This weekend has been a full, exciting time for our whole family. The children spent two days at my parents’ house while Michael and I went to the homeschool convention in Peoria.
As we were leaving the children on Friday, they were all waving eagerly and hollering “Good-bye!” while jumping up and down. My dad walked us to our car and said, “Why don’t your kids cry when you leave???” (I think he’s remembering when I was a child and would pout and mope when my parents went somewhere without me.) I didn’t have a quick answer for him, but Michael and I mused about it as we were driving. Most likely it’s because our children know they’re going to have a wonderful time at Grandpa and Grandma’s house.

It’s always fun to see the photos that my mother takes when the children are at her house. She took one of a rock sculpture Isaac made with their landscaping rocks, and she took some photos of the group when they went to McDonalds for supper. But my favorite photo is this one of Amelia. Here is my mother’s comment about the photo:

Amelia practiced this over & over…helping me get it just right.
I had my camera set on “fast action” so she was actually moving at a pretty good clip when this was taken.
Such a model!

Michael and I had a wonderful time at our conference, and really enjoyed being together and learning more ways to be better parents and teachers to our children.

Last night our family was reunited and we brought our noisy, excited children home. I declared an early bedtime for all, and the house was quiet by 8 pm.

This morning Michael is staying home to finish recovering from two days surrounded by way too many people, and I’ll go to church to help in Amelia’s Sunday School class. I’m guessing we’ll enjoy today as we relax and think about the wonderful weekend we had.