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Living and Learning With the Kvenvolden Bunch
Sep. 18, 2008
"Can you please try to CONTAIN your inner Rothberg???
Is what my dh just told my kiddos... LOL!!!! he elaborated to say, "Can you please let your scandinavian quietness shine through?"
Yes, its getting late... both Andy and I start to have sensory issues with the noise level in our house by about 8:30 at night, which is just one reason why bedtime is at 8:00! This week, however has been the exception to everything! Andy has been on vacation from work this week (we can't ever actually afford to GO anywhere on vacation, but usually have company, and this vacation it was JUST us, which is so nice.. Don't get me wrong, i LOVE Having grandpas and grandmas to visit, but wow, this week has been SO relaxing... EXCEPT for the Puyallup fair fiasco, which i think everyone thoroughly enjoyed EXCEPT me... ugg... crazy busy, CRAZY expensive... our budgeted $80 didn't even come CLOSE to being sufficient... ugg. But it was fun, we saw a GREAT horse show, and got to see lots of horses up close, and now the kids are really interested in horses so i'm going to do a unit study with them on horses... PLUS they will be watching the waterhorse on dvd tomorrow and Saturday we are taking a field trip to Emerald Downs to see the horse racing!!! its an organized field trip with lots of educational stuff, and we are REALLY looking forward to it! we also have the herd your horses game, and i'm planning to dig through my educational files to find materials... i know we have a brandenberg unit study, which will be AWESOME. So anyway, that's where we are at now... trying to get back on track for next week after having a vacation this week, and sick last week!
So, despite this week being on vacation, we have done a PLETHORA of educational activities... it amazes me how slowing down actually INCREASES our quality learning... isn't that NUTS?? but its true! we went berry picking tuesday and wednesday and today we made blackberry crisp and Blackberry FRUIT LEATHER! thanks to Homemakers mentor which has the most AMAZING mommy lessons!!!!
it was so much fun, and since we've discovered such a treasure trove of wild blackberries, we will be doing this a LOT!
fun fun stuff!!!
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