We have all had a busy fall. David is back at Akron General working more than he ever has. We are lucky to see him at all. "They" hope that things will improve schedule wise some time in February, which is nice to try to look forward to, but we have been disappointed so many times (I think nearly every time) in promises of things getting better than I am feeling pretty cynical about this one. Somedays we handle it well and other days we don't.
The children are enjoying school time at home and learning some really fun things. Jan is reading pretty well and Alec is getting the hang of it too. We have gotten involved in a Christian homeschool co-op that meets on Fridays. It has been something fun to look forward to and a good learning time for all of the kids, but especially Jan and Alec. They are enrolled in a science class together and right now are studying insects and metamorphosis. Alec is in a Knights Class - he and a group of 10 other boys learn about daily life in the Middle Ages, training for knights, being gentlemen, having good manners, etc. Last week they made a battle ax out of cardboard and tinfoil and began tripping over themselves to open doors for "ladies". Jan has learned to knit and is trying to keep pace with the girls knitting class (she is too young to enroll in the class, but they share the patterns with her and she knits with the older girls at recess). She is in an Authors Class and has worked on and illustrated two different books during her class time on Fridays so far.
Anne enjoys her preschool class but forgets how much she likes it every week and always cries when she gets there. This last Friday they had a fireman come in teach about fire safety.
I really resisted the idea of getting involved in the co-op because I thought that it would be too much "running around", but it has turned out to be a great thing to be involved in.
My Mom came out to visit in September and we had so much fun with her. For the first few days of her visit she brought a friend from our church in Washington, Sieglinde Kolberg, so that she could run the Akron Marathon. We got to see Mrs. Kolberg finish the Marathon with a really good time. David and I both got to run the relay part of the marathon, I just ran with one team, but David figured out a way to be apart of two teams - I ran a 10k leg and David ran both a 10k and then a 5k leg, one them for my team, and one of them for a team from Akron General. My Mom probably ran a 5k that day too even though she didn't enter the race! She got the kids up and ready and rushed over to the kids run and made it work for them to be apart of that race which they look forward to all year.
Every day when Pati wakes up the first thing she says is "Dadee home?" Today the answer was "yes" (at least until 5:00 tonight when he leaves for work). So we are off to do something fun together for a few hours (it might just be grocery shopping...which is really just a stop at the restrooms with occasional ventures into the actual supermarket before heading back to the restrooms).
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| From September 2008 |
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| From September 2008 |
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| From September 2008 |
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| From September 2008 |
