New School year

Well, it's been a long time. We are fine here. Going into the 09-10 school yr. Everyone seems happy after the first week of school. Our big change is that Malia is homeschooling this yr. After much prayer, seeking and counsel we felt G leading us this direction. We made the decision mid July and then quickly found the materials needed. Homeschooling a teen is definitely different than hsing a 5th grader! So far, so good....I love it! I like challenges and trying to to make things "fit" the learner. Savy has Mr. Cole for her main core teacher (although he is in the U.S. and won't be here until Jan). S. Hackett is filling in. Sage has Ms. Oswalt for his homeroom teacher and Noah has Ms. Gaskell.
The picture I have posted is from a M trip we took a few weeks ago through the Eastern part of where we live. We had a great time with friends here and a team from the states. Probably around 500 or so heard the good news. Pray for those who heard and were interested.
Well, when trying to download the pic, I got a very interesting notice that said the website I was trying to upload had been closed by Thai police. Wonder if that means I can't upload any more pics onto blogger? Wow!

Back In CM

We are back in Thailand and I am finally updating my blog. Sorry for the long period of silence. I have a new computer which should make it easier to get online.

The flight back was great. We flew Korean straight from Dallas to Seoul and had our own individual TV screens so the 14 hours flew by. We had a 5 hr layover in Seoul where we watched the Olympics and enjoyed hearing the Korean spirit. Then we had a 4 hour flight to CM. We arrived late at night and made it to bed around 2am. Then we all slept until around 8am the next morning. Thankfully we had one day before the children went to school. They didn't know how they were going to make it at school with jetlag but they did just fine and we are all back on the same local time schedule now.

Savy, Noah and Sage had their first rec league basketball game today and they won by one point. It was an exciting game. Savy scored 8 points, Noah scored 4 and Sage didn't score any but it's not because of lack of trying. (he's the smallest guy on the team--they have mixed ages) It was fun to have them all on the same team.

Everyone seems to be enjoying school and their classes. Malia gave a speech on Friday in Core class and the teacher told her she is a natural and should be on TV. You can imagine how encouraging this was for her. We are thrilled about the progress that Sage has made from last yr to this yr. We can see improvements in his memory and his ability to sound out and spell words.

I will send prayer requests soon, but I just wanted you to know we made it back and are settling in. Next week I'll try to take pics at the basketball game.

Blessings!

Sisters....Sisters....There were never such devoted....

Where has the time gone by? They finally did their first "Sisters" performance based on the song for White Christmas on Christmas Eve with the house church. It was so cute. Malia can really do that Rosemary Clooney deep voice "I'm going to keep my eye on her," part! They are not quite as close as they were in the first picture but they are still sisters! Yesterday when we were intimate shopping....they reminded me so much of me and MY sister! It was a little weird being in the mom part and having them conspiring against me!

My sister is going to kill me, but I posted one of the only pictures I could find of her (taken almost 4 years ago!) Marla, I miss you so much....esp. yesterday when we were shopping!

Bob's Surgery postponed

Just received this message from Mel....
Pops could not have his surgery today---had a skin reaction to the dye in the CAT scan dye so they have sent him home with steroids. Thinking it will be a couple of days at least until the surgery.