I finally have a moment to blog today. It's quiet time in our house right now. The two little ones are asleep and the two big ones are in their rooms reading. This is such an important time in my day. I need this quiet time to read my bible, pray, and sit around and do nothing!!! The kids also need this time to be by themselves for awhile. I try to make sure that we don't miss our quiet time.

Here's our schedule from Friday until today. On Friday we did not do much school. Dad was off from work so we had fun with him. I was able to get in a little school in the morning though. I read Shakespeare with C (7) and C(10). We are currently reading The Tempest. We first read the small selection from Tales Of Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb and then we read from the actual play. This helps us to understand the play better. We do this every Friday.

Friday night we went to a basketball game at our local high school. We went with some friends of ours. Their children attend public school there. We had a good time and the kids were excited to see the game.

Saturday we slept in and were lazy all day. Then when Saturday night rolled around Dh and C (10) went to the Monster Truck Show in Dallas and C (7), C (3) and C (2) and I went to have a girl's night (poor C (2) was the only boy)  at Cotton Patch. It was a fun evening for all.

Sunday we attended church in the morning and the evening.

Monday I felt terrible. I'm not sure if my body was trying to fight something, but I felt run down, sick to my stomach etc.... But we went ahead with school and we're able to do what we needed to do. In the morning we did all of our table work and in the afternoon we did all of our reading. I have changed up how we are reading our Ambleside readings. Instead of having a history day, science day, geography day etc... I take all their reading assignments for the week, count how many pages there are to read in each book, and divide by four. This way we are reading a little out of each book daily instead of a lot in one day. This seems to be working better for us, especially for C (7). She seems to be retaining the lessons better.

Yesterday afternoon the kids did a craft during our tea party. We got the idea, for the craft, from the new magazine The Home Educator's Tutor. They made a button mosaic. They really enjoyed making these. Even C (3) did a great job. I let her do most of it by herself and she was very proud. Her mosaic was in the shape of a circle, C's(7) was in the shape of a heart and C (10) was a whale. We'll be making some more in the coming weeks.

Today (Tuesday) has been a good day,except for the fact that I've been so moody. I think I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Anyway,  this quiet time has helped me and I feel a little less moody!!!

We finished our school for the day and will venture outside in a little while. Have a wonderful day!!!

Blessings,

Jenn

"Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing." Psalms 100:1&2