SATURDAY~Paintball: The older three boys went with the chapel's youth (and a couple of teachers, a dad, and a chaplain) to play paintball today. They had a blast.
~Pizza Party: I drove Arielle and Nolan to meet up with the older boys and the rest of the chapel children for pizza at the Fellowship Hall.
Yumm. (
Zander asked for Burger King, so he, Stacia and I headed there).
~Program Practice: The older 5 children had play practice until 3:00.
~Shopping:
Zander, Stacia and I headed for the stores. I told
Zander he could pick out the stocking
stuffers. We went to dollar store type places and he had a blast. We came home and were stuffing stockings when Josiah called to say they were done early and he would drive everyone home.
~MORE SHOPPING!: Earlier in the week, I'd shopped to make sure all the children had nice clothes for this Sunday.....when they came home they said they are to wear jeans and a red or green shirt....oops....back to the store on SATURDAY NIGHT....in DECEMBER to find 5 red or green shirts. Arielle came with me and we had a great time. She voiced what I was thinking, "This is nice, but it would have been nice to know before now that we needed the shirts!" ::snort:: This is fine because I'd begun to realize that if they were their nice clothes this Sunday they'd have nothing for NEXT Sunday. I'm covered.
~Tabitha: We are really enjoying our leisurely reading this year. The children are asking if there are other books like this for throughout the year...but I don't know. We talked about how to do 7 days of reading for the 4
th week of advent since Christmas is the day after the 4
th Sunday. We are considering reading two nights every night this week...what are some of you doing? I don't think we want to come home from Christmas Eve service and try to read 7 nights of Tabitha....
~More reading: Stacia fell asleep during Advent reading. Nolan and
Zander asked for the "
dino book" after Tabitha. We read. I got out the packing tape and taped the book once again - that poor thing is barely holding together. I "should" buy a new copy...but this one is special....all since
Bre have loved this copy of this book.
~Odds and Ends: I bought a couple of birthday banners today. In the child's name place I wrote Jesus. We hung one on our back fence (alley) and I hope to figure out how to display the other in the front. My celebrate sign and nativity have taken a BEATING from the wind. I don't know that they will live through this season. I bought a sign that says "it's a boy". Seemed like a good idea at the time...but now it seems flippant. They don't make "it's God" signs....or "
it's savior". I'll have to think on this.
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Zander went and met some neighbor kids today - and they didn't seem real open to the idea of him joining them...but we'll see.
LOL