Next week our church is having Vacation Bible School and I am leading up the 3 year olds. (It's really just the worker's kids). I have not helped with VBS since I was in high school at my parent's church and it has changed a LOT. Our theme is high Seas and I have spent the last few days at the church decorating and trying to get ready. I'm in the "barn room" and I was trying to turn the barn into a ship today.
I have two big rooms to use and decorate and it's a lot of work. Especially because I'm a numbers person. I thrive on excel spreadsheets and numbers. When you look at me and say "You need to decorate a room for preschoolers ....." - you have no idea the stress that causes me. I have NO idea how to be creative but I'm trying. I thought it would be fun to have a little treasure chest where they could get treasures at the end of each day if they could say a Bible Verse or tell us something they learned.
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Pretend you are three and have a lot of imagination - it looks like a ship, right? ha!
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Harper has had a lot of fun playing at the church while I work. She's been the youngest kid there and I'm pretty sure she was wearing the workers out. I can only imagine how tired both of us will be next week. There may be a lot of naps next week.
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I have been putting off a trip to the grocery store for a while now and the cupboards are BARE so when I left church I picked up Panera for the three of us. I'm addicted to french onion soup and tomato, basil, mozzerella salad right now. Actually I am on a ONION kick. I can't quit eating onions. Onion soup, onion dip, grilled onions. Weird. I saw on The Neely's the other day
this recipe for a grilled onion. (Anyone else love the food network channel?)
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This afternoon we went to the mall so I could look for a pair of shoes for Harper. She is about to grow out of her one pair she wears in a size 5 and we have 7's for fall/winter but no 6's and she needs one good pair to carry her through the rest of the summer. While we were there I saw several preteen/teenagers wearing these long fingerless gloves in crazy colors. Can anyone explain that to me? I'm praying smocked dresses is in style for teenagers in 12 more years. ha!
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We went in Lifeway just to look around and I came out with these two books. I have been wanting to read them forever and I just decided it was time. Have any of you read either? I have heard they are awesome.
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The only problem is - I can't ever find time to read and right now I have this stack of 7 books waiting for me to read them. Two are parenting books and the other 5 are on faith. I really, really want to read all of these along with a couple of other parenting books by James Dobson and "The Help". I guess it's time to turn off the TV and buckle down.
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Harper and I hope you had a good Wednesday too! The week is almost over! :-)