Our holidays were very merry!  For Christmas we got to visit with Brad.  For the New Year we got to visit with Grandpa and Grandma Peterson.  It was nice to be with family for the holidays.  We were excited to get to spend time with them.  It was a nice long break from school.  It was hard to get back into our routine!  The girls enjoyed their break and so did I.

This week the girls have worked hard.  I found this really neat book.  It is called The Children's Bible in 365 stories.  It takes the stories of the bible and adds pictures.  We read from it everyday.  This week we read about the creation of the earth, Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, and Noah's Ark.  The girls really enjoy it!  We also read a recreation of Beauty and the Beast.  We continued with learning about birds.  This week we read a fictional story about a wren and a sparrow.  We learned that sparrows are bullies even though they aren't as big as many of the other birds.  We read about Alexander the Great and his story about how he became a great ruler.  We continue to read Aesop fables.  The morals are a little hard for the girls to understand but after a little explaining they usually get the point.  We read a poem everyday from a book called A child's garden of verses.  The poems are about children and their imaginations while playing or dreaming.  They are beautiful!  The girls practiced writing everyday.  Mackenzie's is starting to look very neat.

We continue to work hard.  It is a tiring job for me.  But it is worth it.  I am ready for all of the outside activities to start back up.  Art class and story hour start back up next week.  Soccer starts again in March.  It was nice with these activities.  It got us out of the house and gives the girls a chance to be with other people.  I sometimes wish that we live in a bigger city with more to do.  We have done everything in Hobbs and it gets a little boring.  But we make do.  We all have everything that we need and that is all that matters!