Over this past week I've been busy.. so has the whole family. My hubby with struggling to feel well as he's fighting some type of bug.
My lad in keeping up with his mom. :) We've been gone from the home TOO many days and it kind of caught up to us today...so we had a relaxing day just fiddling at home.
So what all have we been doing?
My son has done some schooling with Stinky Kid math...he's got a firm grip on Associative, cumulative and distributive properties now AND has done some learning about stopping and starting videos until he understands what people are talking about... breaking it down into smaller bits. He still has some work to go on it, but he's starting to figure it out. :)
My lad in keeping up with his mom. :) We've been gone from the home TOO many days and it kind of caught up to us today...so we had a relaxing day just fiddling at home.
So what all have we been doing?
My son has done some schooling with Stinky Kid math...he's got a firm grip on Associative, cumulative and distributive properties now AND has done some learning about stopping and starting videos until he understands what people are talking about... breaking it down into smaller bits. He still has some work to go on it, but he's starting to figure it out. :)
I've been a tough mom this week too.. making him work on his Veritas Press course as well. He enjoys it but we got diverted too much last year, so he's got some catching up to do. :) He's doubled up most days this week except when he was working hard helping mom clean the house.
This is a pic from last year, now he uses a laptop. :)
We needed to make an unexpected EXTRA trip into the big city this week so I chose to make a detour at one of our local museums. We went to the Donnelly Museum and spent about an hour there. The Donnelly Museum is part of the Lucan Heritage Museum. Half is devoted to the Donnelly Story, the other half to the Black Pioneer Village. Interesting place, I'll be doing up a separate post for it.
Here the boys are checking out the difference in the map from the Donnelly Days to today.
We then headed up to London and stopped into see our French student who had to leave us due to severe allergies to our cats! The lad had made him a gift and he had forgotten a few things at our place so he got them all back. Tuesday he had archery and had a blast. Apparently the instructor did some shots as well "FROM WAY BACK MOM! AND HE GOT THEM IN!!!!" This means of course that his instructor is REALLY good. :) (at least in one lad's mind). It still makes me smile at how much this boy loves going to archery, I suppose it shouldn't though, as solitary sports are what he likes best. :)
What else did we do this week?
In all my spare time I cleaned our school room. This room is the dumping ground for everything we don't know where else it goes at the moment. So it gets tools, and paper and books and all kinds of interesting stuff dumped in it, and then I get fed up and clean it out. Took me quite a while to get it done this time, usually one day of concentrated effort gets the job done, this time it took three... but part of that was due to the "hmm, where can I put the stuff from the guest room"???? I finally figured out putting a book shelf in the lad's room was the answer, which meant the Lad's room needed a thorough cleaning. And since that wasn't done well since end of May... it was a fair effort as well.
In all my spare time I cleaned our school room. This room is the dumping ground for everything we don't know where else it goes at the moment. So it gets tools, and paper and books and all kinds of interesting stuff dumped in it, and then I get fed up and clean it out. Took me quite a while to get it done this time, usually one day of concentrated effort gets the job done, this time it took three... but part of that was due to the "hmm, where can I put the stuff from the guest room"???? I finally figured out putting a book shelf in the lad's room was the answer, which meant the Lad's room needed a thorough cleaning. And since that wasn't done well since end of May... it was a fair effort as well.
The biggest stressor for my boy was that his snake skins remain undisturbed. So on one side we have the snake skins, then a book shelf, and pictures on the wall. Our book shelf has a rather unique placement (on top of a storage unit). But it's all good, the lad is happy and I'm happy too! AND all my lad's creative element stuff is safely ensconced in the book room. So our guest room is ready for our Brazilian student, our book room is mostly ready AND the bonus of having my son's clean as well. Job well done for a week eh?
BUT our week was NOT over!!
Yesterday was the Zurich Bean Festival. Our here LOTS of white beans are grown and one of the local towns hosts an annual festival. The highlights for my guys are two fold.... the classic car show and the frog jumping competition.
BUT our week was NOT over!!
Yesterday was the Zurich Bean Festival. Our here LOTS of white beans are grown and one of the local towns hosts an annual festival. The highlights for my guys are two fold.... the classic car show and the frog jumping competition.
Get down and yell JUMP! and the frog 9 times out of ten will jump! My lad's frog came in about 10th of 30 children.
They had lots of neat cars there. Here's my hunny checking out a corvette.
Today I needed a relaxing day at home, so after church this morning, instead of making a trek out to the Pinery for lunch and a swim or walk, we stayed close to home. I was feeling a bit "off" so tried reading for a while, tried resting for a while but was feeling to jittery overall for that.. so I cleaned the kitchen cupboards. I KNOW I KNOW.... as my mother would say "OP SUNDACH!!!" (ON Sunday!!!!).
But my cupboards are clean, my family is blessed and I no longer feel jittery. I don't think that God will be disheartened by my working on the Sabbath day. I even made myself some tea and yes.. I've a post coming on my favourite tea maker too!
But my cupboards are clean, my family is blessed and I no longer feel jittery. I don't think that God will be disheartened by my working on the Sabbath day. I even made myself some tea and yes.. I've a post coming on my favourite tea maker too!
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