Excuses Excuses

Please excuse my lack of blogging lately. 1) We still don't have the internet at home yet. Hoping that we will be able to change that soon. 2) Nothing big has happened in the last several weeks. We are trying to get a routine down and are still working out the kinks. Therefore, that leaves me not much to blog about. Unless you want to hear my woes about not being able to walk due to the P90X workout video I did on Friday. Today is Sunday. Ouch!

Elianna working out

"School" update

Right now Elianna and I are doing "school" 4 days a week but I think we will be scaling it back to 3 days a week. Not because she can't handle it - because she has been doing great! - but I want to be more intentional in my meeting those in our community. I recently found out that our local library has a morning story time which we attended this morning. They actually have a Tuesday pajama story time - isn't that the cutest?! We also want to make a regular habit of going to the play place in the mall hoping to meet other moms.

"School" has been going very well with Elianna. She is excited each morning to find out what we are going to be doing. Right now we are learning "B is for butterfly". We did 2 weeks of "A is for apple" and that was about all that I could handle. I think 2 weeks on each letter will be all that my sanity can handle at one time. We read a short section from a book, color a pages which incorporates the letter we are working on, a page that helps with counting or eye hand coordination (drawing along a straight line, etc), go over what she learned in children's ministry the previous week at church, a hands on activity and Bible time. It sounds like a lot but we fly through it pretty fast. We usually are in "school" for about 1 hour.

We have also been going through the days of creation during her Bible time. We are now on our 5th week of creation. Granted we do one creation week every 2 weeks.

I have also been incorporating more crafts into what we have been studying. For Day 1 of creation, we made a light box. For Day 2, she taped cotton balls onto the "sky" on her paper. I got all of my craft ideas for creation from I Can Teach My Child. If you have small children, Jenae has some great ideas!

Elianna has been doing great and I am so proud of her and consider it a wonderful privilege to contribute to her learning process.

She enjoys sorting puffies, as she likes to call them

Her first craft: cut two pieces of wax paper into whatever shape you desire. Sprinkle shaved crayons in between the pieces of paper. Place paper towels over top and iron so that the crayons melt. It turned out a lot better than I thought!

ELIANNA Joele Promersberger

Whew! She knows how to say her whole name. Now we just have to work on spelling it. It may take a bit longer for that one. Right now she spells her name E-L-I-A-A-N. Hmmm.. She's got all the letters just a couple mixed up. We'll keep working on that.

Starbucks

Recently, God answered a huge prayer and granted Chris a job at Starbucks. So far, he enjoys the challenge of learning all the different drinks and their proper ingredients. I never knew there were so many different drinks. And so many that are so similar. That's where the challenge lies for sure!

Working at Starbucks provides 1) an opportunity for Chris to meet many people 2) great benefits! and 3) a pound of free coffee a week. And in case you didn't read that properly. A pound of free coffee a week. A week. Wow! That's a lot of coffee! If a pound shows up on your doorstep - it's from us. A pound of coffee that is.