Laurences letter to the museum from yesterday......this is the photocopied copy (for his portfolio) and it seems to have cut off part of each line so thats why some of the words don't look quite right lol!
1 week ago
Nov 30, 2006
sledding again!
Abigail and Laurie have been out sledding this afternoon....Abigail didn't stay out qwuite as long but Laurie was out for ages, came in to warm up and then headed back out again. The snow is a little too deep on the hill right now so Laurie is working at creating a bob sled slope thingy by digging a trough through the snow - it works well! The dogs enjoyed watching :)
Gingerbread house craft........
Here is the gingerbread house that Susannah is busy making.......the instructions can be found in this months Family Fun magazine!!! I will add some pictures of the finished house when it
it's done!!!
In a slump...
I think maybe we are still all getting over that bug ew had last week......it has left a few of us feeling really lethargic and fed up. No motivation to do anything......
I am glad we have a lot of plans this weekend...hopefully that will kick my butt into action.....and maybe tomorrow we will head out too and get out of this place! A change of scene might be in order...
It is going to be a LONG winter....I am so glad we will have two weeks of being in the sun come January - it will be a welcome break from the snow :) Much needed :)
This afternoon the children went out sledding for a while making the most of the warmer temps for the day......Susannah is makinga gingerbread house from a cardboard box, following the instructions in the Family Fun magazine....
I have been very lazy and sat and read my Redbook magazine.......I should go for a walk or something. Maybe I can persuade Lloyd to come home early and we can go out on the quads for a ride and some fresh air......I should go out for na walk but I just feel so tired.....I ahven't had my iron either which I know I need :( My anaemia is quite bad atm.......that doesn't help :(
I will take a pic of Susie with her gingerbread house....
I am glad we have a lot of plans this weekend...hopefully that will kick my butt into action.....and maybe tomorrow we will head out too and get out of this place! A change of scene might be in order...
It is going to be a LONG winter....I am so glad we will have two weeks of being in the sun come January - it will be a welcome break from the snow :) Much needed :)
This afternoon the children went out sledding for a while making the most of the warmer temps for the day......Susannah is makinga gingerbread house from a cardboard box, following the instructions in the Family Fun magazine....
I have been very lazy and sat and read my Redbook magazine.......I should go for a walk or something. Maybe I can persuade Lloyd to come home early and we can go out on the quads for a ride and some fresh air......I should go out for na walk but I just feel so tired.....I ahven't had my iron either which I know I need :( My anaemia is quite bad atm.......that doesn't help :(
I will take a pic of Susie with her gingerbread house....
Thursday
Chris is at work...Lloyd took him as the roads are bad...I have been threading strings onto baubles/ tree ornaments.......haven't done much else so have to go do something!!! I did email my wish list to Lloyd so he can go shopping!
Susie is learning about synonyms and writing riddles too. Laurence is making a lapbook about space suit technology. Abigail is using her kindergarten cd rom downstairs.
Sam has been playing with my button tin...scattering the buttons everywhere but having fun!
Lloyd is so funny - he has been shopping like crazy this week - for himself!!!! Well, he did bring me home a lovely bottle of perfume, but everything else was for himself which is really nice because he never buys himself anything! This week he bought himself three new pairs of shoes, two new sweaters and a really nice dark brown corduroy jacket...the funny thing is that he is buying this because of the movie The Lake House....he really likes the style of the Keanu Reeves character Alex! So he has been looking for clothes in a similar style....
He looks gorgeous in the jacket :)
He says he just has this mad impulse to shop!!!! So I sent my wishlist lol!
Susie is learning about synonyms and writing riddles too. Laurence is making a lapbook about space suit technology. Abigail is using her kindergarten cd rom downstairs.
Sam has been playing with my button tin...scattering the buttons everywhere but having fun!
