Life at Oak Grove

In a week tomorrow,we will drive in the sun and go travel for a month.   Yeah!   I can't wait to see Pennsylvania and bring my kids to various special places.

On the Monday, we will visit Easton and the crayola factory and Nazareth with the guitar factory.   Fun!  That evening we will meet with Joshua from Club Worship and chat with him.  Later that week, hubby will gowith our team to an event at Club Worship.  

So if you happen to read this, please pray for safety on the road and that the kids won't get to cranky on the long days of travel we will do....   About 4 or 5 so far ranging from 3 1/2 hours to 8 hours the first day.   Driving to PA will be the longest one.    The PA to MA, MA to ME, ME to NB, NB to PEI...   Then there will be the drive back.

The trailer is now on the street right now.   Hopefully, we won't get a neighbor who will complain and then we get a ticket...   

I'm totally pumped for vacation time.

Oh BTW Alexandre officially finished school grade 1 last Friday morning.   Yeah!

Okay... so I am planning our trip and discovered this interesting website while looking for a chips factory to visit in PA...   Factory Tours USA list the different places where you can go to visit how things are made....   WoW!   This is super interesting since as homeschoolers I want my kids to learn.   So PA has tons of things to check out... but we are there only for one week so I guess this means that someday we will have to go back *grin*...

But I discovered a guitar factory that you can visit in Nazareth, PA which is located close to Easton, PA. Easton is where you can find the Crayola factory.    Since we are planning to go to the Crayola factory and my husband got himself a guitar last year... well I though we could do a detour to Nazareth...   

Since we will be driving through Massachussetts and Maine, I did my search for these states as well.   Discovered that there is a Cape Cod Chips factory near Plymouth... Yeah!

Mmmm!   Where to start?   I was planning to finish school last week but there is still about  40 pages to do in one French workbook.   Have I misjudge?   Not really.   We had appointment this past week and somehow we were not able to finish.   I am confident that this will be done this week.    On the other hand we did finish the workbook of English...  Yeah!  

On Friday afternoon, we decided to drive to Logos Land Resort to finish prepping the trailer for our BIG trip.    We needed to figure out how to level it and stabilize it.   Boy did it took some time.   I most say my kids where really good at being patient - thanks for Adventures in Odyssey.    We slept there... and came back the next day because we had a H.E.A.T. service on Saturday.   At first it was only us and a couple from our team.   So Rob had decided not to preach his sermon and keep it for the service in two weeks.  Then another team member came - he just came back from a mission trip in Guatemala.  So he told us about the trip.   By this time two gentlemen were sitting and listening.   Hubby and a team member went to speak with them.   Suddenly, our dear pastor from our mother church arrived.   He came as promised...  fresh from Virginia and leaving soon for Cochrane, AB.   He had went to a church planting conference and he shared what he learned there.   WoW!   Can't wait to hear more when he gets the DVDs.

All the while I was experiencing with colors...   You see I discovered something hidden in me - drawing/painting.   So yesterday I was drawing with pastels.    I did two different art pieces.    Two weeks ago I did another one.  

Also these days I am experiencing with hair fashion.   My hair is getting longer and I can now put little things in it.   I am having fun.   My latest addition is the famous b-tube from The Bay that has been created for the canadians athletes while they go to the Olympics in China.    You can do various things with it which is interesting.  

AND I am starting to plan for the trip - clothes wise...   Next week-end we are bringing back the trailer with us....