I ♥ this...

I made this really delicious chicken and avocado salad with cilantro.  We will be making it again very soon. 

Olivia really likes to use the Rainbow Loom and make stuff.  She made 16 bracelets to give to the kids in our homeschooling group today. 

 Jenny read the life of St. Valentine, as the children wrote messages for each other. 

With God's guidance, Father Steven picked the patron saint of our homeschooling group today.  A couple weeks ago, each family had done some research and picked out a saint they liked.  The children stood up and made presentations on each saint.  Many of the saints had beautiful lives or struggled with learning and through prayers were able to overcome any difficulties.  There was:

• the 3 hierarchs (St. Basil, St. Gregory and St. John)
• St. Catherine the Great
• St. John of Kronstadt
• St. Sergius of Radonezh
• St. Emmelia
• St. Artemis

And now, it is....  the St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox homeschooling group of Cincinnati area!  From this website, http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/johnkr_e.htm:

"his intellectual development was delayed, for he had great difficulty in learning to read" and "he prayed earnestly for divine enlightenment, and one morning, after he had risen during the night and prayed while his companions slept, he found himself able to read easily, and to understand what he had read."