VBS 1- Georgiana.

Mama wanted us to spend our summer of fun together all the time, but these three yahoos needed a little time on their own.

Mama's all up in arms about gender roles lately, specifically that June walks around pretending she's a princess and talking about how pretty she is. So she makes a point not to tell June how cute she is (isn't she, though?), but instead says ridiculous things like "It looks like you could run really fast in that big poufy ball gown" or "I bet that Barbie really loves math!"

So she had to follow though with Henry too, so Henry got to spend a week at his buddy's house while his mom taught them how to sew. He hand-stitched a bean bag and machine sewed a pillowcase. He's quite proud of himself.

Mama mentioned that Henry and June got to go to a vacation bible school. Down here, many churches have evening schools. One even served supper every night! Henry loved the first one because he got pop every night for a snack. Mama wasn't pleased, but you don't give lectures to someone who is watching your kids every night out of the goodness of their own hearts. So after an evening of pop, why are they eating popsicles?

Look close and you can see the remnants of Henry's first bloody nose. (It never stops around here.) Henry's face was in the wrong place at the wrong time when an errant shoe went flying across their classroom. It was pretty nasty- it even got on his shoes. Mama made a big deal about it being his first bloody nose and how it was a rite of passage into being a big kid. Being that sugar is on his mind 90% of the time, Henry capitalized on the situation by saying "Then we should celebrate with popsicles!" How can you refuse that?

Papa found this spider web outside our back door. Mama had just trimmed these bushes that evening, so the spider had built this whole web in only 2 hours. Better yet, the only thing holding the web up is a single thread that extended from a branch 15 feet up. Amazing.