Quiet Sunday

We are having a quiet day here. We went to church and then our usual trip to Wal-Mart for a newspaper. Kalie and I came home and the big girls went to work. (They work at the mall. Katie works at Eddie Bauer and Kasie works at Build A Bear Workshop.) We made eggs for lunch. I put the ingredients in the bread machine for wheat-white bread. Threw the ingredients for taco style lentils and rice (vegetarian recipe as my oldest and youngest are vegetarians) in the crock pot for our portion of dinner for our church community group.

Kalie is vegging out watching movies with the dog. I am "playing" on the computer. We will have to leave around 5ish. So today is a nice calm quiet day!

Hope your day goes well!

Plants

Johnny Jump Ups (on the left, not growing), Marigolds, Onions and Corn.



Watermellon (on the left, not growing), Cantelop, Yellow squash, Zuchinni Squash.



Climbing Green Beans.



Daisies (on the left, not growing), Climbing Morning Glories.



I think that they are almost ready to plant. I need to build the boxes (square foot gardens) for our gardens.

The Big Girls are Home!

Katie and Kasie are home from college.



With all of their stuff.



and more stuff... (sorry I do not know how to rotate pics)



Most of their stuff is put away. (This is our school room.)

I am very overwhelmed with all of their stuff coming home. Our house is not big enough for all of us and their stuff. LOL!

Math Fun!

Some days it just works out that we do one subject for the entire day, usually it is Reading, Science or Social Studies. Today was Math Day! We read many living books of various math related ideas, watched a math movie, played dice addition, domino addition, measured things, worked on estimating and created an addition lapbook.

Kalie creating. She is very particular about how she wants things to be. (Yes, my dining room table almost always looks like this. LOL!)



The cover. The fun foam numbers are left over from teaching preschool (years ago). The numbers 6 and 10 are white and they would not show up when I took the pictures. She drew faces on all of the numbers. Next to each number are small round stickers equal to their value.



One set of the flash cards that are tucked into each pocket.



Each pocket has dots equal to their number.



Most of the day was spent working on this lapbook and playing with the flash cards. We probably have 6 or 7 sets of addition flash cards, yet we continue to create more. Some of them are on rings. We have dry erase ones. At least 3 sets are in lapbooks. We have some in ziploc bags. Kalie likes a variety. LOL!

In about 2 years I will have wonderful resources for someone just starting to homeschool. LOL!

Today was a great day!

Our Yard ~ Phase 1

Phase 1 of the "Big Beautiful Back Yard" has begun.
(I am working on some of the front yard, too.)

First Step ~ Wal-Mart for the beginning of purchases (ouch!). We bought:

1. 4 trays to start our seeds @ $4 ea.
2. a hose @ $6
3. a hose hanger @ $2
4. 2 bags of organic flower/vegtable potting soil @ $2.50 ea.
5. 2 bags of grass fertlizer/starter @ $3.75 ea.
6. 12 pkgs. of seeds @ average of $1 ea.
7. 3 pots to make a strawberry container/tower @ $6
8. 6 large pkgs. of sunflower seeds @ $1.50 ea.

Total $63.50

My first job was to mow the lawn. The lawn mower is not working, I will have to take it to be repaired tomorrow. So I weed wacked around the front poarch. We found this bush that was blooming. It is small but maybe it will grow bigger. Our new hose is peeking out from behind. Where this bush is we do not want grass, we want to put flowers there. I wish I could move this lush grass to the bare spots in the front yard.

I raked and watered the large bare spot in the front yard. Kalie and I sprinkled the grass fertlizer/starter all over. We will add grass seed in a few days.



One of the neighbors moved out and left this pool in their side yard. The landlord said we could have it. It has a small crack so the water leaks out slowly, but Kalie had a wonderful time in it today and it was free. I might buy her the colored sand she wants from wal-mart and use it as a sand box for her and try to get her a larger pool for swiming. (That's Izabel in the corner, we call her puppy-wuppy.)

Kalie planting all of her seeds. She is loving this. We planted a tray of green beans (climbers), some corn, yellow squash, zucchini squash, watermellon, marigolds, black eyed susans, morning glories, cantalopes, johnny jump ups, daisies and onions.



Our "baby seeds" in their bedroom for the night. LOL! Kalie read them a story and told them all good night. During the day we will set them in the sun.

Next Step ~ Lowes & Farmers Market (next weekend)

We need to buy wood to build the garden boxes and pvc to build the green bean tunnel.

We are going to buy the tomato and strawberry plants from the farmers market at their annual sale May 2-4.