Mom

What a simple word, just three letters. But what power is behind three little letters: charity, compassion, hope, best friend. Mine is in a bad way. Had a stroke. Going to die. I'm going to miss her so much. I already do.

School

We've had a great start to our new year and have a few goals that we are going to do. I'm sure everyone will agree that keeping goals is easy to do in January and progressively harder throughout the year. So we are going to keep goals for FHE this year, meaning that each Monday night we will evaluate how we did on our goals for the week. I'm hoping this will keep the fire of goal keeping alive. I've had a goal for awhile to start teaching Gavin little things. Today we started what he calls "chool". My neighbor gave me a great chalk board and so today we used it for our first lesson. I found some great websites for pre "pre" school. Here's the one I'll be taking my ideas from: http://pammshouse.com/Weekly_Lesson_Plans__Age_2.pdf
I liked that it had a Christian theme to it because I really wanted to incorporate the Gospel more into our daily lives. But I also really liked these other websites too. It was nice to get ideas of where to start Gavin, I wanted to make sure things would be at a good level for him.
I was glad that Gavin had a great time today because I was so excited to start teaching again and to use my degree to teach my children. Here's a picture of him having snack time with his Rabbit. He even made sure that Rabbit had milk and crackers. He's getting so big and so fun to have around. I can't believe he's going to be 3 soon.