Every time I turn around...

It seems like every time I turn around these days Caleb is getting into something or coloring on something.  Jumping on the bed, when he's been corrected for it MANY times.  I'm not complaining.  It's just an observation. He can be very good. Play legos and look at books for hours at a time, but this just seems to be the week:)  This morning I was making eggs for breakfast and he was supposed to be putting the plates on the table.  He does this often without any problems.  For whatever reason he put some plates on, but held onto a Tupperware plate. I was transferring the eggs onto a plate and when I turned around I saw this tupperware plate melting onto the stove burner!  I'm not really attached to the plate or anything, but wasn't looking forward to trying to get the plastic off the burner.  Thankfully Scott got it taken care of once it cooled:)  Thanking the Lord for a wonderful husband!!!  What possessed Caleb to put the plate there, rather than on the table, I'm not sure, but that's what happened.
   Kiersten has been getting into her fare share of things this week too:)  She pulls things out of the trash-Yuck!  She climbs on Caleb's bed, crawls to the edge and stands up.  Thankfully it's only a foot from the ground and carpeted:)  She seems to have really good balance though, because she hasn't fallen off YET...
   Last night we went into town early.  They were having an ethnic foods taste test.  It was pretty good and the kids liked it because it had rice, but I'm thankful we had a bite to eat before we left, since there were only 3 things to try and they weren't very filling.  Not sure if it's just me, but I've found that I just like to eat at home these days.  Restaurant food can be a nice break, but it's always more satisfying when we've done the work to make it ourselves and sit down to eat after a busy, productive day.  Could be just me, but it's also good for the pocketbook:)  Not sure how some people afford to eat out as often as they do, but I sure am thankful that the Lord has given me the desire to be at home and spend that time with the family that He's blessed us with.

  This morning the air was filled with geese flying south for the winter.  Kinda nice that we're in the flight path.

Amazing how God has instilled this migratory instinct in birds.  I wonder if there are some birds that rebel against this instinct, saying to themselves that it's too far and too much work?  Just like us humans that are told to do certain things, but refuse to listen to God's leading because it's too much work or too much to give up.  Some birds would die as a consequence, just as many of us, often die as a consequence of our choices.  How many of us know where we're going when we die?  I, for one, have no doubts that I'm going to Heaven when I die, but many others do not.  There are so many left to tell  and so many who "choose" not to accept that there's only one way to Heaven.
  After the "little taste" we took the kids to the park.  It was nice to just watch them play for awhile and run off the extra energy they stored up from being inside with all the wet and cold weather.  Last night the sun came out and it's out again today.  We haven't seen much of it this summer and we're praying for it to be sunny and warm for the next month and a half so the farmers can get their crops in.  It's already dipped below freezing a couple times though, so hopefully the crops will still be okay to sell.  I think they just get paid less for them.  Still learning about this farming life:)
  Well, Elyssia is just about done with her handwriting, so I should go start Garrison's lesson.  His next letter is E - Elephant.  It's neat to see it coming together for him. He's able to put some words together.  Almost has psalm chapter 1 memorized and continues to LOVE school.  Elyssia is getting into some more challenging stuff right now, but continues to do well with Reading, handwriting, science and geography.  Math is coming along for her, but seems to be her weakness.  I think we'll be starting Math-U-See next week.  It will help her to picture things in her mind and it should go more smoothly after that.
  So, til next time...