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Sam doing his math....

Sam lying on the floor in my bedroom doing his math workbook....

Samuel today...

Baking cookies...

Making cookies with Susannah...

Gingerbread House

Abigail helped make a gingerbread house and had lots of fun!

Dance class Open House...

Abigail goes to dance classes at our community league and loves it - she took tap before Christmas and will now do Jazz. They will do their recital in May. They danced to songs from the musical 'Grease'!

Bowling...

We went bowling during the Christmas break and plan to make it a monthly family event! Abby had great fun bowling!

Royal Alberta Museum

Trip to the museum for Sams birthday last week.

Day One.

Lloyd went back to work after Christmas today so last week didn't really count as our routine was messed although we did do a few things:

Abigail did some work in her 'Language Power' book.
She wrote a story about a character named Emma who wanted a horse.
We went swimming for two hours on Tuesday and to the indoor playground while Sam was at Pre-K.
We went to the Royal Alberta Museum on Wednesday.
Abigail wrote thank you letters t her Grandparents and received a reply from Grandma Thorpe.
Lloyd came back from England and brought back food and English money for Abigail to try/ look at.

Anyway, today we started our new routine. Abigail finished some worksheets left over from her classwork in school. I figured she may as well finish them. They were to do with long vowel sounds. Writing sentences using long 'o' words and then thinking of 4 words for each long vowel. She did very well.

She then started her daily journal and had to write five sentences about her week. She had to use full stops and capital letters and use her word wall folder to check her spellings.

She did really well! She also supervised Sams 'schoolwork' which was cutting from his new book 'I can cut' - a HUGE book of pages of dotted lines just for cutting - he LOVES to cut :) so she was telling him what to do! She kept an eye on him while I got my chores done and they finished there school work at the table. Then I checked what they were doing in between my jobs.

After their 'work' they did a craft at the table before playing, having lunch and watching a movie.

Tomorrow we have running on the track and swimming again if the roads are ok - it's been snowing all day today so I guess we will wait and see! Abigail also has dance class tomorrow night. Wednesday we have friends coming over for the afternoon and if the weather is good enough we plan to go sledding with them :) Thursday we have swimming again! Friday we may head to the library!! And each morning will be Language power, written work and I need to find her math program so she can work on that! Maybe dig out MathUSee again! See if she likes that!

I finally filled in her registration package though today as I was procrastinating over that!

And so the new year begins.....

.....finally!!

Lloyd has finally gone back to work today after Christmas and new year. delayed because of his trip to England for his Grandads funeral and his days off to get over the traveling. Last week I couldn't get anything done because of having Lloyd home, Sams birthday etc etc.

Today we start! New year. New routine. School work for Abigail. Pre School work for Sam. Decluttering and organizing for me.

I think I have 6 guys here today instead of the usual 2. Andy (the boss) will be here with the Inspector for a while, as well as the electrician and plumber I believe......

Blegh....and I didn't sleep well. New pillows and I didn't like them so I threw them on the floor and slept without one :( which wasn't much better :( now I'm really tired!

Happy New Year!

Tweens.

I forgot to say that yesterday I took Susannah and her friend to the mall. Lloyd was having his hair done with Abigail and I had to run some errands there (Lloyd had broken his glasses his glasses so I had to get those fixed, post some letters, buy a lunch box for Lloyd etc etc) so while I did all of that, Susannahs friend form the sleepover came with us and then we dropped her home afterwards before heading back out of town.

Susannah is getting to that age where she is just about old enough to go off to a few stores on her own for a while. She's almost 11 and while I won't let her go shopping on her own yet as an 'activity' with friends, I did let them go off to a few stores together while I was busy.

I'm really glad that we don't live in town cose enough to the mall so that Susie will be hanging out there regularly as she gets older. I don't mind it being a 'sometimes' thing but not an almost daily or even weekly thing like some girls do. In many ways I'm still glad we live out where we live. For a few more years at least (if we stay here). Just because these days girls are soooooo materialistic and sooooo into fashion and labels and everything - all the 'meangirls' stuff. And everything else that goes on in groups of girls/ teens.

Yesterday was fun though. We stopped at the food court for a while for a drink and they ran into a few friends. Even Abby ran into a friend after she'd had her hair done so she was thrilled :)