What to Write?

Blog posts are fewer and farther between than ever.  Partly, it is because we have more to do than ever.  Continuing to make our house a home, teaching Abish in first grade, and all the other business of life keep us constantly occupied.  In a facetime conversation with my sister, I commented, "I don´t understand how anyone can ever be bored.  There is always something to be doing!" - and she, a very active preschool teacher, music and museum goer, and more - agreed.

concentrating on handwriting

However, I could make time to write in the blog more often if I knew what updates to give.  We haven´t really changed anything since the last time I posted.  Sure, there are a few updates.  For example, Abish started first grade in January, and he and I both enjoy the sonlight curriculum. (what teacher doesn´t love to hear their student ask to read another page?)  Abraham is Abish´s first grade teacher Mondays and Fridays, teaching in Spanish, while I teach in English Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  Thursdays I instruct elementary art at Puebla Christian School, and Abish now joins the other students in doing the assigned art projects and drawings.

the Lorax

 Like last year, at the beginning of this month, we celebrated Read Across America with many Seussian activities, both at home and at PCS.  There are so many fun ideas online for the books that we focused on Dr. Seuss for four days and still didn´t do every activity I planned.

the corner of the bed, fenced off to keep poultry out

With warm weather here to stay for the next few months, I can now go crazy with the garden.  We have so much lovely space!  - with weeds, moles, gophers, our duck, my mother-in-law´s free-range chickens, and poor soil to take into account.  To combat the challenges, we will be using raised beds to grow our vegetables, herbs, and flowers.  Abraham built our first bed several months back, and now I enjoy seeing the new seedlings springing up after last week´s planting.  How exciting it was, two weeks ago, to receive a package of seeds, ordered from Baker Creek Seeds, in the mail at PCS.  (side note and shameless promotion - Baker Creek mails for free in North America!) As soon as I can finish the beds, marked off with recycled bottles collected from litter in Huejotzingo, Abish and Lani will each have their own place to plant, too.

As for the Bible studies, kids´ club, math and English classes, Abraham taking turns preaching at Dios es Amor, both of us helping to teach Sunday school, and crafts or cooking with pre-teen girls, all continues as before.  The Sunday afternoon group is smaller now that a family moved out of the neighborhood.  They had promised to send the kids still, but have not followed through.  One addition to the classes previously listed is that I began teaching basic reading and math to a six-year-old who does not go to school.  Hopefully, her grandmother will continue to take her to the classes every Tuesday and Friday.  Abraham and I go to her house on Wednesdays.

We will soon need to start writing our curriculum for the vbs.  Ours will be July 15 - 19.  The theme will be the life of Moses.

Thank you for your prayers and support.  Please pray for our health and safety and for wisdom as we lead Bible studies and teach the variety of classes.  Pray also for a family in Huejotzingo that we have known for a long time.  Their lives rival any soap opera for suffering and problems.  Pray also for another person we have known for long time in Huejo who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer.