Reading

This year we started schooling the Nature Girl in the Nursery curriculum we use. She has been learning to write in cursive and her vowels and consonants and how to put them together as blends. She is doing very well. Tonight when I was reading stories to the girls, the Nature Girl stopped me and started pointing at all the letters on the page she recognizes and calling out their names. The story could not go on until she was finished finding them all! It was so cute and made me proud as her teacher! As for the Artist, well she is having a blast reading books on her own. She reads things everywhere we go! It just tickles her to to know she is doing it "all by herself"! Yeah for home-school! How else could you share the joy of teaching your children to read and seeing them realize the gift they have been given?!

Just Like Heaven

I have to admit, autumn is my favorite season. All the beautiful colors everywhere. I have missed 7 autumns living in the Southwest. I have been wandering around Korea in awe like a child for the last month watching the trees change colors. It amazes me the way God paints the world for us. On the way to church today we saw a sidewalk covered in bright yellow leaves. The Artist said it was like heaven where the streets are gold. On the way home we stopped to grab some pictures of the brilliant leaves we saw today... I hope you enjoy them, too!