Lloyd is so funny - he has been shopping like crazy this week - for himself!!!! Well, he did bring me home a lovely bottle of perfume, but everything else was for himself which is really nice because he never buys himself anything! This week he bought himself three new pairs of shoes, two new sweaters and a really nice dark brown corduroy jacket...the funny thing is that he is buying this because of the movie The Lake House....he really likes the style of the Keanu Reeves character Alex! So he has been looking for clothes in a similar style....
He looks gorgeous in the jacket :)
He says he just has this mad impulse to shop!!!! So I sent my wishlist lol!
Heatwave!!!
Heatwave alert....appearing in this area for ONE DAY ONLY...we are officially warmer than -10!!!!!!! First day in AGES that we are warmer than -20..so the children will be sledding this afternoon for sure....
Tomorrow is set to be cold again grooooooooaaaaaan!!!
Tomorrow is set to be cold again grooooooooaaaaaan!!!
Nov 29, 2006
Susies letter
So the children wrote thank you letters to the museum today.....here is Susies. This afternoon we have been tidying up a bit and getting ready for the window company guy (who just phoned to say he will be an hour late lol!) and also Derek, the guy who is coming to do some dry walling, mudding and hopefully finish putting the crown moulding up! Oh and some door frames etc.....
The girls are making a cardboard gingerbread house they found in a craft magazine...using a shoebox and some other things.......Not sure what else they have all been doing but they all seem to have been busy all day.....
Sam and I are ill again - just don't ask :(
You can click on the picture above if you want to make it bigger to read it........I think she wrote a nice letter :)
Wednesday
My Mum phoned for a while this morning and then not long after, my Nan phoned too...she had spent the day at my parents house and had a look at my blog too :) My Nan is 95.
The children wrote thank you letters to the museum today to thank them for a lovely afternoon there on Monday.
I spent the morning decluttering my drawers in the study.
Abigail and Sam had the playdough out.
The man from Pella will be here shortly...FINALLY after a lot of date changes due to illness etc....we desperately need new windows.......they are sooooo BAD right now.....we had snow coming through our bedroom window the other day - a little drift of it! And now there is an inch of ice all around every window.....I wonder how soon they could get started......
Its date night but we are still undecided as to whether we will go out...or what we will do...we may just use tonight to go grocery shopping instead.....and go out another night.
I want to go and see the movie 'The Holiday' - not sure when that opens....
This afternoon is letter writing time for me......I want to write lots of letters to people to put in with Christmas cards...I hate to send impersonal notes or letters so I write to each person individually so it takes ages and I have to send off to the UK this week! I am such a hopeless procrastinator......
Lloyd brought me home a bottle of perfume last night :) I needed some :) In the bag were some little freebies of anti aging cream..........lol....but when I complained to Lloyd he pointed out that they were actually for men.... lol!
I like his wrinkles.....he has little lines by his eyes but on men they are sexy :) and his grey hairs :) but especially those eye lines that crinkle when he smiles :) Like Richard Gere in 'Unfaithful'! I wonder if he feels the same about my wrinkles.......hmmm NOT that I have any OF COURSE!!!!
And I wonder if I will still find his wrinkles endearing at 90!!!!!
The children wrote thank you letters to the museum today to thank them for a lovely afternoon there on Monday.
I spent the morning decluttering my drawers in the study.
Abigail and Sam had the playdough out.
The man from Pella will be here shortly...FINALLY after a lot of date changes due to illness etc....we desperately need new windows.......they are sooooo BAD right now.....we had snow coming through our bedroom window the other day - a little drift of it! And now there is an inch of ice all around every window.....I wonder how soon they could get started......
Its date night but we are still undecided as to whether we will go out...or what we will do...we may just use tonight to go grocery shopping instead.....and go out another night.
I want to go and see the movie 'The Holiday' - not sure when that opens....
This afternoon is letter writing time for me......I want to write lots of letters to people to put in with Christmas cards...I hate to send impersonal notes or letters so I write to each person individually so it takes ages and I have to send off to the UK this week! I am such a hopeless procrastinator......
