Aunt Charity was kind enough to let Rennah put makeup all over her face! 

A very concentrated Rennah . . . 

Say Cheese! 

Checking out their handywork! Beautiful! 

Special Visit from Papa & Grammy!

Well, my family is off the road for a little while which is great news for us! It means that they are close by and can visit some. We recently met up with them on Easter Sunday after church for lunch and spent a couple hours with them. Rennah loves having her "Papa & Grammy" around, along with all of her aunts and uncle.

This past weekend, we had another opportunity to have them for a visit. They came up on Friday and spent the evening and next day with us. It was such a treat! Rennah just eats up all of the attention she gets from my family. She and Aunt Charity got into her makeup and as you can see, it got everywhere!

NYC OR BUST!!

So my life has been consumed lately with finalizing our plans for the High School Choir Tour coming up the first week of May. We are headed to the east coast, specifically New Jersey. We will be ministering in a local church in Little Egg Harbor Township, singing, leading worship, and sharing testimonies. I am also planning on taking the students to NYC for a day of touring during the trip. I know that I have some students that like to read this blog, so I will not go into too much detail about what we are doing there since it is still a secret around school. But we are going to have a great time.

Things are finally and fully coming together for the trip and I am very excited about it. Be in prayer for that trip.

I also have an Elementary Spring Concert next week, the High School Spring Concert the following week, and then our tour right after. So it is a busy time for me. May gets pretty crazy. Hope everything is going well for everyone. Have an awesome day.

Good Report

Well, it's another Monday at school. Although today is an easy day for me as our students have SAT testing for the next couple of days. I just wanted to update you on our ACSI accredidation. Last Thursday after school our staff met with the ACSI team to hear the report. Unfortunately, they were unable to tell us what their final decision is (that's against the rules), but they were able to tell us what they loved about our school and some things that we needed to work on. They had a very positive report for us that was very encouraging, and the negative things that they had to say were things that we already knew needed some work. Like a library and media center with a staff person trained to run it. So, the overall experience was positive and encouraging, but we won't know the final decision until late June or July! So we have to wait some more . . . but that doesn't see to bother us, we just keep plugging along.

I hope that everyone is doing well. Post some comments to let us know how you all are. We love to hear from you!

Nerves or Not?!

That is the question for all teachers around our school these days. With the ACSI accredidation team here, everyone is on their best behavior. Members of the team have been taking turns coming in and observing our classes. Actually, I think that everyone is doing a great job. We are supposed to relax and just "do our teaching thing", but it is still a little awkward when you have someone new in your classroom watching YOU!

The two times that I have been observed have been completely stress free. In fact, the first time I was observed, I didn't even realize that one of the team members was in the room. It was during choir and I was working with the sopranos on a section of the song when the team member walked in. I turned around to help the basses and there he was, smiling and really enjoying himself. It surprised me at first, but I relaxed quickly . . . no big deal. He told me later that he really enjoyed listening to our choir, so that was nice. That was yesterday . . .

Today, one of the female ACSI team members joined my 1st Grade Music class and observed. We had a blast working on fun music theory games with the kids, so that observation was stress free as well. So for me, I have enjoyed having the team here. After school today we will be meeting with them to answer any questions that they have for us. Tomorrow, they will observe in the morning and then finish going through all of the curriculim stuff in the afternoon. Tomorrow after school, we will get to hear the final report from them . . . we are all anxious to hear what they have to say.

Friday, we get the day off! I am looking forward to that extended weekend. Sarah's family will be coming to visit us during the afternoon.

Have a great day everyone. I will keep you posted on the accredidation stuff.

School, Glorious School!

Well, classes are back in full swing! I went into our first day back yesterday feeling fully refreshed and energized from our relaxing Spring Break . . . excited about being back with the students. By the time I arrived at home at the end of the day, I was totally wiped! I don't know what happened to all of the energy that I had, but I was tired. Mondays are always one of my longest days anyway, but I think there was so much going on at school yesterday that it completely drained me. And, of course, our evening last night was not free . . . we had a Sunday School class leadership meeting to attend. So I was dead after only one day of school!

Anyway, today has gone well so far. We as a staff are under a little extra pressure over the next few days though. Our school is going through the process of accredidation. We have a team from ASCI here today through Wednesday looking over all of our curriculim sitting in our classes and getting an overall view of the school. After Thursday (when the leave) we will have to wait for the fina decision to know whether or not our school will receive accredidation or not. I will keep you posted.

As for family stuff, Sarah is in the process of going through all of our old baby clothes and washing and sorting them out. We have a couple of friends with newborns who need some clothes so we are sharing out of our abundance. And there is a lot of abundance! We had so many clothes given to us from people in our church when Rennah was born, and they have just kept on coming ever since. I think that Sarah counted about 16 white "onezies" that were 0-3 months! And we have stuff for all sizes up from there. So that is quite a large task that she is undertaking.

Rennah continues to learn more words everyday and get closer to being able to carry on a full conversation with us. Her new thing right now that makes me laugh is the way she uses the word "OK". Say she wants something real badly and she can't have it, usually when I would say "No" she would just cry . . . now when I say, "No, Rennah, you can't have that," she just says, "OK," and goes on! It cracks me up inside!

Life goes on in the St. Clair home. Please post your comments and greeting, I would love to hear from all of you.

More Charlie Brown Pics

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My Cast from our recent school production of the Broadway musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" in February. It was my first real attempt a directing a full blown show. It was a blast! 

Rennah kissing Emily Tuttle (Micah and Alisha's new blessing)! 

This is Rennah's special friend "Bunny". She can't sleep without him. 

Rennah is learning how to play the piano already! 

Rennah's first major "boo-boo". She still remained as happy as possible! 

Rennah is 2 years old!

April 4, was our sweet Rennah's second birthday. She is growing up so fast! We took her to Grand Rapids and visited the Children's museum and had supper at Chuck-E-Cheese . . . which she loves. She wore us out that day! Rennah is becoming more and more active and independent. She loves to sing, talk, run, tickle, and giggle. What a blessing to our home.

Well, only a few more days until Spring Break is over. It has been a very relaxing week, but it will be back to crazy busy school very soon.

Disney on Ice: Rennah's Birthday Show

Rennah was totally in awe when she got to see Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and all of their friends skating on the ice right in front of her. We really enjoyed the show and Rennah just danced, clapped, and giggled with delight the whole time! We also got to see the Jungle Book, Tarzan, and the Lion King stories portrayed on the ice before us. It was a lot of fun!