Homeschooling at Grammy's

  

 Tehya came over late morning for a special history class her mom thought I could teach.

We posed for a picture the way she chose . . . 

 

We began with a book I highly recommend to anyone wanting to explain Russian Mennonite roots to children. Published in 2011 by CMU Press, this delightful book explains Mennonite history stories and interesting tidbits beginning with the meaning of Anabaptist and ending with a recipe of our beloved Zwieback. Every letter of the alphabet is covered.

 

We even had some peppernuts to enjoy while we read. 

The background in the Zwieback  book led us to look through a family album I put together early 2005. Our only grandbabies had moved to Indonesia and the ones soon to be born were living in the States. I began to think on how we could pass on our heritage with our family so spread apart and this led me to do some research that I never imagined I'd be able to share face to face with them. 

 It was obviously a season in my life I had time for this, beginning with great-grandparents on both sides, spanning stories and photos in chronological order, covering about 200 years. We skimmed through the highlights, referring back to the first book.

 

Papa came home for lunch and we had fun around the kitchen island.

Banana oatmeal pancakes with bacon . . .

 

our Tehya loves bacon and I picked it up just for her.

After lunch and baking cookies, we settled in for our fourth episode of a movie we began at the beginning of this year . . .
 

all the while she wondered if Anne would marry Gilbert in this one . . .
It did not look too promising . . . but she had to . . .

Gilbert did come along in the end. Do you remember what happened?
I won't spoil any surprises here.
We both wiped some tears.
And then she told me not to tell her mom that we were done.
We pulled out our Twenty Questions board game
and enjoyed that until the doorbell rang near supper time.