A Mixed Week

Advent has begun! Baby Jesus left in only for this picture.

This past weekend we didn't really do much. The kids played inside and out, with electronics and using their imaginations, and generally were just kids. Some reading got done in the evenings but mostly they just played. I made another Christmas ornament (still have to put the handmade ones on the tree and finish a Santa one) and worked on some gifts for my nephew and nieces. I also played on my computer game some and Daddy watched a lot of Netflix, some with me and some I was in the other room for.


Monday and Tuesday we had regular school lessons. Although, since I had tapped out the weather DVDs from the libraries in the area I looked up more videos on YouTube (awesome when used as a resource for school and not to find horrible challenges like the salt and ice challenge). ECJ's hand is healing from when he did the salt and ice challenge, he's certain that he's learned his lesson about doing crazy things without checking them out first. He says that he seriously doubted that it could hurt him. Of course the girls have learned from their brother being not so smart and have decided that they'll NEVER do anything so goofy themselves. Math and Language Arts were done from our text books and we cracked the History books as well. We sat together and watched the clips from Advent Adventures by Holy Heroes, which ECJ opted out of because he feels too old to watch. The best thing in my opinion (besides the knowledge shared of course) is that Advent Adventures is completely 100% free! We've been doing it for several years now and will probably continue each year until Peanut feels she's outgrown it. And since Advent began on Sunday, November 27th, I have our nativity scene (minus baby Jesus) in the center of our dining room table. YCJ did a little crocheting to make gifts for her sister and brother for Christmas, which of course she gave early because she simply cannot wait that long to give gifts. And we didn't spend much time outside either of these days due to rain on Monday and a prevading wetness on Tuesday.

YCJ wearing a
sweater from Noni.

Wednesday morning Noni came and picked me up. We went to go help Santa out with some purchases for the upcoming Christmas extravaganza! Stockings must be stuffed and things other than what is made by mom must be tucked away to be gift wrapped and hidden until Santa comes to put it all under the tree. We had fun shopping the morning away and brought home some fast food for lunch for everyone. The campers didn't do lessons because Daddy hasn't been feeling well, so when I did lesson planning last Thursday I simply scheduled them for the day off. I worked on more crochet in the evening and we relaxed watching Netflix after coming home from a successful shopping trip that has us mostly prepared for Christmas this year.


On Thursday we went to the library before doing book work. We picked up several books and even more DVDs. School wise the DVDs were Bible stories for history and the Human Body for science. We're revisiting the human body over the never couple of weeks and then will move on to animals and everything about their life cycles and what they need to survive in January. Our librarian gave us this entire set (shown in the picture) of 30 books absolutely free! And instead of doing our book work that I'd planned we decided to instead watch a couple of the Bible story DVDs and allow for a free day after that. Sometime before Monday we'll get to the book work that we had scheduled for today since I had tomorrow as another scheduled off day due to errand running. The weather is supposed to be rather cold over the next few days so it shouldn't be too hard to do one day's worth of lessons that will take us two hours at the most to complete.

And this is where I'm going to leave you. We're preparing for another quiet weekend at home after another successful week homeschooling. ECJ even finished his report on The Red Badge of Courage  on time! We've had more wins than losses this week!

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