While us parents are doing a Bible study, the kids are usually upstairs or downstairs playing. But these older girls do not play, they come up with big endeavors! At the beginning of fall, they planned a newspaper and they really wanted to sell it! Between the four of them, they had written articles, picked out games, and typed everything out! Quite the self-motivators! I think they also wanted to start selling ads, but by that time, the enthusiasm kind of fizzled out.
Their next idea was "Modest Models for Christ." They were making books, drawing pictures, and even making videos of how young girls/ tweens should dress to be modest. As parents, we were very proud that they had actually been listening to us!
Their latest adventure is movie making! Courtney loves to write scripts and put on plays, so I am sure this was her big idea! The other three are just going along with it. They came up with this idea a couple of weeks ago and even though we did not have small group last Sunday, we had this family over anyway, so they could film their movie. These girls worked hard for at least two hours on this movie while their mom and I sat in the living room and talked. :) We love this self-motivation! (I was watching their movie Sunday night when I kind of got queasy from the non-stable camera.) They had written the entire script, memorized it (kind of), made props, and filmed it all.
Courtney has been so serious about this movie endeavor that she mentioned to Matt that she wanted her own camera. (She had been using either a camera on an old cell phone or our nice camera up until this point.) She has enough money from dog-sitting, so she and Matt picked one out on Amazon and she ordered it. Why shouldn't she have her own? She is old enough to be responsible.
Her camera came yesterday and she is super thrilled! I foresee many movies in our future!
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