I snapped these photos of the boys out doing chores Monday morning.

The view from the kitchen is so spectacular!!

Sometimes farm life makes it a little hard to focus on things – like school!

The lane into our farm runs through a corn field. The corn was coming down this morning, and the hum of that combine was more than we could bare!

I was SO, so proud of Eliza! She ran right out into that fierce wind and loud noise with the boys, sat there for a minute, and then turned around and said, “Moooommm! This is not working! I can’t like this! Hold you, please, Mommy!”

NO tantrum. Just words! I scooped her up, went back into the mud room to watch, and praised and praised her for her good words!

She has come SO far!

As I took some more photos, she wanted to make sure I got one of her! But she did not want me to set her down!

School is moving along again. I thought it would be harder to get back into our groove, but the Lord has blessed this very much!

Here is the line up on one couch for Bible time! Such a sweet time of the day.

And here are these two. Yep.

I am also still teaching the Old Testament Bible stories to the littles and Lane.

So the littles made Queen Esther crowns!

I started rowing a book called “The Pumpkin Runner” the week before everyone got sick.

We are still rowing it! There has been lots of fun things to do. The best part is that the story is set in Australia. Just studying the animals that live in Australia could go on and on! We are having a lot of fun with this one.

We have read a lot of go-along books! The littles are really starting to sit still and enjoy being read to. Read aloud time has always been a big part of our days here, so I am happy that they are enjoying it now!

We investigated pumpkins, of course. Do they float or sink? Why?

We also cut one open, counted seeds, dried seeds, and talked about the pulp!

We also have made lots and lots of yummy things for snack time with pumpkin in them!

The littles love, love, love anything crafts. Tate is the master of crafts, and asks for them all day long. Eliza just loves directed activities. We have a lot of fun!

I still have a lot more planned for our row of “The Pumpkin Runner.” Tomorrow we are going to make a map of Australia out of sugar cookie dough!

Have I mentioned how amazing these normal days are?! Just checking.

Thank you to everyone who has been checking on David, Kayla and Baby K! We are super excited as we wait on the Lord’s perfectly appointed time for Baby K to arrive!! Hoping and praying it is soon!!

Have a happy Thursday, everyone!!