The Way Things Are

Tess is currently obsessed with a children’s dictionary that someone in CA gave the kids.  It has friendly pictures and she pores over the contents at length. Tonight as I watched her studying, she came to a page of animals.  “Mama?  Monkey.”  “Mama?  Pig.”   I...

Sand Witch pt. 2

Jac gave a nice ‘that’s cute’ chuckle to my previous post.  But then, as he attempted to fall asleep last night and pulled the covers up over himself, he got a face full of sand.  Then we both discovered sand under our pillows and in the sheets.  AUGH! For the record...

Sand Witch

The School Days are going quite well and the crowd seems to be having fun.  However, for the next few weeks, Jac is teaching 3 classes at STM in the morning, and the kids wait unitl he comes in the door to go berzeerk.  Today, the punching, kicking, pushing and...

St. Who?

As a part of our School Day, we’ve been starting with prayer and a short reading and picture of the Saint of the Day.  This is proving extremely popular with the crowd.  Today, the 27th of August, is the Feast of St. Monica, patroness of mothers. So, I had to laugh...

A Screamer

Even as I write, Tess is trying out her new preferred mode of communication: a scream that is perfect pitch and so high and so sustained you would not think it possible to come from a human.  When she does it, you can see it coming a mile away.  Her eyes sparkle, she...