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Kaelee finished History today. She still has her term paper to write, but I need to look over her rough draft first. And then we’ll be down to Chemistry, Latin, Writing, Logic, and Spanish for the summer. Chemistry and Logic are the only things that have to get done by August. The rest, it’s fine to go into next year.
For Christmas I recieved a skein winder (I bought it here on etsy). I love it. The boys think it’s pretty cool too. Caleb helped me wind some skeins. It works so well and is so much better than the back of a chair. Last year the garden was a wash. It was too hot and the watering system we had set up just didn’t work. So this year I had plans. I wanted to try square foot gardening and keep it in the back of the house where I could see it. I bought some kits from Sam’s Club and Walmart. We set them up end of February. I even set up a timer to water. Overall, I thought it would work pretty well. Nope. We have stuff growing, but not a lot. It looks really sparse.
This is the boy’s garden. There’s popcorn, sunflowers, and watermelon in it. I’m just not sure how it’s going to do in the end.
However, the boys are in love with the idea. Oliver has “helped” me pick 3 tomatoes so far. All green. One day we may actually be able to leave them on long enough to actually eat one.
My sad, pathetic soybean. There are bean on the stalks, but I just don’t see it producing enough.
And the one plant that’s doing well. Some sort of bean that Oliver was nice enough to dump into the garden for me. I need some sort of trellis for it. So in the end, I expect we’ll have some tomatoes, beans, garlic, and onion. Those seem to be the only things that are doing well. I know we have rabbits nearby, I wonder if they’re enjoying my garden more than I am.
This is one of the two new soakers I made for the little one using Mosaic Moon’s Red Ming. I used the EviePants pattern. I used the EviePants pattern on this as well. I added a cable down the side because I think they’re adorable. Another Mosiac Moon colorway.
Another EviePants soaker. Made with PureWool this time.
This one is the only one not done in the EviePants pattern. I used Curly Purly instead. I’ve heard good things about it. Hopefully the high waist takes care of the lack of drawstring. Kaelee finished her math book! So we went to Dairy Queen to celebrate. She’s going to do some math from Life of Fred Beginning Algebra this summer just to keep it going. Then in September we’ll start with Lial’s Beginning Algebra. So apparently, I’ve been nesting with the baby coming. I’ve finished up quite a few projects I had on the needles and then went on to start and finish some more that I had planned, but not done anything for. I finished the kimono I started (and almost finished for Oliver).
Caleb’s mittens became Oliver’s. This is how they were:
Kaelee’s scarf was this:
She wanted it long enough to tie so I finally finished it.
And I finally finished her matching fingerless mittens. Despite the difference in color, they are from the same yarn. The scarf is more the true color. My iphone doesn’t take good color pics. I haven’t updated this blog in a year. I’m not sure I’ve ever gone that long before. Oops. So here’s what we used this year for 8th grade:
I went ahead and took the summer off from blogging. It was pretty crazy for a while and so I decided to drop updating this blog. But now that our school year has almost started I decided to go ahead and start updating again. We start school on Monday or Tuesday. Robert has off on Monday so we’ll see what we end up doing. The past couple of weeks I’ve been trying to get organized for school. I’ve been making lesson plans, ordering books, and trying to organize our school space(s). This is what the bookshelf by the computer looks like. This is some of the curriculum I’ve been going over and planning for this new year with. 
In my life this week: I’m trying to get back in the swing of things. Last week, Kaelee and I were at girls’ camp for our church. I didn’t have much to do, but I enjoyed it. Especially because I had a/c. In our homeschool this week: I received a “sample” of Susan Wise Bauer’s Writing With Style. I say sample because it’s a huge portion of what the book will end up being. It’s for 5th grade so I think it’ll be too easy for Kaelee. I haven’t looked through all of it, just the first 3 weeks, but those three weeks are only doing one level outlining. So far it seems to be like Classical Writing: Homer, but not so mind boggling. It’s laid out so much easier to understand. I’m hoping I could use it, but make it more difficult as it goes along. ETA: you can get a sample of the book here. Places we’re going and people we’re seeing: this week, thankfully nothing. Actually one of Kaelee’s friends spent the night Wednesday night. I’m just glad it wasn’t all 5 girls like it was supposed to be. Questions/thoughts I have: Whether or not the writing stuff I have is enough. I now understand why some people but all the writing programs out there. I may end up ordering a couple more. I’m going to try to hold off until I see how Kaelee’s doing with Meaningful Composition. Things I’m working on: the chemistry schedule for next year. I’d planned on using Ellen McHenry’s two chemistry programs and some experiments. So I ordered them, but then found RS4K’s 2nd level on clearance, so I bought that as well. So now I have to pull it all together. Is the new cool thing on the internet. And yeah, you’ve got to really look at the “next big thing” sometimes and think about whether or not you would use it, but really. I.love.pinterest. It’s such a great place to find anything and everything. And it’s visual. Which I think is what makes it better than some previous bookmark sites. I have a delicious account and it’s great to keep track of all those sites you come across that you want to keep in mind, just in case, but without pictures you have to rely on descriptions. Not with pinterest. You see the pics in all their glory. It’s a great site and I have invites if anyone wants one. Check me out here. |
           
 
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