Small Surprises along the way...
Today Evan and Jaron rode along as we took Glen over to the production office. As we were approaching the building Evan said he saw a turtle.

"Yeah, sure...right." Jaron said. But Evan was addiment that he had. Sure enough as we pulled back onto the main road there he was a pretty large turtle on the side of the road. I just happened to have put my camera in my purse this morning so Evan and I jumped out and ran over and took his picture.

I tried to be the homeschool mom and come up with some scientific lesson to have with the kids, but since I'm a rookie nothing significant came to mind, so we just enjoyed him. Speaking of homeschool, yesterday was our first official day. I set out to accomplish a lot and for it to be this incredible experience. And although for the most part, the kids did very well, I found myself thinking several times, this is a lot of work and requires a lot of patience. I was feeling very appreciative to the boys teachers and thankful that they get to go to such a wonderful christian school. As our school day came to the end, Jaron turned to me and said, "thanks mom, this is fun." It melted my heart. What a great opportunity I have to spend this special time with my boys.