2 days ago
May 30, 2007
Susan!
I like your recent post. Couldn't agree more.....Can't comment on your blog grrrrr but I still read :)
Outhouse????? NO!!!!!!!!
Danica and my Sister Clare asked if this little white 'hut' is an outhouse......mmmmmm well it stands by the entrance to our property......it has a light inside and a window.......it can be heated when necessary........
Hmmm so what is it??????
Actually no it isn't an outhouse lol Danica you will soon be seeing a lot these little sheds by driveways...most acreages have them! They are actually little bus shelters! The yellow school buses pick the children up at the end of the driveway for school each morning.....in summer that is fine, but in Winter it can be -35c in the wind and is very dark.....so these bus shelters are for the children to wait in for the bus!!! Ours is a very nice one - I love it - I'd like to stencil plants growing up it....or maybe have a window box on it.....some acreages have nasty old scruffy things, but I think ours is really attractive :)
Wednesday plans....
I'm off to breakfast in a short while to meet Val :) I didn't think I could make Thursday so we planned for today instead....Abigail is excited because she gets to come with us this time......normally she is at preschool.
Tonight is date night but instead of 'datenight' it will be an evening just Lloyd and I......but we are going to Home Depot to get some wood for the vegetable garden (if we don't make little fences around the vegetable patches, Charlie rolls in the soil thinking it is a mudbath just for her!!) so we have to do that but we will then grab supper at the Wok Box (I still haven't tried it!!) and hopefully find time in between to go to the farmers market as I want some potatoes to grow....often the ones from the grocery store are treated with something to stop them growing roots....so I want organic ones from the farmers market - maybe finger potatoes...or otherwise just little new potatoes......my Dad grows his potatoes in buckets.....a layering technique that works well....but I am going to grow mine in half barrel tubs...those half barrels that are for flowers normally......I am hoping I will find a nice hanging basket at the farers market too......all the ones at Aspen Ridge had sold out on Sunday.....and mine has to have red in it for the Hummingirds....
The children overslept this morning.......late nights all round...Lloyd and I didn't get to sleep much before midnight either and he had to get up at 5am poor thing.....luckily the children made it to the bus stop with time to spare.....
Gorgeous weather again today 24c and they say today will be the coolest of the next 5!!!!!! Laurie is camping out on Friday night at his friends house (the twins) so he is excited about that.....Chris is invited to a sleepover birthday party Friday night too......so Susie will have a friend sleep here and we will have to delay our trip to WEM again!!! Abigail also has a birthday party to go to on Saturday.....a little girl from preschool.
Well I am sat here not dressed, and with only an hour until I have to leave.....so I have to get going!
Bye for now :)
Tonight is date night but instead of 'datenight' it will be an evening just Lloyd and I......but we are going to Home Depot to get some wood for the vegetable garden (if we don't make little fences around the vegetable patches, Charlie rolls in the soil thinking it is a mudbath just for her!!) so we have to do that but we will then grab supper at the Wok Box (I still haven't tried it!!) and hopefully find time in between to go to the farmers market as I want some potatoes to grow....often the ones from the grocery store are treated with something to stop them growing roots....so I want organic ones from the farmers market - maybe finger potatoes...or otherwise just little new potatoes......my Dad grows his potatoes in buckets.....a layering technique that works well....but I am going to grow mine in half barrel tubs...those half barrels that are for flowers normally......I am hoping I will find a nice hanging basket at the farers market too......all the ones at Aspen Ridge had sold out on Sunday.....and mine has to have red in it for the Hummingirds....
The children overslept this morning.......late nights all round...Lloyd and I didn't get to sleep much before midnight either and he had to get up at 5am poor thing.....luckily the children made it to the bus stop with time to spare.....
Gorgeous weather again today 24c and they say today will be the coolest of the next 5!!!!!! Laurie is camping out on Friday night at his friends house (the twins) so he is excited about that.....Chris is invited to a sleepover birthday party Friday night too......so Susie will have a friend sleep here and we will have to delay our trip to WEM again!!! Abigail also has a birthday party to go to on Saturday.....a little girl from preschool.
Well I am sat here not dressed, and with only an hour until I have to leave.....so I have to get going!
Bye for now :)
May 29, 2007
cookin up sand pies for supper!
I gave Sam a tub of water on the porch today and he had so much fun mixing it into his sand table.......what a mess!!! But he was there ages enjoying the whole process :) I often read about parents who won't let their children do anything messy - like mixing water into the sand, but children learn so much from getting mucky and messy - and its just sand!!! It dries!!!
I'm lovin' it...
Air conditioning...the house was at 78f earlier......so we put the air conditioning on and woohoo the house is lovely and cool again :) Oh I am so loving the air conditioning....and will love it even more by the end of the week when it heats up even more......
Once the sun starts coming through ther front windows this house really heats up...but not any more :) woohoo!!
