Post Christmas Update

We started back to normal  this past Monday. We were ready for it. The boys all mentioned being ready to get back to serving at Bertha's Mission. It had been closed for 2 weeks, and we missed the week before that because of sickness.  I'm not so sure they would admit being ready to get back to doing school work, but I personally like routine.

 Pictures I took for the home-school yearbook.  They weren't extremely excited about having to have their pictures taken:

  

I'm trying to teach Justin at least one day a week to cook a meal.  The main dish was some type of delicious pork recipe that I found on pinterest.  I figured if we make something really tasty, it will be encouraging to him.  He was really proud of himself at the dinner table.

There is a story about the picture with Ryan holding his copy-work. I told him that he could choose a paragraph from one of his favorite books to copy.   Well, this is what the paragraph says:

"And he drew the bowstring, and let fly the sharp arrow.  Antinous, motionless with surprise, sat with his head turned toward the doorway and his drinking cup poised in mid-air.  The arrow struck him in the throat.  Blood gushed from his mouth and nostrils, and he pitched forward on his face."  (From The Adventures of Ulysses)

Now you know why he is grinning that way.  Boys!

 The doodle picture is a picture that Jonathan drew while at the mission on Monday. The man is Pastor Bob, and the others are the other ladies who volunteer.  There are a couple of people not pictured because they weren't there that day, but he intends to add them in.  The ladies at the mission want to put it up on the wall. The lady with the blonde hair and the big grin was a really great resemblance!  Especially her eyes.