A Day in the Life in December

So here we are on the 4th of December, just starting a new year with the Crew.    Seems to make everything busy again, though in reality it just makes it a bit busier if one manages their time well.

BUT that's not why I'm here, today I"m here to walk you through a day in our life.

This morning I woke up WAY too early, I would have loved to have slept longer but I also didn't want to get up so I laid in bed reading and dozing off and on.   Finally got up at 700, started my bunny chores, came in at 730 to wake up our student to get him on the way... I know he heard me, but when I got in at 900 he was still having breakfast so he got to school late.   He mumbled something about falling back to sleep...

The lad finally deigned to wake up when I brought laundry upstairs to his room.  "Mom?  What???"   I
My response was "It's 930 lad, you might want to get up. I"M HUNGRY!"
While he readied himself I got laundry put away.

After discussing our conversation jar question "what toy did you play with most as a child" (we both said lego), over a breakfast of cereal,  we read our missionary story of the day.  About a family travelling through the jungle of Belize, getting lost at night, and being protected by an angel.  (that's the very short rendition).   The lad and I were quite astounded by the events.

We got a bit of a late start to the day, as the lad needed to care for his mice and snake.As I got our materials ready for our upstairs work, the lad did his 20 minutes of reading.  By the time he was done I had printed off some math practice sheets for him and figured out our assignments from Mapping the world with art.      Part of the time needed was in using my new map program to make some maps for my lad.  He's been struggling with some of the complexities of the maps due to his "it has to be perfect streak".  So I thought printing them out would be better and with the map program I could put my dots on the page, and put in mountains and what not.  It worked a charm!

My lad was able to focus on the countries and the places instead of working on doing the drawing perfectly.    He was able to save his art acumen for creating a Medieval TO map.  This project was really enjoyed by my lad.   He enjoyed figuring out how to make the letters special even if they aren't done in a medieval font.

We followed this up with some math practice, this took longer than it should have and my lad, when asked to double check his work with a correct answer sheet, said  "MOM.. if I do that.. then there's no point in my correcting it as I already know the answer!   It's best if you check them for me mom."   (what does say in return to that?)

By this time we were getting hungry as it was getting on 230, so we stopped to have lunch and while having lunch finished up our day with Classics for kids.  Today our artist was Modest Mussorgsky. 

 Of course, just as our school day was drawing to a close hubby dear said, "check this video out you two".  Isn't science rather neat?   My son now wants to go to a friends house and use their pool.. wrong time of year or not. :)

The rest of our day was taken up with minecraft (1/2 hour the lad playing solo), 1/2 hour playing lego Harry Potter with Dad on the Xbox, cleaning the book room (me), having supper (the whole family), the lad writing out lines for venting his frustration inappropriately, the lad attending Cadets at the local Christian Reformed Church and that's about it.  :)   

So overall, even though the day started sluggishly and none of us had a whole lot of ambition, the day went fairly well.     :)     Now to see what tomorrow brings! 

So, do you have a day in the life to share?   If so, I'd be delighted to read up on it.   Leave a link in the comments and I'll check it out too.  :)