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| Lunch Date |
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| Homemade jerky |
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| A muddy run! |
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| 100th day at school |
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| A special snack for 100th day |
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| Family time last week |
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| Emma at L.L. Bean |
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| Ice Skating last week. |
We did get away for a night last week to Portland. We stayed in a hotel with a swimming pool, and spent some much needed time as a family. All of our kids enjoy water, and of course, no trip to the city would be complete without a stop at Sams Club!
The boys ice rink has not faired well with all this warm weather and rain, so it might be the end of the ice skating adventures for this year. Roger did get a jerky making kit with a gift card he was given to Cabela’s, so they enjoyed making that this week! And actually, the jerky turned out really well. Now the task has been dividing up the jerky equally! We also put our kids on a media “fast”, so no Wii, no you tube, nothing electronic. I don’t think our kids spend a lot of time on devices anyways, but with last week being break, they did spend more time than normal. We are only putting them on a five day media “fast”, but its helped boosted their creativity and reading time.
It was nice that Roger was able to have off a few days in a row last week, so that we could spend time together. Once we spring forward in our clock schedules and the days continue to get longer, our time becomes more limited. I’m not complaining...I’m very thankful for Roger’s job and his boss. We are planning to have Roger’s boss and wife over for lunch on Sunday, so I’m looking forward to that.
This week we celebrated the 100th day of school...finally! I spend some time on Sunday afternoon preparing for 100th day on Monday, but it was a fun day. I printed off random facts about 100; we had a little contest to guess which container had 100 of something, and we had a special 100th day snack. I think the students had a good time with it, and its good to have special times every once in a while. While time flies for me...I don’t think the students always feel that way!
Emma enjoyed a play date with a friend this week, and Roger and I were able to get away for a lunch date...hooray! Emma has been trying to have a play date with her friends Ryan and Lucy for the entire month of February. The first two weeks in February we had snow days. The next week was winter break, and finally this week, the play date happened!
I have so much more that I planned to write, but this is just a short and sweet update on our family adventures this week.
Out of curiosity, how many of you are concerned about the Coronavirus? How many of you have kids that attend a school that does NOT have a winter break? What are your favorite winter activities to do as a family? There’s some of my random thoughts fo the week! :)
We are preparing for our Haiti trip, and our first payment for the missions trip is due next week! It’s becoming real. Please pray that we will be able to get good prices on our airline tickets. It takes a while to get anywhere from Maine, and we would love to see God provide tickets that are not high in price. The cheaper the airline tickets, the more money we have to leave for the ministries there in Haiti.
We had a devotional on encouragement this week. It was pouring down rain this morning, and Travis managed to find this umbrella in the closet. He was so sweet to meet me at the door of our house to walk me to the van this morning. I was so encouraged by his sweetness. However, the way he was holding the umbrella was causing the water to drip right down my neck! It was a bit chilly, but I just told him to hold the umbrella over me and we would run to the car! I don’t want to discourage his thoughtfulness!
God is good and faithful, and while I am sometimes weary in well-doing, our God is never weary! Now thats an amazingly encouraging thought!
Love, Sarah
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