Two weeks of Good-byes

Why do we call them good-bye?  They don’t seem particularly good, it only seems good if you don’t like the person.

I rather unofficially decided these summaries are going to be more for me, and a way to remember the little things I enjoyed in the past week, because I was talking with my friend Amanda and we were realizing we don’t really have pictures of the adults doing things, or of just the every day moments, so these last 2 weeks I’ve been trying to do that.

The kiddos have started reading to us the bedtime story, it’s been our sneaky way to get some extra reading practice in, but also lets them have fun picking the story.  The kids also have now learned how to hand wash dishes, which was a little scary for me as they were using my tea cups at the time.  And I finished up a 4 doll outfits that only needed the velcro added in a marathon velcro sewing spree.

In school we finished by the skin of our teeth week of 11 of Illuminations {affiliate link, and yes it’s in bold because I feel accomplished to of done that}.  We spent several days with Superman sick with the flu, and it’s hard to limp along in your lessons with one kid moaning in pain.  We switched to a new math, because Saxon just was not working, and the jury is still out on it.  Princess is definitely not a fan, but the boys are fine with it.  For some reason Batman decided to glue paper on himself, I’m not sure why this was so funny, but he thought it was hilarious.

We experimented with starches on foods, played Thunder Hamsters (the boys Christmas present from Aunt Tara).  Made Phonecian boats, I successfully made cream of mushroom soup from scratch.  And I found the picture of poor sick Superman.

The parents all went out so the E family kids and my kids had an evening together.  I gave them the job of practicing a skit of the first 3 Judges of Israel, and these are the practice shots I got before we headed off.  There was an adorable one of Princess in a strange amalgam of costumes, but she didn’t want me to share it.

Princess had her first cavity, and was very unhappy as she came off the pain killer.  Batman showed off his funny face making skills, and Jeff FINALLY got his last Christmas presents.

Princess had her AHG meeting, and as always was happy as a clam.  I started sewing matching outfits for Princess, her doll, and her friend M who’s moving, and her doll.  We looked for fat in our foods.  The kids had  a playdate at a local park, and the boys organized an army there.  Two of the E family kids came to stay for the week as their parents are up in Idaho interviewing for jobs.

We visited one of my high school friends and her kids.  She has a field of bamboo in her backyard that she runs a constant war with, so she was quite happy to let my kids harvest bamboo for her, so we came back with a trunk full of bamboo for the kids to make into weapons.

We got a little bit of school done.  The kids worked on learning who the Greek gods and goddesses were, and they played lots and lots of games.  The E kids taught my kids their math lessons for the week, which was diverting for them.  We had tea for dinner one night, and all that activity was too much for poor Superman who fell asleep during their quiet reading time.

*And I promise I won’t usually have this much crammed into a post, but I wanted to get as many pictures as possible before they moved, and so we had lots of special events going on.  That, and it was an amazingly busy week.

On Wednesday (yes, I’m only on Wednesday), we picked up the other 2 E kids, and went to the children’s museum.  Since I’ve got a whole post in the works reviewing our new kid’s museum, I’ll just give you the picture I got of all the kids together.  They didn’t really fit on the bench, and the older E kids are getting entirely too old for my tastes.

Each morning I’d leave the kiddos a to do list, and since I had older kids that made up free babysitting I could leave them as I ran errands.  I left them my camera and I got some very amusing pictures.  Then last night I came home from Kung Fu and Princess ran up to me “It’s snowing, so I put on my Christmas dress, and I’m starving, see.”  Then she sucked her gut in as much as she could and gave me the most pathetic “feed me” look she could find.  Then collapsed in laughter.

 

So, that’s been my 2 weeks.  I’m sure the next post will start with this morning of snow play from the kids that I hear outside my window.

 

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