End of a Season

With a loud buzz that season ended.
The final score - 44 to 23 with Tyler Heat winning.
Will played two quarters of the last game, tried for four baskets (all ALmost scored), and assisted on many successful scores. It was his best game yet and he ended on a proud note.

Will started playing basketball at a series of skills and drills workshops in October and he decided we should sign him up for the local home school basketball team when they had registration in November. It was a crazy four and a half months with practice four hours a week and one or two games on some weeks, but we were surrounded by other Christian home schooling families and coaches and kids who were kind and encouraging. Overall, it was a great experience for Will and for the rest of us, too. Below are some pictures I snapped with my phone just to prove I was paying attention to the games ;)

Cutting Onions

Sermon Doodles

I really DO listen to Brother Ray's Sunday sermons, but I sometimes have to ask Allen to tell me what words go in the blanks if I didn't look up at the screen at the right time. Somehow, when I doodle, I can clear my mind of grocery lists, menus, task lists, and more and just draw...and listen.

Backseat Costumes

Today, at Venture, was Star Wars day. I snapped this picture after school as we waited in the car for Will to get out. Two little Leias and Hans Solo.

Sweet News

Fundraiser garners $32K for Parental Care Ministries Children in Uganda
Published on Monday, 1 February 2016
Tyler Morning Telegraph

A fundraiser that included two Tyler Great American Cookie Co. stores raised more than $25,000 to provide shoes and socks for orphaned and needy children in Southwest Uganda.

Dough Rollers, which owns 17 cookie, pretzel and coffee stores in Texas - including the two Great American Cookie Co. stores in Broadway Square Mall - had the “Give Shoes. Give Joy.” fundraiser in December.

We were facing the official photographer, but I don't want to pay for that photo. This one was taken by Jon. Photo above includes donors, PCM staff, and some of us going on the shoe trip in March.

Froggie First Aid

After watching Will's sewing lessons, Ben brought down a stuffed frog that needed to be mended. He learned to thread the needle, tie a knot in the thread, then he gave his loved froggie some first-aid.

Texas Flag

One of Will's assignments for Texas history was to make one of the six flags of Texas. It could have been a poster or painting or drawing, but Will insisted I teach him to sew so that he could make a fabric flag. I convinced him to re-create the current flag since is has straight lines that would be the simplest to learn to sew.

We shopped for some simple red, blue, and white fabric, I taught him how to cut the fabric, press the fabric, pin the seams, sew straight(ish) seams, use iron-on adhesive, and zig-zag stitch around the Lone Star. After making the top, put a back on and did some simple quilting to finish his Lone Star flag.

Can you tell from the smile how happy he was with his project?