March Update

It amazes me how fast time flies.  My last post was March 3rd, and I really intended to start blogging weekly as least.  Here we are a month and a half later!  I guess it's been a busy 6 weeks.  Typically our week looks like this:  Mon night Wayne has men's Bible study, Tues afternoon Sierra has piano and I have women's Bible study in the evening, Wed night we all go to church for Missionettes/Royal Rangers/Fife& Drum/Flagging, Thurs night is Karate (Sierra, Anna, and now Jordan & Slava too), Friday night is Youth Group (Curt, Sierra & Andrii), Sat. mornings has been youth archery (which is finished now), and Sunday is church.  I'm tired just typing it, but this list doesn't include doctor/dentist appts, shopping, homeschooling or any of the other dozens of things that also happen during the week. But even with all of the craziness I'm content where God has me.  My daily goal is to remain in Christ, trusting He remains in me, for I know apart from Him I can do nothing.  

And I just want to bring glory to His name.

On April 2nd Curtis turned 20 years old!

 Sierra arose early and made him a birthday breakfast, which he ate before leaving for college with Slava happily keeping him company.

The annual pinewood derby was a fun time for all.  Andrii won 1st place in his Royal Ranger class and best looking car.  Jordan won fastest car in his class too.  Andrii turned 15 on April 10th also.

Anna promoted to a yellow belt.  Jordan & Slava have also joined Karate.  My goal is for them to learn self discipline, self control, obedience, and upper body strength.  I'll post pics of them  next time.

 Jordan with his car and medal.

March was also busy with Sierra going to NYSSMA, a women's conference for me, the Men's Retreat for Wayne & Curtis, Sierra had 4 wisdom teeth pulled, and our home school group started bi-weekly co-op classes.  We had a wonderful Easter.  I attended and spoke at the annual Mom's Luncheon, and the girls and I enjoyed a Missionette's sleep-over at our church.

Sierra has been taking an SAT Prep-Course on Monday nights.  She's not only ahead a year in school, but she's completed so much work that I'm now looking into setting her up with some on-line college-credit courses for next year.  She'll be a Junior, but aside from math and history, she's completed every stitch of high school curriculum we have.

I'm thrilled to be going to California for Christian Alliance For Orphan's annual Orphan Summit on May 2nd-5th.  Wayne felt I should go, so I'll be traveling with my pastor's wife, Mary, and our good friend Jocelyn.  And we were all blessed with some frequent flier miles, so our round-trip tickets only cost $10 each!!!!!!  God is so faithful and good.

I'm sure I'll have some exciting things to post again,

so please check back again soon!