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Week in Review

Sep. 29, 2007 • 10:50 PM

Our Week in review: September 24th-29th

I want to quickly record some happenings from our past week. We did all our regular schoolwork ...books, worksheets, reading, etc. I am "recording" some of the extra stuff that I can remember. I don't have the best memory so that is where I hope this blog will help me to remember more - even the little things.

Monday: Princess learned how to make Kool-aid on her own. It's not that she couldn't do it before but with moving she didn't know exactly where everything was placed and now I showed her exactly how I do it. She knows how I expect it (with less sugar, etc.) We usually have 100% juice but Kool-aid is okay occasionally. (I was raised on it.) Did I just admit that??

Also Monday evening, Pilgrim lost his 2nd tooth. He is 7 but is holding on to his baby teeth it seems. He was pretty excited. His other tooth is almost half-way up already. It looks like he will most likely need braces.

Tuesday: At 8:20 am, we had 5 deer in our yard. We have seen so much wildlife close-up since we moved here. (We keep binoculars near the windows,too.) It is all just right in our yard. We also have a family of wild turkeys living nearby as we have seen them in our yard twice now. First we saw a group of 7 and this week we saw 5 again.

The older children had their play practices. The girls have practice for their play then they leave and Pilgrim stays just an hour and a half for his practice. (He is younger so he is in a different play.) I was able to go with the youngest children to the local "odd" lots type discount/warehouse store (during the girls longer practice). I got some good books (as usual) and some Christmas gifts. (I am hoping to be done most of my shopping by the end of Oct.) When we came back to pick up Pilgrim, the practice was still going on so I peeked through the curtain some and watched. Here Pilgrim was the only boy at practice that day so... he kept running the same scene over and over again so that each of the 10-12 girls could "run through" it. He was doing an excellent job but he was really getting good practice in!

When we got home from practice, we had some bags to carry up to the kitchen. The kids knew they had to get their regular schoolwork completed and it was already after 2pm. I was unloaded the bags to put things away.(Usually in cases like this each of the older girls keep an eye on the two youngest) Well, they were off getting their schoolwork done and I was distracted with work. At the time you don't think about it but during that small span of time, Precious fell over at the shoe closet and bumped her chin on the round metal tub of shoes. It was a small gash but right in the center of her chin and it was deep so she was really bleeding. My daughter got there right at the end of this very quick-happening incident and yelled for me as there was blood dripping. Oooooh. I hate to see my children hurt. I knew I needed to be strong and take a closer look and get it cleaned. My hubby usually does this if home. He later said she probably cold have gotten a stitch. However it stopped bleeding. It now has a thick scab on it. This bothers her as she keeps trying to pick it off.

Wednesday morning we had our first "official" lesson with our new music teacher. She is a very sweet Christian woman. She is a mother of three (She doesn't homeschool though). It is so WONDERFUL that she teaches both piano and violin. This saves so much hassle. We no longer need to run out twice throughout the week for lessons. The girls can work on the same pieces of music too. They have back-to-back lessons. She lives close to our church. So on this day we left and went to our church building to get some things set up for our Homeschool co-op (which was the next day). Usually during these lessons, we will stay in the room next door in her lovely home. I was worried about this with 4 others to keep quiet at each lesson but she wants us to stay and says all her students' families do this. Each time she brings different toys to the room from her children's toy stash. My kids love it. It has already been a blessing!

Thursday was our co-op day! Always such a wonderful day yet so busy. We jam so much into that one day! We usually end around 3 pm but I didn't leave until 4;30 (after clean-up this time) I think we may have too many classes this year. I am working to "fine-tune" our schedule but we may need to drop a class. I guess I never mentioned anything about our church homeschool group. I will do a post on it soon. I have some great pictures from our day, too. I started this group 4 years ago by asking the few other homeschooling moms from our church assembly if they would want to come together once a month for group activities with our children. Everyone wanted to so I then got permission from our church elders to use the chapel facilities and we started our co-op. It has grown a lot since then. We have a Christmas Around the World event every Winter, we do field trips together, we had a Career Night and this Spring we might do a play! It is such a blessing!

Friday, Daddy had off work! Yay! A day with daddy around. He usually still has too much work to do but he is here and has bursts of time with us. He played a round of pool with the kids right before lunch. Then we had a "Grandma Date Day" planned for Panda. We had talked about these days a lot yet this was the first time it "came together". Grandma (my mom) came and picked up Panda around lunchtime, they had lunch together and shopped (something they both love to do.) Panda actually got to takes stacks of clothing into a fitting room to try-on. (I usually just buy her current size and if it wouldn't fit then we return it.) They went back to Grams and Pap's house for supper with Pappy. (Pap was leaving to go to the hunting cabin for the weekend so Gram wanted to see him before he left.) Gram is also planning a Halloween party for her granchildren (my 5 and my sister's 2 children) I hope it is more of a Fall party then Halloween but she still usually does cross the line a bit with some monster or ghosts things, unfortunately. She knows we don't like that though. (I think she feels it is just innocent fun but these things do not bring any glory to the Lord--just the opposite.) I do not allow witches, etc. and really don't like ghosts or anything overly goory either. Panda helped her with some things for this party. She called us during supper time. She said how Gram was going to be painting her nails next. She said it was going to be black or green. I told her I really didn't think black would be attractive at all. I asked Daddy and he said NO! So thankfully she ended up with cute light green shiny nails (when she arrived home.) They left Gram's house after supper and shopped more until Gram brought Panda back home. They had a wonderful time together though and they really got some great deals! Panda loved it (Thanks Gram!) The others are now waiting in line anxiously for their "date days"

Here is what they got while shopping and everything was at such great sale prices!

Saturday was a work day: Pilgrim (and Peanut) helped daddy finish off their jungle-themed room. I will also have to post this as I took photos. (Before/After photos.)Today the trim just needed to be put on the wall and the giant leaf placed back up. (more to come in photos) Then Daddy mowed the grass. After that, we as a family worked on filling some cracks in our driveway. Daddy had to go to work for the evening shift. Unfortunately he worked all day at home then had to turn around and work all evening and some of the night. We have a really hard working daddy. I am so thankful for my hubby! He is a very handy guy! He is just as handy as he is intellegent! Thanks for your hard work, love!

Wow! I just looked up from my computer. (I am right at a large window with a great view.) A deer ran right by in the weeded-up lot next to us. I only saw one this time. It is so neat to have wildlife right in your backyard. At Our other homes we never saw much more than birds and squirrels.

Well, That was our week in quick review!

Thank you, Lord for all you do for us each and every day!

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Sep. 30, 2007 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>

Posted by Diane

Hey!! You know what? My son turned 7 in July, he hasn't lost a single tooth yet. He had a dentist appointment and the dentist reviewed each tooth, when he got to the bottom two, he said, wigglies...I actually jumped out of my chair and said, where, where? LOL He looked stunned for a second then chuckled at me. I hate the idea of him losing his teeth because it's his last "babyness" about him, but he is so excited about it, that I'm excited with him.

That is so funny about the Kool Aid. You were embarassed to admit you had Kool Aid as a kid, well, I'm embarassed to admit, I've never tried it!!!!!??? I think I need to buy some once in my life...guess I'll be learning how to make it too- only took me 30 years, but who's counting?

You had a terrific week, hope this week is just as great.

Diane

Edited by Diane on Sep. 30, 2007 at 6:39 PM

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