"Hearts 4 Kids"

I was driving in the car the other day. I had the radio on 91.3 HIS Radio. I heard them talking about an outreach program that they are doing right now. It is called Hearts 4 Kids. They have asked that churches, schools, or any other type of group or just indiviuals who would be willing to make Valentine's Day cards for children that are in the hospital. They will deliver them to children for you. When my children were younger they were hospitalized several times. With my oldest we visited the hospital many times in her first three years of life. It was always nice to recieve gifts from people. No matter what the gift was it helped to know that someone was thinking about you. Just a simple card that said "Get Well Soon" meant so muc.



I decided that our family would break out the craft supplies and get to work. I have set a goal of 30 cards. We began folding paper, sticking stickers, tying ribbon, and stamping stamps today and in no time we had seventeen cards done.






Here is the link to HIS Radio's website with all of the details for "Hearts 4 Kids" in case anyone else is interested. I'm going to be mailing ours so if anyone else wants to make some I can always put them in the envelope with ours.

http://www.hisradio.com/headline/hearts-4-kids

Schools In

OK, so I know it has been a bit since my last post. What a holiday season! It was nonstop with all kinds of goodness. But I think I can finally say, PHEW!!! I finally feel like our lives have gotten back to a somewhat normal schedule. I do have to admit though, all of this wonderful snow that keeps falling all around has been a big help in getting us all to slow down a bit too.
After our second week of school off for our Christmas break I decided that perhaps I needed just one more week to re coop. I wanted to get lesson planning done and some organizing of closets done too. It was of course another crazy busy week and I didn't get to any of my planning or organizing until Thursday and Friday of that week. But it happened......just when it was supposed to.
Today I have this overwhelming feeling that I am digging the year round school schedule. Monday and Tuesday this week were really awesome school days. There was no complaining from anyone and everyone really seemed to be focused. I was hoping that with 3 weeks off that perhaps everyone, including me, would be really feeling the school vibe. And it worked! WOO HOO!
Today was one of our interesting school days. We needed to make it to the grocery store. The roads in our neck of the woods were covered white with snow again. So that meant the whole family ventured out to get groceries. I haven't driven in the snow enough to be comfortable doing so. (But I have a goal to learn how to drive in it because there is obviously going to be a lot of it this winter.) We did have several other errands to run so we didn't get home until lunchtime. By the time we had lunch and a few choirs were done by us all we started school. It was about 2 o'clock by then. Even with my 14 and 11 year old this isn't the best time to be starting your school day. We were all feeling tired and not very focused. Needless to say. It was what I like to call a "necessities day". Math and reading were done and then everyone had sometime to themselves to play. Some days this is the best we can do. There is no point in trying to force school when everyone is already tired. I am just setting myself up for disaster.
Tomorrow is another day and we will tackle the things we didn't get done today then. I am looking forward to the rest of our school week. I hope it goes as well as the beginning.