January 7, 2026 Wednesday

 The older three boys went to the temple with the Aston family. I stayed at watched my younger three and her youngest two.  It was fun to see all of the games and things that they played. In the past we would do math and reading together but it was neat to watch them play and how much of that they do naturally in their play. I make ham and broccoli casserole for them for lunch and also prepared the basic part of dinner for tomorrow. (cabbage stew- I got all of the vegetables cut up which will make it super easy tomorrow.) In the afternoon, I ended up not having any lessons so we cleaned the girls room and worked on a few things with the kids. We were able to get pretty much everyone done with everything they needed to do and I did Benson's lesson.

Tea party with the girls. Right after they finished Roslyn and Clara came over and washed and put away all of the tea party things, it made me so happy!

Both of these pictures are things from helping the girls clean their room. Above is a card I found that Roslyn had made, it is so like her, it says spread kindness.  All of her cards talk about her love of nature, people, God and talk of ways to love and help others. She really is a very special girl that goes above and beyond at spreading love and kindness wherever she goes.

Below is a notebook that Roslyn made in co-op a few years back that tells about the body. It really was a very well done book but we decided to take a picture and move on. Something so hard is the kids make so many neat projects and arts and crafts but we can't keep them all, we have to part with so many of them so our house isn't a mess.