Summer project

Our summer project is coming along nicely. It has been delightful to watch Joe carefully craft a beautiful and practical work of art in our front yard. We have had lovely visits with our neighbors and the numerous people that walk and drive by as we are busily constructing our walls. The children love to run across the top of the walls and their daddy loves to see how sturdy the walls are when they do! ;) A few days ago we had a busy day and a work filled evening and then were able to have a relaxed meal perched atop "the wall".

I have been delving deep into some of my favorite teaching books and am so inspired and excited about this coming school year. What a wonderful storehouse of information can be packed into the pages of a book! Here is my favorite quote for today:

"What I am saying is simply this: As Christian parents we are concerned about
building whole people--people who are alive emotionally, spiritually,
intellectually. The instruction to train up a child in the way he
should go encompasses so much more than teaching him the facts of the
gospel. It is to train the child's character, to give him high ideals, and
to encourage integrity. It is to provide largeness of thought, creative
thinking, imaginative wondering--an adequate view of God and His
world... A young child, a fresh uncluttered mind, a world before
him--to what treasures will you lead him? With what will you furnish his
spirit?"
Honey for a Child's Heart, Gladys Hunt

I am looking forward to a year of enlarging: character, ideals, integrity, largeness of thought, creative thinking, imagination... How marvelous to delve deep this coming year!!!