8th Day

• We have a table in our school room! We no longer have to do school work at the dinning room table. I am so excited about this. Also if some people are being to loud while other need it quiet we can divide them up.
  
• We went for a short walk today. We walked down to the driveway of our church building and back. We might walk to church this Sunday.
• School went well. We did some stuff with magnets for science today. I really like it that our science curriculum touches on a lot of different kids of science all year long. My kids are to young to have a passion for one type of science. This way they can learn about tons of stuff every year and when they do find something that they love we can start to focus on that one thing then.
• Lars is getting pretty good at riding his little bike.
• I made some chocolate cupcakes this afternoon. I didn't want us to forget what they taste like.
• A bunch of rotary winged aircraft have been flying over today. I'm not sure what is up with that. :)
• We wrote some letters this morning as part of our school.
  

Day 7

• I did a bunch of rearranging again today. Getting things to fit in a new house has been a little challenging since we have smaller living rooms (dinning and living) with more doors in them so it is harder to get stuff to fit in a comfortable way. I'm liking it the way I have it now. The other thing that changed with rooms, We are trying to have a school room now.
• We went to Wednesday night church today.
  
• We are reading Charlotte's Web this week.
  
• It rained here today. The kids ran around in the rain for awhile this morning. They thought that was great fun.

Day 6

• My children are at this moment playing in the garage with their bikes. Their bikes are upside down and the are using them to, "make candy." You will have to ask them how this is done as I am not sure quite how to do it.
• Another day of school went well.
  
• We ran to Wal-mart to get some ink for the printer.
• Had some nice phone calls tonight.
  
• We had one of the kids' and my favorites for dinner; Split pea soup, with ham, and corn bread.
  

School really takes up a lot of our time now. It is time well spent and we all enjoy it so it's good.

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The other day I found this Barbie laying in my living room. Someone must have dropped her there when they were done playing.
I walked into the room and asked her what she was doing laying there like that and she said, "I'm a Barbie." Later she was walking around and moving her arms like a barbie would.

Day 5

• We had our first school day. It went very well. The kids were very happy to be "doing school."
• I rearranged the kitchen dinning room.
• moped the tile floors.
• The kids played hide and seek around the house.
• the kids took a bunch of pillows and got into the pillow cases and jumped up and down the hallway.
• Lars reported that he had killed his pet. And I thought oh no he's killed the fish. But no, he had killed the fly that was in his room. His heart was fairly broken.
• We went to Aldi and Wal mart.
  
• We had fresh broccoli with our supper. I really like the taste of fresh broccoli cooked in the microwave with butter and salt and pepper. The kids don't find it as lovely as I do.
  

Day 4

• We, went to church this morning. It was lovely. My class had a breakfast potluck and fellowship time intead of regular classes.
  
• After church we joined our church family for a spaghetti dinner. We did not join in the cake *auction but we were there at that time.
  
• I did stuff to get ready for our first day of school tomorrow. I am very excited to get started on that.
• We spent time sitting around the table coloring pictures together.
  
• I stayed up way to late last night reading one of my new books. bad girl. Now I am very tiered!
• Lars fell asleep on my lap while we were watching a youtube thing on the computer.
  
• Lars went to Sunday school class by himself without fussing and then had a very good time while he was there. amazing. I gave him a little talking to before we left about how he was a big boy now and that he would go to class with out a fuss - "no, no, stop fussing while I'm talking to you about it too... Okay, remember you are a big boy and you will have a good time."

*Oops. thanks for pointing that out.

Day 3

• The kids played at the neighbors for awhile.They drove the little battery powered cars around about the whole time. They also gave Lars a little bike.
• Went to a Yesteryear Festival. It was a small colonial reenactment. I guess there was a fort or "arsenal" here at that time.All that is left of it is some footing stones. They have also made what they call a ghost tower because it is like a trellis in the shape and size that the tower was. There were men dressed up as soldiers from the revolutionary war. They did some firing of canons and muskets.Making pewter stuff. I can't remember what he was making while we were watching.

We also got to taste some fresh pressed apple cider.

• did the laundry - completely.
• the kids played at the neighbors again this afternoon.
  
• I bought two books from the author herself at the reenactment. They are historical fiction about the colonial times her in North Carolina. I read the first one this afternoon. It was a good read.

We had a busy good Saturday. thought about Keren a lot today. Happy Birthday little sister!