A day/week reviewed

My goals for the week: Work on the trailer, cleaning the living room and keeping the learning going on. 

Over week overall: 
Hubby spent about half the week sick.. fighting off some bug that I think ran through my system REALLY fast on Monday.   Son is fine just acting tired-ish.  I should have known something was up when I could eat on Sunday but liquids had a problem staying in my belly.  🙂  Otherwise I felt well and was fairly productive.

Monday: Off to London, we did stuff but my gut was not happy so … we headed home a bit earlier as hubby had a meeting to attend, and I just wanted to be home.  🙂   Gave my head a really solid bonk today which left me with a lingering headache.

Tuesday: Good day.. worked around the house cleaning and organizing, the lad worked hard on his schooling and got done fast. Did some grading.  I listened to a book on the “Five kingdoms” while I worked.  Kept me quiet while hubby rested… it was a grey day as well so it was good to keep busy.  Headache persisted but wasn’t debilitating.

Wednesday: Foodbank in the morning, the lad again worked hard and had everything done except his on-line stuff by the time we got home.  The foodbank was really slow which allowed him to focus on his schooling.

In the afternoon I went to the library and managed to pull nine reviews together. WOOT WOOT!!!!

In the evening I took him to karate since Dad was out of commission.   Worked on rabbitry website rather later than I had planned.

I think I’m falling in love with a cutey from Bonnet.  Such a happy friendly kiddo…even at two weeks.  My luck though, it’ll be a buck and I need another buck like I need a hole in my head.  Bonnet is the best doe though…..

Thursday: We had planned to go to the plowing match but dad was not well so we stayed home and did other stuff.   School and work and what not.  Did some grading of papers and made some biscuits I think (were very salty).

Friday: the lad has a research project due and I’m still hoping he’ll get her done today. Dad is still feeling stiff and achy so the plowing match was a not a good fit today either.   I cut the reflectix sheets to cover the windows in the trailer.  I hoped to get the trailer done today but it’s rather hot out and I’m easily tired out today for some reason.   

The lad did his schooling differently today than planned, Fridays are our “do it differently day” so the lad decided his STEM project would be working on his crossbow (good project) and he did his research project later in the day).  He was busy learning all day so we called it good.

The lad’s not entirely thrilled with his efforts, but says “I can do more research mom, I made it so I can just undo this and this and this, to try something different if this doesn’t hold up.”

Saturday…well who knows???  🙂  Well, hubby was still feeling off so tramping about the Plowing Match again wasn’t on, so the lad and I worked on organizing the “bug tent”.  This is a small shed I built for all his bug stuff so it wasn’t cluttering up the house.  It holds more than his bug stuff now, but it still works really well for him, though at times I think about moving his shelves to the tool shed and moving the tools into the bug shed.  🙂  Took us about an 1.5 hours.

All people that on earth do dwell.. hymn study. 
40 Ways to Present research. 
Romans 12:3-8.   Gifts Differ by Grace Given. 
Raincoast books Giveaway.  Open to Canadian.  #PlayTestShare.
Hey Freddy, It’s Canada’s Birthday.  – a book about Canada.
Romans 12:9-21.  God’s Got it in Hand.   
It’s Great to Create.  A lovely art book for budding artists.
Romans 13:1-7.  God Gave the Authority. 
A Spiritual Mindset.  The next chapter in “A pearl seeker” book.
Because I’m Reminded, I Accept.  A fmf word prompt post. 
Hershey Chocolate World.  Field trip in Pennsylvania. 
How to Farm Crickets.  The lad’s research project. 
Marine Science for kids.  Review of a really neat science book.

This was a good week that turned out a tad different than planned.   Though not written on the calendar, our Friday happened on Thursday, and our Friday was very scattered in our approach. Book Study didn’t happen with gramma due to my not having the book to hand.   For geography the lad is doing a study on Red Tides.  And for science he started a study on Atoms and Molecules.

Monday:
Our typical go to London day.  Sold a bunny.   Did some shopping and puttering about.  OH!   We also went to the Mandarin to celebrate Gramma’s Birthday.   It was a good day.

Tuesday:
Hubby has a interview this evening for a job!   Yay that all the technical stuff worked the way it was supposed to!! 
Cleaned the living room area..moved the birds from one side to the other, tidied up “that corner” and found a bunch of stuff I don’t need!  WOOT WOOT!
The lad did his schooling and then cleaned his room “Mom, going to clean out my closet” which morphed into cleaning his entire room and saying “I’m not moving this” to a lot of items. Took him all day, he was bushed by the end of it, but not too bushed that he couldn’t make a new axe.   This one is called the “chop’em stick’em, hook’em and pull’em” after a weapon in the Brotherband series. 

