Where I pretend we returned to normal….

I told this to Jeff and he laughed at me. For some reason he doesn’t believe that exists. He’s probably right.

Friday started off in a winter wonderland, school was cancelled everywhere, and since I wasn’t really planning much in the way of school anyways, it made a perfect excuse to cancel and just let them play.  And they did.

They’d all go outside play for 5 minutes, then come inside and sit next to the fire getting all toasty warm, followed by another round of playing outside.  We had the traditional 5 inch tall Texas snowman.

They finally gave up on playing outside, to play inside shortly after we picked up the last 2 E kids.  The afternoon was filled with tea parties, board games (including my new LEGO The Hobbit game {affiliate link}).  After we dropped all of the E kids off at their aunt’s house Jeff found a box of our books from when we were kids.  The kids raided the box and took all the books upstairs they wanted to read right now.  That night when I went to tuck in the kids I found the boys with flashlights reading the book they got from Aunt Tara.

Monday was probably a bit more like what our days normally are like.  Some fun activities mixed in with some mundane.  I was franctically finishing up a birthday present, and made about 3 last minute visits to the fabric store as I ran out of elastic thread.  The kids happily did their All About Reading lessons (level 2 for Princess, and level 3 for the boys, affiliate links).

Tuesday we had another ice day, but this time Jeff stayed home from work when I told him there was already over 100 accidents out there reported, and most of them were on his route to work.  So the kids played out briefly, but it was all ice, nothing fun to play in, other than slipping and sliding.  What to do on an ice day?

Build a fort of course, and play with your toy guns.  I love the picture of them all reading around the fort.

As I mentioned in the Job post we stopped by the E house one last time as they packed so I could drop off a birthday present for their youngest and get a picture of the girls in matching outfits.  They loved getting a last chance to say good-bye, and all the kids attempted to sneak into our car, the trailer, and wherever else they could hide.  It was a fitting send off.  We already have theoretical plans to meet up somewhere to visit.  So between grocery shopping, and that “quick visit” we lost most of our school time on Wednesday.

We did by the skin of our teeth get all of our school lessons done, there’s one or two we’re gonna work on today, but it’s mostly done.  We worked on writing about a character they made up.  We learned about the Israelite Civil War, and about the respiratory system.  The kids continued working on multiplication, and seem to be finally really getting it.  And we had lots of fun working on our Zeezok music this week.

Here’s my big discovery for the week, it was so cool I stopped and took a screen shot, yes I am that much of a nerd.  The new update in Illuminations automatically saves your lesson plans for the week.  That means I don’t have to save the individual weeks.  How cool is that?

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