1. Easy day of lessons today. It's Friday and my energy is ebbing. I started packing some boxes of books. We have lots of books. :-) And I'm not prepared to get rid of many of them just yet. I love raiding my parents' bookshelves for books my kids will like to read-- I figure my boys will do the same for their kids! :-)
2. The boys made a giant war scene in the playroom with block buildings and hundreds of plastic toy soldiers today while I was reading our history assignment to them. I wish I would have taken a picture of it-- it was pretty awesome. Alas, when our art group friends came over, all the big kids went out back to go swimming, leaving the moms and two 9-month-old babies in the house. The babies made short business of routing the enemy soldiers in the playroom (and they were all enemy soldiers). :-) Later when the boys came inside and discovered the scene of destruction and asked, "What happened in here??!", I just smiled and said "Babies happened." It's good for my boys to have a chance to practice flexibility, right?
3. We have a house guest for the next three nights-- a father who just finished a 2,000+ mile bicycle trek with his 12-year-old daughter, from North Carolina to Texas via a route that took them through many different states. I can't believe a 12-year-old girl could do that! They've been on the road for two months. I want my boys to meet this girl. She's got grit all right. Anyway, they've been camping along the way, spending only 4 nights total in motels in two months. She made it home to Buda and he's flying home to NC on Monday morning and so we're his final pit-stop.
It's fun to have house guests, and this guy is really cool.
The Turners
Gabrielle and Ben
Joseph
Brigham
Mosey
About Me
- Gabrielle
- I am a Christian, a wife, mother, homeschool teacher, perfectionist, night-owl, reader, conservative, photographer, and a lot more. I have 3 boys-- 11 year old twins named Joseph and Brigham, and a 9-year-old named Moses. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005. I went from a 30-mile-a-week runner to being mostly wheelchair-bound in 2 years. In 2008 I was accepted into the HALT-MS study-- a clinical trial in which I underwent an autologous stem cell transplant (bone marrow transplant) in an attempt to put the disease into remission. So far, I have remained stable for more than four years! I am grateful every day for the new lease on life that God (and modern medicine and awesome doctors, but mostly God :-)) has granted to me, and the chance I have to teach and raise my boys, love my husband, and experience the joy, frustration, happiness, and heartache that life brings.
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