Merry Christmas
from the
Egger Family
We pray you all have a blessed 2009
Top 10 Most Asked Questions in 2008
1) Where do you live?
2) Where are you looking?
3) What church are you at?
4) What activities are you doing?
5) Are they still playing the violin?
6) Are you still homeschooling?
7) Do you plan to home school them
through high school?
8) How many kids do you have now?
9) How old are they?
10) And for 12 years running,
the most asked question,
Are you having any more?
Answers:
1) Still in Rancho Penasquitos, but they've been looking around now that home prices have come down.
2) South Escondido--We'd like to have space for fruit trees, chickens, ducks and their large family of course which includes 4 bunnies, but would like to be close to their church and the children's activities.
3) Grace Church in Rancho Bernardo. http://www.gracechurchsd.org/
70% of the families there home school.
4) Breaking boards...all but Noah are taking self defense with Swiftkick Martial Arts. Here are some clips on you tube of our end of year show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3-LN5_Tu4&feature=channel_page
and Glenn broke 3 bricks and the tip of his pinky. He went all the way to the floor instead of pulling back so the bricks don't fall on his hand. This was the first time he's ever broken bricks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96R7-jwc50I&feature=email
He's also been riding (motorcyles) with one of our pastors.
5) Theresa and Christianne are; Joshua switched to viola earlier this year and Jordan has been studying cello for 3 years. Now we have a string quartet. Here they are playing while Ethan and Noah sing along at the annual Swiss Club Christmas Party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlIUq6XFAU&feature=channel
You can also watch Jordan sing White Christmas and Christianne sing Mary Did You Know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efNPVo3U1Pg&feature=channel
Tuesday night, they played at Christmas Card Lane and collected $80 for the Salvation Army playing for about
one hour. They're violin and viola teacher, Mrs. Collard lives on one of the streets.
6) Yes, Glenn is still teaching them and also volunteered to teache Algebra I at Poway CFS class days.
7) Yes, we do. We're in the printing business so we can print them whatever diplomas they want ;-)
you can enjoy the 12 days of homeschooling on this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWa0rzvesCE
8) half a dozen...so it's only half as cheap.
9) Jordan is now 15, Joshua 14, Christianne 12, Theresa 11, Ethan 6, Noah 3. Soon, we will have 4 teens at the same time.
10) And always, the same answer:
"Only the Lord knows! Children are a gift from the Lord!"
We are blessed to have them all!