Back-to-school, Part 2

Everyone in our family seems to be enjoying the school routine.  Zachary gets quality alone time with me on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Today he was living the dream...watching his new Nemo movie (thanks Grandma and Papa) while eating a Popsicle and lounging in his Cars couch.    

Sissy is so proud of her 4 year-old, all-day preschool.  This particular school night, she wanted to wear Daddy's shirt to bed as her nightgown.

We went to visit the old neighborhood and our special friends, the Wilson family.

This is definitely going to be one of those pictures that will haunt Zachary one day in the future! That's what you get when you hang out with a group of girlie girls and you're the only boy.  Hopefully we'll have some more boy dates where we crash cars and jump on the couches.

But this particular night, he thought he was super cool in a tutu outfit.  

Speaking of back-to-school, we opened our Level 1 atrium for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd at church!  It has been a looong, but truly fulfilling 2 year journey.   A group of woman from our parish have built this program from the ground up, and I am now a certified catechist.  Randy has been so patient and helpful through this process, but as parents, we have made the choice to send our children to public school.  With that choice, it was obvious that we needed to provide to our children a solid, Orthodox Christian education from a young age and this is how we've chosen to do that.  So here's a peak at our Montessori-style Sunday School for children ages 3 to 6 years old.

LIFE IN THE PRAYER CORNER  

(Thanks Grandma Catherine McGinley for sewing all 6 of our altar cloths that we will be using in the atrium each Sunday.  They are beautiful.)

THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD

THE ALTAR

LITURGICAL COLORS AND VESTMENTS OF THE PRIEST

"MISS KIM" standing outstide our room!

These past few weeks have literally been a blur.  Randy is out of town for a couple days again this week for the Red Wings' training camp.  We're still living at Randy's parents, and they have been such a blessing in helping with the kids. We've also had to enlist Aunt Abla and our awesome cousins as we have had numerous appointments for the house, meetings/class/orientation at church, and all the chaos that fall hockey brings to our family.  Closing date is set for Friday.  We're keeping our fingers crossed that the builders will have some issues cleared up before that time and then we'll officially be home owners again!