Ramblings from October

The Altar at St. Ferdinand

nun doll collection at St Ferdinand

We attended 1st friday Mass at St. Ferdinand church.

 

replica of the original St Ferdinand

 

 

 We kept busy making a birthday gift (top) for a BFF. And 2 baptism gifts for some special little friends.
*all crafts and sewing projects were done by bashing my stash :) no new material or supplies were bought*

 We did some rock climbing!

And some rocking out to 1D in the car :)

And of course some shopping for beautiful little girls.

 We had friends for a visit and went to the Art Museum.

And did some "trunk or treating" and fell in love with baby animals at the petting zoo.

A very happy girl that her costume for her history project is Finally done! And a very happy momma that it was done 95% by said happy girl! She did a great job.


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

This has been one of those weeks where I need to decide if its worth the fight. My son who is 12 just has not wanted to do his work, he has just a bit to catch up on, really an hour or so of work if he would just sit down and do it, and he is just not willing to do, fussing and asking to take a break after not doing anything for 2 hours. So do I make him sit and do the work?? Or say this is why we home school so that when he is having an off week he can step back, put the work down and come back to it with renewed interest. The thing is I want him to get it done so we can be down except the little bit of group work we do after our morning bible study, I have tons of things racing through my mind, and would love to be able to say; school, CHECK so I have one less thing to think about.
V.B.S.is only 2 weeks away and I have so much to do still, next week will be a busy one.
Over at wardrobe refashion I got tons of ideas and can not wait to start sewing!! oh, if only there were more hours in the day, or I didn't need to sleep, : )

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

Alter server meeting

Last night we went to alter server training for my son. It was pretty neat, we just moved into our new church on Christmas eve and they are now doing things a little more traditionally. They learned how to do the incense, I love the smell of the incense. It was pretty awesome, I just sat and prayed the Rosary and to smell the incense!!!
Today for school I tried something a little different, I let the kids decide what they wanted to do. They each picked what subject they wanted to do for the day and then they made their lesson plan. I made them write it out on a piece of paper and then turn it in at the end of the day. I was thinking then they suggusted this, wow maybe I will be able to catch up on some of my own things I need to do. But I still spent the day watching "plays" and scince experiments, and listening to stories. But it was a nice change and they did learn and have fun. Which is my main goal for everyday, not just "school" days. I also found out that my kids really like science, art (and creative arts), bible and reading. I will post separately what we did for school.