The worst part of Family Camp is when it ends….
and when we come home to reality and WAY TOO MUCH stinky laundry!
This photo is before they brought me all the bedding out of the camper – good grief!
Our laundry room is super tiny and inside our main floor bathroom.
I am thankful it is on the main floor of our home though!
There is no room to fold laundry in that tiny space – so I always dump clean laundry on our bed.
It is a great folding table!
Until you find it still piled there when you are ready to go to bed!
The kiddos and Ruby help fold though, so all is good.
Ruby is one well loved puppy around these parts.
I let the kiddos sleep in the Monday after we arrived home from Family Camp.
Did they ever!!
That afternoon right after lunch we had a big therapy appointment for Chad.
His therapist made him this –
I know, I know!
Those fishing lines are pulling Chad’s fingers past their ability to bend.
He wears this new splint three times a day for 30 minutes each.
No, it is not fun, BUT we have the end goal in mind here!
Chad also does four other exercises each time he takes his new splint off.
He is making progress!
Even though it is slow progress, we are SO grateful!
This is our home away from home these days – but now we just go once a week!
We jumped back into school the following day – MY FAVORITE kind of days!!
The kiddos and I are learning about Abraham and Isaac, so we made an altar with fire for our craft.
I am still reading aloud to the younger kiddos every chance we get.
They make illustrations and do narrations of the story they listened to!
After all of those beautiful butterflies slept in our trees two weeks ago, we had to spend a morning learning all we could about them!
It was FASCINATING!!!
We also made a craft!
We like to paint and craft!
We cleaned out our Bible memory verse box at the beginning of school a couple weeks ago, and we are starting over fresh to refill it!
It is a great tool for learning Bible verses!
I did a quick search, and you can see how to make one HERE.
The seasons are changing here in our neck of the woods.
However, the week after Family Camp it rained SO much, and then it got hot again!
I still am shifting to our fall and winter foods because I am craving them!
Some summer food has been sticking around too – who do you think ate the whole half of this watermelon with a spoon??
Our garden is still producing and our little gardener is still tending to it all!
We had a wonderful busy weekend last weekend and a wonderful start to our week this past week!
First up was a Chinese language class that Blake and I attended with Tate and Eliza on the UWL Campus.
It was interesting, intriguing, and a joy to be around so many Chinese speaking people!
We will not be signing up for the class like we originally thought we would, but we are going to join the La Crosse Area Chinese Association so we can join them when they get together a couple times a year!
After the Chinese class was over we headed to a bridal shower for our sweet Hannah!!
She and her sister are BOTH getting married very soon!
We are counting the days with them!
This past Sunday our dear friends arrived to have a concert in our church on Sunday evening.
It was wonderful!
Then they drove their huge bus to Twin Oaks and somehow wiggled it in to fit on our driveway and parking area.
We were blessed with their company for a couple of days!
We also were blessed to have some extra students in our school two days this past week.
The sky has been beautiful as always and the fall colors are rushing in!
Grant had some days with a late start thanks to all the rain – and even a whole day where he was off because of the weather!
He came and stole all the children!
He seems to do that a lot!
I was just left with a cup of coffee and these two cuties.
It was WAY too quiet.
This is what you look like before Family Camp!
This is what you look like after Family Camp, ha, ha!
I think I am safe to say our children LOVED Family Camp – because this showed up in the school room on Friday!!
Life after camp has been FANTASTIC as always!
We are all looking forward more fall-like temperatures, school, and routine!
Hope you all are having a great start to fall too!!
Happy Monday, friends!
