Janine

Janine is finishing up her job in Lynden, WA. She is a bus attendent and teacher's aide for a headstart program for migrant workers. She will return home late Saturday, August 15th and fly back to Covenant early August 20th.

Thankfully, Janine was able to stay with Jeanette and Duane for this job and got to spend time with her cousins Teresa, Steven, and Rebekah.

Nathan

Nathan has 1 more week before he starts COS, a community college, on August 17. He is finishing up some projects. He built some shelves to increase the storage space in his bedroom closet.

School Started!

We officially started the school year August 3. It was a typical Monday: laundry and getting the house back together. It was also an atypical Monday: Renee's 14th birthday, first day of school, me frantically trying to finish the paperwork I needed to do before the start of school, and sweet potato and peach casserole (the requested birthday dinner) instead of potatoes for dinner.

We each have our box of books. This year Lorissa and Renee are doing Bible, Classical Astronomy, Physical Geography, and Spanish together. They have a Speech class with Petey and Jerimiah Tiemersma.

Lorissa, Margaret, and Renee

Lorissa is a junior and Renee, a freshman. I remain the primary teacher, Keith, the principal, was at his paying job at Cigna on opening day of Trinity Christian School (TCS), our homeschool.

TCS has only half the students it had compared to the years of peak enrollment from 01/02 to 06/07. It also has no enrollment in the elementary classes for the first time since 96/97 when Nathan was in kindergarten and Janine in 2nd grade. Janine was in TCS for kindergarten in 94/95, the first year of TCS. She went to Central Valley Christian for her 1st grade year.