A Life of its own...

Well, this whole homeschooling blog idea isn't going too well. LOL
At the same time I was starting this, we were making plans to move across the country and that has sort of taken over.
At the very moment that our house went on the market Lumpy got sick and spent 5 nights in the PICU with a very bad case of croup. About 800 breathing treatments later he was released home. I have never been so scared. At one point they actually thought of intubating him, thankfully he got over that hump (I kid you not 20 breathing treatments in 4 hours! His heart rate was over 200! egads!) and slowly got better. At this point you would never know that about two weeks ago he was that sick.

At the same time the house sold! I swear it was on the market 5 days! Now we are dealing with all the inspections and bantering back and forth. I am keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well, that the couple still wants the house and we can keep this ball a-rolling... because I am already gone. LOL I have moved on from this lovely house and now my spirit is awaiting me in Maine.
Keep your fingers crossed and the good moving energy coming my way. I will pick up this blog when we get to Portland and are all settled... which could be in ONE MONTH!! So much yet to do, so much yet to come. Ahhhh, adventure awaits!

Heather

This week...

This week didn't go exactly as planned. Life sort of stepped in and things got put on hold... next week will be better, we will be back to counting with gnomes and reading about another letter. :)

What the kids did this weekend

Here is what the kids and Mike did while I was at work this weekend. How cool is this??

APPLES

With the 19 pounds of apples we picked we made a lovely apple pie and 6 quarts of apple sauce... and still have a dozen apples left over. The boys did a great job cutting up the 16 apples it took to make up the apple sauce. The whole time they were pretending to be chefs in an apple sauce restaurant.

We will definitely be going back to Howard's Orchard before apple season is done. Too much fun for only one visit!

Thursday Sept 11th

Today we reviewed the Roman Numerals with the Gnomes and Gnumbers and re-read the Mrs. Applebee story. Then the boys practiced writing the letter "A" and made apple prints with cut apples and paint.
The Gnomes are a HUGE success. The boys love playing with them and counting all the gems.

Wednesday Sept 10th...

We had a great time picking apples at "Howard's Orchard" in Catalina today. After a loooong drive and getting lost, we finally found it; and what a treat it was. It was cool in the shade of the trees and so many trees were small enough so that Lumpy could pick them himself (although he did prefer to pick them up off the ground. LOL) All together we gathered 19 pounds of apples! We will be making some apple sauce tomorrow for sure!

Monday Sept 8th

We did our Gnomes and Gnumbers today. The little boys had a lot of fun learning their Roman Numeral:

We also worked on the letter "A". We read the story (with a few personalizations by me) that I found on Seridipity's blog (I found the Gnumber Gnomes there also... most fabulous). We read the "A" poem in LMNOP and we also looked in the Waldorf Alphabet Book at all the "A" things. In the boys main lesson books the drew the letter "A" and then some things that started with "A".

Later in the week we will be picking APPLES!