Missionary Kid School

Here are our wonderful teachers! We love them so much and appreicate all of the work they do!

Here are all of the kids and Aunt Lois. 2 children are missing. One will come next week, back from vacation. Anther will come to PNG for the first time in September and join our school after getting orientated to PNG>

School in the Dooley house

Here is our school desk!

This is our little sign that we hang on the door. I was worried that we would have lots of interruptions. It says "I am doing school inside. Come at 2:00"

One of my goals of homeschooling is to fill Em up with encouraging words. But I am her mama too, so to make myself more conscious of my words, I covered this paper with contact paper and use a dry erase marker to tally my positive comments and negative comments. It is really helping.

We also want Em to have a better grasp on what she is feeling and how her words affect others. So we created these little pictures for the wall.

There was only tears once on our first day of school. Emma's not mine. And we worked through the hard math problems and dried the tears.

Keep us in your prayers as it is a new adventure and I am a little stir crazy and it is only day 2!

Ready for school!

How does one get new clothes for the first day of school? In May (?) I ordered these outfits on line. Sent them to my mom. She mailed them to Dr Erin, who was in the states visiting her new nephew. She put them in her suitcase and brought them back to PNG. A little harder than a trip to the mall, but they loved the dresses. They are SPF 50...who knew!

Frequently, I find clothes at the second hand stores around PNG. Australia sends up huge bundles of clothes for PNGers to buy. Then the PNGers resell them. A dress would normally be a couple kina (60 cents). I can always find used things for Liv, but harder for the bigger girls. This queen sized quilt/duvet cover and 2 shams were only 50 Kina! ($20) that I found last month! Gotta love a bargain.

We got ourselves organized for the morning routines of back to school. Al has a list too. Em is doing school at home this year, but lists help her remember what is next.

New Baby

Our PNG friends had a baby last week. Here she is, one week old. They joined us for pizza, movie and fellowship on Friday night. In PNG, it is common to not name the baby for a few weeks or month. No name for this sweetheart yet. Pray for this family as they are beautiful Christian leaders at the hospital.

Summer improvements

This is our back porch, I call it "back" because it enters into the kitchen. Anyway, I got 3 new chairs and 3 new pots and had fun moving plants around.

In the states, I would go to a garden store and buy new plants and potting soil and plant food. Here, I just look around my yard for plants/flowers that I like, dig up some dirt and put it all together. It's pretty hard to kill things here. My friend, Martha had this canister set for years, and I had it on top of my cupboards, just looking pretty and getting dusty, so now...presto...planters. I might make a wind chime out of the metal lids. Thanks Martha!

Aunt Lois

Lois and Tom come every August to Kudjip. Tom is an ENT MD. Lois has lots of ministeries and touches many lives. Every year she has the MK children in and they bake cookies and make clay projects. Lois is also helping that the missionary kid school this year.

Last Wednesday, I asked the girls if they wanted to go to town with me. Allison said "no, it's Wednesday, we can't miss Aunt Lois's cookie time!"

Olivia's new friend

That's a big piece of Hubba Bubba in Liv's mouth! Morgan's mom works in the storeroom at the hospital. Olivia and Morgan bonded immediately in the storeroom and now have now created a hugging ritual every time they see each other.