Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - It's Been a While... December 2008

It feels like forever since I've posted on this blog. Actually, it has been almost a year! Yikes! Anyhoo, I'm going to try to keep up with posting, at least until planting season!

December has been a crazy month, between birthdays, out of town guests, and a severe overhaul of our pantry and diets.

First for the birthdays… my baby, my beautiful, sweet, talented, intelligent baby, turned 9 years old. She had a nice little birthday party with Grandma and Poppop, and Mimi and Grandpa. And I turned 40 this month, but we won’t go there…

We had guests come in from out of town for three days, and it was a joy for the girls. The gal was 95 years old, and the girls just learned so much from her. They got into all kinds of discussions, like what life was like in early 1900’s, what the depression was like, etc. The girls were thrilled with the fact that Mrs. O did much of the same things as the girls do as children. Playing with paper dolls, crafting, reading, etc. were on the list. 

And for the pantry revamp…We’ve cut out corn and soy products from our diets, as it is just too hard to find out which companies use gmo products and which ones don’t. I never realized how many products have corn and/or soy in them till you start looking for them. Oh…my…word…So we’ve been baking all our own bread, grinding our own wheat, making our own yogurts, and sprouting seeds. It is getting easier and easier to do, as I get a system down and remember to prepare ahead a bit.

As for school, we are continuing on with our Middle Ages study, covering the Vikings.

9yo read:

And did lapbook components from Free Homeschool Share’s Viking Unit that we put on cardstock for Middle Ages notebook. We ran out of printer ink about halfway through the lapbook, but I think dd still got a good grasp of these people and their times.

11yo had already studied Vikings, including the above books, so she opted to read and complete book reports on these:

Next we are on to King Arthur!