A post by Lady T

In the past two weeks I've babysat Linky-dude and his sisters four times. It has been slightly difficult to get enough school work done on those days, but everybody helps with the keeping of, entertainment of, and care of the trio, and so everything has gone well. Mother introduced Linky-dude to "ponyrides" this week. A definition has been written below for the amusement of the reader.
"Ponyride" - A child's ride to corresponding sound (horse noises, the Lone Ranger song, made up songs, etc.) sitting on an older person (the pony)'s ankle (facing the pony) and holding hands with the same.
Lincoln seems to like ponyrides, so that kept him occupied for a few minutes each ride. Mother notes that she supposes it's probably some kind of exercise for the pony as well!

Other than babysitting, we have kept quite busy with school. School is pretty self explanatory--so that's why Jason's, my family's, and my blogs have all been on the bare side throughout the month of September.

Last Sunday, we went to the Littleton Church of God (Holiness) for church in the morning. It was enjoyable. If you read my family's blog you probably know about Mike D., who has come to see us several times recently. He attends the Littleton CoG(H) and his parents and he invited us to come to church and then have dinner at their house. So that's what we did. We had a great time. Our friends the Cruzes (half of them anyway) also came for church and dinner at the Durkees. After dinner we enjoyed some games of ping-pong. (We used to have a ping-pong table, paddles, and balls, but got rid of it before us littler folks were big enough to really play. Mother used to play a lot growing up, so she got right into it. It was really fun.)

Tomorrow, it looks like we will be having church with the Hobe Sound Bible Church as we do most Sundays, and having Bible study with the Hinkle family here tomorrow night. We look forward to both of those activities with great joy.

Yesterday I had a birthday, and we had some activities around that. I don't want to go into detail since Mother already has on our family blog.  Thank you to those who made it such a special day for me!

Miscellanious news

I have a list (of 6 things) before me, all of which potentially could be blogged about. (I didn't want to forget anything during the time I didn't have time to blog.)
It is as follows:
-Sewing machine
-Blood donation
-Babysitting
-Out of personality - school
-Finished book
-Our "perfect" day

There you go. If you're interested in any of those topics, read on! ;-)


Sewing Machine - I purchased a new sewing machine a about a week and a half ago, due to the fact that we couldn't (after searching high and low) find a belt for my sewing machine from Aunt Hazel. My new one is a Singer, and has several cool features. I hope it will be good for me for many years to come. Mother and I haven't had enough time together yet to work on figuring out how to use the 35 stitches, or how to just sew. We are planning on going to a class in early October to learn about it.

Blood donation - Although it is ill-legal for children of my age to donate blood in CO, I had mercy on poor blood starved insects and gave blood. That's right, just like thousands (or millions) of people across our country and around the world I was a victim of mosquito bites. I thank God that I have not (yet) contracted West Nile virus from my generous donations!!! (By the way, I hate mosquitoes, if you couldn't tell.)

Babysitting - I babysat Linky-dude again last Monday, but I won't today because of Labor Day.

Out of personality-School - We started our home-school year last Monday. I did something totally out of personality for me (people usually say 'out of character', but this is more of a personality thing than character, I believe.). I covered both my 3 ring binder and my notebook I use for my Algebra 2 studies with stickers. We have had a wide variety of stickers in our collection: Sunday School stickers, goofy cartoon ones, and miscellaneous others. (The BJA is a homemade-handmade paper thingy, taped with double back tape. The rest are stickers.)



Finished book - (I am so proud of myself! -just kidding- but it is very rare for me to read a whole book by myself.) I finished reading a book within the past two weeks, entitled "Tortured for His Faith" by Haralan Popov (Zondervan 1975). I really enjoyed it, and believe that I benefited from having read it. It tells the story of a man who gave his very life and all for Christ. He could have easily died in the 13 years of torture, but God preserved his life, for a purpose: God used him greatly in the salvation of, and ministering to many fellow prisoners and later in help to the persecuted church. It is amazing to me how God can, does, and will help Christians be true in terrible times and come out of it serving the Lord with far more fervor.

Our "perfect" day - Well, I really enjoyed our day in the mountains on August 23rd. You can read about it and see pictures... (if you haven't already)... on my family's blog. We had a picnic in a perfect little spot on the St. Vrain River we had never picnicked before. The only problem was all of the bees and ants who wanted our food! But it was beautiful. Then we drove and drove looking for a specific place on our map, and we finally found it. Most of us (not Mother) went on a hike there. It was absolutely beautiful. There were several campers taking advantage of the beauty and nice weather. While on the hike, we took pictures, waded in the water, and you guessed it - hiked! It was a lot of fun.

Ok, that's all the news on my list.

In other news - Today, some of the family is making grape jam, in celebration of Labor Day. Dad is off of work and we kids are off of school (except for Jeff and Jason who are trying to catch up from last week when Emily and I started school while they were still working for ABE LAWNS. They are now pretty much off of work... on "school break" :-)). I have been working on God's Girls Newsletter and all that goes with getting that out every month.

All of us kids (including the ones in MO) are working on plans for a 25th anniversary celebration for our parents in October- so I have been working on invitations for that.

I wanted to share some cute/fun/whatever pictures we stole from my cousin, Rebekah!
This is my sis-in-law, Brenda, and Bren's and my mutual nephew Quil.

This is my cousin, Leah, and my nephew, Quil. I thought it was so cute of him peaking around the fence.

This is Tim standing by Bren, who's in a hammock. I love this picture.

Cousin, Rebekah and Quil in the hammock. What a cute look on that boy's face!!


So long!