Weekly Update (of sorts)

We only sort of did school this week. Last week Ellie and Kara spent the week at Grandpa and Grandma's (see pics here) and it was our planned week off after finishing Unit 1 of Tapestry of Grace. We had planned to restart school this week, but I was nowhere near prepared come Monday morning. While the girls were gone I was going to get their history notebooks ready (I make them a notebook for each unit that includes all reading assignments, questions, maps, etc). I think I thought I had more time. Problem was I worked the previous weekend so I didn't do much on Monday. Not sure what I did on Tuesday, but on Wednesday I made a bunch of applesauce (thanks Tami for coming and keeping me company). I started on Kara's on Thursday but didn't get it done. And then on Friday I went to meet my mom to pick up the girls and had a conference on Friday night and all day Saturday. Plus Sundays are our day of rest so I wasn't about to spend my whole Sunday afternoon working on the notebooks when I also had to prepare the food for our unit celebration. All this to say I was sorely prepared for Monday morning.

This week was also very busy with the older three having choir dress rehearsal Monday evening, church Wednesday evening, long choir practice Thursday afternoon and choir concerts on Thursday and Friday evenings. So we took it easy this week as well. Ellie did some math lessons and worked on her math facts. Kara did some handwriting and spelling and Darin learned how to read a few words, write a couple of numbers and the letter A, and did some other pages in another workbook he has. He did the most this week-mostly because he is always begging me to "do school." He hates it when I tell him it is time to put it away.

I did work on the notebooks and I've got them all done. I just need to make the labels for the maps but that isn't urgent. I'm working this weekend so that will get done at some point next week.