Carousels and Candy

Goldfish

Minion

This past week has literally just flown by. We did little over the weekend. Spending each day relaxing and working on the things that we enjoy. For ECJ this meant that he played games on his tablet, YCJ watched Netflix with Daddy when she wasn't researching (it's Chinchillas this week instead of guinea pigs), Peanut spent her weekend drawing and doing an awesome job, while I crocheted my days away. Each of us happy to be doing out own thing and equally happy to be doing out own thing with family. Peanut's skill at drawing is really improving and I thought I'd share a few photos of her work with you...

Rabbit

Squirrel

Monday we didn't do school lessons. Instead Daddy and I took Moragon to the vet for her two week check up after surgery and to get her staples out of her stomach. Then we ran two quick errands on our way home. We could have done lessons but having given the campers the choice of starting their week on Monday or Wednesday they opted for Wednesday which means we'll be doing lessons on Saturday as well this week (one of our four day weeks). 

Tuesday, Valentines Day, Noni came out to the house and we went to the nearest mall. We had lunch next to the carousel and then the girls took a couple turns riding around on it. This is their favorite winter thing to do (summer is meant for the beach) and they make sure we make it at least twice each winter so that they can ride the carousel. After lunch we walked around the mall for a bit and then made a quick stop at Walmart before heading back to the house where we hung out with Noni for a couple hours before she had to head back to her house. Each of the campers got a small box of chocolate from Daddy and I for Valentines Day after dinner. They usually get it in the morning so they thought that we'd actually forgotten to get them chocolate this year (would never happen). Daddy and I don't do anything special for Valentines Day, we never do. We get to spend every day together and show our love for each other in a million little ways all year long. 

Wednesday we began our school week. But, not in the way that we intended. Tuesday night Daddy grabbed two movies from RedBox: The Secret Life of Pets and Ghostbusters. So, Tuesday night we watched the first one together and Wednesday around noon we watched the other. Instead of lessons the campers asked to double up on Saturday and bargained for one more day off of book work. No skin off of my nose, I spent half the day crocheting and finished a sky blue baby blanket in crib size. I also made another newborn hat for donation.

So, Thursday (today) was supposed to be the true beginning of our school week (totally backwards I know) but both girls woke up with mild fevers and not feeling very well. So, instead I just cancelled lessons for the rest of the week. Next week in our area the local public and private schools are having a mid winter break ... we just took ours early. No big deal. YCJ helped Daddy make a crock pot full of chili for supper. Peanut and ECJ worked on a world in Minecraft pretty much all day long. Daddy and I relaxed with Netflix and my crochet with YCJ popping in and out of the room. 

It wasn't the way that we intended to spend the entire week and that's OK. Sometimes you seriously need a break even when you don't realize it. So, we had pretty much two weeks away from lessons, even though last week we did our online lessons just not our book lessons. Next week we'll be back to our regularly scheduled mayhem. For the rest of this week I'm going to bask in relaxing and pray that whatever illness is brewing in the girls doesn't spread and is over with quickly.

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