Totally Tickled and Slightly Tearful

I would have taken pictures to share, however my camera has 500 pictures on it and therefore is full and unusable-I know, I know.

Anyways, last night, Mikayla wanted P and J'S. For those of you from Rockford, that's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich:-). So, I told her to make one by herself. Well she got the P and then the J and the bread, of course, and proceeded to work on her project. While I was doing dishes, I heard in a very Julia Childs sort of way, "First, you have to take some peanut butter, then you swoosh it on the bread like this..." On and on she went for about a minute before I realized I should be getting this on film. I grabbed my camera and started taping her without her knowing it for about another minute before she caught me out of the corner of her eyes, turned around, stopped talking immediately and smiled while her cheeks turned rosy. It was absolutely hilarious!! My little girl is such a joy to have in our home!!

Then this morning, as I was getting ready to leave the house with Austin and Mikayla, I was upstairs putting on my make up and heard some very interesting things coming from the living room below. The night before, I ran through the states flashcards with Zachary which was very trying because he remembers very few of them. I left the cards on the end table, and I guess Austin and Mikayla were bored because they were actually using them(I guess they had to do SOMETHING since I did not want them to watch tv). I heard Austin trying to pronounce the states and Mikayla would repeat what he said. "Lousy-anna, Loosyana, oh LOUISIANA!. PennsIle-vanIa, no Peensulvania, PENNSYLVANIA, that's Pennsylvania." And so on. Again, hilarious, and enjoyable, I couldn't helped but be tickled. I love homeschooling!

Lastly, we were going out today because the third graders were doing chapel at school and we were invited to come and enjoy it. They had worked on a project about a month ago that they called there faith builders papers. They had to write about something that happened in their lives where God answered prayer, or protected them, or provided for them. They also had to draw a picture of their story, and I sat through almost the whole chapel thinking Zach was not going to read his. I was wrong. He went last, and he read about an evening in November when he was in a car accident with his family. His picture was a snapshot of the scene from above, as if he were in a helicopter filming it, and there sat the two cars that came together and changed our lives. Mikayla gasped and I looked at her. Her big brown eyes looked at me knowingly and then she smiled. I put my arms around her and the tears came-even though I fought them back. After chapel, Zach was helping clean up as I watched him, and he spotted me and made a b-line right into my arms. Those are the best hugs-and I was so proud of him!! He is really growing up!!

That's my tickles and tears for today. Hope you enjoyed them! Have a great day.