Had lots of errands to run yesterday morning, but we brought along our book on tape, so we "did school" in the car. We are listening to Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs. Very good book.
I had a chiro appt (45 mins away), then drove to the library to pick up books on hold and then to the farmer's market.
The kids did some seatwork and we did a few more things out of our "Waiting" unit in Konos.
We read about Jacob waiting for Rachel and boy did the kids' eyes go wide on that one. 7 years to wait??
The Bible mentioned that Leah (Rachel's sister) had weak eyes, but Rachel was beautiful. Well, when Jacob married Leah instead of Rachel and didn't know it until the next morning, this is what Hannah said:
"I guess Jacob had the bad eyes, not Leah." LOL
And then the maidservants having his children, too...the kids couldn't believe it! We had a lot of good discussion on this and the kids asked me to keep reading the Bible to find out more of what happened. After awhile they realized that Rachel's first son, Joseph, was THE Joseph they've heard so much about-they got very excited putting 2 and 2 together on that.
I showed the kids how to use the concordance to find things, so they found many verses on patience.
We worked on memorizing Isaiah 40:31 some more. I had Hannah write it out with her special gel pens on black paper in cursive.
They role-played several things that involve waiting-first being impatient, then patient. They had fun with that-they are both total hams. LOL
Pat came home early. We brought firewood in to the house for a bit (even in the summer we need a fire once a week because it heats our hot water for the house). Hannah(10) brought the horses up to the house to eat grass in the lawn and we gave each horse a good spraying with the hose to rinse off dried sweat and cool them off. As long as Slugger is on a lead rope, they stay up here and don't go anywhere. Here's a pic of Bonnie & Retro w/ Jonah(8) running up to them:
Had salmon, steamed green beans from the garden & sweet corn for dinner.
I had mentioned to Pat that it seemed like there weren't as many chickens roaming around. (We were gone for 8 days camping and a friend let them out in the morning and put them in at night.) Well, Pat counted them for me when they went in the coop and we're missing 4 of them. I don't know what happened-there's no witness of dead chickens anywhere. It looks like it's roosters missing, but I'm not positive. We're going to walk around in the woods today if it stops raining and maybe we'll discover something. Maybe they wandered off? I'm a little upset about it. I know this kind of thing happens, but it still bothers me.
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