Lloyd brought me home a bottle of perfume last night :) I needed some :) In the bag were some little freebies of anti aging cream..........lol....but when I complained to Lloyd he pointed out that they were actually for men.... lol!
I like his wrinkles.....he has little lines by his eyes but on men they are sexy :) and his grey hairs :) but especially those eye lines that crinkle when he smiles :) Like Richard Gere in 'Unfaithful'! I wonder if he feels the same about my wrinkles.......hmmm NOT that I have any OF COURSE!!!!
And I wonder if I will still find his wrinkles endearing at 90!!!!!
Nov 28, 2006
Sam sick last week.......
The top two pictures show sam sick last week and the bottom two show him when he was improving!
Christmas Craft afternoon
The children (and me - didn't know Laurie was taking that one lol) at the Christmas Craft Workshop on Saturday.....one of the pictures shows Susie winning the door prize too......
Field trip
Yesterday was the field trip I had planned for the local homeschoolers......to the museum. The roads were so nasty I was worried about driving into town but I took it slowly and took the Range roads instead of highways......the junctions were so slippery though because of the amount of snow......
Some of us met at McDonalds first for lunch...it was crowded there though.......then we headed to the museum. It was such a great afternoon....first of all we all sat in the Village Square while Starr (the museum manager) gave us a talk about the history of the museum...
Actually, she started off by telling how wonderful Chris is...what a great volunteer and how she didn't know children like him still existed....so polite and helpful and friendly! She said he was a credit to homeschoolers and before Chris she had not met any homeschoolers and didn't know much about homeschooling, but thanks to Chris she now sees how wonderful homeschooling can be! And she wants to encourage more homeschoolers to volunteer at the museum and use the museum for field trips because of the type of children homeschoolers are!!!!
So after a talk then we did a rain dance that went along with a First Nations tale about a frog! That was fun! We then split into groups and each group got to spend ten minutes or so in each part of the village.
We started off in the old school room....WOW is the bell ever loud! It would sound out across the farmland when the children were walking or riding horses to school. We got to write on the old slates with slate pencils (NOT easy!!)
We tried on the old fashioned softball mitt and goalkeepers padding and we felt the strap for naughty children ;) and we learnt about the red cross checklist for pioneer school children......whether they had brushed their teeth, drunk milk, had a weekly bath, used a handkerchief etc etc.......
We then moved into the old Church and the Barber shop.......Susannah sat in the chair with her head in the old hair dryer.....we learnt that the Barber would also pull teeth!!! :) I also learnt that my children didn't know what an ash tray was!! Isn't that great???? :)
After that was the Pioneers kitchen.......we learnt how to light the stove and the morning routine........imagine having no heating except in the kitchen on a day like today!!!! The children would fetch water from the well..........and all that before breakfast on a cold day like today! We saw the 100 year old ice cream scoop! the tiny fridge box (no room for cookie dough!!!)
After that was the First Nations room...the teepee where we got to play with all kinds of toys, held a piece ofMammoth tusk found by the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton (wow imagine those walking around here!!!) and we got to try various tools they would have used for skinning animals, grinding berries etc etc we got to play on a drum made from hide too and learnt that you can embroider with colourfully dyed porcupine quills!
Next was the blacksmiths shed with all the tools, we learnt about the machine that makes rope, how to shoe a horse and all about wooden cart wheels................then the farmers barn where Susannah tried milking a cow and we learnt about old farming techniques in the area........then on to the animals of Alberta, the fossil room where they all got to hold the dinosaur bone..........then the old firestation and police cells!!! Then we headed to the general store which is actually a real store from the early days of Sherwood Park...the children got to play with some old toys, use the cash regsiter, try on some hats etc and look at how different the old packaging was.........it was great that so much of it all was 'hands on'!!!
