Today we had an poetry/art festival with one of our homeschool groups. Jack made this silly alien painting. The alien was trying to decide which planet to go to, he was headed for planet x. Love that he was so excited for it.
We're thankful for the many different opportunities that this other group provides.
We are enjoying our little babies so much. They hop around the cage all day following mama. My favorite is the little white runt. She's a sweetie.
That's all for today. I felt like posting here so you get a gratuitous piggy pic. :)
Three little babies made an appearance Friday evening.
I'm in a little bit of a mood. We have a child experiencing some hiccups on the road of first love and I'm just a bit baffled by the whole situation. I really will never understand the way some people go about things. I wish I did. Truly, I wish I could understand why some people do the things they do and where they are coming from. Unfortunately, I've been on both sides of this problem and I really don't understand. The only thing I do understand is that they are doing the best they know how to at this time, which is not a lot of consolation when it involves your kid. It makes me feel sad for everyone involved.
On the list for this week:
I am going to try my best to take advantage of my downtime this week. Right now I am in a mood to circle my wagons. Anyone else get that way? I feel bad that they have been hurt and want to protect and coddle them for a bit. Being teens I'm sure they won't go for it. But I think an evening of games, or watching a movie together can go a long way. Especially if throw in some ice cream.
On another note, I've started watching Downton Abbey. How did I miss this? I think it is brillant.
It's becoming a Wednesday thing. :)
Jack had his first tap class yesterday. He loved it and wants to keep going. We bought a pair of shoes after class and he has only taken them off to sleep or leave the house. Yes, shoes that make noise. He is in awe of them. I am left wondering why there aren't more boys in tap. Did you hear me? They have SHOES THAT MAKE NOISE. What boy wouldn't love that? He has been tapping so much we had to move the plastic office floor protector out into the living room for him. Today, one of the only times he sat down was to watch you tube videos of Gregory Hines and Fred Astaire. Have you seen the one of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in roller skates?
He told me that I had to take the picture above to show people how the shoes worked. :)
While we were at the store picking up medicine for Steve(for the tooth, again), we picked up the perfect bag for transporting his shoes. A duffle bag with a skull and crossbones. It was exactly what I pictured when I found out he would need a bag. Perfect for the guitar-playing-dance-loving-rocker boy that he is.
The good news? Someone went right to sleep tonight.
Today we had the opportunity to go to a bread sculpting class put together by one of the moms in our support group. You can't see it in the picture, butat the time Jack was making a snowflake out of bread dough. Those were baked, brushed with melted butter and then dusted with powder sugar.
You can see the snowflake in this pic as he is dusting it with sugar.
After that they made a snowman out of dough. I have no pics of that. We brought it home and baked it and needless to say it didn't last long.
Today we were also blessed with about 20 minutes of snow. Jack was thrilled. This boy has been wishing for snow all winter. That is all he really wanted for Christmas. When I looked out and saw the flakes, he came running. And then he applauded. He gave the snow a round of applause. Love that.
Glad to have hubby back home.
A separate cage for the piggy.
A shopping trip turned lunch out for Zac and I with a couple of kiddos.
Can you guess what he wants to start doing this year?
What most of Jack's money is spent on.
Last week was a long, hard week. Seriously. Everyone gets thrown off when hubby is out of town. So glad to be on the flip side of that.
This weeks plans:
Things I hope to get done:
What is on your list?
when one minute you are hiding under a beach towel protesting staying at the pool...
and five minutes later...
And then you stay for another two hours and protest leaving the pool.
I'm ready for the weekend! :)
As if most of my posts weren't random. :)
I saw this and knew we had to make it!
Here is our version:
It ended up being about 2 ft square.
I am going to buy some of the thin elastic headbands to use for bigger shapes. I'm also trying to figure something out for really big shapes, maybe sewing elastic?
What are you making?
I don't know why this pic won't post right, but it's kind of funny sideways too. :)
This weekend: Battle of the bands in support of our favorite guitarist-- they did awesome! Recovering from a looooong week with very little sleep. Baseball and lacrosse at the park. Staying up too late again, running errands, driving class with the teens, birthday parties, and cleaning.
On the list this week:
What is on your list?
