Summer Time Fun!

Summer time is such a fun time. Lots of time to do some fun activities with our kiddos now that school is out. So here is a list of fun summer time activities.


1)Water balloon fights


2)Backyard pool


3)Play in the Sprinkler


4)Playdough


5)Make cookies...color some dough and let the kids have fun cutting out their own cookies


6)Have ice cream night. Get some different kinds of ice cream and toppings and enjoy!


7)Get some glow in the dark necklaces and roast some marshmallows


8)Set up a tent in the living room and let the kids camp out


9)Color pictures or make crafts to send out to family. This is a great summer activity that we don't always have time for during the school year.


10)And my favorite...go to the beach...free and fun! If you don't live by the ocean, you could look for a nearby lake.


Just some summertime fun. I would love to hear what your summer activities are.  :)

Summer!!!

School's out! School's out! Teacher let the monkey out!!!!
Ok...Ok... I am super excited that my 1st grader has finished his school for this year!!!!!!!
We finished two and a half weeks earlier than we had expected, and this gives us a little extra summer time. Yipee!!!!!!!!!! My oldest is still finishing up, but hopefully he will be done next week.
Our kids are so excited for the Cars 2 movie to come out. Since we are over here, we have to wait a little longer for the movie theatre to show it here. I think we are going to go see it in the Japanese movie theatre this time. So that will be fun. They are getting out all their Cars toys to play with...yes my first grader still plays with his Cars toys...which I am very thankful for since they are so expensive.  :)
Now it's time to start planning summer activities for the kids. I am thinking backyard pool, and playdough. Maybe some movies and popcorn.
How is your summer going?

Announcing...

Baby number 5! We have waited a long time for this one and are so excited for him or her to arrive.
Now all there is to do is to wait to see if its a boy or a girl. And to get over the almost constant feeling of being sick...oh and the on and off dizziness...If anyone has some remedies for all day morning sickness, I would be happy to get any suggestions.

Typhoon Songda

We had our first big typhoon. We have lived on this island for about three years and this was the first big one we have had. There have been some smaller ones, but this one was big. I have to say it was a little scary too. The wind was loud! Our littlest guy came and laid down by me and hid under a blanket. We were without power for 15 hours. But praise the Lord no one was hurt and nothing of ours blew away. A lot of sheds were destroyed and trees...whole trees uprooted. I thought I would share some pictures of after the typhoon.

                                                        Some garbage by our fence.
                      That black and white stuff was part of someone's roof.

                                    This is the bottom of a  tree that was uprooted.

                                          The aftermath of the storm in the "jungle".

A Good Read

I recently found a new blog, weird unsocialized homeschoolers. I really liked her blog post entitled Dirty Jobs. You can read it here http://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/2011/05/dirty-jobs.html.
I want to add a few thoughts of my own. I have long thought that our school system should offer trade school for those kids who weren't interested in school. You know, once they hit high school, if they aren't inclined to schoolroom type learning, then why not let them learn a trade? Pare them up with a plummer or electrician, or whatever.  Let them learn the ropes. The tradesman gets free work...a help to him, and the kid learns a trade...valuable to him. There seem to be a lot of kids today who have no interest in school, and who I think oftentimes fall in trouble. Why not put them on a good solid workpath? Anyways it was a great read. I hope you'll go check it out.

A Great Read

Hidden Rainbow is a great read. It is the true  story of John and Anna Olesh. They live in a Catholic village in Yugoslavia. It shares how they become saved after a missionary stops by their home and offers them a forbidden New Testament. A great read. It can be bought from http://www.clp.org/search/results?query=Hidden+Rainbow.

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