After that we all met up again in the village square where we listened to the gramaphone and learnt a song about being a bum!!!!! :) I'm a bum, thank goodness I'm a bum, give me a hand out to help me along'.......................
Then it was free time to look around th emuseum so we headed to the Remembrance Day dispplay to see the collectiuon of dioramas they have there....a local man has been making them since he was 8 and he is now 57!!! They were amazing....so real!!! I'm glad we saw them before the display ends!
The roads on the way home were nasty and we skidded a few times but were ok.....I was glad to get home and to get Lloyd home too!
The children wantt o make dioramas this afternoon..........and Abigail wants to make one of the First Nations toys we played with yesterday!
Some of us met at McDonalds first for lunch...it was crowded there though.......then we headed to the museum. It was such a great afternoon....first of all we all sat in the Village Square while Starr (the museum manager) gave us a talk about the history of the museum...
Actually, she started off by telling how wonderful Chris is...what a great volunteer and how she didn't know children like him still existed....so polite and helpful and friendly! She said he was a credit to homeschoolers and before Chris she had not met any homeschoolers and didn't know much about homeschooling, but thanks to Chris she now sees how wonderful homeschooling can be! And she wants to encourage more homeschoolers to volunteer at the museum and use the museum for field trips because of the type of children homeschoolers are!!!!
So after a talk then we did a rain dance that went along with a First Nations tale about a frog! That was fun! We then split into groups and each group got to spend ten minutes or so in each part of the village.
We started off in the old school room....WOW is the bell ever loud! It would sound out across the farmland when the children were walking or riding horses to school. We got to write on the old slates with slate pencils (NOT easy!!)
We tried on the old fashioned softball mitt and goalkeepers padding and we felt the strap for naughty children ;) and we learnt about the red cross checklist for pioneer school children......whether they had brushed their teeth, drunk milk, had a weekly bath, used a handkerchief etc etc.......
We then moved into the old Church and the Barber shop.......Susannah sat in the chair with her head in the old hair dryer.....we learnt that the Barber would also pull teeth!!! :) I also learnt that my children didn't know what an ash tray was!! Isn't that great???? :)
After that was the Pioneers kitchen.......we learnt how to light the stove and the morning routine........imagine having no heating except in the kitchen on a day like today!!!! The children would fetch water from the well..........and all that before breakfast on a cold day like today! We saw the 100 year old ice cream scoop! the tiny fridge box (no room for cookie dough!!!)
After that was the First Nations room...the teepee where we got to play with all kinds of toys, held a piece ofMammoth tusk found by the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton (wow imagine those walking around here!!!) and we got to try various tools they would have used for skinning animals, grinding berries etc etc we got to play on a drum made from hide too and learnt that you can embroider with colourfully dyed porcupine quills!
Next was the blacksmiths shed with all the tools, we learnt about the machine that makes rope, how to shoe a horse and all about wooden cart wheels................then the farmers barn where Susannah tried milking a cow and we learnt about old farming techniques in the area........then on to the animals of Alberta, the fossil room where they all got to hold the dinosaur bone..........then the old firestation and police cells!!! Then we headed to the general store which is actually a real store from the early days of Sherwood Park...the children got to play with some old toys, use the cash regsiter, try on some hats etc and look at how different the old packaging was.........it was great that so much of it all was 'hands on'!!!
After that we all met up again in the village square where we listened to the gramaphone and learnt a song about being a bum!!!!! :) I'm a bum, thank goodness I'm a bum, give me a hand out to help me along'.......................
Then it was free time to look around th emuseum so we headed to the Remembrance Day dispplay to see the collectiuon of dioramas they have there....a local man has been making them since he was 8 and he is now 57!!! They were amazing....so real!!! I'm glad we saw them before the display ends!
The roads on the way home were nasty and we skidded a few times but were ok.....I was glad to get home and to get Lloyd home too!
The children wantt o make dioramas this afternoon..........and Abigail wants to make one of the First Nations toys we played with yesterday!
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