Mayahna's Birthday

Well, I must say, other than the fact that the living room still has no furniture, we are starting to feel a bit more settled. It's still not feeling entirely like home, but having celebrated two birthdays here now, it at least feels like this place is a part of us now. School is off an rolling, that feels good. Things are going well, even with both boys home. We usually get through the main block of material by about 11, (depending on whether we got started at 8 or not - yesterday Sarah made us yummy apple enchiladas and they were not ready to eat till around 9, so that set the whole day back by an hour) That includes a nice walk mid-morning to get our blood moving again, and a snack when we get back from the walk. The girls often still have stuff to finish up in the aftenoon, but they don't usually need my help with that, so maybe I will get some time to start sorting out the mess that is some day going to be my craftroom. Annie and Emma are both in piano lessons, and doing well. In fact Annie is taking from two different teachers, one for hymns and contemporary Christian music, and learning to improvise, and one (a student at Oakwood) who focuses more on classical music. Today in Mayahna's birthday and we opened her presents this morning at breakfast. Lon was home, because his car-pool guy is not able to take him right now, so he's driving to work for a few days, so he gets to call his schedule a bit more. She got a bunch of stuff for setting up a little play house in one corner of the play room. A kitchen set, a doll bed and a doll highchair. Later today we will get that all set up for her up there. I gave the kids a light day of homeschool today, so that we would have time to go up there and play with her. Thankfully the weather is nice, (cooler) and so it is not too hot up there since the AC STILL is not fixed.