celebrating

my grandparents and their 58 years of marriage :)

the road that leads to awesome

china day in cinemascope

dragon dance

accompanied by drummers

Peking opera

paper cut silhouettes

sugar art

playing games between stations

tea soup

old man Leo with his cotton candy beard 

accidental twins

i.heart.adoption.

snow day!!

Friday we got snow. Quite a bit of snow, in fact, as far as Tianjin is concerned :) There was a possibility of school being canceled due to the weather, but we ended up having a normal school day....well, as normal as a day can be with snow. Since most of our kids have never experienced snow before (at least not enough to really enjoy it!), we decided to take full advantage of our snow day at school.

ready for a fun day in the snow

there were many snowmen built that day

the finished product

 

there was even a snow dog

joy

first graders building a snow cave... (blurry, but still cute!)

and making snow angels

the snowballs got bigger...

and bigger...

and bigger...

until they couldn't even lift them :)

a perfect ending to a busy week :)

twelve-twelve-twelve

"Miss Farrell, we can write the date and not have to worry about what order we put it in!"

"Miss Farrell, did you know that it's 12/12/12 and that this is the last time in a century that it will happen again? Because there's no 13/13/13." 

"Will you tell us when it's 12:12pm so we can cheer?"


Today was a pretty significant day.


It was spent:

• hanging out with twelve really cool kids
• connecting our reading story about volcanoes to the Truth that nature is powerful and amazing because it was created by a mighty God (who is still actively involved in it) and was made to glorify Him [Psalm 24:1-2, Isaiah 45:18, Psalm 65:5-13, Psalm 104:14-30, Luke 19:28-40, Jeremiah 51:16, Psalm 145:21]
• giving pushes on the swings during recess duty
• hearing high pitched screams from the first graders after we counted down to 12:12pm and 12 seconds in the lunch room
• making Christmas plans :)
• interviewing a potential new third grade student
• relaxing after work and watching 12 Angry Men (an unintentional connection to the date)
• catching up on friends' blogs and finding re-postworthy stuff like this:

           


How did you spend your once-in-a-century December day?

welcome, winter