Wednesday:
Foodbank.  The lad schooled, helped with the delivery, I organized shelves.
Made buns and beet jelly, I cleaned up the living room a bit.   Kept busy.  The lad went out ant hunting. 🙂
Evening Karate starts up again.

Thursday:
Out to the Western Fair after the lad finished most of his schooling quick quick in the morning.  Admittedly he didn’t do math or Compuscholar.   We headed up a bit earlier as the lad wanted to buy test tubes for his ants, and Hubby needed to pick something up at the “make your own beer” store.

Anyways, once all the errands we run we hit the fair and had a good time. 
One of the quilts we saw.

We had fun!  To read about our adventures go here.  Though I didn’t include how I dragged the lads off to watch square dancing for a while.  I found it rather fun, they.. well.. were very good sports.  🙂

On the way home from the Western Fair we picked up the bunny that I had sold on Monday.  Turned out their other rabbit was a male instead of a female, they didn’t want babies and didn’t want to neuter their buck.  So this girlie came home again.

Friday:
I had originally planned to go to a museum today with the lad but given that I didn’t get up and busy until about 1000 a.m…. and the lad was only up about 1/2 hour before I was and hubby wasn’t much brighter either… we decided a stay at home day suited us much better.

The lad and I worked on a Star Wars review (two different ones actually) then we talked about his research project where we discovered that I had carefully delineated my expectations… so he’s got three projects in his head and I need to print off my expectations for him so he knows what to do.   I said next week is fine.  🙂  And it is, gives us time to talk and learn and experiment and that’s a good thing eh?

The two fellows worked on a budgie nestbox now that we have two budgies that like each other living together.  The lad is hoping to get baby budgies!!!!   He thinks that might be a touch exciting.  🙂

Saturday: 
BUSY…first thing, karate class.
Then off to Camp Shalom for their fall fair.   Bought food, did some visiting, found a corelle bowl in the rummage tent and the lad some foam for projects, it was a successful venture.  Jim picked up some wine bottles from a friend.    

Off to the St. Jacobs Market to get some fruit to make jam… thought I’d try my hand at peach jam.

Grandparents, A Poem.   A word prompt post turned into poem
Hymn study: sing praise to God who reigns above.   A history on this hymn. 🙂
How Reviewing Curriculum Works in Real Life. A round of up ideas for making reviews work.
Devotional Romans 11:11-24.  Stand Fast, not proud but fearing. 
Canada Book: Crazy About Canada.   Questions about Canada?  Answers.
Art Book: Making Amazing Art.  Learn the seven elements of art.
Devotional Romans 11:25-35:  For who has known the mind of God. 
Pearl Seekers: The Good Part.  Book study on pearl seekers.
Devotional Romans 12:1-2.  Our Bodies, Living Sacrifices.
Support: A Five Minute Friday post, I have room for improvement!
Field Trip: The Western Fair.  Our annual trip to the Western Fair

Reviews:
The Shark Lady: I thoroughly enjoyed this picture book.  All about shark lady Eugenia Clark.
Carole P. Roman book. Cultural history books using family life to draw you into the culture. 

 Linking up with: 
Kym at Homeschool Highlights.
Weird Unsocialized homeschoolers
Homeschool Nook
Homeschool blog and tell.
Encouraging hearts and homes.
Friday funnies, flops and fails.

 
Our school year is kicking back into full time, but for this first week… not a heavy schedule.    I changed up how I do the schedule this year.. putting in a column that covers everything I want to cover this year, then I can write on the individual days what needs doing.  

We always change it up even after I type it up.. for instance.. Writing Radar he wants to do five days a week (go figure he likes it!!!)

This first week though we have stuff I want to get done though, ergo needing the lad’s assistance, ergo a less heavy schedule.

For instance, we cleaned the garage out so we had a whack of garbage to load into the van.   I’m going to get rid of all the metal lying around the house and yard, and I want to get the trailer done and put away, so needing to cut new carpet and mold the reflectix panels around the windows, put in the clean dishes and just get it all organized again for traveling camping in the fall and next summer.  The lad can help with this and still get his schooling done and research project for the week done. 

Things accomplished this week:
I made $25.60.  Doesn’t seem like much until you think.. If I had to bring it to the dump… $60 OUT of my pocket to dump it. 

 The Lad did some learning, and checked a few things off the schedule above.  BUT he also kept himself busy with making fire starters, candles and ant farms.

See that big bare patch of dirt?   That used to be filled with steel, wood bits and other stuff that tends to accumulate around the yard of a house.  WOOT WOOT!   Got that cleaned up!!!  In case you are wondering…the cinder block has since been moved as well.

