I just got home from the grocery store, Ollie's cooking dinner so I can't put groceries away, I'm needing a break from the kiddos so I'm chillin' on the computer. Have you ever thought about how much you have to move your groceries to get them into the cabinet? I never had until Cris pointed it out and it's bugged me ever since. Thanks Cris. First, you take them off the shelf and put them into your cart. Then out of your cart and onto the conveyor belt. Then the bagger puts them in a bag and than back in your cart. Then, you take the bags out of your cart and put them in your car. Then into the house, where you unload and finally put them into the cabinet. Putting away groceries is the thing I like least about the whole process. I need to train my kids to do it correctly. Tomorrow we go will be having our France food day. We are having crossaints and hot chocolate for breakfast, Quiche Lorraine for lunch, Spinach and Bacon filled crepes for dinner, and crepes with fruit and whipped cream for dessert. Should be a good food day! I've also decided to have game day tomorrow as well--educational game day that is. Grace and Joe will be playing Sight Word Bingo and who knows what else, we have plenty of games to choose from. Hannah will be playing Professor Noggin's Countries of the World game, Mad Math Fou, and we will all play Top Secret Adventure game. I have a ton of educational games but seldom take the time to sit down with the kids and play them. In addition to games we may do an art project and I hope to read some books. I used to read tons of picture books to the kids but now I don't do that as much as I'd like. So, tomorrow should be a fun educational day I hope. Hopefully everyone will cooperate and have good attitudes. Particularly Joe. He has had a terrible two days, not sure what his deal is. Anyway, I'm looking forward to tomorrow and a break from the usual. I ordered Susan Wise Bauer's "Writing With Ease," and I'm really excited about it. It's a pretty simple, straightforward writing curriculum that starts with a strong foundation in copywork, dictation, and narration. She says that until kids can easily do these three things it isn't fair to expect them to write. It would be like us taking a few months of a conversational french class and then being asked to write a paper in french about the origins of evil. The book starts with grade 1 and goes through grade 4. I think I will start Hannah at the second grade level.
Who needs toys when you have bunnies?
I met a weird homeschooling family at the library today and I left a little disturbed by it. The dad struck up a conversation with me commenting on the books I was checking out and I said I was a homeschooler and he said they were too. His wife was extremely meek, wouldn't look me in the eye and seemed almost scared. He asked what curriculum we use--he had never heard of My Father's World, they use Abeka. Then he asked what church we went to. I asked if they knew about the local HUGE homeschool group and his wife very timidly-still no eye contact-shook her head. It was so weird and akward that I just said, "Nice talking to you," and left. There were two kids, one older girl and one boy--both saying nothing and looking very odd and out of place. Everything might have been fine, the woman might have just been painfully shy but I left the library praying for her and her family.
I bought a fabric shower curtain at a yard sale this weekend that I thought would make a great tablecloth. I washed it and have it on the table now. Guess who is repulsed by it? Yep, you guessed it--Joe. He says it freaks him out that people have touched it with their naked bodies. I explained to him what a shower curtain is (we have doors) and how it never touches anybody's bodies. Then he said, "yeah but people's hands touch it and they've touched their privates in the shower." The things this kid thinks about...
Grace told me the other day that she is a "loose girl," she likes loose clothes and loose days. Loose clothes were obvious but loose days? I asked her what she meant and she said that loose days are days that aren't so busy and that we have time to relax and do what we want. She also feels "bunchy" when she's dirty and then loose again when she's clean. We need to come up with a new word to describe her though. I don't want her telling people that she is a "loose girl."
Hannah's next show is High School Musical 2. She's preparing for her audition next week and I've heard the same song a million times....getting sick of it already! She's really hoping for Kelsi. I hope she gets it but there are lots of older kids in it this time so who knows. We'll know next week.
I think that's about it. Lots of random in my mind today....
