So much to blog about, so little time!
I'll just share some recent goings on:

My two wee ones have a cold.  It's especially hard with the 5mos old.  She's been in and out of a low grade fever all weekend and wouldn't sleep unless she was held.  It made for tiring weekend for me.   She seems more herself today, but still has a cough.

We had a funeral for a little bird today.  The kids found it dead in the backyard.  I think it was a Black-capped Chickadee, although part of it's head was, well, missing.  So I dug a hole and we burried it in the bush.  I said a prayer(I even began to feel emotional! ) and my dd made a little grave marker.

My 8yrds is hooked on Google Maps.  He discovered it a little while ago when we were looking for directions for something.  He's been cruising the globe ever since.  He's found the pyramids in Egypt, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, our house, and much more.  Now, whenever we're discussing a place or if he reads about something, he has to go and look it up on Google Maps.   It's great for a geography lesson!

I have a great idea if you have a kid who is distracted easily during school.  We don't have the luxury of having a separate school school room and so seat work is done at the kitchen table.  My 9yrdd gets distracted very easily.  To help her concentrate she sometimes wears industrial headphones!  It helps to block out any background noise.
My hubby also wears them when there's a fussy baby and he's got to get to sleep!

Something I've been wanting to include in our homeschool is Afternoon Tea Time.  I've been reading about it at some other blogs,(I'll post a link at the end, for some reason it wont let me here.)  and I really like the idea. 
I already have a collection of tea cups that I need to use more often.  I like a cup of tea in the afternoon as it is and it'd be a good chance to teach proper manners by creating a formal atmoshpere.  I hope to include some kind of short devotional or poetry reading and I don't think we'd be able to do it every day, but maybe two days a week and maybe I'll coincide it with baking day.  I'll let you know how it goes when I do it.  I'm still taking mental notes on how I want to implement it. 

Well, those are my rambling thoughts for the day,
Blessings!

This is one of the blogs where I've read about Tea Time:
Grace Like Rain