Homework

Back to school has been a whirlwind this year. How on earth have 3 weeks already gone by!?!?

Both my girls LOVE school. Zoe loves it in the afternoons when Carley lets her sit at the little princess desk  in her closet and they play school. Carley talks just like her teacher, warning Zoe, "if you don't follow directions, you will have your color moved", ha, ha. Then Zoe will come out of the room with an oversized, stuffed backpack on her shoulders like she is headed to the bus.
When we got to church, Zoe calls her class "baby school" and after we drop Carley off for 1st Grade in the mornings Zoe asks if we can do baby school or go see other kids..... she is so social, just like her sister.

Carley has homework each night, and so much is learned in 1st grade! We spend time reading books together every evening. And this week we are working on addition flash cards. The first night she got frustrated because it was difficult. But today with some advice from her teacher we got creative and made a game of it. We used a divided plastic tray and gumballs! Carley enjoyed putting the correct number of gumballs into two of the divided trays and then combining them into a larger tray to get the answer. Yay!

Here's our other cutie pie doing an early morning watercolor lesson while mommy worked on getting some orders done to deliver to a shop in downtown McKinney.

Jeremy's teaching schedule is finally getting worked out (no more working 6:30am - 7:30pm with no break!!!) They finally hired another history teacher at the high school so he actually has a conference period......and a bit of his sanity back. ;-P 
On a lighter note, the varsity football team has been doing great with two wins in a row and looking good for another this Friday night! Go Coyotes!
P.S. Hosting the after party meal for the coaches and their families after our first home game last Friday night was a big hit! It was a bit of a crazy zoo in my house inside and in the back yard till about 1:00am, with almost 50 people (lots of kids) but it all went great, especially since we were celebrating a good game!

And my "home work" has been pretty steady and busy too. Been working on new projects for an Art Festival coming up in October, doing some photo shoots, t-shirt design/printing, working on some cool new business card designs, and creating a lot of photo transfer artworks on wood.

Getting involved in some awesome Bible study groups has been super encouraging and I'm blown away with how much I've been learning.....I was missing out on so much when I only cracked my Bible open on Sunday mornings at church!  How easily I had forgotten what being in God's word can do to the way you look at every single aspect of life, from the mundane tasks and thoughts to the really big things, and how it convicts and brings change from the inside out.

Here's a verse to ponder:

Hebrews 4:12

New King James Version (NKJV)

¹² For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.