 What else… Oh…. we got the garage most cleaned.  I emptied a closet from the guest room, did the regular household stuff, did some blogging ahead and more stuff.
 
It was a busy
week, but not overly stressful… God blessed us with a goodly amount of
rain that kept me from overtaxing myself!  

One of my joys this week was holding a newborn baby bunny.  

 As you can tell we did a lot of physical work this week but I also found time to work on the blog.

Posts you may have missed:
Field trip to Gettysburg national military park.  from our time in Pennsylvania.
Poetry of Work.   five minute Friday post on word prompt work.
Pearl seeker: I gotta be me. book study on Being a Pearl Seeker.
Devotional on Romans 11:1-10.  Grace would no longer be grace...
Art book: 1, 2,3 I can Sculpt.   Good book for younger children about learning to sculpt.
Canada Book: Jasper explores the Pacific Coast.   neat picture book about Canada.
Devotional on Romans 9:30-10:4.  Faith Matters. 
Keeping it all straight when doing Reviews.   How I do homeschool review crew reviews. 
Hymn Study: Come to the Saviour. good invitational hymn.

Reviews:
Is there anything better than candy? box tract.

Linking up with: 
Kym at Homeschool Highlights.
Weird Unsocialized homeschoolers
Homeschool Nook
Homeschool blog and tell.
Encouraging hearts and homes.
Friday funnies, flops and fails.

 Ah.. it’s an hectic week this week.  🙂  Too much busyness going on.. I need a quieter week eh!  🙂   I really do.

As I said, it’s been a busy week, let me walk you through it eh? 🙂

Sunday:
The lad and I go to church cause dad found sleeping an optional choice until about three hours before church began.   He was miserable the rest of the day and didn’t eat until almost 9 p.m.   So instead of going to the Pinery we took care of dad.  The lad, much to his delight, on his walk out of the house found a queen ant!  

Monday:
Normally our day to go to London BUT Tuesday is my birthday and wanted my sweetheart to take me out for lunch so we’re going to London on Tuesday instead.  We took a wee bit of time to work on our lapbook of inventors from Journey though Learning.  We studied up on Benjamin Franklin.

Afterwards the lad took himself out for a walk again (and found another ant), and then busied himself for the remainder of the day looking for items he needed to build an ant home (to the extent of biking all the way across town to go shopping at Rowe’s).   While he worked away, I secluded myself in the basement clearing out a corner that had become VERY messy and was drying me crazy.  🙂   While I was cleaning I also did the laundry and ran the dishwasher at night.

Hubby tried to get himself going again today but moving around ended him with a massive headache, so he still fighting off something.

See Look!   I have potatoes!   I never plant seed potatoes.  I just plant leftovers that are getting soft and growing from store potatoes.  This year the lad planted them in the garden and had WAY too much fun doing so…We got at least five times what we planted and it’ll do us well and we even shared with others. 🙂

Tuesday:
It’s a birthday day!!   Mine!   Can you believe that I am 52 already!!!   With a 12 year old boy!!!!   I know.. time flies by so quickly it blows my mind sometimes.  Today.. lunch out!  Woot woot!!!

Wednesday:
Foodbank in the morning.  We had a lot of people on today so I sent the lad home early so he could sort out the taters for a lady needing some.

Afternoon: working on inventors, doing some baking from Everyday Cooking.

Thursday:
Birthday lunch out with my mom!  🙂  Had a good time with a visit afterwards.  We had chinese buffet.   It was a lovely time together.  🙂

Friday:
Point Pelee to visit some friends.  Oh my oh my we had a great time!  🙂   We really did.  We laughed, we biked, we talked, we ate.  Just fun!   

Discovered the free hub on my bike was fritzed so hubby is going to work at fixing it sometime but it’s all good.

Saturday:
A day of tiredness.  It was a LONG day on Friday driving for two hours there and then back again (through a lovely wild thunderstorm that was at times alarming).  Found out after the fact there was a tornado close by.   BUT God kept us safe.   Tired boy, tired mom, wide awake dad.  🙂   I had a headache most of the day with little energy.

Place: some to hold dear.  This was a poem based on our fun camping at Grundy Lake. Word Prompt post for five minute Friday.
Parenting Series: Rest.   Depend on God more, Find more Joy.
Art Book: First Book of Canadian Art.   History of Art in Canada
The Delight vs The Captivity. Devotional on Rom 7:8-25
Back to School Blog Hop Intro post.
Marriage compared to the law.  Devotional on Rom 7:1-7 
Review: Round the world quiz book.  
Recipe: Gooseberry Jelly.   
Slaves to Righteousness.  Devotional Romans 6:15-23 
Hymn: Shout to the Lord.  

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