Tonight Sadie gave me a message from the bathtub, it was "Hey, M-O-M, I'm going to tell you something...I, finger space, L-O-V-E, finger space, Y-O-U." For those of you aren't familiar with finger spacing it is apparently the current method of teaching writing, Sadie very carefully puts her finger at the end of the word before starting writing the next one (or in this case, spelling out the message for me). She brought her first progress report home the other day and it appears she is perfectly average for her grade-level, which I am happy with. Truly, she is learning a lot and seems to love it, for me that's more important than what reading group she is in. My mom likes to read the John Roseman (not sure if I spelled that right) column in the newspaper and she cut out an article for me to read. He spoke of a school advertising the high grades of their students and also the colleges their students were accepted into, never mentioning anything about their character development focus. I know that the majority of character training is to happen at home but I think that education in general is losing the "well-rounded" emphasis it used to carry. Truthfully I think education is slightly over-rated, I don't intend to send my children off to a 4 year school for the experience of it. I pray that by that time we have helped guide them into decisions for actual careers, unfortunately a college degree alone will not get you a job anymore. I feel like we are just getting our feet wet with this whole school thing, as our first-born is just a couple months into school, so by no means have I figured this thing out. I often wonder, "should I be homeschooling? Should they be in private school?" But for now my goals for Sadie, and hopefully the rest, are to learn how to learn, to enjoy the process, to be a good friend, to learn to respect authorities besides her parents, and (like I tell her everyday) to "shine as a light for the Lord."
As for my boys, they are finally starting to bond a little better. When David was born Sadie and Eli played so well together, but their personalities are night and day from each other. Sadie was bossy and Eli allowed her (and still does) to direct all play, so it worked well. Eli's favorite activity with David is still to touch his face, which now just irritates the fire out of David, so we have daily talks about "all having fun" and Eli has found a few other little games that make them both laugh. Steven apparently has said one too many times that Eli needs to get tough because tonight he was crying after getting hurt and I said "Eli, you're ok, you need to get tough," then Sadie replied with "Yeah, Eli, if you don't get tougher Daddy is going to sell you or something." Poor little guy. At this point it appears that David is plenty tough, too rough to be exact. Thankfully he redeems himself with sweet snuggles and his vocabulary is really growing, but man is he intense. It's amazing how different kids can be, I'm so thankful for the little boogers. I don't think I'll let Steven sell any. :)
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you can count your blessings this week and enjoy the family and food! I know I will try to keep a thankful, joyful heart, remembering most of all my salvation. "Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift," (we read that today in church but I can't remember the reference). Goodnight!
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