run throughs of this skit. But they all came through like troopers.

Here are some of Grace's lastest drawings.

Todays was the semester's last class for handicrafts. The girls decorated a complete cake on their own. Then tonight the cakes were auctioned off to raise money for the Fine Arts Department.

Here is Grace's finished product.

Back to Business

Yesterday was our last performance of Willy Wonka. Grace also performed in the Christmas play at our church yesterday morning. Needless to say, yesterday was a bit crazy. Actually the past week was a bit crazy. Last week we only got to do book work on Monday. So today was back to business. We had alot to catch up on. I haven't reported on our workboxes in quite a while so here was today workboxes:

1. Bible
2. Math - Fractions
3. Daily Math Adventures
4. Read one chapter from The Family Under the Bridge with a written narration and some study of France.
5. Drawing Lesson
6. Finished chapter of insect life cycles in our Zoology book.
7. Proverbs Bible Study
8. Independent reading for 30 minutes.
9. Typing for 15 minutes.
10. Spelling
11. Read one chapter from The Cabin Faced West and a book about how Native Americans gathered their food and what kinds of food they ate.

Tonight it has been lots of computer time and reading. Waiting for Diners, Driveins, and Dives to come on then off to bed. Tomorrow will be another busy day.

Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka finally arrived. We have finished two performances and have one more to go. This is grace in her costume for Veruca Salt right after today's performance. The rest of the pictures are not the greatest quality. It was very hard to get good pictures. Many variables - such as lighting and me doing the sound while the program was taking place.

This is Grace doing her solo "I Want It Now" in the nut room.

This is most of the cast in the scene where they come in to the factory for the first time. We had edible candy ont he backdrops for them to taste just like in the movie and the brown in the middle is the chocolate river.

Food Pantry

Every month me and Grace help with our church's food pantry. This month we all wanted to do something a little more special for the families that came to the pantry. We collected toys to hand out as well as bags of fruit and bags of goodies to go along with the box of food. Every food pantry day is busy but this one was crazy! We open at 10 but had people waiting at 9:15. By the time we actually started there was about 30 people waiting to get in. Each family/person has to talk to a counselor before getting their box. We simply ask how they are doing, if they have any problems, and ask to pray with them. We handed out 104 boxes and actually ran out of food before our closing time. That is a first for us. I think in the future we may have to make more boxes. It is such a blessing to be able to work there and many of the same people return each month so you get to know them. It is also a very humbling experience to see so many families with so little.