Free Friday Field Trip

Today's free field trip was to a local dam on one of the big rivers near our home. It is on the other end, I guess connected to a river that we fish from in the summer. Today1 gate was open and the water was rushing through it like crazy. there was 1 person attempting to fish today, but I don't know how successful he would be with how fast the water was moving today.

A First In Her Mind

Today we went to the Mall. I know that does not seem noteworthy, but for Jordan, it was monumental. She felt like she was missing out on an important part of life by not engaging in mall shopping. In fact, she thought that she had never been to a mall before and since she was 3 yrs old the last time she went... I guess that is like never to an almost 14 yr. old.

I am not a mall shopper. Really, I am not a brick and mortar kinda shopper at all. I am an on-line shopping kinda person, but I used to be a major department store customer. It was very calm at the mall and I very much enjoyed people watching while she looked at and touched everything within her reach and declared all things as, "Oh, this is soooooo cute!!!"

This was a strict recon mission and no money was spent in the mall experience. LOL! I like free field trips, but this one may be difficult to repeat in the free mode. Her eyes were spinning and glistening ~Smile~

Bulletin Board

Progress, Pies and Reborns

Progress reports:

Jordan loves to bake. This week she made a graham cracker crust pudding pie with a cherry fruit topping. Very yummy. 

As an early birthday present, Jordan received a reborn doll. He is a Michelle Fagen Sculpt by the artist, Cindy Sales from the Bountiful Babies Nursery. She loves him so much. She dresses, grooms and changes him several times per day. He goes almost everywhere with us. Last night he had his first photo shoot. She took no less than 70 pictures of him. LOL! Here is 1 of my favorites. The picture with the 3 babies shows my 2 reborns with hers. I have 2 Berenguar Reborns whose artist I cannot remember. They have crazy, wild hair as I did not prepare them for pictures. :)

 

That is what we are doing around here. I am hoping to work on our use-to-be-playroom-that-turned-into-a-storage-room-because-we-had-too-many-toys-room as we are hoping to change it to a schoolroom. 

Have a Great weekend!

Peace!

Getting Ready...

Corrected

I think the PS hit their hundred day mark sometime this last month as Jeanna brought home a sheet and a booklet that talked about counting to one hundred. We have only had 88 95 days of school so far this year. When I first started homeschooling I made sure to hit the 160 days, but now we go for content instead of meeting hours.

It is about time to do progress reports again and I hope to get that done this coming week. I also want to do some preschool testing with my 3 1/2 year old to see what I want to do for his preschool curriculum next year. I cannot not believe he will be 4 years old this year.

Jordan has to work tomorrow and she is at her desk reading back over her childcare and first aid class materials. It's very cute the way she is taking this so serious. She is looking...oh.. just found a neat little art project to take with her tomorrow.

Lent

I meant to post this yesterday, but Blogger was giving me the blues.

Ten years ago I worked a job in which I was on call 24/7. I only had  2 kids back then and we ate alot of fast food. My favorite was the "King". Everyone in my office ate from the "King" as it was within walking distance from the office. My secretary and I decided that we would give up the "King" for Lent. After 40 days of not eating there, I did notice that I felt much better...expecially in the afternoons. I never ate there again. Today marks 10 years since I have had the "King".

I just came off of a soda fast last month and really had not thought about Lent this year until yesterday. What did you give up?

Please prove you're not a robot...

I cannot! I cannot see well enough to figure out the letters and thus cannot leave comments as usual. For many of the blogs that I read that use smaller font, I have to copy and paste into a word document so that I can read them with a larger font. But this word verification thing... I just cannot do it.

Oh and just for the record... I am not a robot! LOL!