In the Groove

Friday we did our monthly errand running, which I had scheduled the day off for. We also stopped by Grandma and Papa's house because it was the day before Papa's birthday. We visited and gave gifts before heading back home. Saturday we spent the day relaxing and recharging, last week had been particularly hard with Peanut's autism. The last day of the weekend, Sunday, we went to mass and then did last Thursday's lessons so that we could start the week fresh. We had a ham dinner with cheesy potatoes and afterwards we began the process of making two big pots of split pea and ham soup... one of the pots would be going to Grandma and Papa's on Tuesday and the other would be Daddy's and mine dinner Tuesday night. The girls got to stay up late and chatted about a friend's birthday party that they would be attending on Tuesday where they'd be having pizza and soda pop for supper. ECJ began wrangling to stay home on Tuesday while us parents ran an errand during the party the girls would be attending ... only to be called out by Daddy about not having finished his assigned reading for the day. ECJ is now reading Little Women (which he read a few years back, but it's part of his assigned reading for the year) and he's not enjoying it.

On Monday we slipped into a nice easy groove of doing our lessons. We're finally getting back to what we consider normal, it's only taken since September to get here! Sometimes it takes a little longer depending on what we're doing that school year, but I didn't panic this year since we've been doing this a few years now ... it gets easier to "read" what's going on in our homeschool each year. We got our book lessons done in less than two hours and then I went with Daddy to his doctor appointment. We picked up the dog food, some house supplies, and ran another errand while the campers did their online lessons and watched the DVDs I'd scheduled for the day. It seemed like the day just flew by ... that could be because Daddy let me sleep until 11:00!

Tuesday, after drinking some coffee, Daddy and I went to my friends (Learning Life with 3 Sons) to drop off some books, yarn, and other yarn related goodies. The campers watched two educational DVDs while we were gone and ECJ worked at reading Little Women . When we got home, instead of cracking the lesson books I pulled out the other educational DVDs that I wanted them to watch this week and told them to have at it. Online lessons were done and CNN Student News was watched. I took a break from crocheting for a couple of hours and played a video game, I had made two scarves over the weekend and decided that that allowed for me to have a break. In the afternoon/evening the girls missed catechism class to go to a friend's birthday party where they had pizza, cake, and ice cream. Daddy, ECJ, and I ate pea soup with garlic bread for supper.


On Wednesday we did our book lessons. Not the double lessons that I'd originally planned because the campers answered a trivia question about Pearl Harbor. Lessons took less than two hours (which is our usual book lesson time) and Daddy had an appointment in another town and was taking pea soup with ham to Grandma and Papa. After lessons the campers ate lunch and then watched a few videos of their choosing while I did laundry and worked on a crochet hat that had a hole for a ponytail. Since we were having pea soup again for supper there was little else that I needed to do. Both ECJ and YCJ helped me with the laundry.

Preemie hat for donation.

Thursday was our double lesson day. We've done these about once a month for the last four years so the campers don't worry about it too much. They just get to work and get it done usually in just over three hours. This day they beat their usual time and got the book lessons done in two and a half hours. We woke up to a light dusting of snow and it snowed on and off all day long, not too much accumulated but it was pretty to watch. Daddy again had an appointment in another town that took him most of the day, so we were on our own with the lessons which was OK since unless there's a problem that I can't handle Daddy pretty much just makes sure the campers aren't talking back to me during school hours (and the rest of the time too, but in our home he's basically the principal). Peanut did her daily dose of Holy Heroes: Advent Adventure , the older two chose a different way to study Advent this year because they feel they're "too old" for Advent Adventure.

Tomorrow is Friday and we don't have any big plans. I must go on my monthly grocery shopping trip, Daddy is going to the scrap yard, and the campers are finishing their lessons for the week. Nothing much planned for this weekend either. It's amazing how much you get done on those days that you plan to do nothing though.

Posts you might have missed this week:
Tasty Tid Bits - menu plan Monday
Home Schooling : Parents as Educators - book review

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