Clark Family

Grades Are Out! Clark Update

noreply@blogger.com (Jamon Clark) — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 23:12:00 +0000

We received our Children's Grades this week
Commentary from the Children in Middle School
Robert (12)

Robert Baked this cake from scratch and sold it at a recent auction, the buyer called to question if he really made it from scratch and said it was amazing.

Asked about his report card:
Robert: Most of School is boring, and I hate it
Jamon: What do you like about school?
Robert: Lunch, Recess and math
Jamon: What do you want to do when you graduate high school?
Robert: Go to the Culinary or work to get to a good college that will get me a degree in Nuclear Physics
Jamon: I never took Physics what do you want to do?
Robert: Experiment or find new atoms
Jamon: What will finding atoms do for you? Why is that important?
Robert: Finding new atoms means I can reverse gravity then I can fly to the sky.

Edith (10)

Edith's personality really shines here

Edith on her report card
Edith: In social studies I began with a not so good grade, then I got better
Jamon: How did it get better?
Edith: It went up alot
Jamon: How did it go up alot?
Edith: It launched to the sky
Jamon: And what caused it to launch to the sky?
Edith: A rocket ship

This week, the chicken lives (to quote from Moana). I kid you not, after Alice said a prayer, the little hourglass started the move. The next morning, I am not sure what happened, but it seemed fine.

We cleaned our living room to paint it during spring break (this coming week). There is no seminary.

We also discovered a mouse in our kitchen, we have censured the cat and I hope we never see the rodent again.

This weekend was Stake conference
Robert had play practice
Zoe, Alice Peggy and I went Easter Egg Hunting with the local community. We were late, and ended up not hunting eggs but getting the goodie bag anyways. They moved it to a new location and I did not know it.

Stake Conference was this week, it was inspiring. We made McKay go Saturday night (last three sessions, the youth were invited) and then realized it was adults only, so he hung out with some of the youth a the building whom were babysitting primary aged kids.

Sunday early evening the kids were out in the yard building fairy houses (sticks and wood forts for fairies that a ward member introduced us to). Peggy called Rachel and I outside with joy. Did she build a house? No....We went and she bragged about how she pooped in the yard. Yes Peggy age three took it upon herself to squat in the middle of our yard. Such independence!

Alice, Peggy, Robert and Zoe all holding their respective birds.

Love the Clarks!

Clark Update General Conference Chickens and the Like

noreply@blogger.com (Jamon Clark) — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 22:29:00 +0000

Rachel went to get some supplies for our animals and the store had some chickens, she texted me while I was at work and said I think we are getting 6 more chickens.
We did, see it on instagram

One was on life support as Peggy may have squeezed it a little too tight. We huddled around it and I watched the baby for a good 10 minutes during General Conference. I said what should we do to help? Peggy sang it some songs.
Then Alice decided that she would pray.
2 seconds after the prayer concluded, the bird started walking...slowly
the next day the bird is up and about.

Before the squeeze was put on....Rachel wanted to ensure each bird was a different variety.

The enclosure is more child proof now.

Friday the kids had a half day, but Peggy had a library class, so they hit the books and did not want to be disturbed.

Edith and Zoe using the library like they used to in the olden days

Robert Sequestered himself with his book

Recap by Alice (5)
What happened this week?
"I held a chicken, I went to the bridge, I rollerskate and cross the birdge. I went to the playground."

At 10:30 am with gusty winds, the playground was very empty.

Recap by Edith (10)
"It's me Edith, I want to tell you about my week. First of all my art teacher loves my art. And decided to post all of my sketches around the school :)!
I LOVE gymnastics and I am in level 5. My favorite event is....floor, bars, vault and sometimes beam."
My friends in gymnastics are called "Unicorns"

"We also got new Chicks. Mine is named hourglass, Robert's named Buckeye. Zoe's is named Ache-em, Alice's is called Checkers, and Peggy's is Feather."
Feather broke her back, or leg :(
I hope she gets better"
Bye See you soon."

My commentary, she is good on the beam, her best event so far. Her group of friends in the same level are the unicorns, as the other girls are getting older, she and her friends are more excited about puppy's, kittens and the like. The entire gym calls this group the unicorns. Oh my the teenage years never hit us. One of her friends got her and the group each a sweatshirt that they all wear, all the time which says, "Unicorns are Awesome, I am awesome, therefore I am a unicorn."

Saturday while Robert was at play practice, I took the three girls and let them roller-skate on the Long Flat Pedestrian Bridge in Poughkeepsie. It was windy and I thought it was closed due to winds and recent rains. It wasn't, we took the elevator up and then with the wind, we spent about 5 minutes and came back down.

We continued our tradition of watching General Conference and bribing our children with insane amounts of candy if they listened. We went to the Church Sunday Morning to watch the session at the church building and someone told me how obedient our children were. I confessed our candy bribing, and they said "You do what you have to do."

Family Journal Beginning

noreply@blogger.com (Jamon Clark) — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:51:00 +0000

Welcome to our family journal. we are asking each family member to update on our happenings. This is kind of a public blog, so we have stripped out some of the younger names in our family. At the time of writing we are in March 2017. We are Jamon and Rachel Clark from New York about 70 miles North of NYC.

Our kids names are "coded"
Our oldest is Robert
Our second is Edith
Our Third is Zoe
Our Fourth is Alice
Our Fifth is Peggy

I plan provide updates weekly where we will hear from the kids point of view

I work for IBM in Armonk NY. My office is newer and the way my kids think of it, they think it is candy land. I get free hot chocolate every day!

Rachel is two weeks from graduating BYUI, she did it online, and started through the pathways program provided by our local Stake (diocese), She will walk in July (we will be out near the campus). She is aiming for a medical degree and has some pre mcat coursework to complete.

Robert is right now with the Children's Community Theater of Dutchess. His character is a scholarly pirate. He played soccer this fall, and enjoyed slide tackling people. He likes playing goalie, but he is not at the top spot yet. He knows the lyrics of Hamilton, and for 10% of a the face value of a Hamilton show, he can sing any of the songs for you!. He is in 7th grade and is eager to share his point of view. He enjoys eating an inordinate amount of eggs.

Edith is in team gymnastics. She is level five and just qualified for states in May! Her self description is gymnastics, wolves, unicorns, art, animals and her ipad. She is working on her ability to pull herself up on the bars...a straight arm kip it is called. She goes to gymnastics four days week.

Zoe will turn 8 in April. She plans to be baptized on April 30th in Poughkeepsie. She is into origami, sewing, piano and gymnastics. She is working on her back handspring. She can do 100 perfect push ups consecutively! When she is playing on the playground she is known to sing to herself.

Alice is in Kindergarten, she has no inside voice. She is a friend to all and an expert chicken catcher. In the past two weeks, her reading has been amazing! She is working on her gymnastics back walkover.

Peggy is our redheaded terror. We nicknamed her Godzilla because if there is a block tower (or anything fir that matter), she will destroy it. She wears dresses and puts herself to bed. She just marches upstairs and passes out. Our first to do it

We have 2 dogs, a great cat, 11 chickens and we will be getting bees in May!

Enjoy, our goal is that our kids will recap the
The Clarks!