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Peanut diagramming sentences.

Friday we did our lessons really quickly while Daddy was at work in the morning. Again he had to leave on this day before the rest of us even woke up, he stopped back into the house right around the time we were all waking up to pick up a couple of his tools. He's enjoying his new job which is only part time and gets him out of the house and keeps him busy. He's been very tired running around like a chicken with his head cut off since starting it but I can tell that he's happy. On Thursday night he'd installed a fan into our bedroom like he'd been planning on doing for over a year now and we picked up a ceiling fan for the girls room that will get installed sometime soon. The goal is not to have to use the window air conditioners very much this summer, but we'll see as it's already been unseasonably warm of late. After lessons we walked up to the store to pick up Daddy's medicine from the pharmacy and a gallon of milk since we used the last of it at breakfast. After coming home the campers spent most of the rest of the day outside enjoying the sunshine while I puttered around the house straightening it out. It's hard to really clean when most of the hallway and part of the living room is holding our new bathroom counters and sinks and the new kitchen counter tops that we'll be installing sometime soon. Just as soon as Daddy gets a day that he has nothing else that he needs to do. 

The seedlings at about
one week in.

On Saturday we spent most of the day relaxing. Peanut had her first reconciliation in the morning that Daddy and I took her to and then Daddy went to work for a little bit. But, for the most part we just hung out around the house and relaxed. Sunday one of the cousins had her first communion so we went down to attend their church and spend a good part of the day with family. We spent more than half the day with family and then went scrapping in the afternoon. Getting home early in the evening I cooked supper out of repurposed leftovers and then we settled in to listen to the rain on the roof. 

Monday we continued our lessons in fractions, decimals, and sentence diagramming. Lessons went rather quickly which was good because we were all restless because of the gray skies and the rain. YCJ began studying ferrets for her science topic this week, Peanut spent about an hour on ABC Mouse before calling it quits to play Minecraft, and ECJ tried to convince me that he really didn't need to know about graphing in algebra (he didn't manage it and spent a good chunk of his morning graphing and grumbling). In the afternoon Daddy and I went to the scrap yard to drop off the load that we'd picked up the night before. The rest of the day was rainy day laziness topped off with chili dogs and fried potatoes.

Now, normally I'd continue to go day by day and tell you what we've been up to each day. I'm sure that gets boring after a while. So, mainly our rest of the week went just like Monday. Lessons each day, scrapping each day except for Thursday, and lots of family time together. Peanut spent most of the week working on fractions and sentence diagramming and did very well. Both subjects are a little hard, especially when first learning them, and she's been breezing through them without much issue. YCJ worked with contractions in language arts (a total breeze fest for her) along with pronouns and worked with decimal usage and placement in math. ECJ wrote poems again this week, a chore for him since he absolutely hates poetry, and worked on his graphing in algebra. Science this week consisted of a workbook for Peanut, a report on ferrets for YCJ, and online work through Easy Peasy All In One Highschool for ECJ. And the only thing we did towards history this week was watch Liberty Kids DVDs ... this is because we're mainly done with history until fall, same with science, now we just enjoy the topics and dig deeper into the subjects that interest us. The only subjects that are done throughout the summer are language arts and mathematics, reading daily is also something that we do year round. Sometime this summer I'll break out some health books for the kids to go through and we'll get through health for this year as well.

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