In my life this week... Sickness took over our house this week. It started with baby Alexander throwing up on Monday night, by Wednesday morning Aric and Aaron were doing the same, Wednesday afternoon it was my turn, and at midnight on Wednesday April started throwing up as well. In the span of about 2 days we all were down. Then, on Thursday morning we all woke up and it all seemed to be gone mostly. The boys were back in the kitchen scrounging for food, which they hadn't done for 2 days. I had to keep them from eating too much at first. Take it slow, is what I said over and over again. By Thursday evening April was up again too. All the while that we were sick, Hubby was in Japan, so I was by myself all week. I think every quilt and blanket in our house has been washed at least once this week. I'm still trying to catch up on all the "puked on" laundry. We all feel wonderful today, back to normal. We'll be happy to get out of the house, and get some shopping done, and well, just to get out of the house.
In our homeschool this week... I decided at the beginning of December to take it easy this month since we have been going since June (yes we did homeschool about half time over the summer). So, we are doing a light or no school load this month. I have been putting fun Christmas activities, creative writing assignments, Christmas crafts, and other odds and ends in their workboxes if we get the chance and/or if they feel like working on something. April has done some everyday, so I've had to keep filling hers. She's my little worker. I love that she keeps working on things, but that means I need to keep putting things together for her! That's okay, it gives me something to do during our long break. I only fill about half her boxes anyway. Aaron has not really touched his boxes, except for a few. No surprise there. I might encourage him to finish them today. As for Aric he has been asking to work on his school most days. I love that. It makes me happy that he wants to work on his things on his own and I don't have to ask him to.
I am inspired by... A good friend who is blogging about her Christmas countdown. Each day she has posted something simple they are doing for their Christmas countdown. So, despite the fact that the countdown is half over I have finally decided to do something to countdown the remaining days until Christmas. I am doing a mixture of my friend's activities, and also the truth in tinsel advent. I love the simple ornaments for each day. We missed a lot of it so we are just doing a few of them.
Places we're going and people we're seeing...April has her church girls activity days Christmas party tonight (the group of girls ages 8-11 from church). I'm one of the leaders so I get to be a part of that. We're pretty excited to do something fun. We also get to go to the Portland zoo lights tomorrow with Hubby's work. This has become a fun tradition. They have a big dinner as well.
My favorite thing this week... Having a picnic dinner around the Christmas tree with only the tree lights on and some candles on a blanket. It was a Christmas countdown activity idea from my friend, and I loved it. We had pizza because I had already been dealing with a sick baby and didn't want to cook a huge dinner. That was our "last supper" before the big sick day.
What's working for us...Workboxes are working for us really well this year. I think I've finally got it all figured out.
Questions/thoughts I have...Next year. I'm already brainstorming a little bit for plans for next school year. April will be in 6th grade, her first middle school year. She's entering the middle years which I'm both excited and nervous about. I want things to be challenging for her. What kind of curriculum, or plans should I make for her next year? I'll be thinking about that for a while.
I'm cooking...I made some yummy chocolate chip muffins after everyone was better, they sounded so good. And, they were!
I'm grateful for...no more sickness! I'm so glad that one passed quickly. I was pretty sure I wasn't going to make it taking care of 4 sick kids and being sick myself. I'm grateful that for the most part we are all healthy, and that we don't get sick that often.
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Some photos from our week:
Eating our pizza picnic in front of the tree with all the lights off except for the tree lights. This bothered Aaron at first, but he got used to it.
Got this in the mail this week. I finally ordered my blog book for 2010. I love having the blog in a book, it'll be a gift for me for Christmas. So many cherished memories to be flipped through. The kids just love sitting and reading these books.
Some of the paper crafts we did this week. I know, such an odd combination...angry birds and santa. They just all looked so cute.
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