Phew! Life has been busy these days! Right this minute, Victoria is stirring my mushrooms for the best mushroom soup in the world (courtesy Tiffany, courtesy Moosewood Cookbook), Daryl is prepping the salad, the popovers are in the oven, Anna is watching Alex in the basement and Jack is… doing something clever and destructive I’ll wager! 😉
Victoria just informed me that I’d forgotten to blog so I should do it right away. Ha. Take that, now she’s on mushroom duty!
So…. what we’ve been up to, in 10 seconds or less:
- We went to see “Ice Age 3” for free at the lovely old theater in Windom on Saturday. The local businesses give it to the community every weekend during December. The movie was surprisingly funny! I recommend it, and I’m not usually a big kid movie fan.
- The kids are doing tons of art. Surprised? Me neither!
- Anna is re-reading the Harry Potter series.
- Victoria is reading some new book that she really likes. We ordered it from the library after it was recommended by one of you fabulous people in the comments. I’ll find out which one and post it!
- We have a new (to us) laptop, courtesy a fabulous friend from afar. Daryl and the kids are so happy to have a working computer to use. Victoria immediately wanted to use Microsoft Word to write a report. That’s my girl. 😉
- I wrote a review of the new Carschooling book. I’ll share it later but you can skip ahead and read it here if you’re in a hurry.
- The kids and I are reading the first book in the new homeschool series “Wright on Time” together. We’re about half done and so far we’re learning about Arizona, caves, bats, stalagmites, stalactites and minerals. I’ll post a review of that when we’re done, along with the kids’ reviews.
- Daryl and the kids are still baking/cooking every day. Today it was raisin oatmeal cookies with Jack. Yum! They doubled the recipe so Jack figured out what problems like 3/4 cup times two were. He did great.
- Victoria watched more of The Living Body DVD. Jack and Anna have declared it too “gross” to watch since there’s lots of camera shots in people’s small intestines and such. It’s very well done and the photography is amazing.
- I picked up tea party stuff at the Salvation Army in Mankato — tiny saucers from various states and countries, mismatched teacups and a little pitcher that we store in a basket. The kids have been having a blast having tea parties with it. They’re learning a little bit of geography from the saucers (from everywhere from Barbados to Wisconsin) and since things cost 50 cents at the most I’m happy to let them play with it all.
No surprise, but I didn’t finish posting this while cooking my soup! That’s a bit of what our day (and weekend) was like. I really will post more soon with pics and deep thoughts and fun HS ideas….