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Well my week long post was a bust, I was just way to busy then I came down with a terrible migraine and spent 3 days in bed. But we did go to Iowa to my in-laws for Pio's 13th birthday! Happy birthday Pio!!

Pio and his cousin, who according to him likes him very. : ) well I am off to print some coupons, I am trying to extreme coupon! wish me luck.
Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

A.l.t.a.r. prayer books

These are the A.l.t.a.r. prayer books we made the other day. On the front we wrote "my prayer book" and decorated it however they wanted, on the inside the left page had a large A or l or a you get the picture, then on the right page at the top we wrote what that letter stood for adoration, love and so on under that we wrote a prayer asking God to help us in that area or a prayer adoring, love etc... God. We then put a small picture at the bottom, and Voila! All done. God bless,

A. adoration
L. love
T. thanks
A. ask
R. reconcile

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Maria got new sunglasses, she is loving them!
Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Saturday, day 3

Saturday day 3, Today started out by me waking up late, I don't know what it is about this week but the only day I didn't wake up late was Tuesday, which I guess is all that really matters because Tuesday I have Adoration. Although I spent more then half the time talking to the lady that is there before me, long story short she is the Adoration cordinator, and I am her parish council representative, and we use our old church as a Adoration chapel, but like everywhere money is tight and we might not be keeping it. Sssoooo, she was letting me know how the people who attend Adoration feel about that. But that's nothing to do with nothing. Anyway, I got up and started some laundry grabbed Maria and flew out the door to go to walmart before my husband had to leave for work. came home and threw a bowl of cereal at the starving children sitting around my table. And now to start sewing. Way to much to do and only about 3 weeks until the craft show. Yikes!! The children are playing quietly for now ; )

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

disturbing

I found this link over here at RealChoice, and found it very interesting that the places that had "low" compliance would be places that would be considered to be places of "low" education.

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

sb 136

I had heard from someone about this, but did not have the details, we do not have cable, only listen to 2 radio stations. so now that we have internet I looked into it. It is tabled for now. But...
Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Thursday part 2

Well I never even started the post for Thursday part 2 until Friday afternoon, : ) but we did not do much we made a prayer book, with the A.l.t.a.r. prayers. Adoration, love, thanks, ask, reconcile. And some more quite reading. And I do not remember what else! And so for today we have not done much, me and Maria went to Joann fabric to get some things for a up coming craft show. They were having a big Presidents sale so they were super busy.so it much longer then I thought even though I new it would be busy and allowed more time then usual. so we got home had a late lunch. and watched The Little Princess, with Shirley Temple. And I plan on going through a couple of  folders of school stuff. We will doing a couple of things after dinner, just what I am not sure yet.

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Day 2 Thursday part 1

Day 2 of our week, morning
We got up late again! Opened the curtins only to see a dreary overcast day,

eat some cearel for breakfast, and while the kids did room clean up I downloaded some things, and joted down some ideas for the up coming Lenten season. Then it was time for chores.
We finally got started with our school work at about 10 a.m.
we started we handwriting, I will put a different bible verse on the board and they will copy it, they also do 1 letter a day, so today was O they will fill their page with O words, in cursive. Then personal Bible reading and study, they each do this on their own schedule, that they make on their own. They just need to spend about 15 minutes reading the Bible and thinking about they read. Pio does a Bible in a year, Maria reads a chapter a day and she started in Genisis, and Clare reads a chapter a day and alternates between old and new testaments, while we listened to Fr. Corapi. Then while the kids got out their literary guide books and had 20 minutes of reading, I cleaned the cat litter.

after we did our reading, we got started with math, the girls use a combination of math workbooks and texts books, all range from 4th to 6th grade and they are books that were giving to me, so we just go back and forth with which ever book explains it better, and then I just tear out the wokbook pages that go along with that lesson. Pio is in Saxon math 8/7 prealgebra. we then worked in our science notebook. for that we read from any number of books on whatever we are learning about right now it is the sun. (we will continue with the sun until we feel we learned enough, no real time schedule for science just a order) then the kids will right down a certine number of facts, today it was 2 and draw a picture to go along with it. and teh notebook is just a spiral 70 page notebook. then lunch and free time.


Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Matt Maher - Hold us together with lyrics

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

A week in our life day 1, Wednesday

I have been wanting to do a day in our life kind of post, but each day of the week is so drastically different from the next I think that making it a day by day week in our life would be the best way to show the thngs I want to show.

Wednesday 2-16
I let everyone wake up slowly and everyone, including me slept in a little bit. I got up at 8 a.m. did my pilates and started breakfast. I went grocery shopping yesterday and got tons of fresh fruits and veggies on clearance. (not as bad as it sounds ; ) so for breakfast I sliced; mangos, apples, kiwi and green and yellow peppers. then we all got dressed and ready for Blue Army, then I spent way too much time talking to one of the other ladys after we got done so we didn't get in the door til noon. We got started with lunch right away, and had sandwiches and snack crackers. After lunch was cleaned up we did our daily chores and got bedrooms cleaned up. Then it was time to get ready for C.C.D. So I quickly cut some fruit and veggies so that when my husband picked the kids up from choir, which they have right after C.C.D. they could come home and make some sandwiches and pull out the fruit and veegies and Voila! dinner. I stayed at church for a parish council meeting and talked to the same lady way to long and didn't walk through the door until almost 11 p.m. Wednesday is always a crazy day with not much in the way of "learning" God bless.

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Gratituesday, and back on the internet

Today I am grateful for my wonderful husband who got me a new laptop and the internet. So that I might better be able to blog, surf the web, and find fun and nifty home schooling ideas. I will say that I do enjoy being able to sit in bed and catch up on my favorite blogs, like this one  or find super fun game ideas like this one, I really can't wait to try that one. But most of all I am grateful for the little things, the kids, love, a roof over our heads and food in the fridge. God bless you all.

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

Happy feast of St. Blaise everyone.
+JMJ+