Moving Right Along

We have a cover....

... to a new book.  Now we wait for the actual book!

 

Art Show Tonight

Peri has an open house art show here tonight, from 6-9 pm.  She has a new "line" of cute ceramics for kids, pictures of which we'll put into a photo album as soon as we have them.  For more information about the show, Download open_house_ad2007c.doc .

KD

Haggai (aka, Hey Guy)

One of the daunting challenges of my elementary education was the dreaded memorization of the Bible's Table of Contents.  Most kids tucked away those sixty-six books pretty quickly.  I also remember there was a similar cadence in all their voices as they recited them, and they all seemed to take their first breath at the same place (right before 1 Samuel, if I recall).  But I simply had trouble with those pesky minor prophets, and especially Haggai.  Fortunately, though, I have a resourceful mother.  She came up with the useful mnemonic of waving every time I got to Zephaniah, which reminded me that the "Hey guy" book was coming up.

Well, she's at it again, but this time with the grandchildren.  Olivia had a particularly difficult spelling test the other day, but she worked on it with Grandma.  One particularly troublesome word was "isolation" (strange, given the high difficulty level of some of the others, including the German ones), which Olivia wanted to spell with an "e" in place of "o."  (It makes some sense now that I say the word to myself.)  Grandma told Olivia to remind herself the following: "I SO wish to get this word right."  The result: See number 21.

More lighthouse fun

Olivia is bringing her lighthouse replica to school today, which is apparently monstrously huge compared to her friends' models (What can I say? I thought it was supposed to be dollhouse size.)  Here's how it stacks up against the real thing (note: I - er, we - didn't add the wings.  We're claiming that ours matched the "original style" of the lighthouse).

The Light Stays On

A little poetry from the eldest, who is currently studying this Michigan lighthouse.

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An artiste in the family

After a recent regional competition, Olivia's mixed-media piece, "Autumn Landscape," has landed a place in a display of the top hundred elementary selections statewide.  It will be displayed in the state capitol in early July.  We're proud of you, Olivia!