Thanksgiving and Week 8&9

Saturday Daddy had an appointment in the next town over that he went to in the morning, after I spent about an hour cuddling in bed with my grandson, Little Man. There's even a picture of me doing so. After coffee and beginning some laundry (both Monkey and I have laundry to do this day so there will be running machines all day long) I deboned some chicken and shredded it for chicken sandwiches and tacos. We saved the chicken broth from cooking the chicken overnight in the crock pot ... not sure what we're having for supper this night but we have options and I'd like to stop at the grocery store sometime today. Daddy had to go to work after he got back and this time I went with him to do my little (*new*) part time job of cleaning a lady's apartment for her since she recently discovered that she needs some help in that area. After this we did indeed stop at the grocery store to pick up a little bit of things that were needed in the house. SweetPea and the girls spent the majority of the day playing together nicely and Little Man got his first sink bath (still no submersion because his umbilical cord is still attached).



The rest of the weekend and the week was literally a blur. We didn't get lessons finished ... or even started all week long. We spent the majority of the week continuing to adjust to having a new baby in the house. Nothing all that complicated happened.

The following weekend Daddy and I took over Little Man and SweetPea for the night on Friday night to allow Monkey to get some sleep. She'd had an exciting day finding out that she started her new job on Monday (yes, she got cleared by her OBGYN to go back to work). She slept like a rock most of the night knowing that we had the babies. Saturday and Sunday we didn't do that much except for some errands and a good long nap on Sunday for myself and Daddy. ECJ is suffering from a bunch of sinus drainage and is feeling miserable. 

Monday Monkey, her hubby, and Daddy all had to go to work in the morning. This left me with five kids ages 15 - 2 weeks! I knew that I could handle it but it was a bit daunting to think about it. I had lots of help though from the Cracker Jacks. I got a load of laundry folded, another load started in the washer, settled Little Man in his bouncy chair for a quick nap and decided that we'd tackle at least this day worth of lessons as soon as SweetPea took her nap. Really there weren't many book lessons to do on the plans because next week we'll be starting The Prairie Primer for the girls! Yes, Peanut has finally finished her language arts book from last year and YCJ is close to finishing hers as well so we're just going to call it finished. I'm very excited! We haven't kept up on our Exploring Nature With Children lessons for the past couple of weeks so we'll get a nature walk (in the cold!) to look for some lichen in this week. 

On Tuesday we didn't do anything lesson whise but we had a very busy day... The campers are all suffering from sinus issues this week, as are the babies and most of us adults. It's not a head or chest cold, it's literally just sinus drainage and pressure causing us much issues with the way we feel and our general moods. Monkey and I did some errand running and took one of Daddy's friends to work ... later in the evening Daddy and I picked his buddy up from work. After Daddy had had a full day of work he went down to Grandma and Papa's house to help clean up in preparation for Thanksgiving. Wednesday everyone woke up not feeling all that well, but people who needed to work this day still got up and went to work. The babies napped well this day and after their midday nap one of Daddy's friends came by to hang out just as Daddy got home from work. We spent the afternoon visiting with him and Daddy took a quick nap while Monkey and I did even more visiting. Daddy just wasn't feeling that great this day and had to go back to work around 4:30 to meet a contractor and help someone to move to their new place. We had leftovers for supper this night (although I made chicken soup for the girls who really weren't feeling all that well) ... we spent the majority of the day relaxing as much as possible due to our sinus issues and the cold weather.

Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, we woke up relatively early and got ready to go to Grandma and Papa's house to help with making the meal and having everything ready for the afternoon. Daddy, the campers, SweetPea, and I all went down to Grandma and Papa's house shortly after waking up, eating and doing morning chores. We helped Grandma do what was needed around the house and finish prepping for supper. Supper was spectacular and we ate like kings (though this is the first year in a long time that I didn't take second helpings and skipped the pie). Everyone had a wonderful day.

That weekend (including Friday) we pretty much relaxed and hung out with each other. A friend of Dad's came over for the entire weekend and camped out on the couch, enjoying our company and making for a fun weekend.

Monday we began our lessons with the Prairie Primer , which is a literature based unit study of the Little House books that includes everything but math. The girls are really enjoying the new unit study and are finishing up their math text books from last year still. It was a long day with the Prairie Primer since I hadn't looked at how many pages I had printed off for worksheets that I'd found online and I really should have split it up over two days. Each week only has four days scheduled for lessons so on the fifth day of the week we'll do projects and catch up on any other lessons besides math and history that we'll do five days a week.

Tuesday we continued those lessons from the Prairie Primer and had a bit of an easier day because we knew what to expect and there was only one worksheet that I'd printed out for the day. The girls are beginning to enjoy this new way of doing school... On Wednesday everything went the same as Tuesday, except that ECJ went to work with Daddy for a little while to help him move some things for a resident. Then ECJ took not only each of our dogs for a walk but took one of the neighbor dogs for a walk as well. We had kielbasa and sour kraut with mashed potatoes for supper. 

Wednesday and Thursday sort of run together with lessons and chores all being completed on Wednesday. And then a rather large Christmas shopping trip with Noni and I on Thursday. We went to several stores and finished Noni's shopping for Christmas for everyone. This made for a long afternoon, but a very productive one. I also finished an order for a friend ... it's a hat for her child based off a Paw Patrol character (modeled by Monkey).

On Friday Monkey had an appointment with both SweetPea and Little Man at nine am ... so, I went with her. We cancelled lessons for this day and moved them to Saturday so that after the appointment Daddy and I could run and do several errands that needed done. We were gone until early evening and picked up pizza for supper.

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