I'm a homeschool mom of 3 daughters. My aim in life is to glorify God by loving and serving my family, grow personally in my walk with Him, and being a Titus 2 woman to those younger than me. This blog is to share what God is doing in my life and in the life of our homeschool.
Princess is 9 years old . She was born a princess and continues to hold the title. She loves all things girlie and is talented in all things crafty.
Pixie is 7 and a half. She has a passion for truth, loves rocks and shells and has a huge collection of them.
Peanut is 5. She is fun loving, happy all the time and can make anybody laugh.
We had a very nice Thanksgiving. I especially enjoyed the four day weekend with hubby home. Saturday we had a window of opportunity from the rain to get our Christmas tree. I look forward to getting it set up. It is still in the truck. Friday morning I went to get my eyebrows waxed. Yes, I do that. They get very unruly if I don't but thats another story. The spa I go to is inside an upscale store with home decor, kitchen supplies, wedding registry etc. It is a great store that I love to visit, however going with 3 kids in tow is not really fun. Since hubby was home with the kids, I had the opportunity to browse and enjoy all the lovely things in peace. I was able to get a Christmas present for a nice discount too. I am proud to say that that was the extent of my shopping experience on Friday.
Tonight I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what I am going to do with the girls for school/Christmas preparations. I chose several things. There is so much out there, it was difficult to decide what to use. I decided not to do the advent wreath this year. We have done it in the past. Since we will be going to my parents on the 23rd I needed to find something that would travel well, and I didn't want to pack the wreath and candles with all the other stuff that will come with us.
I plan on reading aloud the book, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". I purchased "The Glorious Coming" by Ann Voskamp. It is a Jesse Tree devotion. We have not done that yet and I look forward to learning more about the Jesse Tree. You can purchase this ebook online here. I also purchased a lapbook kit from homeschoolestore for Peanut for grades preK-1st grade. It is called Christmas Cheer. We are also going to do a unit study called "Good Christian Men Rejoice" from Easyfunschool. This is a study of some of the popular Christmas Hymns. It gives a little history of the hymn including who wrote it and some activities to go along with the study. Ann Voskamp shared with me a website that has all the songs set to music for those of us who don't know how the songs go and can't read music, or sing for that matter. I am hoping the music will help us. I also purchased a collection of old radio show programs that has Christmas stories. This is put out by homeschoolradioshows. If you go to their website and sign up for their free newsletter they will send you each week a radio show to download in mp3 format. They are really fun to listen too. Homeschoolradioshows previews them for wholesome content and since most are from 50 years ago or so, chances are they are pretty wholesome.
Well, I hope that gives you some ideas if you are looking for some.
Bless you as you prepare for this season of wonder. Susan
I just looked at the website about the hymns. It looks wonderful. I will try to look at it more tomorrow, when I am not soooo tired. But, it looks like it would make a wonderful lapbook to me! We are planning one on the symbols of Christmas and one on the Christian Meanings behind the 12 days of Christmas. I am hoping I an squeeze a 3rd Christmas lapbook into Dec now! (I guess we better get serious about finishing the Thanksgiving one tomorrow! LOL) Anyway, thanks for pointing me towards this and I will let you know if I have any great ideas once I get a chance to give it my full attention.
Sounds like you have some great activities planned, Susan.
We finally took out the decorations, garland, lights and tree today. It is so peaceful in my living room right now...lights off except for the banister and tree. It's always fun to unpack the ornaments and talk to the kids about each one and remembering their first Christmas for them...
I also took out all the Christmas-y books from the shelf and laid them on the ottoman to encourage perusal from the kids. I haven't quite decided what we'll do this year regarding Christmas extra's like special stories, activities, lessons, etc. I think I'm doing pretty well with getting this far before December! :-) Plus, we have been working on Christmas music/play at church for the past 6 weeks...
I'll have to look into some of your planned acitivities and see what will work for us and our schedule.
Gotta get the kids to bed. Hope you have a great night, my friend!
Love,
Marsha (who also gets eyebrows waxed on occasion...except I am generally eyebrow deficient and require a daily dose of brow powder to not look wonky!)