Once the sun starts coming through ther front windows this house really heats up...but not any more :) woohoo!!
Busy busy bumble bee..........
A bumble bee working hard around the apple blossom.....if you click on each picture you can see them up close - and then click 'back'.....
Unschooling...is it detrimental?
DD didn't really touch math last year...she wasn't interested, so we did the basics and didn't push it.....didn't touch on multiplication because it wasn't going in and she just didn't seem ready.....she basically took the whole year off of math and just focused on other subjects that she was enjoying.....
A whole year at home 'unschooling' for the most part...
Susies class just did a review test - big math test for the year (Susie started in February) and she came top! 1st in the class :) sometimes taking a break ......even a year...to relax and play can help you be 'ready' for certain subjects and topics....
My kids chose their own topics last year...studied what interested them.....had so much time to relax and enjoy and rest and just 'be'......and yet they are all at the top of their classes already...no problems 'fitting in' at school, no socialising problems (yes I am rolling my eyes) and no gap between where they should be and where they are...
I see soooooooo many benefits to our 'year and a half off' but no downsides at all......
A whole year at home 'unschooling' for the most part...
Susies class just did a review test - big math test for the year (Susie started in February) and she came top! 1st in the class :) sometimes taking a break ......even a year...to relax and play can help you be 'ready' for certain subjects and topics....
My kids chose their own topics last year...studied what interested them.....had so much time to relax and enjoy and rest and just 'be'......and yet they are all at the top of their classes already...no problems 'fitting in' at school, no socialising problems (yes I am rolling my eyes) and no gap between where they should be and where they are...
I see soooooooo many benefits to our 'year and a half off' but no downsides at all......
and other gripes...
Have to say several 'topics' at a certain website today just make me want to shake people.....
Creationism Museum opening in AB
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/05/29/museum-ab.html?ref=rss
Thoughts?
Will you visit this museum?
Thoughts?
Will you visit this museum?
What a lovely day...
I can't add pictures right now for some reason, so I will do that later..and I may as well blog instead....
Today turned out to be a lovely day....preschool was fun...we made spiders from egg cartons, did workbooks with the children, played games outside and then played in the playground.....it went fast and was uneventful which is a good thing when you have 20 preschoolers! I don't have to work on Thursday after-all...at least they don't think so, if I don't, then I will go and watch Laurie in the track meet in town (it was postponed from Monday because of the wind (?????) must have bene worse in town as it didn't seem that bad here...
After preschool, we came home and had lunch and then went back outside for the afternoon...we let the chickens out, let Charlie out....planted more things in the vegetable garden.....watered everything (animals AND plants!!)......Abigail collected the eggs.
Then we went for a walk down to the road...I took my camera and took some pictures of the blossom on the apple tree, the children sat amongst the dandelions.........
We came back to the house and I gave Sam a big bowl of water on the porch so he could mix it all into his sand in the sand table.....he had soooo much fun getting all mucky and making sand pies......
I sat on the porch and read for a while and took some more pictures.....then the children came home from school and we all sat on the porch and ate Philly Swirl popsicles (0 points on WW......not that I am doing WW but I thought that was interesting)
Lloyd came home from work and dinner is in the oven.......after dinner we will go back outside and work on the vegetable garden some more.....
more later - with pics I hope!!!
Today turned out to be a lovely day....preschool was fun...we made spiders from egg cartons, did workbooks with the children, played games outside and then played in the playground.....it went fast and was uneventful which is a good thing when you have 20 preschoolers! I don't have to work on Thursday after-all...at least they don't think so, if I don't, then I will go and watch Laurie in the track meet in town (it was postponed from Monday because of the wind (?????) must have bene worse in town as it didn't seem that bad here...
After preschool, we came home and had lunch and then went back outside for the afternoon...we let the chickens out, let Charlie out....planted more things in the vegetable garden.....watered everything (animals AND plants!!)......Abigail collected the eggs.
Then we went for a walk down to the road...I took my camera and took some pictures of the blossom on the apple tree, the children sat amongst the dandelions.........
We came back to the house and I gave Sam a big bowl of water on the porch so he could mix it all into his sand in the sand table.....he had soooo much fun getting all mucky and making sand pies......
I sat on the porch and read for a while and took some more pictures.....then the children came home from school and we all sat on the porch and ate Philly Swirl popsicles (0 points on WW......not that I am doing WW but I thought that was interesting)
Lloyd came home from work and dinner is in the oven.......after dinner we will go back outside and work on the vegetable garden some more.....
more later - with pics I hope!!!
Dandelion delight......
I know most people think of them as weeds, but I just love sunny dandelions......a little boy at preschool gave me one today :) and my yard is FULL of them...although Lloyd may cut them all down tonight!
After several months of snow I think Dandelions are bright and cheery flowers!!!
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