Well, running...or swimming, around San Antonio in our big white fishbowl...
I've posted some pics of the kids out and about, and I'll try to get more up as time becomes available. Our school year is in full swing, as are the extra curricular activities, and life has a way of getting in the way, especially of keeping the blog updated!
A quick review of our month:
Ella is a Cadette level Girl Scout, and as such as the added responsibility of serving on a leadership team that develops the ideas for activities the Bush/Lopez region of SA Scouts will participate in...then orchestrate the ideas into actions, figuring where the activities take place, how to advertise them, what to charge to attend them, who works them...etc. She is also in her 3rd year of Encore Youth Chorus, and as a member of the Sr.Choir has a bit more music to learn, in addition to her pieces for the adult choir at Shepherd. She is expected to be resuming cello later in the Fall...but is content with handbells for the time being. Somewhere else in there she crams in her sewing lessons, and excels in every project she chooses. (Did you know she now has a special reading nook in her bedroom, complete with a giant purple throw pillow and neck rest that she sewed just for that space?)
Natalie is in full swing at YOSA. My favorite, sum-it-all-up quote from her is "I'm amazed at my self! I'm getting right in there and sight reading better than I thought I ever could. I get to hang out with kids who ALL love music and I love it!" She also still has her private lessons weekly and is part of the church choir & handbell group. She loves her church youth group, route 56, a new-just-for-5th & 6th grade-group. She has already attended one 'fun' outing and is excited for her first servant event later this month.
Grace has a new dyslexia-oriented curriculum we've discovered, and is LOVING doing that for her schoolwork. On the days she doesn't use that curriculum, there is a marked difference in her enthusiasm, and her mood! She has begun a new semester of art classes at our Hobby Lobby, and is definitely in her element when she is there. When she isn't there, she is CONSTANTLY drawing, or riding her bike, roller skating, swimming, or rescuing skinks from hungry birds:-).
David no longer does 'Baterites' but now does 'Marvelites'. He is all about every Marvel superhero, and so long as his schoolwork has a picture or logo of any one of those heroes, he will willingly complete the page. Another 'new' aspect for this year re:school is that I've begun to place sheets within a sheet protector, and allow him to complete the work with a dry-erase pen. HE LOVES THIS!!! Truly, it is one of those 'little things' that make life happy in these here parts.
Claire is a very gifted artist, and loves, loves, loves school and learning. She outgrew her precious 'ducky' shoes (ducky as in yellow, not covered in ducks, and yes, she knows the proper name for the color of her shoes is 'yellow', she just prefers to call them 'ducky'.) and OF COURSE this happened on a Sunday. NO OTHER SHOE would do and so, yes, she went to church barefoot. (scandalous!) I found a generic-croc-knock-off shoe to hold her over until her new & authentic ducky shoes arrive this week.
Craig & I have been busy carting the children here and there, while balancing our extra duties with church and school. Craig started a new semester, and is getting used to having Saturdays off now w/o FedEx! He also had the opportunity to perform his first baptism, on our precious little Godson Noah. Even though Noah didn't appreciate the 'wet' part of baptism, Craig did fabulously, and didn't even drop the baby! I managed not to become a blubbering wreck, which is like, a record, for me and baptisms!
We've also been taking the time for a 'date' at least once every other week, and really try for once a week. Even if all we do is have a happy hour rita at Taco Cabana, it is amazing how nice it is to just sit and reconnect!
I pulled my neck/back/shoulder muscle on my left side, which has been a pain (figuratively AND literally) since life continues at regular pace and my mother, sisters, nieces and nephews all descend upon our home on Thursday! The visit will be brief, but I'm eager to cram as many memories as is possible to make in that time together....I just hope the memory of Auntie Nia as Uncle Lurch isn't one of them!
Love to All,
The Meissler 7
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