Apr. 5, 2007
Spring is over in the Arctic already!
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Well, we had two days of 30 deg+ weather and now it is back to winter! The wind is blowing sideways off the tundra causing a bit of a ground blizzard about town! We got conned into wearing our spring coats and rain boots for the mud caused by the melting snow, then this morning it is back to down coats, mittens and snow boots. Of course, that didn't stop by 5-year-old from wearing her slip on rain shoes, pink tights and purple skirt outside today! Well, this is the end of the homeschool week for us. Friday is a day "off" for us. We ONLY clean house, get caught up on laundry, run errands, and finish any spotty homework assignments we haven't gotten done. It seems we should also be doing piano lessons during our 3-day weekend, but I can't seem to remember! During our weekend, we are busy getting ready for Sunday and church, so everything slips my mind! We have a sledding party this evening out in the blowing wind on the suicidal cemetery hill outside of town with our Brownies troop. I was thinking we'd be sledding on a muddy hill, but thankfully our ground "blizzard" has redistributed the remaining snow and we should have true snowy fun tonight! Well, I am dreaming up new ways to make school fun as we round the bend toward being done this year. We did social studies at Subway today over chocolate milk and raisins, just for a change of scenery. It certainly kept them more engaged in the French-Indian Wars than sitting in our schoolroom watching and hearing the wind. I've tried to do a lot more games these days too as we are just getting tired! Oh, another thing we've been doing that has been truly fun is.... TEA! If the girls can keep their bedroom picked up and their school area clean, we will have tea each afternoon. I am enjoying this almost as much as the girls. They love the pretty porcelain cups and the shortbread cookies OF COURSE! Well, I'm off to make dinner, hot cocoa for 30 and get three girls packaged up so they won't freeze and blow away during sledding. Oh, and don't forget the camera, and to get batteries for the camera, and my mittens and scarf, and the dog, and the sleds, and to leave instructions for my DH's dinner..... Blessings to you all from the frozen North! Paula :-) |
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