RANDOM NOTES......THIS WEEK SO FAR....

Hi.  It’s been so long since I’ve written that I don’t know where to start.  And, my house is so noisy that I can hardly think.  Every room has gotten something going on it – Seth’s working on the slide show from the Headwater’s Youth Camp (music playing), Kevin’s looking for more appropriate music (more music playing), Rich is wiping the hard drive on Chris’s computer, Chris is paying bills on his laptop, Lizzie is doing homework, and I’m trying unsuccessfully to draft a devotion for tomorrow morning.  Food is being chewed loudly….

Bonnie and Wendy and grandchildren (of Bonnie) have come home safely from Evan Gorman’s wedding in Florida.  They all are enviably brown!!!!!

It was discovered that Andrew and Melani Cumming’s baby who was born with heart and lung trouble is a Down’s Syndrome baby.  I think Melani is still inAnchorage with the baby while Andrew is back in Delta with the older kids.  I heard Andrew had the two boys while his sister was caring for the younger two girls. 

Jarred is the boss on a large building (roof?) construction job in Ft. Greely. Seth and Nathan have been going with him.  They’ve been leaving at 6:30 am and coming home at 8 pm. 

The loggers went to town last week for 1 and ½ days to put together two cabin kits in North Pole. 

  

VanderHarts went to Anchorage last weekend because Micah had some neurologist appointments on Saturday.   Micah told me that he saw lots of things one being a two story McDonalds!

Tommy Geyer and Penny Clark are driving down to Oklahoma to go see their dad.  I think they’ll be moving their dad to a different state.  Penny will be spending the winter with her father. 

Rob is enjoying his school year so far. We are doing Social studies with the BJ curriculum which continues from the Mayflower and now is into the establishing of the new nation with George Washington as the president. Much has happened! The boys in the class (Micah and Clayton) are enjoying learning about the French Revolution, the guillotine, and Bonaparte. They helped me make a model of the Bastille complete with drawbridge, lego soldiers, cannons, etc. a fun time in the making...lots of scotch tape!

In science Rob and I put together a short unit on spiders. He typed out a paragraph and together we made a life size tarantula on paper. Actually a RED KNEED MEXICAN TARANTULA. Very scary looking!

Nice outside, not too cold yet but thin covering of snow. Sun is still out and pretty soon we shall watch it disappear behind the surrounding mountains until January or February...booohooo...

More another night. Too tired to write any more.