The Jones Girls

My babysitter and now dear family friend, Christine, and her friend, Nicole went with us to a carnival yesterday.  We went to the 23rd annual Summerfest in Brea.  It is a gigantic carnival.  They host top notch free entertainment.    Terry Fador  performed at the carnival last night.  Hhe won Grand Prize Winner as the most talented for America’s Got Talent on NBC.  He is a ventriloquist, singer, comedian and celebrity impressionist.  A true genius and an overnight sensation who now has his own Las Vegas show at the Mirage.   This man is a brilliant entertainer and he brought the house down last night.

The girls got hungry for dinner, it was 7:30pm,so I grabbed some hotdogs and we had dinner while watching the show.  It was so much fun!!  I can’t believe it was free!!

By the end of the show, the girls were ready to venture over to the vibrant twinkling lights where all of the fun games and rides were.    There were so many fun little toddler rides for the girls to ride on.  Each ride was $12 for all of the girls to go on.   I let them go on 2 rides.   I received a discount from the administration of the carnival.  They saw my 4 girls and just knew it was going to cost me a fortune and donated $36 worth of tickets so the girls could go on 3 rides.   Then a man overheard me telling the girls we ran out of tickets and he gave me 24 tickets so the girls could go on more rides!!   It was just amazing!!  God was shining down on us and showering us with so many blessings!!

We stayed till the carnival closed which was till about 10pm.   The people that run the rides let our girls go on the rides for free.    Again, I was amazed by such generosity.    

The man who gave us the free tickets is a DJ for a local radio station.  I met his wife and we hit it off.   We agreed to exchange email addresses and plan a Disneyland play date.  I emailed them today to see when they would like to go and to thank them for the tickets.

Last night just felt my heart with the Holy Spirit.  I felt God’s Love all around me.     Even in the tough times we are having right now, God gives me special gifts like what I received from such generous people yesterday!!

On Saturday, May 30th, I hosted a Mother & Daughter Tea at a beautiful place called Tea and Teacups in Yorba Linda.   It started at 11am.  I made pretty little princess hats, wands, hair bows for each girl.   Each girl also received a package of beads and cord to make their own necklace and bracelet. 

Each girl was so excited!!   It was so special to see everyone having such a good time.     The food and tea was delicious.

I arranged some fun games and prizes for the moms and girls.  It was a lot of fun.

Everyone took home Rice Krispy Treats and Special Life Vitamin Water.

I took Amanda and Maryssa to the Public Preschool to be evaluated on Thursday May 28th.  

Since Amanda is being followed by the school district as a possible special needs due to her disability with her right arm, they want to do a global evaluation, academically and physically.   So Thursday we had it done.   She was tested at a 3-1/2 to 4 year old level!!  The preschool teachers and the school psychologist said they have never used the some of the pages of the evaluations for a 2 year old before and were amazed.  Way to go Amanda!!  So she will not need speech therapy or Special Ed Kindergarten.

Maryssa got evaluated because she currently receives speech therapy once a week and the school district wanted to see if Maryssa would benefit from the Public Preschool that would offer her speech therapy.  She tested much lower than Amanda in terms of receptive language which is processing and understanding language.   She tested a little bit better in her expressive language than receptive language.  Expressive language is how she communicates and talks.     I am hoping she will receive speech therapy at the preschool because I think she will benefit greatly from it over a traditional preschool because of the smaller classroom size vs. a larger classroom size in a traditional preschool.   Maryssa is such an adorable and darling sweetheart.  She is just my precious!!

We have a follow up appointment on the results of their evaluations on June 10th.