Graphing a Loth Wolf

This was a video posted on social media of one of the students (at right) doing a demonstration of various moves.  You can see Madison looking on, although it's all been pretty fuzzy.  Daddy doesn't bring the camera along to class, so I don't look too much like a martial arts tourist!  But the video online is there to help Madison learn and practice a few moves at home, so hopefully she'll advance some more in her learning.  She had a great time tonight, as she has each night at the dojo.  There's been no looking back, no real longing to put the hair up and the ballet shoes on again.  This is something she's enjoying, and something we think she'll be sticking with for a while now.  Perhaps a black belt is on the way eventually, but Madison tells us that's a long ways off right now.  One step at a time, which is good advice.

We had rain again today, and overcast weather as well.  Madison has spent some time this week with graphing points on a grid, and actually has a test on that soon enough.  You may ask her this deep and philosophical question, "Where's the point in all of this?"  And she'll say, "Here at (3, -5)."

Following our recent "Rebels" trend of late, Daddy thought he'd make up a homework assignment of his own, a sort of connect-the-dots game where you first have to plot the dots.

Speaking of "Rebels," we indeed are watching the entire four seasons all over again, per Madison's instructions.  This was decided after a bit of homework and studying.  Tonight we read more from "The Slippery Slope," with a chapter that featured all sorts of possibles answers to what "VFD" stands for.  After prayers and zerberts, Daddy suggested it was "Voracious Fart Disorder," which got a lot of laughter.  Zerberts always bring on the accusations of who made the noise and why, so this was kind of well timed.

Anyway, today we were helping some other churches and outreaches.  Mommy has spent a good amount of time arranging bags, setting aside a certain amount of books, and helping to set things up.  It feels great helping out other small churches with their children's ministries, an honor really.

Mommy is a bit sick today, and Daddy is still getting over it - at least we'll be done with this soon.  It's a yucky seasonal thing, and it fortunately isn't too bad so long as you keep taking medicine.

We met some of our new college students today for the church, and there are more now than there have been the last few years.  Three from last year's KidPak students were hired at the church, a "third year" in which they have actual jobs.  One is with KidPak, Mary Shannon, and we're delighted to have her.  Mary Shannon lives in our neighborhood, so we'll be seeing more of her in the future, as occasionally we all carpool together to the church.  Madison loves Mary Shannon as well.

The week is going by, and so is the forgotten month of August.  It's "filler" month now, the month before all the fun of the fall season begins.  There are no holidays in August, and now that school is here, no reason to really look forward to it so much.  We'll do some fun stuff to close out the month though, hopefully this weekend.  And, of course, we'll keep the Star Wars weekends going - this week, I think we'll have an Imperial Gunner and a Shadow Trooper.  The 501st has been so good to us!