Last Week of January 2017

Friday Daddy spent about an hour fixing the area right in front of the front door where the tile kept popping up. So now we have a small portion of laminate wood flooring right there instead of loose tiles. Saturday Moragon got to come home from the vet hospital. She'd needed an emergency hysterectomy to save her life. She still needs to return for a check up and again later to fix a torn ACL in her back leg if it doesn't repair itself (the vet thinks it will probably be another surgery). So, instead of doing the lessons that we skipped Wednesday and Friday due to our worry over Moragon we all just enjoyed her being back home. We did those two days worth of lessons after mass on Sunday. We took the morning off and then did our lessons starting around 11:30 AM and were finished just before two when the campers took a break for lunch. Everyone is still checking on Moragon in between lessons and other things that we are doing just to make sure she's doing OK. Mostly she is sleeping on the couch and being picky about her food since she was treated to wet dog food with real pieces of chicken added in while she was in the hospital. Our regular dried dog food isn't as interesting compared to that. 

I only planned for lessons Mon. - Thurs. for the campers this week as the third of the month falls on Friday and that's the day that we do all of our errand running and bill paying each month. We'll be stopping at our friend's house (Learning Life with 3 Sons) on Friday during the day to pick up some books they're giving us and we may stop at Grandma and Papa's house as well. Because we'll leave in the morning after breakfast and probably not get home until after supper time we just don't plan for lessons on the third of the month.

Monday I woke up early again for me and actually stayed up instead of cuddling back under the cozy blankets and going back to sleep. When the campers got up they did their chores and got ready for school after breakfast. Daddy had an appointment out of town again and so we quickly did our lessons while he was away. We were done before lunch time and Daddy was home just about the time we finished the lessons. The rest of the day was spent on Minecraft, 3DS games, reading, crocheting, and Netflix.

Actually there's 63
preemie hats here.

Tuesday we all woke up around 11 AM! Boy, did we sleep in! But, the same schedule as any other day was followed... breakfast, chores, and school. We finished up (even ECJ) in time for our usual lunch time of 2 PM. After lessons I made the last of this month's preemie hats (31 made in December and another 31 made in January), so now I have a total of 62 preemie hats for sizes 3lbs - 5lbs to donate. Next month I'm going to work on newborn size hats to donate as I'll be making the most of those and I'm a bit tired of the itty bitty hats. I've been working on Christmas gifts for next Christmas already as well, I have a goal of having them all done before the end of November and I have several neices and nephews to make for so I'll be rather busy. The campers worked each on their reading for awhile today. ECJ is reading The Way to Rainy Mountain, YCJ is working through the 4th grade readers that the library gave us, and Peanut is still working with Teach Your Monster to Read and we've added Starfall back in. She's reading the beginning books properly and with little help which means we're well on the way to being a fluent reader and I don't have to worry as much about whether she's getting it or not. Our afternoon was spent mainly relaxing as the temperatures were in the mid 20s and we'd gotten some snow overnight.

Wednesday the weather warmed up a bit and the campers were chomping on the bit to go outside and play. Lessons were done in record time and everyone got to go outside and play for about two hours before the public school kids got dropped off by the bus. Peanut colored her History page while sprawled out on the floor this day. Some days learning happens literally all over the house. When coloring sometimes it's just more fun to take up as much room on the floor as possible and grin when people have to walk around you. She hasn't done this in several months and I actually enjoy it when she does this because then I know that she's really getting into that lesson. YCJ was actually the first one done with her lessons today which is also a rarity around here. Usually Peanut is the first to get finished with everything that she's assigned and this has only happened once before in the entire time that we've been homeschooling. Once the campers came in to warm up from their outside play we spent the rest of the day relaxing, watching videos, and crafting.

That means it's time for Thursday, and we ended this week with the same high note we began it with! Lessons literally flew by! Some weeks you just get lucky and everyone is on the same page mentally so that things just go smooth and peaceful. I have to say that this is so awesome because we don't always have weeks like this one. Tomorrow we'll be running errands, attending to appointments, and stopping by friends and family to visit. Busy, busy, busy! But, we'll enjoy every minute of it!

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