Celebrating Bastille Day at Home school group
Lindy is really into the piano these days. She'll pull out some music, and "play it" for 30 minutes at a time. Without fail, she'll come to me later and ask, "Was it a pretty song Mommy?"
Trying my darnedest to keep Benson occupied while I -fill in the blank-. At this point, it was probably me trying to buy some time while I made dinner.
Gwen hit a milestone in school the other day. She made it to the end of the reading curriculum she's been using since kindergarten! She's been anxiously looking forward to that last lesson, which "teaches" you to read the word "Supercalifragalisticexpealadocious." She was over the moon about it, and to celebrate she got to pick out some candy at the store and help me go shopping for Dad's Valentine's present.
Sometimes school includes listening to stories on our record player. :) A friend gave us a ton of these old records of kids stories that go along with books. I feel pretty confident in their abilities to navigate a record player now, so they pull them out when they have free time and follow along in the books.
Some mornings it takes me a while to get out of bed. Some mornings the kids will pull out the cereal for me. Sometimes I take too long waking up, and Benson takes matters into his own hands, climbs up on the table, and starts eating before everyone else. :)
Miles looking' dapper in his new suit!
Hosting Joy School again. This time wasn't my scheduled turn, but I took it last minute because another mom was sick. Normally this would have made me nervous because of my lack of planning. However, I feel like recently, as in the last year or so, I've reached a new level of zen. With things like sharing time, home school, joy school etc... I would plan and prepare well in advance and be constantly thinking about it. I don't know how it all came about, but these days I just roll with it. If I plan a bunch of stuff, great. If not, I'll figure something out and it will probably be just fine. I don't know if that's zen, or lazy, either way I'm enjoying it. I literally pulled some stuff together before going to bed the night before joy school this week, without giving it another thought. And guess what? It was just as good as any other time I've been in charge. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Managed to throw together another sensory bin in hopes of keeping Benson occupied. Instead, it kept the girls occupied. Beans and dinosaurs, who knew?
Making Russian Thunder cake for home school group!
Practicing our spelling words by writing them on the window with window markers.
Gwen and I playing "sums of ten" to practice the sums of ten math facts. I love it when they love school.
Miles and his very first book report! I walked him through the process of rough drafts, typing it up on the computer, making it look nice etc. It was a fun process. I think he enjoyed it, especially feeling very grown up typing on the computer.
Miles earned his Wolf badge in cub scouts! It was awarded to him at the blue and gold banquet. He was so excited that he put all of his scout uniform stuff on about 7 hours early. They also had a talent show portion of the evening and Miles played "On Top of Old Smokey" on his uke and sang! I could tell he was nervous, but he did very well and felt enormously proud afterward.
Lindy needed some one-on-one time. Last weekend, Aunt Makenna offered to take the 3 oldest for a sleepover. Richie and I put Benson to bed and had a sitter come over so we could sneak out to a late movie. 5 minutes into the movie, the sitter texts us because Benson woke up and she doesn't know how to get him back to sleep. 8 minutes into the movie Makenna texts and says Lindy is sick and she's bringing her home! We thought it would be such a painless evening! Ha! Anyway, the next morning Lindy came grocery shopping with me and then we got her a smoothie. These dates sure don't have to be anything big to make our kids feel extra special. It was fun to be with just Lindy.
Miles wanted to pass off one of his Faith in God requirements the other day, so he helped me make soup and breadsticks. It's a typical soup, and typical breadsticks, but Miles kept remarking on how yummy it all was. :) I think he felt proud of his efforts.
Again, trying to keep Benson occupied during home school. He makes it so challenging! It started out with him on a chair by the sink, but ended up with him in the sink for at least an hour, with a diaper that probably ended up weighing 5 pounds. Hey, it kept him occupied, so I'm calling it a win!!
It just doesn't seem like Valentine's Day until we make sugar cookies. It's even more fun when we have friends over to help us! I have such fond memories of making sugar cookies for Valentine's Day with my mom. It's fun to do the same thing with my kids.
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