The Johnsons': Silly Sisters

Over the last few Bible studies the girls have been cracking me up.

We are completing the "Put On" chart, and we've started with gloves (compassion).

Yesterday, we really focused on the fact that to show compassion means to ask ourselves "how does that person feel inside this moment?" and "what could I do to make that person feel better?"

I was downstairs making breakfast and Mika ran down saying, "Momma, Momma- I just picked out my outfit, put it on, and thought to myself, I hate these sleeves, and I wanted to holler and throw a fit, but I asked myself, how would that make my mom feel.... and so I didn't do it, Mom-I didn't throw a fit over clothes!"

Here in the Johnson Household, this was such a display of compassion by Mika. See, little Mika has a touch of OCD about how clothes fit and where their creases fall. It can get ridiculous! But, I have to say that I am quite proud of her first intentional account of compassion;)

How many days have we been in school? 18 full daysfor us!

As for my Madyson, these days she is really proactive about writing little stories and poems. She is always thinking of others, as usual...just simple things like making crafts and wanting to give them to her ballet teacher. She used her money to buy a card, saying it was for Nana and Pops, but in the end it was a trick, it held a message for Momma! When Mika saw the swell of happiness the card brought me, she quickly said, "Mom, I'll be upstairs, I gotta write something for Nana." About 5 minutes later she came down with an envelope from one of her birthday cards, she handed it to me, and there I found a piece of notebook paper with a rainbow on it!! She knows me well;)

Today as Mady did her independent study, she yelled, "Mom, Mom- the Bible uses similes too!!! The Lord is LIKE a strong tower!!" I had to post this on fb because if you know me, you know the joy that literary devices bring me...I am a literacy nerd, I cannot help it.

A sample of Mady's use of the device- internal rhyme:

"The air I breathe shouldn't be for me, it should be for the Lord, that's indeed."