I am leaving in about 2 hours for a Pastor's wifes conference. I will sleep overnight and come back late tomorrow. So I won't see my kids tonight and tomorrow because when I come back they will be in bed... Mind you, I will go check on them while they are sleeping as I do every night. They look like so peaceful when they sleep!
I sure hope I won't miss my Gang of Boyz...
While the kids were napping, I decided to put together one of the boxes... Well it took me 1 hour 15 minutes because I made an error at one point... and wiggled with the piece for about 10 minutes to put it back properly.
One down, one to go...
Maybe tomorrow...
In a previous blog, I was telling about the opportunity of toy testing we had for our family with a toy testing councill. I had done my "training" on how to fill the paperwork a few weeks ago.
We finally got our first call to go pick up the toys we would test. I am so excited. So when my two younger were sleeping, I went to pick up the toys while my husband was at home.
Here's the two boxes my kids will have to test for the next 6 weeks.
Now I just have to open the boxes carefully, put the toys together, and let my two older kids to play with it. And observe.... observe... observe. After the 6 weeks, I have to fill a report. And that's it. I can't wait to see how they will find it. When Alexandre saw the boxes, he said "Cool!". Coming from a 5 year old (almost 6), I think he is excited about it.
A few weeks ago, I bought a kit titled Make your own Igloo! from Scholastic. During the March break, I was testing the homeschooling waters with my eldest to see how it will go and not only it went well but we used the little architect we have in us to build an igloo. The results are interesting. Please check the picture below.
I wonder how esquimos could live in something like this. But according in the little booklet we got with the kit, it is supposed to be very warm in there. Maybe someday I will fly to Nunavut and try it... For now, I really like my house during the cold season.
To top it off, I will have to do daily devotions with inSPIRE for the next 9 months. So I will continue my current devotions and do regular daily time with God.
inSPIRE is a ministry from our church Sequoia Community Church for women in leadership position. We are 19 women to start this new "edition" of inSPIRE. It will be wonderful to get to know all these women.
This 9-month process will begin in April and finish sometime in December. We will have 2 two-night retreats and some saturdays meeting during the 9 months. We will develop the following aspects of our life; spiritual, physical, intellectual, relational and emotional. We will also commit to a minimum of 30 minutes per day of devotional time alone and quiet time with God.
I'm quite excited about participating to this event. Please pray for me so that God do what he needs to do so I can grow according to His will.
On Monday, we received a box full of different kind of chocolate to sell. They are doing a fund-raiser to buy another playstructure for the back yard. The school being new, there isn't much for the kids to play outside. So we sell - CHOCOLATE. So far so good, there is about half the box gone. Still a few more and it will be gone...
It brought back some memories from when I was a girl guide and had to sell calendars or chocolates. Back then the chocolate was 1$ or 2$. Now it is 3$ and up. OUF!
Anyhow, I am confident that we can go through the box. If not, no big deal...
