Cranberry Apple Juice.

My daughter asked her Dad to pick up some of this juice at the grocery last night. He shopped late and when we got up this morning, the cran/apple juice was in the fridge, but you could tell it had been opened and a little bit taken out. My daughter said "I think Daddy tasted the juice last night. I hope he didn't like it."

LoL.

What we're reading.

It has nothing to do with our unit study, but it's laugh-out-loud funny.

Getting back into the routine.

This week was kind of divided by our trip. We were in Cincy on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, I was so tired I declared it a "snow day" although really it was our labor day holiday because Monday and Tuesday we were doing educational things and those days counted as field trips; 2 of the 10 noninstructional days Kentucky allows

Anyway, these 2 days we've been back doing school have been good quality days. We've been studying the pre-Revolutionary War period of American history. We read the Magic Tree House book about Thanksgiving. We also did a mini-unit study called Rose of the Mayflower that I got from the Homeschool Estore, which included a discussion about why salt water is not good to bathe in. We're doing a science experiment to grow salt crystals. Our daughter has been enjoying writing in cursive this year and has been doing a lot of copywork by her choice. She hated cursive last year, so this is a nice change. Youngest son has finally had something click in reading and read his first chapter book yesterday - one of ones in the Ricky Ricotta series.

Oldest son is still plodding through the 2 subjects from Alpha Omega he didn't finish last year; Language Arts and Science. Honestly, I don't think it is his fault he's so slow at these. The Language Arts book, when I open it and start reading, just makes my brain numb. It's confusing and annoying. Still, he's on book 5 of 10 and he's going to have to finish it. His other subjects, Algebra from Key Curriculum Press, Computer Basics from Christian Light and American History are going well.

The picture is from a park near Cincinnati that is a farm with a petting zoo and playground. We were there Tuesday.

The Menu.

Getting back to real life post vacay.

Vacation is over and now we need to get back to real life. We took our Labor Day holiday yesterday, since Monday we were at the Renaissance Faire learning all kinds of things. That counted as our first field trip of the year. Tuesday, we visited a farm and petting zoo. That was our second field trip day of the year. Yesterday, we just needed some down time so we took it. Today, we'll start school again. I need to print out everyone's checklists and get going on mine.

The Renaissance Faire resembled the Kentucky State Fair in a few ways. There were rides but at the Renaissance Faire, they were human powered. There were demonstrations and shows. We saw a very funny sword fighting show and a glass blowing demonstration. They also have a lot of foods on a stick, just like the Kentucky State Fair's Pork Butt on a stick, except the Renaissance Faire had Steak on a Stake and Cheesecake on a stick, which I didn't get because I was stuffed from breakfast at IHOP, but I would have liked to have seen that.

I have tried to post a picture of the sign that said "cheesecake on a stick" about 100 times and blogger will not let me post it. Probably my internet connection is too slow and it's timing out. I'll try one more time and if it doesn't work, then you'll just have to imagine it, I guess.

We're back!

We took a mini-vacation or vacay as the kids call it, to Cincinnati. We got back last night. It was fun. We went to the renaissance fair in Harveysburg.

I can't seem to put my thoughts together on the trip and therefore, this blog entry is starting to sound like a report from a fourth grader on 'What I did this summer." Here's a lovely picture of me and the kids, since I seem to put 2 words together this morning.

Step on a crack ...

We went to the grocery store today to get some distilled water for the lizards. My youngest was not stepping on the cracks in the sidewalk and saying "step on a crack, break your mother's back". Then he said, "I guess if she stepped in a big enough crack, she'd break it herself." Do you think he's implying that I'm a klutz?

I thought we had a pretty nice day. We went to see the new house our friend bought. We packed and cleaned for a little mini-trip we're taking tomorrow and I worked. Later on this afternoon though, the same son said "This has been the most boring Saturday. It's been as boring as a Tuesday." I never thought that Tuesdays were all that bad?

Bubble Gum.

Yesterday, we were at Wal-mart (pretty much an every other day event) and my youngest decided to spend some of his allowance/snack money on a huge gumball. It was so big, he couldn't close his mouth when he had it in his mouth. As I may have mentioned before, the boy is quite a talker. Sometimes when he's talking for about half an hour straight, with no pauses, about Yu-Gi-Oh cards or something like that, it gets a little tiring for the listener. My oldest son has experienced this too.(He used to be the same way when he was little!)

Anyway, yesterday, my youngest put that gumball in his mouth, then took it back out and said "I'm not going to be able to talk for a while, while I'm chewing this up." My oldest son and I looked at each other meaningfully, knowing we were thinking exactly the same thing. We're going to have to stock up on those giant gumballs.