Another school year

You will notice that I have decided to replace our kid's names with their initials here for their privacy. Since both boys have J. names, I'm going with "Big J" and "Little J" even through Big J is on the small side of his age and Little J is a chunk. :D

We are starting another new school year and you can follow our progress on our homeschool blog. Big J is going to move up from foil to saber in fencing this fall. He'll also try his hand at a round of golf lessons. R is going to try gymnastics at homeschool co-op and continue with her ballet. Little J just keeps us smiling with his expressions like, "Bye Alda-gader" for "See you later, allagator!" He will be attending the "big boy" preschool class for both hours at co-op this semester. Everyone's down with fevers and a tummy bug this week, but hopefully we will be back on our feet soon.

I've set up an new blog that pretty well ties together all my heart longings to help people in everything from infertility to illness to other life struggles. Would love your input on Harvesting Hope from Heartache™. I hope this blog will continue moving me forward toward my hope of writing a second book sometime in the future. I've also added Gurrlie Girl™, a beautiful line of Christian jewelry featuring Scripture bracelents and more, to my online sales lineup. Nothing new to report on the medical side of things for me, just still waiting for the rest of my test results from February before I can follow up with Dr. Peterson.

Rick's loving his new (since February) work with the RSCVA. We've made it away to his grandparent's cabin a couple of times this summer and Rick and I flew away all by ourselves for 3 night's celebration of our 16th anniversary earlier this month. This was our first time away, alone, just the two of us since Big J's birth and it was a wonderful time of refreshment! Rick's dad is undergoing cancer treatment and his grandmother went to be with the Lord earlier this month - a hard adjustment for all of us since the kids saw her on a weekly basis.