Ethan will be 9 yrs old on May 16th! I can't believe it. He is so tall and very handsome and too smart. He was baptized last May by his Dad. And since he turned 8, he has started scouting. He really loves it and he adores his scout leader, Sister Tanner. He has earned lots of awards and belt loops. He came in 2nd at the Pinewood Derby. But best of all he won Grand Prize for his camping themed cake at the blue and Gold Banquet. Ethan also started an art class last fall. As most of you know, he is a very good artist, he has an eye for color and detail. He had his first art show in December and another is coming up in May. This past January, he started Basketball. He tried very hard and his team won a couple games. He's excited to try again next year. But he's focused on playing baseball this summer which he seems to have a talent for. He has quite an arm!Ethan is in third grade, his teacher is Miss Morgan. She just adores him. In fact, today Ethan had to come home sick because he threw up at school and Miss Morgan felt so bad that she waited in the office with him until I could pick him up. She told us at parent teacher conferences that if she could have a whole class of Ethan's, she would be in Heaven! We feel the same way about him. He is such a good kid!
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say: "I used up everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. -Nelson Mandela
"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." – Herman Melville
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that the child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. -Nelson Mandela
I am a single mom of six precious children! They are six little pieces of my heart, somehow walking independently of my body. My goal these next few years is to make sure they are going to be happy, healthy and successful.
Here's to new beginnings! Stay tuned!
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That was hands down the awesomest cake I've ever seen!
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