Today we did a several hour “Life Skills/Cleaning” morning. 3 loads of laundry folded and put away, toilets scrubbed, all 11 rooms swept or vacuumed, sinks bleached, fireplace and brass dusted, shelves dusted, DVD’s organized, toys picked up and tidy, school room freshened up, shoes organized, mirrors washed etc….etc….etc. Zion also helped me re-bag 25 .lbs of oatmeal into smaller bags for daily use ($12 for a 25 .lbs bag at our local grocery outlet). He discovered 12 cups, or 3 quarts, filled each separate bag. I was very pleased with his impromptu math lesson that I counted it as his math for today. All of this the boys did, or did with minimal assistance, while I made gallons of Baked Ziti for now and later. I like to take a couple hours-however long it takes-once a week and do an overall “super clean” on the house. Normal mornings the boys have approximately an hour of morning chores with small pick-up-after-yourself times during the day. It’s on this keep-mother-happy morning that all those little things that can add up get tackled. About noon we spread a quilt out in the living room and had a picnic lunch, taco chips, while we watched one episode of Star Wars the Clone wars. Any mothers have any thoughts on this latest version? I don’t mind the 6 movies and think the classic “good vs. evil” story is fine because good wins. However, I’m feeling like the images in this new “cartoon” version are very “dark.” I’ll be praying over this and I‘m going to ask the boys to pray about it too. I’m thinking we’ll just stick to the movies, toys, coloring books and whatever other “merchandise” we buy into. Not so sure we’re going to be watching this cartoon much or at all. Thoughts? Back to our day, after our picnic we put Naomi down for her nap (she had learned how to dust today and helped put laundry in the dryer). Then we studied the rise and fall of the Roman Empire in our Usborne Book of World History, to coincide with our book of Acts study. We also read the last part of Acts again. Lots of good historical/biblical times conversation within this reading time. All together we spent a good hour lost in Ancient Rome, which was fine with me! Also this cross referenced with our Volcano study and the story of Pompeii. We then continued with our book on George Washington. Since we were just at Ferry Farm the boys feel like experts on life on the Rappahannock (which their not, yet, but it‘s good they‘re confident.) The boys continued working in their packets given to them at our Ferry Farm visit. By this point it was 3 o’clock and Gabriel and I were feeling a mite bit nappy. He and I just snuggled in for a nursing nap while Jadin and Zion worked on some Star Wars ships out of legos (engineering). I woke up at when Daddy was home. The boys went out for some outside time and rode the tire swing, captured grasshoppers and visited the kittens. Naomi went with her daddy to dump our trash, exciting to a 3-year-old. Somewhere in between playing outside and dinner Jadin did his math (borrowing/subtraction to the 10,000th place value) and read a book to me while I worked. After dinner (that baked ziti reappeared) Jadin helped me for an hour get my new Sunday School curriculum organized. We had 13 weeks worth to divide and sort and his help was much needed. To end the day we watched Glenn Beck with Dad and I (boy, it’s going to !!SNOW!!) started mending clothes (I.e; sowing holes up etc…this shows how amazing God is) I figured being 100% home it’s my job to help and serve my family every way possible. If I need to mend clothes, I’ll mend some clothes. However, when I was being a helpful wife 2 weeks ago and mowing (while my husband was working a 60 hr work week and going to more college classes) I "helpfully" mowed right over a roll of wire…now he’s got to mend the mower!
I’m in a state of total homeschool excitement over this new website I just found
www.homeschoolshare.com WOW! So many great, free, awesome lap books to print off. I even saw one for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! I would love to start throwing in a lap book into the mix, especially, my favorite word, FREE! I’m making myself be calm and not go into a printing frenzy…yet…because next week is our week off. I plan to customize our next 8 weeks of lessons and lay out our goals/objectives for this time. I’ll post an overview of what we’ve accomplished this past 8 weeks and what our next sessions goals are later in the week. Also, I joined a group (shown on Glenn Beck), called “The sisterhood of the mommy patriots” www.asamom.org So much I could wrote on that, except, go to it for yourself and you’ll see how great it is.
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I am a mother of four beautiful blessings from the Lord and will gladly take all that He will give me! I have strong support from my husband and his love and encouragement give me joy in our journey. This is our family's 5th year of home education. We're walking in the grace to raise our children in a loving Christ-centered atmosphere so they can develop and mature into men and women used for Gods Glory. We base all our learning foremost on the Word of God and intertwine rich literary classics for a living book structure. Charlotte Mason, Ruth Beechick, Unit Study - Notebooking -Lapbooking, we do it all! Natural learning experiences are plenteous living in a rural area...watch out frogs and crayfish! Were members of several state and local Homeschool groups and enjoy meetings, field trips and additional learning opportunities with them. We also love "milking" our annual passes to the Childrens and Science museums, Zoos, Busch Gardens/SeaWorld, Historic Battlefields and whatever else we can get into!
Were licensed therapeutic foster/adoptive parents and are seeking God's will and his best in that and every area. I'm also a life long "professional" college student, always picking away at college classes in various disciplines (currently finishing up degree in Education). I'm also a Licensed Nurse (when the mood hits me :o) I enjoy Joyce Meyer, Ruth Beechick, Clay and Sally Clarkson, Raymond Moore, and This Old School House Magazine.
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.) The boys continued working in their packets given to them at our Ferry Farm visit. By this point it was 3 o’clock and Gabriel and I were feeling a mite bit nappy. He and I just snuggled in for a nursing nap while Jadin and Zion worked on some Star Wars ships out of legos (engineering). I woke up at when Daddy was home. The boys went out for some outside time and rode the tire swing, captured grasshoppers and visited the kittens. Naomi went with her daddy to dump our trash, exciting to a 3-year-old. Somewhere in between playing outside and dinner Jadin did his math (borrowing/subtraction to the 10,000th place value) and read a book to me while I worked. After dinner (that baked ziti reappeared) Jadin helped me for an hour get my new Sunday School curriculum organized. We had 13 weeks worth to divide and sort and his help was much needed. To end the day we watched Glenn Beck with Dad and I (boy, it’s going to !!SNOW!!) started mending clothes (I.e; sowing holes up etc…this shows how amazing God is) I figured being 100% home it’s my job to help and serve my family every way possible. If I need to mend clothes, I’ll mend some clothes. However, when I was being a helpful wife 2 weeks ago and mowing (while my husband was working a 60 hr work week and going to more college classes) I "helpfully" mowed right over a roll of wire…now he’s got to mend the mower! 
