Good morning to you all. As the title reads, I will be home today, yahoo! No sales crowds for me. I think we will read books, watch movies and design our gingerbread creation for the year. Last year we made a gingerbread train. This year I am desiring to make a gingerbread log cabin, this will take some planning! So, look out google and library, here we come. I do not know if I could homeschool without google and the library. Is making a gingerbread concoction homeschool? You bet it is! I hope to keep December moving along by daily working on some handicrafts and other projects. We will try to attend the local gingerbread contest and gain some mental pictures to use in making our cabin, who knows, one of us may enter next year. The girl blessings and I will attend the Nutcracker Ballet (note to self, call and get tickets!) I am not in the Christmas spirit, as they say. I am really focused on only what is necessary and I am definitely not focused on commercial"ized" Christmas. I desire a homespun Christmas celebration. (I did purchase some Debbie Mumm Christmas paper plates, napkins and wrapping paper at Joanne Fabrics on Tuesday, it was plaid, I loved it and it was almost gone already! )Usually I have my husband hauling up Christmas decoration boxes after everyone leaves on Thanksgiving Day. Not this year. Maybe on Monday.
I really enjoyed Thanksgiving this year. I almost became overwhelmed with the number of people, then I refocused. (Not that I thought it would be too many people, but would they all enjoy themselves with their being so many?)I became thankful that 17 other people would want to come to our house for Thanksgiving Dinner! What a blessing and something to be thankful for. How many people ate a dinner without being thankful, without any fun Scrabble or Dutch Blitz games played? No football? What, no football? Football is big in this house, but not during dinner. Dinner, the food was all great! We set up three tables in our family room and some of us ladies sat on the couch and chairs around the perimeter of the room. I loved us all being in the same room. Pa-Pa, where were you?
Tomorrow, I am just going to be with my blessings! Just be!
It was a great time of food and fellowship. Thank you for always including our family in your plans. We all had a great time. AND MAN THE FOOD WAS AWESOME! I wish I had some now.
Home is sweet as the saying goes. I do not have any desire to shop in the madness after Thanksgiving. We are almost done anyway. (Yahoo!) Enjoy the ballet!
Jenn
Hi Melissa!
I love your new Christmas look.....and you have a face! I no longer have to picture my Alaskian friend as a moose. LOL. I know whatcha mean about all of the people over for Thanksgiving. I had two of those dinners to do. One with 20 people and the other with 18. Then the week before that, my sisters wedding at our house. Praising the Lord that all of the gatherings went well and were a blessing. Oh, Dutch Blitz is one of our family favorite games too. Well, my older sister and the one under me refuse to play it together, but I love it. Hee Hee. They are too competitive. I hope you have a wonderful week.
Hello in up there in GODs land. I love your blog. I will be reading it as often as i can. I should be home with my family in a week or so for some MUCH needed R&R. I pray everything is going great with you all up there. Congrats on the moose, it makes me miss home very badly. Soon we will done with the Army and living back home. I know i live for that day. Well see you all again.
Ambleside books we are currently reading: ~Aesop's Fables ~Shakespeare (Lamb Version)just finished Winter's Tale unsure of next choice ~Burgess Bird Book ~Herriot's Animal Stories ~Just So Stories by Kipling ~Parables of Nature by M. Gatty ~Blue Fairy Book
This term's artist-Jan Van Eyck
This term's composer-Camille Saint-Saens and Hector Berlioz
This term's poetry-Eugene Field
Bible - Character Sketches
Math - Math U See Primer, Alpha and Beta
Science - Apologia (Zoology 1 Flying Creature of the Fifth Day)
Handwriting - Start Write (software)
History - Mystery of History Volume 1
Art - Art Adventures at Home 1
English - Simply Grammar
Reading - Explode the Code and various and sundry books they read
