Thompson Tribe: The End of the Year 2006

One Big Happy Family

Here we are just a couple of weeks ago. We are doing great and love hanging out as a family. Most of our days are spent together in our home.

Jeffrey is still working at Encounters Network as Executive Administrator. He still enjoys this and the relationships that he has within this ministry.

Brooke began officially homeschooling this year. The whole family is benefiting in some way from this decision. We love reading books as a family and get to include "daddy" quite often, which he enjoys. Jonathan and Katherine are very excited because they are both reading and consuming books from the library. David can't seem to understand why 3 year olds don't read too. The challenges come for David and Grace who love playing with Jonathan and katherine, but not alone together yet. They do something at the table that represents school but it can be hard to keep a lesson going in these moments. Therefore, with each new bump in the road the schedule has to be rearranged and experimented with until we find some kind of a fit. Usually we try paring an older child with a younger one for an activity. This tends to make the morning a little longer, but everyone is happier.

We stayed here in Spring Hill this Christmas and enjoyed time with Brooke's family as well as a visit from Jeffrey's parents and brother Stephen. Enjoy the pictures!

Grace, 18 months