Monday
Monday was a fantastic day. I was just getting over my 24 hour "death bug" and might have overdone it, but it was wonderful! Swim team is over. . . that means no more leaving by 0730 every morning!!! Woohoo! So, back to my wonderful routine! Mommy is so happy!!! However, we didn't have school on Monday. Just a field trip. Baby T spent most of the day with some friends, while Crazy K, Bean Boy, and Little Bit and I went to this great place called Yes You Canvas! They painted these amazing monkeys that I'm going to hang on my bathroom wall! *I got the hooks, and then discovered I don't have the right nails! Geesh! I'll post a picture of the completed monkeys after I hang them.
After that, we went to visit Hubby at his work/internship. We were able to have lunch together. What a treat for us all. Then it was back to get Baby T, home for a short siesta, and then the cooking commenced...
I organize a casserole swap where each participant makes a casserole for all of the other participants. So, this time we had 7 people sign-up... I made 7 tonight, 1 for myself and 6 for the other families...all the same casserole. The girls had fun helping in the kitchen... Yummy Chicken Enchiladas from Skinny Taste!
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| One of 3 pots of chicken I made to go in our 6 casseroles... fortunately I had some left over I was able to freeze. |
Well...they're all piled in our deep freeze waiting to be exchanged now. It has been invaluable to know that once a week I can pull something out of the freezer and dinner is ready!!!
Tuesday
Tuesday was just a regular old school day! I'm so thankful that Bean Boy had the opportunity to be on swim team, but even more thankful that it is over, and I have my mornings back. We spent the morning doing chores and school, and then the afternoon was spent at the gym while the girls tumbled and jumped and walked on their hands! Nothing special to report except that routine makes me happy!
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| 1st grade math is fun! |
Wednesday
Wednesday was some more routine, with a twist. I had bought some clipboards for the girls and myself to keep our daily "list" on. This year I started to use Scholaric for keeping up with our lesson plans and Bean Boy is starting to get some grades that Scholaric will keep up with too. So, I print our lists from Scholaric and put it on the clipboards...anyway- all this to say that I got to spend some time using my creativity to color and decorate the clipboards with Crazy K. It was something I wouldn't normally do, and was a ton of fun and very relaxing. As time started to get by, we started to sing our memory verses and hymns while we were coloring! Then onto Bible and so forth.
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| Baby T saying her memory verse with hand motions! |
Wednesday is also a gymnastics day, so I dropped the older two off at the tutor and headed to the gym. On the way, I got a phone call from a friend who was ill and said she couldn't go to the painting class she had signed up for at Yes You Canvas... she wanted to know if I wanted to take her spot. I wasn't sure about this. I did want to, and the picture they were painting was one I had wanted to do, but it was just outside of my comfort zone. When I talked to Hubby about it, he actually pretty much told me to go.... so I did. And, I'm so glad that I did! I had a good time, though I found some parts unnerving and a little stressful, I really like my painting. What do you think?
Thursday
My MIL comes once a week to play, I mean school the kids. ;) She does a lot of the stuff I don't like to work on... flashcards, drills, rote memory type stuff. Usually she comes while I'm sleeping or going to appointments or such, but today I didn't have any of that, so I cleaned! It was fabulous. I cleaned out Baby T's drawers, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the kitchen (which was a nightmare!) and more! Then I took a shower. The kids and I said goodbye to Grommy and headed out to lunch and bowling. We had a great time bowling with our friends (despite several break downs of the ball return machine!).
After bowling, we returned home to start on dinner...then the ladies came to swap our casseroles... 6 new yummy casseroles in the freezer. I have one free pass for the next 6 weeks!!! Yippeee!
Friday-
I'm writing this ahead of time, but the plan is to school, have lunch with my mom, and then I go to work...nothing special. Another week will have gone by, and we will not have finished our lapbooks before the start of the Olympics! :( BUT, we will finish them next week! Then onto our government study, hopefully.
Favorite Part of the Week
I've noticed a spirit of ungratefulness in my kids lately. And, I must confess, I've had a spirit of dis-contentedness. So, last week I asked the kids to list 5 things they were grateful for. They were not allowed to say people, unless it was a specific thing about that person or something they had done. We continued the list each day, and they were not allowed to repeat anything. This starts to get hard after several days. I'll share a couple of things from each kiddo here and probably make a whole new post on our Thankfulness Journals. It is interesting to see the progression from day 1 to day 5...
Crazy K
Day 1: House, food, God, Peace, Love
Day 2: Happiness, animals, Bible, bed, stuffed animals
Day 3: Ms. Kristy keeping me this summer, my family is healthy
Day 4: Little Bit saying good job on Baby T's clipboard, quiet time with God
Day 5: Grommy doing school with us
Bean Boy
Day 1: math, rain, monopoly, pets, Josh cuz he is funny (Bean Boy's writing cracks me up!)
Day 2: Bible, God, exercise, scientists, Life of Fred
Day 3: Ozzie (our dog), physics... and I just caught that he re-listed Bible.... I guess I can't complain
Day 4: Mom cuz she is my teacher, Dad cuz he is my math teacher
Day 5: water, my brain, clothes
Little Bit
Day 1: movies, Mellow Mushroom, shelter, clothes, toys
Day 2: furniture, trees
Day 3: going camping with my family, money for our family
Day 4: Mommy doing my clipboard, Bean Boy being nice to me
Day 5: ice cream, Jesus
Baby T
Day 1: family and friends, God dying on the cross for us, house butterflies and rainbows, toys
Day 2: chickens (our chickens are hers), Little Bit making breakfast, gymnastics
Day 3: God, Crazy K helping with chores, flowers
Day 4: Crazy K and Mommy making my clipboard nice, sunset, thankful that we sing our memory verses
This proves that we have so much in our every day lives to be thankful for. Many of these things are things others don't have... sadly including Jesus! We are so very, very blessed. What a lesson I'm learning as I keep a journal too! It has been a great way to start our Bible study.
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| Our Bible Time... Thank you Jesus! |
Wow! What a busy, but fun week for you all! And so many great things to keep the kids busy and learning and having a nice time! The artwork (yours included) are awesome! Stopping by from Weekly Wrap-up!
ReplyDeleteWe did have a very productive week! Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back!
ReplyDeleteOh- and the art was fun! Thanks!
Kristy