Christ Came to Serve, How Can We Do Any Less?

Anna

Abigail

Joshua

Garden 2013 First Fruits!

To The Zoo Today!

Garden May 17 2013

Spinach is about ready to harvest already!

Beets that we eat the tops and wonder what to do with the bottom!

Purple Mustard Greens are coming along quite well. 

Maize!!

                                                 

                                                     

                                                    VENUS CATASTROPHES.

Have you ever visited Venus?

It must be better than the Deans-Us,

We’re dreaming of visiting there,

How wonderfully we’ll fare!

We’ve found our mistake!

It’s like a burning lake!

We’re getting holes in our trousers,

Have we been here for hours?

Volcanoes in the way!

What can we say?

We are not doing well,

That we can tell.

We can’t even swim!

Our eyes are beginning to dim,

In our bad plight,

We can’t even fight.

We’ve got too much air!

Venus doesn’t care!

She’s really got us caught,

We’ll leave our poem, very distraught!

(The “Deans-Us” is a place where you get milk, foolish, right?)

THE END.

Hands and Nails By Abigail S. M (age 12)

                                         Part 1: What Hands Can Do

1: Spank

2: Grab

3: Grasp

4: Hold things

5: Push someone into the water by accident (but say sorry afterwards, of course)

6: Sew

7: Embroider a napkin in the Elizabethan times

8: Knit

9: Crochet

10: Make cakes

11: Cut nails

12: Swim

13: Support yourself as in doing a handstand like Gabby Douglas

14: Write something like a novel (I’m going to be a novelist when I grow up)

15: Mop

16: Sweep

17: Stir pots of ugali (yellow cornmeal with water)

18: Lift weights

19: Hold a toddler’s hand when walking with them

20: Shake hands

21: Do loads of dishes

22: Do loads of laundry

23: Throw toy spiders (especially big ones) at younger siblings for fun (If they don’t like it say sorry and don’t do it again)

24: Make TEA (I do this all the time)

25: Use spoons, forks, and knives

26: Scrub

27: Erase bad-looking letters, especially if you’re a perfectionist

28: Drive

29: Scratch heads covered with dandruff

30: Open new BOOKS! (I love books)

31: Wash hair

32: Put on clothes

33: Tie watches onto your wrist

34: Squeeze

35: Hit

36: Pat

37: Rub something raw

38: Caress

39: Put band-aids on screaming youngsters

40: Cut with scissors

41: Color pictures (especially if you’re an artist)

42: Hang around lazily

43: Do absolutely nothing

44: Turn PAGES!

45: Play pianos

46: Draw bows across violins

47: Strum guitars, banjos, etc.

48: Press

49: Knead dough

50: Wave good-bye to someone as the train pulls away (whether you’re on the train or not)

51: DO NOT DO!!! Pick your nose, etc.

52: Paint like Raphael, Van Gogh, etc.

53: Touch

54: Feel

55: Scrape junk off the bottoms of pans, pots, etc.

56: Twist a toy crocodile’s neck

57: Pinch

58: Drop a glass gallon of milk

59: Poke

60: Slap a beetle with a fly-swatter

61: DO NOT DO!!! Suck your finger (like our baby brother Benjamin)

           I can’t think of anything else just now. If I’ve forgotten something….

                                       

 Part 2: What Nails Can Do

1: Look pretty when painted with nail-polish

2: Protect skin under the nails

3: Provide a place where dead cells can go

4: A hand-powered utensil for scratching

5: Grow too long

                                           I guess that’s about it!

      

By Anna

Sunday Afternoon Clay Inspirations by Anna and Josh

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