Places to Go/Things to Do:
Go to light up night at park
Go to downtown light up
Go to night Christmas parade
Ride around in car and look at Christmas Lights
Ride in Golf Cart to look at lights in neighborhood
Host a tacky sweater party
Continue Christmas Eve traditions like snacks, opening Christmas pj's, etc
Watch Christmas Movies
Go to Living Nativity
Attend Christmas Eve service at our church (can you believe we have never done this)
Get T started in T-ball again
Homeschooling:
Begin weekly nature walks
Figure out how we are going to document nature studies: scrapbook, journal, other?
Beach Nature Walk/Beach Day
Do more reading activities
Color one page per day for Christmas
Do one Christmas thing per day starting December 1
Christmas Unit Study
Projects:
Make Christmas tree ice cream cones
Create floating candle/Christmas bulb centerpiece
Ministry:
Find volunteer writer
Discuss with board 2 new programs for next year
Complete 501c3 status
Pro-Life Conference in Jan
Participate in Caroling at the Clinic Day
Memory Preservation:
Finish photo book
Have Christmas pictures taken of boys
Write and mail our first family Christmas letter and pics/cards
Home:
Decorate inside and outside of home
Finish back porch
Health:
Walk for one hour five times a week
Dentist visit
Bloodwork
Thursday, November 29, 2012
It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!~(Last week in review!
Places we went: On Friday night, we got all bundled up and drove off to pick out the perfect Christmas tree. At Lowe's. Every year they set up a huge tent in the parking lot and fill the tent with trees. It is tradition to get our tree here every year!
I took the kids to the park one chilly morning, and we also went to church and made several trips to Publix to get everything we needed for the Thanksgiving dinner we hosted here.
Highlights: We had a lovely Thanksgiving at our house and my mother-in-law came over to join us. Daddy smoked a turkey in our smoker and it was delicious! We also had stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, succotash, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls, and pumpkin pie.
My other favorite things from this week were welcoming in the Christmas season by picking out and decorating our tree, and seeing lights that are going up on other people's homes. I am trying to motivate Tim to get our lights up soon:)
Funny Moment: Sometimes I read too many homeschooling blogs and get way too giddy about all this constant, self-directed learning taking place. Earlier this week T was playing out back and I was enjoying watching him. He would run up and gather as many pinecones as he could and then run down to the fence and throw them as hard as he could into the lake. I couldn't wait to find out what it was that he was working so hard on. Was he doing some type of mathematical calculation? making some kind of artistic pine cone pattern in the water? Or maybe working on his pitching arm for t-ball? My mind was filled with possibilities and I was excited to hear all about his project. Finally he was finished and came running up to me out of breath, laughing, face full of amusement as he announced "Mommy, I was throwing pinecones at the ducks."
Homeschooling: Over the past week and a half we worked on a Thanksgiving unit. We found a cute two minute video on GodTube that summarized the First Thanksgiving and we watched that every morning after our devotions. Some worksheets we worked on were looking at a bunch of pictures and finding the one that is different, letter tracing, and a color by number turkey. Projects completed: T colored a nice Thanksgiving book that I printed off from the computer and I am proud of how he is coloring in the lines. He also completed a Thanksgiving trifold board.
This week we intend to take our first official nature walk and work on some activities we already have. I will be planning out our Christmas Unit Study which we will start next week.
I am reading: As much info as I can get my hands on about nature study/nature walks with children
I am thankful for: My family and friends
I am looking forward to: All of the fun and special things that come with the Christmas season. And it will be twice as fun this year, having a new little guy to make memories with!
To do this week: Prepare for and lead our ministry meeting on Tuesday, write out a Christmas season plan, work on several homemade gifts.
I am praying for: The nation of Israel
I took the kids to the park one chilly morning, and we also went to church and made several trips to Publix to get everything we needed for the Thanksgiving dinner we hosted here.
Highlights: We had a lovely Thanksgiving at our house and my mother-in-law came over to join us. Daddy smoked a turkey in our smoker and it was delicious! We also had stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, succotash, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls, and pumpkin pie.
My other favorite things from this week were welcoming in the Christmas season by picking out and decorating our tree, and seeing lights that are going up on other people's homes. I am trying to motivate Tim to get our lights up soon:)
Funny Moment: Sometimes I read too many homeschooling blogs and get way too giddy about all this constant, self-directed learning taking place. Earlier this week T was playing out back and I was enjoying watching him. He would run up and gather as many pinecones as he could and then run down to the fence and throw them as hard as he could into the lake. I couldn't wait to find out what it was that he was working so hard on. Was he doing some type of mathematical calculation? making some kind of artistic pine cone pattern in the water? Or maybe working on his pitching arm for t-ball? My mind was filled with possibilities and I was excited to hear all about his project. Finally he was finished and came running up to me out of breath, laughing, face full of amusement as he announced "Mommy, I was throwing pinecones at the ducks."
Homeschooling: Over the past week and a half we worked on a Thanksgiving unit. We found a cute two minute video on GodTube that summarized the First Thanksgiving and we watched that every morning after our devotions. Some worksheets we worked on were looking at a bunch of pictures and finding the one that is different, letter tracing, and a color by number turkey. Projects completed: T colored a nice Thanksgiving book that I printed off from the computer and I am proud of how he is coloring in the lines. He also completed a Thanksgiving trifold board.
This week we intend to take our first official nature walk and work on some activities we already have. I will be planning out our Christmas Unit Study which we will start next week.
I am reading: As much info as I can get my hands on about nature study/nature walks with children
I am thankful for: My family and friends
I am looking forward to: All of the fun and special things that come with the Christmas season. And it will be twice as fun this year, having a new little guy to make memories with!
To do this week: Prepare for and lead our ministry meeting on Tuesday, write out a Christmas season plan, work on several homemade gifts.
I am praying for: The nation of Israel
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