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Election Day

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Ella’s 2nd grade class is learning all about the election process.  They have learned about the important races going on in Ohio and how someone is elected.  Their class decided to hold an election for a class president.  Anyone who wanted to run was to prepare a speech for the primary.  Ella and three other students won the primary and advanced to the general election.  She again had to prepare another speech dealing with the issues that were important to their class.  Here is the speech she wrote entirely by herself!  She did not win the race for class president, but was elected as vice president.

In case you are wondering:
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Hungry?

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We have an extra refrigerator in our garage.  I went out there today to get some apple juice.  As I grabbed it from the refrigerator, I noticed it felt warm.  I checked the dial and saw that someone had turned it to the off position.  I immediately asked Preston about it and he admitted that, “I wanted to see what it would do.  I didn’t do it today, but I can’t remember what day I did it.”  The entire contents of the refrigerator (5 pounds of butter, 1 block of cream cheese, 4 pounds cheese, 1 dozen eggs, 2 pounds of ham etc) were at room temperature and had to be thrown out.  When I opened the freezer, it was still 32 degrees and cold.  Everything was thawed and I only had to throw out about half of the questionable contents (2 tubs of cool whip, 2  bags of ravioli, 2 pounds of meatballs, 1 pound of pork chops, 3 pounds of shrimp, 1 pound of salmon etc).

Then, I spent the rest of the evening crying over lost food and money and cooking the rest of the meat that could be salvaged.  I cooked 9 pounds of chicken, 2 pounds of hamburger, 6 pounds of beef ribs, 3 pounds of beef roast, and 7 pounds of pork roast!  I put all the cooked meat again in the freezer with hopes that this will never happen again.

When Ella came home she asked what I was doing.  I told her all about it and she said, “I won’t do that again.  I learned from experience.”  I had forgotten that she had done the same thing a few years ago.  I guess I have two more kids coming up who will want to see what the refrigerator dial will do!

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Read the Directions

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This is Ella’s last week of school.  She sat down to do her homework tonight and then I checked it over.  At first glance the worksheet looked like every worksheet she has done all year.  After closer examination I noticed the directions were different.  I asked Ella if she had read them.  Of course she hadn’t because it was the same worksheet she has done all year.  So she passed over the directions and finished the worksheet.  I told her that we can relate this to our own lives.  Each day may look the same to us-get up, go to school, learn, lunch, play, bedtime etc.  Just because things appear to be the same, we may miss something really important if we fail to pray and ask for directions for that day.

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All In a Row

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Today is Saturday and I worked all day.  Phil was home with the kids.  When I came home, I walked into my bedroom and found eleven pairs of my shoes all lined up in a row.  They were shiny clean and looked brand new.  Ella saw her dad shining his shoes a few weeks ago and thought it would be nice to shine my shoes for me.  Phil told her they could shine my shoes the next Saturday that I worked.  She remembered that today and when they put Brennen down for his nap, Phil, Preston, and Ella spent two hours shining my shoes!

I have the best family ever.

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Read to Me

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Ella is such a good reader.  She enjoys reading.  Brennen is starting to really enjoy being read to.  I walked into the family room today to this sweet little scene.  Ella and Brennen were sitting on the couch together while Ella read him a book.  It made me happy that she would share her talent with her baby brother.

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