January 2016~by Beth

January at our house means basketball in full swing.  Our children play on a home school team and play in two leagues, one for middle school, GCACC, and one for high school, FCAA.  Some FCAA teams also have a middle school team so our jv girls get a few extra games for fun.  Emma, Johanna and Abigail played on the jv team and Christiana and Charity played on the varsity girl's team.  Jonathan coached the boys varsity team again this year, but we did not have any players from our family playing as David graduated last year.

Christiana and Charity play in a game.

January brought several plumbing projects.  During a big storm our ladder knocked over and broke off our spigot on the side of the house and had to be fixed.  Our girls shower also had some issues.

Due to the above average rainfall, 13 inches in January (normal is about 1/2 inch) our hibiscus plant bloomed beautifully.  Here is a shot of one of the flowers.

More basketball news in next month.