Three Years

I realized the other day, that we have been stationed on this island for THREE years! That is actually a record for our family. There are a few things I have learned in the three years that we have been here.......

1. The Hawaiian vacation is VERY different then the Hawaiian living.
2. You can have children happy to attend school every year, until they enter a Hawaiian school.
3. You can never say never to homeschooling.
4. It is possible for people to blast their music from 10pm-7am every single weekend.
5. MP's are all for show
6. You can hear a cockroach from another room climbing on the walls.
7. Cockroaches eat their own poop
8. You can have a group of people wanting to be spiritually fed and a Pastor not wanting to do it.
9. A pastor can lie to you.
10. You can attend a church for six months, and still noone knows your name
11. Your kids can be bullied at church
12. You can be the only white person in a crowded restaurant.
13. Japanese women love JoJo
14. Laurelin is a very hard name for Asian people to say.
15. The Army can take out money from your checking account when they think they are owed it.
16. The Army can also never pay you back the amount of money that you are owed
17. A 1st Sgt. could care less about a soldier's family, and never actually help you.
18. You can make an amazing friend Selling Avon
19. Fun Fridays take on a whole new meaning with a great group of friends
20. Jello shots make people very silly
21. Some people vomit when you pretend to mix beer and whiskey
22. God is the most amazing designer of this creation
23. I will always miss Hawaiian beaches
24. Waikiki is so much fun to spend an evening.
25. I enjoy staying at a 4 star hotel
26. You can go to the beach at Christmas.
27. It is possible to wear shorts on almost every day of the year.
28. Sometimes it is nice to be sitting in the middle of the ocean and missing all the drama on the mainland.
29. Derek can come home and tell me he is leaving in 4 hours.
30. My children still cry when their daddy leaves.
31. A doctor can tell you that you have to live with the pain, unless you cry and demand more tests. 
32. You can spend $5 for a gallon of milk
33. Spam burgers are actually pretty good.
34. Li Hing seasoning is amazing on Pineapple
35. You can actually like people in the FRG
36. Too many people have WAY too much time on their hands
37. People will leave their kids with you for hours and hours at a time, and not care
38. It is possible to have 16 kids in your house at once
39. Bathing suits can be considered clothes for the day
40. I have learned many lessons while being here, and can say that I will look back on this time with joy and laughter.

Easter Lapbook

I posted awhile back on facebook about doing a Resurrection Egg lapbook for homeschooling. I kept meaning to take pictures to show people what it was all about, but I forgot. While I was cleaning up the homeschool room and going through all the papers, I found them, and decided to take pictures for all of you to see. I loved this project, and I think we learned more this year about the final week of Jesus' life then I have ever learned before. I especially loved the fact that after we finished this project we went to Mililani Baptist for their Good Friday experience, and you walked through the different rooms experiencing what Jesus went through. The kids kept saying "hey, we learned that. We did that egg!"

Here is the cover to Matthias' folder. I glued two file folders together.

We did an egg each day of school. Each egg represented something from Jesus' final days.
The kids cut out the egg, and the scripture and picture that went along with the egg.

Here the eggs are opened up, and you can see the verse and picture. There was also a little lesson that I read each day about the item.

Better look at all the eggs. This was our first lapbook experience. We all loved it!
  This next school year we are planning on doing more. I found this lapbook at
 www.currclick.com
I believe this cost no more then $3. You order the item and then download it right to your computer, so you can make as many copies as you would like.
In fact that is my new favorite website! A lot of our curriculum we will be using next year came from there.