Weekly Wrap-Up: This, That, and Veggies

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In my life this week… With Sinter Klaas visiting our home next week, I have my mind going in dozens of different directions.

In our homeschool this week… We did some schoolwork, some NaNoWritMo writing, crafting, and lots of reading aloud.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…  Crafting goes well with reading aloud.  The children embroidered, quilted, and made cards while I read.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…  All the usual, as well as a salt water marsh full of adventuresome explorers (courtesy of Secret Waters by Arthur Ransome) and a dear friend from the past.

My favorite things this week were…

• Catching up with an old friend.
• The children’s prizes in the local Remembrance Day contest.   
• Warm weather and green grass after the first snowfall.

Questions/thoughts I have… This week in French Mr. 16 will start learning things I last did 28 years ago.  They are only vague memories now.  I will need to review/study alongside him, but I cannot see how to make it work, on top of everything else.  How do you deal with such situations?

Things I’m working on…

• Preparing for Sinter Klaas, which includes sewing, shopping, planning, wrapping, and being secretive…all very exciting.
• Fall cleaning and dejunking.  Sewing up fabric and using stuffing is part of this, right?
• Some work for my husband.  It’s almost finished, and I’m thankful for that.

I’m reading…

I finished the Old Testament again, and started 48 Days to the Work You Love, recommended by Dave Ramsey.  I completely ignored the other books I was reading: Blue Like Jazz by Miller, The Reason for God by Keller, Sense and Sensibility by Austin, and Entreleadership by Ramsey.

With the kids, I’m reading Proverbs and Secret Water by Arthur Ransome. We finished Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and are taking a break from O Canada by Karla Akins.

I’m grateful for … A fire place.  Food, family, and friends.  Melting snow.

Just one picture… While we caught up with our old friend, we nibbled gluten-free crackers, sausages, and cheeses.  By suppertime, all we wanted were the veggies that we’d forgotten to offer our friend.

This post is linked to The Homeschool Mother’s Journal and to Weekly Wrap Up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.