Friday, March 12, 2021

Soul Or Jury

 On our walk Ruth brought a pair of pajama's she picked up reduced for only $3.00 and wondered if anyone wanted them. Diane hung them on the stop sign until after the walk.

We thought it was fitting, why hurry and worry, just stop and smell the fresh dirt.  The men from Litwiller arrived early again and started working even before we finished our walk. They finished the site work later this afternoon. We had semi after semi dropping off loads of CA6 for the actual building site. It is built up enough there is no way this building should ever leak.

Above one semi is dumping while another arrives.
Above the Cat Loader is waiting for the pile to get dumped and below there are two semi's dumping.
I left for Aldi just after 9:00 am and got the grocery shopping done quickly arriving home by 10:15 am.
It is neat to watch how efficiently this company works.  Anna came to clean the apartment for the guests coming in tonight then took Braelyn on a mommy/daughter date while Taegan and Kensley stayed with me. We borrowed 2 cookies sheets from mom (great grandma) so we could bake cookies. Today we baked Becky's Butter Cookies, a recipe my cousin Becky created and they are really special. Taegan helped with the mixing and both girls helped with the decorating.

These will be served at Sunday dinner. When the cookies were finished the cookie sheets were washed up and taken back to mom's along with a fresh baked cookie. We stopped and dropped off the rest of the French silk pie left over from Berean for the workers. Emma was busy watching the trucks and making sure they stayed on the other side of the fence.

Above were the last two load of CA6 and below they are grading the slope going up to the building site and making it smooth enough that we can add gravel. There is plenty of room to drive all the way around the building even for big trucks and trailers. 
When I got back I got a call from a man that wants a Warlander colt from either Soul or Jury.

He even wanted to put a deposit down but we don't take deposits on unborn foals. First of all Soul or Jury may both have fillies instead of colts and we want to make sure the foal is healthy before we offer her or she for sale. What was interesting about this call is his neighbor has a filly out of Soul and said, "she is beautiful"  The other interesting thing is that both Soul and Jury are due the exact same date April 28th, 2021. 
My daughter-in-law Taunya, married to Ben was the Friday spotlight with the Friday Therapist Spotlight. 

The article reads: 
Friday Therapist Spotlight! Please meet and welcome Miss Taunya!

~Taunya Sceggel, M.Ed., CALT in Training, is currently in her advanced year of school to become a Certified Academic Language Therapist through Mckinney Christian Academy. She has completed over 700 hours of direct, systematic, explicit instruction in a multisensory approach to students identified with dyslexia. She taught kindergarten for three years in a private school and taught third grade while going to graduate school to earn her Master's of Science in Education in Reading. She graduated in 2009 with her Master’s degree.

She stayed at home with her four kids for ten years while being actively involved in her children’s school and their education. She began noticing signs of dyslexia in one of her children. It was through the process of becoming her child’s advocate, fighting for him to get tested, and receive therapy for dyslexia, that she found a new passion. It would change her teacher and reading specialist role while invoking in her the desire to continue education to become a Certified Academic Language Therapist. Watching her son struggle to learn instant words in the beginning of therapy and seeing him grow to become a fluent reader reading chapter books only made her passion grow.

In 2019 she applied to an accredited school to begin her new dream of becoming a dyslexia therapist. She is passionate about helping and advocating for children with dyslexia; especially her own. She loves watching the amazing process of a struggling reader realize they, too, can learn to read when taught in a new way. She also loves observing their confidence grow as they are given tools to decode words and watching them process language in a new way through a multisensory, repetitive approach.

More important, Taunya a wife and mother of four amazing kids ranging from 3 years old to 11 years old. She enjoys spending as much time as she can with her sweet family and extended family now that they live by family again. She enjoys spending as much time as she can outside with her family and most recently sledding in SNOW. Something she missed while living in TX.

We asked Taunya what special moment in your career justifies that you are doing what you love every day?

Her response: Being a mom to a dyslexic kid and see my child grow to be a fluent reader is one of many reasons I became a therapist. Every time I work with a student and I see them use a tool which was taught through one of our lessons to decode a word for them reminds me why I love doing therapy. It is amazing watching my students gain skills necessary to reading, writing, and spelling proficiently.








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