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Today is our first day of school. We are beginning by only someof us being home. Shawn is still in Brooklyn, and Danny went to work with Dan. Troy and Andy will be going with me to run errands, and take some friends who don’t have a car to the Dr.’s.
We always bring along flash-cards to use while we wait, and the boys love it!
Rachel is still sleeping. She likes to do things by the book. I mean she likes to use text books for her school work. Personally, I don’t like text books. I like living books, and try to use as many as possible with my younger kids, rather than or in addition to using text books.
We have a really cool book called “You Can Change The World”, by Jill Johnstone. It is written for kids to see how kids in other countries live, and what religions they practice. It tells how we can pray for them, and if they are persecuted if they are Christians. I will be doing a Country a week with my boys, and I expect to see them wanting to be prayerful and compassionate with other kids more often.
I better go, it is time for all our running errands and taking people places.
Off to our car-school (at least for today)>


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