Our week started out with a field trip on Monday. Normally, Jt has his virtual co-op discussion on Mondays. We had to skip this one as we had this field trip booked before we signed up for the co-op. Dad even took the day off work to join us. We went to Heritage Hills first. The group separated into a younger group and older group. Dad went with the two older kids and saw the Fur Traders cabin. They learned about the relationship between the French, Indians, British and Americans. They held a mock trial based on the trial of Chief Oshkosh.
The younger kids went to Fort Howard. The Fort is from 1836 era. They got to see what life was like on a fort in 1836. They had an opportunity to cook corn cakes, lay on a hospital bed, march on the green, go to school and try writing on slates, and take down the flag at the end of the day.
After our time at Heritage Hills we went to the National Railroad Museum. We toured the museum and rode the train there.
We even made it back in time for Jt to go skating.
Tuesday we had ortho appointments and then piano lessons. JJ is now taking piano and he is thrilled to be old enough. He has such joy for the instrument and I hope that continues. Sometimes the amount of practicing needed to become proficient takes the joy out of the instrument. I also went in to work for 4 hours in the afternoon to evening.
Wednesday - we got a lot of school work done in the morning. Then I left for work in the afternoon and the kids continued to work on their assignments such as math, grammar and phonics. I got home in time to feed them dinner and we ran Jt to off ice - dry land training.
Thursday - I left for work early. Jt got up prior to my leaving and started his school work. This gave him 2 hours of quiet working time before the younger ones got up. Even when I am gone certain homework is required to be done. The two oldest take turns playing with JJ and doing their school work. In the evening we had Awanas for the younger two and Dad took Jt to skating practice.
Friday we had art class in the morning. We had a new teacher and she is fabulous. She has a different style then our other teacher but I really like her. I think the kids will learn alot. She is more academic in approach. She is teaching the elements of design. These are:
line
shape
color
texture
space
Our class this time was on lines and how lines can be used to create motion and dimension. I really like her approach and what she is teaching them. (I even learned some stuff - shhh, don't tell that moms still keep learning!!!)
In the evening Jt got to go to church for an outdoor movie. They watched Evan Almighty. Dad went along and chaperoned. We invited a friend of Jt (happens to be a girl but they are hockey buddies - so she truly is just a friend). We actually were hoping she would come back to confirmation classes. She dropped out (long story) and while she did come to the Jonah event, it is unlikely she will come back to church. We will keep trying. She is a delightful girl.
Saturday we had a family bike trip. It was fabulous to be all together, having fun, out in the nice weather. It was a gorgeous day. We couldn't have asked for better weather.
Only negative is that we think we have something dead in the house. It has a very bad smell that waifs through now and again. We have torn apart the living room and washed everything. Washed the couches, carpet, part of the walls. Didn't kill the smell. We have walked around sniffing everything to see if we can identify where the smell is coming from. No luck. Hubby has decided to wait until it gets stronger so we can more easily find it. I am praying it just goes away. Neither approach seems like a good one but we simply can't find the source. Yuk. Hubby claims we have a corps somewhere. I am so not liking that image.
Pray for the smell to go away.
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