The Jungle:
Miscellaneous:
The Butterfly House:
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. -Psalm 33:6-9
We made a bonfire a few days ago, and cooked hot dogs on it.
It was sooo fun
I think it is the first fire we’ve made after Lu came home. She’s kind-of afraid of fire and she was definitely cautious around it, but she did good–and I think she had fun. 🙂
My family. . .
Minus Michael, who was too busy to stay at the table.
Turns out fires are fun to take pictures of!
Happy Monday!
We went to the Omaha Cystic Fibrosis (or CF) Walk on the sixteenth with some friends from our home-school group whose daughter has CF.
The whole family got T-shirts!
There were some little ponies there! Lucy was a little scared of them, but I think she enjoyed taking pictures.
We got Mama new mulch as a Mother’s Day present. We also added the rocks right here. I love the way they look!
We had some mushrooms growing in our yard.
I’m a fan of mushrooms. They’re cute. #IKnowImCrazy
And no, we don’t have different colors of mulch. It just looks like that in the pictures. 🙂
And we went over to our friends’ house last Sunday, and their daughter found a rabbit’s nest while we were there–with baby rabbits in it! We tried to count how many, but I don’t think we ever came to an absolute.
Their eyes weren’t even open yet! They were sooo cute!
Lucy tried on one of their dress-up dresses while we were there. It looked lovely on her, but this picture turned out blurry and the lighting was horrible. 🙁
We bought a professional popsicle mold. . .
. . .and Mom and Michael made popsicles today!
We ate them before they were really frozen! They were still good though! 🙂
I just noticed that older post I linked to up there included my first reference to The Sacrifice on here!
Mom and Michael cooking together a few days ago.
Mom’s pan. . .
. . .and Michael’s bowl. That’s water, elbow noodles, cinnamon, a few confiscated potatoes, and who-knows-what-else! 🙂 He likes to mix things–anything.
Lucy: Good job, Michael! Me: Can you say thank-you, Michael? Michael: Thank you, Lucy! Lucy: You're welcome Michael: You're welcome too!
Hmm. . . not exactly proper grammar, Michael! He likes to say you’re-welcome. 🙂
Happy Friday, guys! What have you been up to?
This is technically my first week of summer break, but I am still finishing up history. When I get done with it, we will take a break from 18th century historical fiction. 🙂
Anyway, I do not think I had ever heard read or even heard of Fair Wind to Virginia by Cornelia Meigs before I read it for school last week. I was not sure how much I would like it, but I really enjoyed it!
It is about two children (Eleven and thirteen) who are sent to Virginia simply to get out of England because their father made the mistake of speaking his mind about King George. In America though, they are rejected by the governor whom they were supposed to go to for help, and are begin looking for a way to live on their own until their parents can join them. Thomas Jefferson plays a big part in the story, but I believe most of the main characters are fictional.
And for anyone who starts it and begins to wonder how things are going to work out (spoiler alert) it has a wonderful ending–a practically picture-perfect, satisfying, Cinderella-like ending. So don’t give up. 🙂
To Peggy and Hal it seemed, for the first time, to represent what men dreamed of when they spoke of the New World. (142)
“Mystery Quote” time again! 🙂
Wow. I finally managed to ‘stump’ you guys (to quote Leah 🙂 ). Though that part of the book doesn’t have a lot to do with the problems being faced in the rest of the books and was left out of the movies, and isn’t as popular. Also, like I said, the second character only comes in in that chapter, so that probably threw some people off. Anyway, our next quote:
But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.
Hmm. . . this might be a hard one too. I know it’s a popular book though! Happy guessing!
P.S. Click here to read Spencer’s Memorial Day post. Just sayin’, it’s really good!
P.P.S. You should totally watch this! “Jesus Loves Me” in Chinese, with a little cartoon to go with it. It’s so cute! There’s also English, Spanish, and Russian versions by the same people you could look for.
M and L couldn’t wait for our home-school group’s Talent Exhibition…
So we had our own in the living room.
Setting up the tripod so L could film it.
Announcing the performers!
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We’ve been having a lot of rain!
I LOVE how those pictures turned out!
M discovered that he liked bowties. . .
. . . and got a pet horse! 🙂
Pretending to be cats:
I think this was inspired by the movie Aristo Cats.
But Lucy is still ‘into’ Cinderella. Like crazy.
Thanks for the dresses, Grandma. She loves them.
Never a dull moment with those two around! 🙂
Most of our daisies still look like this. . .
. . .but just of couple of them are really and sincerely blooming. Yippee!
Any of you who are now thinking that I am a little too ‘into’ flowers, you are totally, absolutely, and completely RIGHT.
Getting a camera made me like this.
Really, just blame it on the camera. . .
I wasn’t brave enough to get closer to this bee. . . and this is zoomed in! I kind-of have a phobia of bees.
I’m in this flower-photos craze, and I’m running out of flowers to photograph! *sigh*
So I’m taking pictures of antlers instead. (I know I’m crazy, so you don’t have to mention it in your comment–but feel free.)
Happy Wednesday, guys; thanks for putting up with crazy me! 😀
A post I wrote was featured on the Sparrow Fund blog again! You can read it here. I just wrote it recently, and I didn’t post it on here. (Unlike “Broken”.)
Also, I need more help with names. (What on earth is my problem with names???) In my next science story the main character has a little brother who is eight, and I need a name for him. I’m looking for a fairly ‘normal’ name, but something a little exotic would be fine too. Once I get a name for him and come up with a really strong line to end it with, I’ll be ready to post it! (Yay!)
Also, sorry I never got back to you guys on this post. I’m still deciding on what names I’m going to use, but Christina suggested Amy and I know I’m going to use that one. I’ll probably decide on the rest of them when I get to the characters in the story.
Thanks!