Tuesday, February 16, 2010

School Days

ICT lesson...

Physical Education - obstacle courses...



To answer the question from the previous post about school - the children really enjoy school most of the time. The "main" teacher enjoys school especially the organising part of it all! Also finds school to be a learning experience - in many ways!

Homegrown - yum!

Thanks be to God, we daily are enjoying fresh homegrown produce. We have eaten well over 50 zucchini in the past number of weeks, along with cucumber and tomatoes every day... beans, capsicum, lettuce, snow peas, and corn. There are a lot of pumpkins almost ready, beetroot not far behind, as well as more of the above listed vegetables. Bear brought in a big bag of homegrown apples this morning. We are so thankful how God has provided the rain, and grown all of this for us!

Our tomato bushes have been laden with tomatoes. Here is a small sampling of a haul of tomatoes. This bunch made a batch of homemade tomato sauce (ketchup) pictured below. Have also made a double batch of pasta sauce, and have a lot more tomatoes needing to be used/cooked up.


Here are two meals that we have enjoyed with homegrown produce. The first one is a tuna salad.

And this one a hamburger. The onion, tomatoes, zucchini (in the bread), lettuce, capsicum, egg, beetroot, snow peas and herbs are all homegrown. Yum.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Can You Figure How This Happened?



Boxing Day was Bear's mummys birthday, so we had arranged to meet with them for tea. We were sitting waiting for them to arrive, and just as they arrived there was this great commotion a little way down the street. We quickly figured that there was some car accident of sorts, and we rushed and had a look. It was the most incredible sight to see. A 17 year old had stolen his mother's car, had no licence... and this is what he did. The whole structure was very precarious as the posts not knocked down were cracked and ready to fall at any time. What was absolutely astonishing was that this young man got out of the car without injury and no one else was injured even though there were thousands of dollars or damage done to this shop and surrounding cars. We overhead towns people saying that usually people would be outside on tables having coffee & cake, but not this day as it was a public holiday. We gave God thanks that no one was injured in what could have been something very horrific!

Precious People



This was taken in November, and just found it again!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

School Time

For the curious people who want to know what our school area looks like:



Leah & Sam have the same name plates, and the twins have the same:



The jobs get switched around each week. And our apple tree is an incentive/behaviour tool. They can get two apples in their basket each day at school, which will add up to awards/rewards of some sort.


Sam likes to be involved with both school & Bekah. Bekah usually happily plays on the floor or in her bumbo. The bumbo is SO great!