I'm getting real creative with the titles of these posts. :)
The Colosseum is completed. Jack has been enjoying geography a lot lately, especially when we have time to do projects. This one was a leftover from before Christmas, something we just didn't get around too during the hustle and bustle of the season. It's good to have it done. He loves building and had been looking forward to it. I need to make sure to incorporate projects for him.
This week we are studying Germany, we didn't get around to this before Christmas either. Today we looked at pictures of castles and the Berlin Wall. I think we will try and make pretzels for park day this week. I am channeling my fifth grade teacher who drilled us with German songs and words. I never thought I would thank him, but I am now! Although I'm not sure Jack feels the same way.
Today was our first day back to school. It went well. At one point Jack had taken the crime scene tape from his forensic science kit and put it across the dining room table. Zac saw the tape and asked about it and I told him you could tell how some people felt about being back to school today. ;)
We spent a good part of the day building the Colosseum out of foam blocks and hot glue. Pictures to come.
We did the reading test. Zac and I have both loved to watch Jack's reading take off these past few months. We especially love the fact that he loves reading.
Then we had our weekly p.e. class, not so much a class but a get together and play games time. We've missed it. Jack missed the games. I missed having a weekly date with the library.
He's getting to have quite a mop on his head and I don't know what to do. I don't want to cut it, but it needs to be tamed. Any ideas??
This weekend: family in from out of town-- family we haven't seen for about 13 years! We had a fun time rockin' out Friday night. We stayed up way too late. Date night last night. Today was a day to catch up on housework, practice driving with the teen boy and try and finally get those Christmas card pictures taken. I think we'll get them done by Valentine's day!
So on the list for this week:
What's on your list?
This project has been in the making for a few months now and it is finally done! After years of having to do dinner time while accommodating my projects laying all around, I finally have my own space.
There is still some final tweaking to be done, but it is useable! Talk about fitting a lot in a very small space. The two brown boxes on the floor to the left hold craft supplies- top one wood craft and the bottom holds felt in yards. The basket in the center holds my bag that I take projects out and about in. The right brown box holds felting supplies.
From the left: old floss drawer that I found thrifting- perfect for my stitching supplies, my vintage typewriter, the pile of papers needs to be dealt with, and Jack cut the hearts out of felt.
On the top shelf is a pencil sharpener which is hidden behind a jar of felt beads, a big jar of buttons, jars holding- rubber bands, wooden thumb tacks, and mini wooden clothespins(for the shutter memo board in the top picture), our terrarium, a metal bucket holding pens, scissors, markers and paint brushes.
The middle shelf- binder holding all of my class printouts thus far, embroidery patterns, felt patterns, and one full of homeschool ideas. Side note- I just realized they were all thrown on there after I had finished them yesterday.
Bottom shelf: card catalog of lesson plan ideas for homeschool., extra moleskine notebooks, blank canvases, and a big sketchbook, three hole punch, beeswax polish and my post it note supply. :)
In the far corner lies the photography supplies. The green crate houses our homeschool stuff in use. The roll of white paper on top is for an upcoming school project. You can see my planning notebooks in front. And the stack of papers in the middle are my home cleaning/organization ideas and planner.
Time to create!
This is the new years post. I hate to say resolutions, because well I don't like that word. And I tend to do this a couple of times a year, usually at the beginning of each season. But like everyone else change has been on my mind the past few weeks. I haven't yet come up with my word for the year. I have a few in mind, but I haven't had the time to sit down and journal or meditate on them yet. Hopefully soon. So on to the changes...
There are more, but those are for me to know and you to guess. ;) Also I am doing a 365 type thing this year on Instagram. If I ever figure out how to link it here I will. Looks like I may need to revive my flickr account.
Ahem. Sorry about the absence. Life just kind of got in the way. Christmas break with four kids and the hubby all off kind of does that.We've been playing lots, sleeping in, staying up way too late and hanging out.
No post with pictures from the weekend, because there were no pictures. Yes, I took a break from everything which is all good.
So on the list for this week:
And that is all. I'm trying to keep it simple.
Wishing you all a good 2012.
So busy. So much fun. And so much to be thankful for.
Friday we rang the bell for the Salvation Army. This was such a neat experience. It is on the list already for next year.
Jack taking a break for bell-ringing, singing and dancing.
The big kids got a big suprise on Christmas Eve. I love the pics of their faces.
It's not often we can pull a big surprise on them.
Jack decorated some gingerbread men for Santa.
Christmas morning.
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday. :)
