Science Fair Fun!!

Tonight, we had our homeschool science fair. I dread doing the work for them, but I absolutely love going to them and having the kids participate in them. They were very excited about participating.

Mikayla and Austin read their parts for the project.

And then they took questions from the audience.

They really did a great job and I was very proud of both of them. They did not seem nervous at all, and I was so surprised at this!!

We did our project about friction and asked which surface causes the most friction, and which causes the least.

Fun, fun, fun...

Aren't they the cutest? They grow up too fast!!

A Wonderful Day!!

The sun is shining, and the air is cool. It's windy but that didn't stop us Molanders from our biking adventure today. I have no idea how many miles we may have ridden, but we trekked from our house to the library and then back home. Even though Austin and Mikayla were absolutely pooped out when we were about ten blocks from our house, we had a wonderful adventure and the kids were really good for me. The only time we faced a bit of turmoil was when we were about to go to Dairy Queen, but when I found out that the sidewalk was all torn up and we would have been in a bit of a dangerous situation if we tried to get to Dairy Queen from where we were, I had to change my mind. So I said we would go home first and then drive to Mcd's for a Sundae. Oh, boy, nobody liked me then and three out of four were complaining. So we had about ten minutes of the blahs on our way home, but everyone was tired too, and it's hard not to be whiney when your tired.

I LOVE bike riding. I have since I was a kid-and my kids love it too. What's even more exciting is that we can all ride together for longer distances now. This is really the first year that Mikayla is strong enough to do so. I tried once last year and she was too scared to have anyone behind her and she was so much slower than everyone else. She is still slower, but fast enough to keep up from behind, and I always stay right behind her.

It's wonderful to me to have something I love, that I can share with my children. And I almost didn't do it today because I did not get my bathroom clean:-( That was my goal-clean bathroom and then go, but I got a late start today and we have somewhere to go this afternoon so it was getting kind of late to go and I still had not cleaned. Well, I thought about it. All my kids got up and cleaned their rooms, got their beds made, and did their morning jobs. And they did the things I asked them to do-it was just flowing this morning. So, I gave up my date with the bathroom to spend a beautiful day out in the sun riding bikes with my kids. I would do it again in a heartbeat, and I am telling you to do stuff like that with your kids. My bathroom will be there for me to clean later, but my kids are growing up. I LOVE spending time with them like this. So, go and enjoy this sunny day with your kids if you can. If not today, then tomorrow. Make it important because some tommorrow, they will be all grown up and have their own lives.

Praise God for the sunshine!

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Today, my heart aches. It aches for the home that God has blessed me with-the husband and children He has given to me-ME. I want so much for them-yet I struggle so much to give it away. I do not want anything else in this world as badly as I want a joyful, peaceful, loving home. There are days when I feel utterly overwhelmed-like everyone else in the world feels at times. Why does it have to hurt so much when our children fail or make mistakes, or choose the wrong thing? I suppose it is God's way of reminding us just how much we love our kids.

Well, I have to go and tackle my housework-sigh. That's a whole other story for another day. Just remember that no matter how you FEEL, God is always good and He knows what is best for us!!