This and That!

The Roses are almost over the Swine flu.....Jason started acting hyper on Friday so I knew he was doing better. I am on the other hand, still a little sluggish with some sinus action going on...I am actually chalking that up to the rain today. By this evening, I was feeling much better as the rain passed out of Montgomery. Russ has some sinus action but no Swine! Steven only gets "sick" when he has to do something like wash the dishes or sweep the floor. Uh..huh... I pulled that one when I was his age!! Um hmm. Funny how he got better when I mentioned he would have to stay home and go to bed all day tomorrow.
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Russ and I are licensed foster parents so once in a while we get to do some interesting projects. Right now, for the next few weeks, we get to transport a baby back and forth(Sat 5pm and Sun 5pm)from his guardian's home to his birth parents car at a designated location. The birth parents were extremely neglectful of this beautiful baby and therefore got the baby taken from them. The guardians go to our church and it has been a trip. All in all takes about 45 minutes of our time twice on the weekends. What a great ministry to this beautiful baby and to both sets of parents. Pray that Russ and I get a chance to minister to both families as we help them out.

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Rose Reading Fun!

Anyway....we as some of you know, we have continued to struggle with getting Jason..not to love...but even LIKE reading. He apparently struggled for so long before we had him that he has decided it is something he would rather not do. We have worked with him for the last 5 years and he has made great strides but this summer he has decided to be totally uninterested in reading and has not read one book.

We know he is 15 and hormones take over but unfortunately, in the grown up world, he will need to read and so we have been brainstorming (Russ and I). We decided that Sunday nights, for about an hour or so, we would have a family reading night and we would all take turns reading out of a favorite book. We started tonight and guess what...it worked. Russ and I did the bulk of the reading(because as you all know, listening is a big part of learning to read better)...and J and S read a few pages each as we passed the book around. We were only going to read about 30 minutes but before we knew it, it had been an hour and a half and 10 chapters into the book.

We started with our family favorite, the Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler(the Fonz)and even though it is a little below their reading levels, it was a funny book to start with and Russ and I hammed up the characters and had the guys laughing and in stitches. Steven(though way ahead and loves reading but lacks confidence in reading out loud)even got into the characters and accents. Jason hesitantly started reading out loud and as he was cheered on, loosened up and had fun!(oops don't tell him he had fun!!)

So we will try this experiment and see if it helps. Pray for Jason to enjoy reading and more than that, feel confident that he can read.(He always tests on grade level but he does it because he has to!!).

This what has been going on for us this week! Hope all is well with you!
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