My Ballet Girls

Last Thursday I took some pictures of my ballet girls for our co-op's yearbook. Here is my first class.


Anna and Trissity

Grace and Sydney


Mrs. VanEyk, my assistant.



My second class.


Grace

Kelly and Baylee

Rebecca and Elizabeth

Bethany and Grace

Claire and Heather

Amy Grace and Erin

Last night was amazing!! My church put on a concert called "We Believe". My music Pastor, Scott Apple, knows Shelly Harris (google her name) to come and sing with our choir. She did a wonderful job. For about an hour I held Esther, Scotts' youngest daughter, who is almost two. She was tired and fussy and had a runny nose, so at the beginning she would cry a little. We worship in the gym, so one little noise can sound loud. She did not want her water or her crackers. So I set her down after a little while and she walked over to the carpeted area between the kitchen and the bathrooms and found some basketballs. Esther loves balls. She played with them for quite awhile. Terry, Esther's mom, gave a testimony during that time. She talked about when Esther was born and how she had to rely on her faith to carry her through until Esther was healthy enough to come home. She then sang a song, Revelation Song, one of my favorites. By that time I had Esther in her stroller with her sippy cup and crackers. When Terry was singing several hands were raised. You could really feel the Spirit of God moving last night.

We did something that I had never done before. Everyone got a plain popsicle stick. Pastor Scott asked us to look at the stick and think of the biggest problem in you life right now and picture the words written on the stick. Then give it over to God and break the stick. Scott prayed and then Shelly Harris sang a song. While she was singing you could hear lots of popsicle sticks breaking. It was very moving.

They are talking about doing another one soon. If they are, I will let you know the date and time.

Moving Things

Well, we got Jessica completely moved in to her new apartment yesterday. She now lives 25 minutes away from us. :( She moved in with one of her friends whom we have known for several years. Everyone helped her move. We packed things in Jessica's car, the mini-van, Dad's truck, and my car. We got quite a work-out moving her futon, dresser, computer, table and chairs, and heavy bags of clothes from the vehicles to her room at the back of the apartment on the third floor. And getting to the front door was no easy chore either. We only had to make one other trip with her car and the truck. It is a very nice apartment. My favorite part is the big fireplace and her walk in closet.

Jessica used to sleep in the back room of our house. We have eight tall bookshelves back there and we lined them in up in the middle of the room for a divider. Four on one side and four on the other. But now we have rearranged the room. On the left side on the room is my Dad's office, the kids computer, and my Mom's scrapbook stuff. On the right is our new family room. We brought the couch down from the Andrew and Matthew's room (they have the biggest room in the house) and put it in the back. So now I can watch my movies without disturbing the younger ones while they are doing their school work.

The Indianapolis Home School Convention

This past Friday and Saturday my mom and I went to the Indianapolis Home School Convention. It was great. I went to Sarah Mally's Workshops' Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends, Raising Pure Daughters in a Generation of Darkness, and Alternative to College. It was so encouraging. I have read both her books, Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends and Before You Meet Prince Charming. Very good books. I highly recommend them.

This was my second tear to go to the convention. Last year the main speakers were Doug Philips (from Vision Forum) and Ken Ham. It was so neat to hear the them speak.

My good friend, Grace Atherton, runs a booth at the convention for the movie Pendragon. She is best friends with the main actress in the movie. Grace and I email each other a lot, but we do not get to see one another very often. So the convention is one of the ways we get to see each other.

The mom the I nanny for, Carrie Thifault, was at the convention Saturday. We ran into each other at the Lamplighter booth (I highly recommend Lamplighter). I was buying some books (Self-Raised, The Wide, Wide World vol. 1&2) there and she was asking me what books I have from them. I told her the three that I have; The Hidden Hand, Ishmael, and House of Love. She asked me if I had read The Basket of Flowers? I replied no, but I was wanting to buy it eventually. She said that she has the book but was currently loaning it out to someone. So a little later I got a call from Carrie asking if I could meet her at the Vision Forum booth because she had something for me. Mom and I made our way over there. Once we got there she handed me The Basket of Flowers. She suggested that I read it to Rachel since it is geared toward her age. I asked Rachel today if she would be open to it. She said yes. We will try to read it today but we are a bit busy at the moment.

On Saturday morning we were walking in the Exhibit hall when we were stopped by a young lady who works for The Home School Channel. She asked us if we would be willing to do an interview about purity. We said yes. We walked over to were the camera was set up and she asked some questions before she taped us. She hooked us up to the microphones and she put on the headset and started recording. She asked us questions like what purity meant to us and how we were living it? Did we date or court (we court)? How do we do courtship, why do we not to dating? And a whole bunch of other questions. Once they finish editing they will email us the video to watch. When we give them the approval they are going to publish it on their website. If I can I will post the link for it later. I am a little nervous to see the video but I am sure it will look great.