My friend Nancy's sister went into labor at 34 weeks on Monday and delivered Baby Zoe early. There are complications that you can read about here. He is having problems releasing urine, possibly due to a bladder issue and there is a bleed on his brain. Please pray for Baby Zoe to be totally healed, for his mom Carmen as she recovers from an emergency c-section and for his family in general as they are coping with excitement over this precious new life and also much concern for his health. If you would like to leave an encouraging message for the family, drop by Baby Zoe's site.
We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat
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This is such a terrible/joyful time for them.
May God grant them the strength to go on.