Easter Plus

*I typed this week's wrap up review a day at a time throughout the week to make it easier for me to remember what happened when because we're having a super busy week.*

Friday everyone was still getting over the crud. So, we relaxed all day while Daddy went scrapping and then I went to the scrap yard with them. Then the campers pretty much begged to go do something in the nice weather and we went walking by the bridge in Port Huron, then to two different parks for them to play. In the evening Daddy and I helped a neighbor move some of their belongings to their new house in the next town. 

Car being lifted at the scrap yard.

On Saturday everyone was feeling much better. Which was awesome because we had an 80* day in April! So, we all went outside and Daddy, ECJ, and I began cutting up the old decking wood and burning what we could even though it was very windy. The girls played with their neighborhood friends and later ECJ and I walked up to the store for vinegar because I couldn't find the one I bought on Tuesday last week. I got a bit of sunburn on my face for my efforts but it was fun to dye the Easter eggs and then BBQ bratwurst that evening.

Decorated eggs on Saturday

Easter Sunday I woke up to the Easter Bunny having hid all of the eggs and the baskets (thank you, Daddy). The campers did all of their normal Easter morning traditions: the egg hunt, the basket hunt, the traditional hard boiled egg breakfast, and then the process of getting dressed up. This year that included nylons for YCJ and a pair of low heels, my she is growing up too fast! Then we went to Easter mass and then it was off to Grandma and Papa's house for Easter brunch (a tradition that just started a few years ago previously it was Easter Dinner). And yes, after hanging with family and visiting for the day the campers all changed clothing and then we went scrapping. One must take advantage of being in a scrap heavy community when one can!

Monday we had a productive day. We kept lessons nonexistent because we had an appointment in the morning and then a lot of errand running and scrapping to do in the afternoon and evening. I saw the doctor first thing in the morning and got some blood work done, I will also be being called for a few tests to be ran, nothing too worrisome. Then Daddy and I came home and let the campers play outside while he took apart scrap for the scrap yard. A quick run to the scrap yard ($160 day!) and then off we went to buy the animals food, put gas in the truck, stop at Daddy's new job to pick up paperwork, go scrapping again, and pick up supper. I still haven't fit in grocery shopping yet this month but we'll probably get around to that later on this week some time. We found a lone drum for Peanut who's been so patient in waiting for her own drum, she's been using my coffee cans since she was three and it's been the only item that she's been asking for consistently for this whole time (she's going to be nine this year). We have lessons planned for the rest of the week with an extra language arts lesson scheduled for Saturday. So we spent the rest of the night relaxing, playing music, crocheting, whatever made each of us happy. The girls also got to camp out in the living room again this night because they wanted to fall asleep on the "nice comfy couches".


So, Tuesday rolled around and we had a bit of a busy day. Daddy and I ran to the scrap yard after a quick cup of coffee first thing in the morning, then went to pick up some more scrap, I had an appointment at noon, and Daddy started his first day of his new job at 1. Right after Daddy left for work I got the campers started on school lessons, started a load of laundry, and got us ready for two projects. After lessons we quickly walked up to the local grocery store to pick up some lunch stuff (I still haven't done the monthly grocery shopping yet) and then home. While the campers ate lunch I got the planting disks soaking so that we can use them on Wednesday to plant some herbs and tomatoes to start in the house and I walked them through the set up of the egg experiment to turn a regular egg into a rubberized version. You can find that experiment here on YouTube and you may have seen it floating around on Facebook. I even shared it on our Facebook page. After which we went up to collect the mail from the box and play at the playground for just a few minutes. Then I switched laundry loads, typed this up, and then folded a load of laundry while Peanut played on her new drums because we found a whole little set today (so now she has many things to bang). Once Daddy is home from work we'll be taking the girls to catechism (after they had a two week Easter break), picking up more scrap, and frozen pizzas for supper. And sometime this evening I plan to crochet.

Wednesday we started our day in pajamas doing science. We notebooked about the egg-speriment (LOL) and noticed the changes to the egg. Then planted the seeds that I had starter pots for and covered the tray and wrote out a chart to graph their growth on, just like we did last year. Then everyone got dressed, Daddy went to work after separating the scrap in the back of the truck, and we began lessons around 10 AM. By noon the campers were done with everything except for online classes (Peanut had just finished hers and then YCJ began them while ECJ worked on Algebra). After Daddy got home we reloaded the scrap into the truck and went to the scrap yard. After which we stopped in on Grandma and Papa to check on them and eat a dinner of chili dogs with them, visited with one of Daddy's friends for a few minutes, and then went scrapping in a great scrap area.

Parsley, basil, chives, and two types of tomatoes planted.

Thursday morning rolled around and we all slept in until about ten am because it was overcast and we were all sleepy. Daddy downed a quick cup of coffee and then ran to his appointment two towns over and then was off to work. I drank a cup of coffee and ate a banana for breakfast while the campers indulged in glasses of milk and warmed up bagels. This is the first day this week that we were not reviewing anything in language arts or math so the kids got introduced to new sections of their text books. YCJ was working on fractions and borrowing from a whole number to subtract and add those fractions, Peanut was learning about angles and shapes, ECJ jumped into his algebra with both feet and complained about the story problems that he had to figure out. Lessons were done relatively quickly in the morning and then in the afternoon we charted the growth of our seeds (nothing above the soil yet, obviously because we just planted them on Wednesday) and got our egg out of the vinegar bath to see if you could bounce it after I washed off the shell. Well, it was sort of a fail! We obviously didn't soak it long enough and after talking to a few people who've done this we decided to soak another one but this time do it for like a week. So, a new egg is in the jar and soaking and we'll see this time next week if it works. I'm only trying it one more time. To see the video of what happened as we tried it you'll have to go check out our Facebook page here. 

ECJ helping the girls with the word search activity
for today's assignment in their workbooks from
Notgrass: America the Beautiful.

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