I started reading a book to the girls last week, The Cabin Faced West, and Little Bit just loved it! She braids her hair, puts blue ribbon in the braids, and pretends to be Ann Hamilton 90% of the time. We went to a nearby vegetable garden to pick some veggies and Little Bit tied a small apron around her waist to collect beans in, just like Ann! She's so sweet. She also did her first creative narration and wrote a letter from Ann to her best friend back in Gettysburg. She thought that was so fun... I typed it, and she is in the process of copying it on paper she stained with tea! This girl....
Since that book was so loved, I decided to pull out the Little House series. At first Little Bit said I'll never love Laura like I love Ann. . . can you guess how long that lasted??? Not long; now she's confused. It's been a great opportunity for me to share with my struggling reader, just how wonderful books can be. Baby T however is enjoying Laura's stories much more than Ann's! It's so funny how they are so different. Baby T also didn't think it would be fun to write a letter, so I didn't make her.
Oh- I forgot to mention that the girls thought churning would be fun when we read about Ann doing it. So, we went over to Grandma's and made butter by shaking it in a mason jar. Let's just say I'm glad I don't have to rely on them to make our butter every week! They wimped out. ;) If I can get my courage up, I will try to help them make rag dolls, and we want to try our hand at Johnny cakes.
Bean Boy has had a fantastic week (or so). Last week we offered to pay him handsomely to pull up all the oak parkay flooring in our main room. Before we moved in, we knocked out walls to make a huge room, but we've never been able to really make it one room because the flooring is different. In an effort to move that process forward, we are planning on staining the concrete. But first, the floors must come up. We offered Bean Boy the opportunity to "do hard things" and he surprised us by taking us up on the offer. Further more, he surprised us by setting his timer during his breaks, by being more diligent than we've ever seen, and by being protective of his work (not wanting to share it). We told him if it wasn't done by a certain time, we may have to "outsource" and he was not about to let that happen! We offered him 3 different prices. . . X amount (a big number people!) to have it done by Wednesday, X-$25 to have it done by Thursday, and X-$50 to have it done by Friday. He finished Wednesday! I'm telling you people- I COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WORK!!! I'm so proud of him. He's ready to move on to the mulch pile outside, hauling it to the back, and not wanting to share that either! Who is this kid??
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| He added that entire section he's got marked off there to the pile! That was his biggest mound of the week! |
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| Here is the big mound... The chilies thought it was fun to walk on them! |
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| It's finished!!!! BTW there is a lot more floor than I could squeeze into this pic! Sorry for the phone pics, but that's all I got! |
Some other things that have been going on:
We have caterpillars! Well... we had caterpillars. A friend gave us one that is now in its chrysalis. I'm hoping that even though it fell, and I'm scared to tie it up like someone suggested, that it will still get a butterfly. The other two caterpillars that we pulled off our milkweed plant have mysteriously died. There are still 1-2 we left outside on the plant. We totally missed this one making it's chrysalis, but hopefully we'll see some action outside.
While BeanBoy has been hard at work on the living room floor, Hubby got to work on the kitchen floor... we have bare concrete now in our 4 main rooms. Due to scheduling and such it may take us way longer than anticipated! Most of our furniture is squeezed into other rooms of the house, and today, everything will be moved out! Crazy! Hopefully, Hubby can get it all done soon!
Hubby and I are also teaching a summer class to some teenagers/pre-teens. He is teaching a logic/debate class, and I will be going through the book Do Hard Things with them. Bean Boy started his lessons early! We start this coming Wednesday and will go for 8 weeks. I'm getting excited!
Just a note too... not sure how we've done it, but the kids have not turned on the brain drainer all week!!! PTL!
Hopefully I will have time to share about Baby T's Angry Birds birthday party (what a blast!) and some things I've been inspired to do with our almost 12 year old!!! Even when things are at their worst, God is good. There are blessings to be found. . . if I'll just take a moment to find them.
Have a good weekend!
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