1st Day of School

September 11, 2008

Well today we have officially started Kindergarten for Alexis, I know a little behind everyone else. Oh well, we're on track now.

We have decided to homeschool Alexis for this year and I'm excited for her and excited to see how we will do. She loves the one-on-one attention.

The kids are also involved in a few church related classes.

Of course there is Sunday School, Preston & Alexis both learn the same lesson just designed specifically for their ages while Carter gets loved on and watches puppet shows.
Charlie is rejoining the Motherwise group at our church, during that time the kids have separate lessons and a particular curriculum throughout the whole year.

Alexis & Preston are also in AWANA this year, first time for Preston.

Then there is our mid-week service at church, and that is also fantastic and they have a completely different curriculum for that as well.
The Kindergarten class is focusing on Children Around the World and now Alexis wants to be a missionary and is currently focusing on our neighbors. She is writing out Bible stories that she is copying from her Bible & intends on giving them out. She also wants to save a family member that does not have Christ as her Savior. It's her mission right now to get her to understand what can happen if she doesn't go to Heaven.
Preston's mid-week church class has certain words that they focus on for a few weeks at a time. The word right now is "Hard-Working" and according to Preston it simply means to "clean-up your room... & stuff like that".
Carter is just enjoying what everyone else is doing and wants to be apart of the action. He's a little guy, but he's a tough cookie and likes to get the ball rolling on wrestling with his brother & sister.

That pretty much sums up what's going on with the kids.

Travis & Charlie are doing the normal thing of keeping up with our normal responsibilities. Travis has joined the health club so he can play racquetball more often, we all know that he struggles with his weight so he needs to keep up with exercising. Note the sarcasm in the text.

I, Charlie, am trying to figure out how to balance everything and keep my sanity, is that possible? Thankfully I don't have an outside job, otherwise I don't think I'd survive.