Praise God Wednesday!

I think I am going to start calling Wednesday our "Midweek Praise God Day."  I have come to enjoy this day as a time of refreshment and renewal.  I think I have always enjoyed Wednesdays as a time reflection.  You know...a day to think about how the week has been going and look to the rest of the week in hope.

However, now I see it as our day to go to skip our book work and go to the park.  We have time to learn more about nature with our outdoor art classes with Bruce.  Then leisurely have lunch (next week I hope to take a picnic lunch to reduce the stress and rush even more!) and head to Sean's speech class.  While he is doing this, we can have a little time do a little school work or read stories.  No rush or fuss there.  Then we head to the Catholic Student Center to prepare spaghetti dinner.  We get home in time to get ready for bed (no mess because we have not been home all day!).

That is what today was like for the most part.  The art group learned about persimmon and winged elm trees, as well as trumpet creeper.  Even Brendan tried to draw the leaves and twigs in his sketch book.  Why is it that the things we love to do tend to make the time go by faster?!  The time flew by ans we hated to leave, which is why we hope to take a picnic lunch.

Sean had his speech class and he did very well as he continues to learn about enunciation his words and sounding out spelling words.  He was so proud of the fact that he was able to read a passage without any errors!

We then made it back to the student center to make salad, spaghetti, Alfredo and bread.  We did this in just enough time to go to Mass.  It was nice having the help of Anitra with the prep work.  Don and Dennis were glad to have her help as well.

We went to Mass and Brendan got a little feisty and loud, and we had to leave before the end of Mass (not too bad).  Tonight Edward also served on the altar for the first time!  He did a great job but he and Sean did struggle with not arguing at the altar.  We are going to need to do something.

We ended by taking Zaira to the native plant center for her 2 month picture!  I can hardly believe that she is that old...time goes by too quickly!  She was asleep when I took her out of the car and I assumed that would be our picture.  However, she woke up and we got a great picture of her smiling.

We did, in fact, come home to a some what clean house and got the boys to bed after a little chaos.  They even fell asleep soon after prayers!  I think I will follow this example.  Good night to all who might read this blog!