LeAnn and her cookie. She got just a LITTLE carried away with the icing.
Terra and her cookie. She wrote her own name on it!
Out of order here but...after the cookie making...the boyz were loving up to the each other and the girls. Thinking they would get something out of it.
Rockford resting. Those long legs he still doesn't know what to do with them. Poor dog gets into a running spasm and somehow FORGETS to jump when furniture approaches. So he runs right into it. Literally. I told him he spent too much time in the leg line and not enough time in the look line and totally forgot to visit the brain line before coming to earth.
Rockford fell asleep. The ONLY time he IS consider just a little cute.
Bre and the girls making cookies. We made 88 cookies and the girls took some to the neighbors. We live in a community where 99% of them are elderly, most widows or widowers. We LOVE it but joke about living in a nursing home. So they REALLY enjoyed the cookies.
The cookies turned out really cute. Bre and her 100 cookie cutters. SERIOUSLY. She has a bin of 100 different cookie cutters.
A flower that Bre decorated.
So the story above is important here. About our neighbors. This is LeAnn's cookie version of the "grandma" that lives next door. Not sure what the pink blob in the middle is. Maybe her urine bag.
Rockford was waiting for droppings. But got none.
So these are our lives today. It was a great Sunday. We were not able to worship in church, but we worshipped at home and hopefully were able to allow those near us, that too are not able to make it out to church, able to see Christ through the girls.
I told the girls that it's just as important to minister to those around you, as it is to be ministered to. I am thankful for the times we live in. We have been able to turn on the TV every Sunday we have missed and were able to have church from home. Thank you Lord, for a faithful church like Thomas Road that airs their services for all those home bound. Whether for an extended time or maybe just for the day.
Jonathan Falwell is really being used to spread the gospel. I thank God for him and his anointing to share the word of God.
Michael is up and down on the pain level today. He still remains in bed for the day. Which again is so hard for him to handle. Our good friend Jack Daniels is working the best he can to help us out.
I told the girls we would make the best of this last week of summer. However if Michael stays the way he is...we can not be gone for long periods. I'm hoping things will get better. I promised them a day at the spa to get their toes and nails done before school starts. They love to go sit in the chairs and have those Chinese boyz give them all this attention. They are both excited about going to school on Wednesday and putting their supplies in their cubbies in the class room and meeting their new teacher.
Please pray for the girls this year. We made a very tough decision with them. They will be 7 September 4th. They went to preschool from age 2-5. Last year they were in Kindergarten. While they held on material wise. Socially and mentally they were not ready for first grade. They passed all their test and were up to par educationally. We met with the learning specialist. Since they were preemie we made the decision to put them in T-1 rather than advancing them to first grade. Not many counties have T-1. Campbell county is the only area locally that has T-1. But I am thankful.
What is T-1? It is a in between level. They will recover from of the Kindergarten material but also move onto some first grade level material. Which means they will be a little ahead next year which is great!. They will have another year to develop mentally and emotionally. This will better help them to handle the very fast pace of first grade and beyond. I mean, if you look at the curriculum in schools now. I mean they are teaching addition in kindergarten. We were not learning that till a few years later. Because of SOLS teachers must move quickly through the material to meet the SOL requirements. While this means that my girls will be the older ones in their class from here on out, they still have their size in their favor. Which is good cause they won't stand out. T-1 students average about a 95% rate of being honor role students through out the rest of their schooling and 99% rate of going onto higher education.
My concern is that the girls are going to be in THE SAME class again. Last year they were in two different classes and it did SO MUCH for them. LeAnn learned not to depend on Terra to make decisions for her. LeAnn can voice what is wrong and talk to you. Before she would tell Terra what was wrong or what she wanted to say and let Terra communicate. Terra has learned to be free and able to go out and make friends and not worry about protecting LeAnn at every turn. They care so deeply for each other and are EXTREMELY close. And I'm thankful for that. I have coached 2 sets of twins and both HATED each other. But to me it is important for them to be their own person and be able to live independently as well.
Anyway, I have not explained the whole T-1 to the girls. It's just another year at school. But I did have the talk about how some people develop really fast and others take their time. They understood that. I'm failing to remember the name of the book that I read about flowers that take longer to bl um that others that I read to them to help explain everything.
This was a hard decision but Michael and I prayed about it and feel certain we made the right decision for our girls. The only reasons I came up with that were negatives in sending them to T-1 were prideful reasons. I like our percentages of excelling in the years to come academically. I get to keep them for an addition year too!!!!
Well need to figured out dinner. The girls seem to think icing and cookies are for dinner. I don't think so. Then time to start chillin for the evening.
Hope ya'll doin good out there.
We Justice's
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