Adventures in Owen Sitting part 2

It always totally amazes me how the littlest kids can figure out the tech stuff these days. He figured out the Wii controls very quickly. Much faster than his Aunt Jen did!

Owen wanted to "play" the piano with Mikayla. After doing that for quite some time, she needed to come up with something else for him to do that still made him feel like part of the fun. She came up with this solution. Ingenious!

Adventures in Owen Sitting part 1

Prayful Consideration

I have not posted in awhile mostly because we've been busy, but not with the usual blogworthy things. I haven't taken many pictures really. There are many things on my mind that I have trouble sharing on the blog, and even though it would be therapeutic to type it here, I probably shouldn't.
One thing I can share...We have been prayerfully considering sending Mikayla to Dublin, NH to attend a Christian, college prep school. It's a wonderful school that has high academic standards, and is chock full of fine arts opportunities. She would have the opportunity to take piano, voice, flute, and be in a traveling chorale group, as well as being a part of drama productions. All things that are right up her alley, and things that are very difficult to provide up here in Lincoln. She is ready to be done with homeschooling, and if I'm perfectly honest, so am I. High School is so difficult and there are so many things that we would love to provide for her and can't. Two problems with this...she is still quite young and I can't imagine her gone from home for such long periods of time although she is raring to give it a try. I think she's ready, it's just her Mom that has had her nearby all the time that is struggling even though I can see how great it would be for her. The other major problem is how expensive it is. We applied for a scholarship, so now we just pray and wait. I usually have the next school all planned out by now. So, for now, I have done all her grades, had her tested and gotten the results back to send to them, sent in the application for enrollment with the fee for that, and sent in the application for a scholarship. And we pray and pray and pray. This is seriously one of the times that I wish that God would shout out the answer. But He doesn't. He is not in the whirlwind or the storm, but speaks with a still, small voice.

The End

We have had a busy schedule full of end of the year happenings. We still have a piano/voice recital coming up. I can't imagine how it would be if my kids were in school and involved with all that goes with it. As it is, just being in band has really made us busy! Nate and Mikayla both had year end band concerts and were in the Memorial Day parade. Mikayla also had band responsibilities with the Senoir awards night, and graduation tomorrow. I took plenty of videos and posted them to Facebook, but here are some for the ones who haven't joined the dark side as of yet. Nathanael also played the Navy Hymn in church on Memorial Day for an offertory. I told him to watch and play it again if the offering took a little longer. Well, he only played it once through because there were people out of town and the offering only took a minute. I should have told him to play it at least twice and then more if needed. Oh, well. :)

Here's the marching band. They combine the Jr. High and High School, so both kids are in it.

Nathanael's teacher gave him a solo in the jazz band, and then had him play with a couple of other kids to help them with timing. Soooo proud of him, I must admit!