HOORAY!! We're Done School!

We are very glad to complete our 7th year of homeschooling. Well, I have had seven years and the rest of the children have been homeschooled all their lives. I finished grade 9 and started a little bit of grade 10, the triplets finished grade 5 all except for their math and some science that they'll work on through the summer, Samuel finished grade 3 and started grade 4, and Elfrieda did Kindergarten and started Learning to Read. The triplets and I had a bit of a harder math year but we're looking forward to a better tomorrow (or "School year). 

  We have really enjoyed our weekend. On Saturday Mama, Bianca, Imelda, Edgar, Samuel, and I got up at six o'clock in the morning to go to a HUGE garage sale. We had a lot of fun finding bargains and treasures. I got brand new Sketchers for a dollar, and I also got a stand to prop books on to play violin. I found a neat piano duet book called Hooked on Easy Piano Duets, it came with a CD with all the songs recorded. Some of my favorites are these: "Peter Piper" (Frank Mills), "The Music Box Dancer" (Frank Mills), "Canon in D" (Johann Pachelbel), and "Chop Sticks" (DeLulli). I'm hoping to learn those duets with somebody. 

  We found a lot of other treasures including a Willow Tree Figure of a man and his wife. We got home around 7:30 a.m.. Then I made waffles and mama made homeade pudding for breakfast. YUMMY!

Daddy and the boys went to work and I took Elfrieda and Leandro to the garage sale since they didn't go early in the morning while Mama and the girls worked at home. 

 Janice and Nacho came around 2:30 and we had Rollkuchen (A Mennonite specialty) with our first watermelon together. It was really good. We had lots of fun with them until 5:30 p.m. when they went home. 

  Eric and Anna came in the evening and we had a really good time with them too. 

  Today, we went to church and had fellowship meal. It was really good. Elisabeth and I played a few games of Dutch Blitz with ups-and-downs. It has been raining all day and now we're just having a relaxing afternoon at home.

                                   Enjoying, 

                                                  Yesenia

Cleaning the Truck

We cleaned the truck for Daddy yesterday and we enjoyed it. I was waiting for something to blog about and so I decided that this was a good opportunity. The boys vacuumed and wiped it and then Samuel and I put a protective coating on everything. Afterwards, everyone helped wash and dry the outside.

Leandro, wearing Edgar's helmet.

Busy, busy Samuel

The vacuumer, Leandro

Me, doing the protective stuff.

Lots of help.

Elfrieda told met to take a picture of her smiling...

and then one where she was working.

Leandro cleaned all the tires, and he was proud of it.

Three busy sisters.

Later on, we dried it and I took some pictures of the truck to put on Kijiji.  
                                                            Bye for now,
                                                                                   Yesenia

Something to Think About

Love is spontaneous but it has to be maintained by discipline.
Neither natural love nor Divine love will remain unless it is cultivated.
           -Oswald Chambers-
Just think about it for a while. Think about the meaning of each word in particular.

Washing the Driveway

  We children thoroughly washed the driveway on Tuesday so that we could put sealer on it. Since we have an exposed aggregate driveway (Yes, I'm a cementer's daughter) we have to put sealer on it to keep it looking nice. We did it when it was just done and now it was high time that we did it again. We had lots of fun making it wet, scrubbing it, and then rinsing it off again. Here's some pictures.

Edgar (in swimming shorts so his pants wouldn't get wet)
doing the finishing spray in the carport.

Imelda, our faithful scrubber. 

 

Busy, Busy, Busy.

There's time for play in the middle of work.
(At least for little brothers)

Leandro just loved spraying.
It didn't matter if his water ended up on
people, sidewalk, or sometimes the driveway.

Samuel

Happy little sprayer.

Aerial view. :)

Putting sealer on.
Edgar poured it on and I rolled it out.

Traded posts. That boy in the background came to play.

                               Here are some pictures that the girls took the next day.
                                 They're getting to be good photographers.

Spring is Here!!!

Imelda

Bianca

Samuel

                                  

                                            A whole row of happy children.