In my life this week…
This week was a nice slow week. Little BBQ seems to be maturing in some ways. He helped me clean up this week without screaming and yelling which was a nice change. He also put himself down for a nap one day this week which is also a nice change since he usually does anything he can to stay awake. I know he is getting tired when he starts begging for carbohydrates. I made some pork broth and pressure canned it for later. I have been buys collecting up recipes that we want to try for canning this year. This year we will be pressure canning on top of boiling water canning so this opens up options for us like canned corn and peas. I am really hoping that the tomatoes in my garden do well so I can have lots of canned tomatoes. I got paranoid of tomato blight this week and put down more nonfat dry milk and egg shells around the tomatoes to prevent tomato blight. I hear that tomato blight is really bad around here, so I want to try and prevent it if I can. My lettuce is growing like crazy. My European salad mix section looks like a fancy salad bar. One of my pea plants has its first flower on it, so that is exciting. Little BBQ has also been building lots of houses which I really love seeing him being creative.
In our homeschool this week…
We have been doing lots of reading and working on our soroban abacus. Little BBQ seems to be more comfortable adding numbers up to 9 on the soroban, so next week we might try adding double digit numbers.
Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…
We didn’t go anywhere special this week except for the library which is always nice. We are very fortunate that the librarians are tolerant of Miss Bubbles running around the library sitting on all the big chairs while I get more books and Little listens to books on the computers. We also went to a garage sale today. For $13 we got Miss Bubbles some dresses in the next size up since she seems to be in a growth spurt. I was hoping to find her more outfits to sleep in, but we did not find any sleepers for her.
My favorite thing this week was…
My favorite thing this week was watching a movie with Dr. Lazy Palate last night. We haven’t had a lot of downtime together lately, so it was nice to just relax.
What’s working/not working for us…
I think we are finally falling into a rhythm that is working for us.
Homeschool questions/thoughts I have…
I am crossing my fingers that the warm weather stays.
A photo, video, link, or quote to share…
This is a random project that Little BBQ made for me. I allow him free access to art supplies, and he just randomly sat down and made this for me. I love when gets a random spurt of creativity.
isn't it wonderful when it feels like things are following into place? Kudos to you for giving the little one free reign with the art supplies, as wonderful as designed projects are, little ones need time and opportunity to create without boundaries :-) stopping by from the HMJ.
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