The Russo's

We are doing home school this year. It was mostly for financial reasons and the cost of private school. I did not want to work more or full time to send them to school. It doesn't seem worth it to me, so I would rather spend more time with them and do school at home than the stress of being away all day and the hectic afternoons. The more that we were led to home school, the more it felt right for us. I started getting ready in June. We cleaned out our extra bedroom to use for our classroom. Then, we decided to move Hudson in that room and use his old room for school because it is bigger.  We need to hang up his wall stuff and maybe get new curtains. Josh and Papa added can lights in a few of the rooms.  I got this table and three chairs from Facebook marketplace. I also found a rug from there and it is like new.  I found chalk paint in a spray can. Josh and I painted them a charcoal color and white legs on the table. It got left out and got wet, so the...

Our church had VBS again this year and it was open to the community. We had 24 kids signed up. It was Galactic Starveyors theme. Jennifer did a great job putting it together. Emerie came 3 days of the week Crafts  Gianna doing the Bible pledge  Hudson doing the Christian flag pledge  Hudson was in Nana Angie's class  Kaden and Gianna ready to play the game  Gianna was in Aunt Jennifer's class They love dancing and doing the songs   I got to do crafts this year and enjoyed helping out. It was fun to see the kids learning and having a great time.  On Sunday, they performed a few songs from the week Hudson went one day to VBS with Nash the next week. He and Gianna were signed up, but the day after our VBS was over she got sick.  She ran fever for 5 days and it got high at times. We went to the doctor twice, but it was a virus...

We have had so much rain this summer, we had to find some things to do inside. Gianna did a bead heart that you melt with the iron.   We made slime with what we had in the house, but it didn't work at all! It was sticking to our hands and not like slime at all.  Hudson picked out silly string and they lured Josh outside to spray him   One Sunday after church, we rode out to the camp to check on their feeders and cameras.   They had some beautiful butterflies on the steps  We picked blackberries   They were eating them as they picked, so we didn't have many to bring home.  Gianna climbing up the stand 😬  Gianna shooting a gun for the first time  We went to a circus sideshow that the library put on  Hudson set up this course for Gianna to practice riding her back  Laying out  Gianna wants to wear her hair up in a towel wh...