The Unintentional Break

This past week was very interesting! We ended up taking a break instead of doing the schedule for lessons that I had laid out last week in my planner. It was not a bad way to start October.

Snowman goody sack.

Over the weekend we played outside and watched movies. I crafted. Nothing out of the ordinary at all.


I had scheduled us off of lessons on Monday because it was the third of the month and I always schedule us off of lessons on the third. The third is the day each month that we do the majority of our errand running. And that's exactly what we did this Monday, run errands almost all day long. BUT, we did stop at the park in the afternoon for the campers to play on the playground and go for a small walk. Tuesday I had scheduled for us to do our regular lessons ... however, we hadn't finished our errand running from the day before and so we put off lessons in favor of getting the rest of the errands finished.

Wednesday the campers all had dental appointments and that's exactly what we spent our morning doing. ECJ, YCJ, and Peanut all had no new cavities. Peanut's dental work (that has been ongoing for a few months) will finish up next week with her last appointment until her six month check up. After the dentist office we went to Grandma and Papa's house and helped Daddy scrub their big back deck clean. You can just see Peanut through the window blinds spraying off the cleaning agent we used to scrub that old deck with. It hadn't been done in at least six years so there was a lot of cleaning, scrubbing, and water involved. As well as close to ten hours outside!

Thursday we went back down to Grandma and Papa's house to paint the deck with deck stain. All of the railings and bits and pieces had to be done before the main part of the deck. It was a really big job and Grandma and Papa were outside with us helping to get it done. Hours and hours worth of happy work and now the deck looks almost brand spanking new (it's a 21 year old deck too).

So, Friday popped up with us unexpectedly haven taken the week off of lessons! We'd planned for lessons every day but Monday. Instead of getting frustrated I just smiled as we called lessons off for Friday as well. Instead we went to the cider mill for lunch and then came home to craft a bit and watch our history videos that will need to be returned to the library in the next day or two.

Peanut worked on her first plastic canvas piece that she actually understood. YCJ worked on her new puppy toy sewing kit that she got at the beginning of the month. Both were excited because these were the items they'd asked to buy with their money that they earned from completing their summer reading maps that I had assigned them. Since they finished them all before the first official day of fall they earned their rewards.


I worked on a few Christmas ornaments, dabbled with my cross stitch, and worked on a toddler blanket for a friend's baby. 

What did ECJ do? Well, he played games and watched YouTube on his tablet. He was exhausted even though he was the least active of all of us this week. But, then again he's a teenager who's growing every day so I shouldn't be too surprised. 


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