We had a great Holy Week. We did the activities I posted in my previous blog. It was a fun, educational, and inspired week. A truly humbling and heartfelt moment for my husband and me was the foot washing we did with our children. It struck us deeply how privileged we are to be parents and to serve our children in Christ. My son enjoyed his first time taking communion. It was so sweet to see his Daddy serve it to him. Those are special memories I'll never forget.

We are on Easter break this week. I wanted my children to associate this school "vacation" with our celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ's resurrection, just like we celebrate His birth at Christmas vacation.

I also desperately needed to spring clean. I know my list is over the top and I won't get it all done this week, but it includes everything that truly needs to be done at some point in the near future. I finally finished organizing my school cabinet (the one I started on Christmas break!). I've started sorting out curriculum that we're done with so I can sell them at our co-op's and my city's used curriculum sales coming up. I cleaned a couple of kitchen "junk" drawers and moved all my recipe books to my kitchen hutch. (It was annoying and ridiculous to keep going to the book shelf in the living room for them.) That allowed me to take boxes of photos off the top of the living room bookcase and fit them in the bookcase! Looks much neater now :)

I still have to tackle my children's closets. I'm tired of seeing them walk out of the house in high water pants with no time to change. Really kids, some other child can use those clothes! I'd still love to paint my living room which is probably a two day job.

I'm not sure that'll get done because I think we're going to the Midwest Home School convention this weekend. When my husband hears the price for one day, (no discount because he took so long to let me know for sure if we were going) we might just be going up for sight seeing. Maybe I'll just go to the CHEK one in July....

Next week I'll probably be taking advantage of some outings in our city because that's when the public schools have spring break. The arboretum and library have some fun spring activities planned. I figure by taking this week off for a much needed break and then returning to school next week with some educational outings and field trips, we'll get through this last bit of our school year refreshed and ready to finish strong.

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