This week has been filled with things great and things not so great--big and small.

Monday came as Monday's will and we discovered that 3 of the 4 math lessons we had left, were missing a key component that Mommy hadn't discovered we needed.  Skip ahead to last lesson.  Close up the math--that's all she wrote!

Tuesday was "take the day off so Mommy could go to work with Uncle" day.  This day was a Big day--baby girl stayed dry.  Yeah!  They also got to spend the whole day with Cousin Annie.  They had a blast, even if the Mommy didn't.

Wednesday, we finished up our last Judah Bible Lesson till we start the next cycle.  Boy wants to start tomorrow.  This is Big!  He wants to keep having daily Bible lessons.  That's hard to ignore.  These lessons being my most time consuming, however, means I need to make some decisions quick.  He'll have to wait till Monday. 

Thursday, we finished up our history (except for a couple of for-fun biographies).  We are ready to start Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin.  We also took baby girl to her first "class" at the Children's Museum.  Appropriately, it was about "Rain".  Little did we know that the huge storm we were watching out the museum window, was also "Raining" on our schoolwork at home!   She did great at her class--giving the teacher her full attention and participating with a great attitude.  It makes a Momma proud.

On a side note, the teacher of her little class was so impressed with big brother's behavior--particularly that a 7 yo boy would sit and read so quietly--that she asked him if he would read the story to the class.  I knew he wanted to, but his fear won out and he turned her down.  Bummer!

So, today's Friday.  We ARE going to clean out the turtle cage!  We ARE going to snuggle up on the couch and read (since it is absolutely freezing in here and still raining outside).  I AM going to drink a gallon of hot tea, and I AM going to start our packing list for the big trip to Jamestown coming up very soon!

Tomorrow the sun comes out--we hope!  Which means we are back in the yard, yanking the tar outta those weeds, straining every muscle we (who are "we" kidding---"I") didn't know "I" had and hopefully planting a few pretties--if they didn't wash away after being set by the side of the house, in those little plastic trays, right before our gully washer yesterday!

Tea time!