Happy Mother's Day
to all the mommas out there~! ;)
God bless,
Mary
Mary
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Quick Takes-TGIS!!!
1. It is Saturday morning at 7am and 3 of my children are still sleeping!!! This is huge b/c our little guys are usually up quite early. But I guess I should add that our baby was up at 5:48am...but still! I will take some late sleepers around here! THis is great!
2. WIth this late sleeping going on....I am making homemade waffles-yum!
3. My 3 year old is cutting strawberries up all by himself for us all for breakfast today! What a big boy ;)
4. My oldest son had his last Astronomy class for the year on Wednesday night...his did great! He got a certificate and they stayed outside with the teachers' super deee-duper telescope till uh, 9:30 pm! AND let me tell you that the house we have the class at is almost 40 minutes away! I was a weeee bit tired that night as you can imagine.
5. Also that day I decided to pack it all up and head to the beach to have a little science field trip. It was awesome, great weather too and we went w/ a friend w/ her 4 kids. It was a blast-AND there was a Nature Center teacher there teaching these middle school kids and they invited our kids to learn about all the stuff too. Talk about a free science trip! COOL!
6. My husband is doing some painting around the house, we have to make some runs to the local town dump, and we are cleaning. Spring cleaning at its best!
God bless,
Mary
2. WIth this late sleeping going on....I am making homemade waffles-yum!
3. My 3 year old is cutting strawberries up all by himself for us all for breakfast today! What a big boy ;)
4. My oldest son had his last Astronomy class for the year on Wednesday night...his did great! He got a certificate and they stayed outside with the teachers' super deee-duper telescope till uh, 9:30 pm! AND let me tell you that the house we have the class at is almost 40 minutes away! I was a weeee bit tired that night as you can imagine.
5. Also that day I decided to pack it all up and head to the beach to have a little science field trip. It was awesome, great weather too and we went w/ a friend w/ her 4 kids. It was a blast-AND there was a Nature Center teacher there teaching these middle school kids and they invited our kids to learn about all the stuff too. Talk about a free science trip! COOL!
6. My husband is doing some painting around the house, we have to make some runs to the local town dump, and we are cleaning. Spring cleaning at its best!
God bless,
Mary
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Homeschool Talk
My 9 year old son, kid #1, said about his1yr old laughing hysterically running around brother who was being chased by his 3 yr old brother:
"Mom! He is trembling with excitement!"
HAAA!!!
This day is full of funnies lately! :)
God bless,
Mary
"Mom! He is trembling with excitement!"
HAAA!!!
This day is full of funnies lately! :)
God bless,
Mary
School today~outside~nature studies
Overheard my 6 yr old bug-savvy boy say to his new found catepillar friend:
"Don't worry, little buddy. I'm a friend to all animals and creatures, big and small."
HAAA! HAAA!
TOTALLY LOVE IT! ;)
We also had the privledge of finding a robin's nest full of 3 blue eggs yesterday and were so surprised by seeing a 4th today! Incredible! The nest is low enough that most of my children can monitor it and check in on their little eggs every chance they get ...or remember. It is quite cute and I bet St. Francis is proud! We decided to try to keep quiet and watch as the mother robin kept coming and going bringing little twigs or whatever she found to her little nest.
At one point, my daughter yelled out...
"Mom! I think the momma robin is having her baby!"
We read about the robins HERE and colored some pics of nests and robins HERE.
We also read THIS book about birds and THIS one about catepillars :)
I love this nature studying for school today. And since it is raining now, I am really glad we got so much fresh air learning and coloring and drawing about catepillars and robins and their eggs this morning, all morning long! :)
God bless,
Mary
"Don't worry, little buddy. I'm a friend to all animals and creatures, big and small."
HAAA! HAAA!
TOTALLY LOVE IT! ;)
We also had the privledge of finding a robin's nest full of 3 blue eggs yesterday and were so surprised by seeing a 4th today! Incredible! The nest is low enough that most of my children can monitor it and check in on their little eggs every chance they get ...or remember. It is quite cute and I bet St. Francis is proud! We decided to try to keep quiet and watch as the mother robin kept coming and going bringing little twigs or whatever she found to her little nest.
At one point, my daughter yelled out...
"Mom! I think the momma robin is having her baby!"
We read about the robins HERE and colored some pics of nests and robins HERE.
We also read THIS book about birds and THIS one about catepillars :)
I love this nature studying for school today. And since it is raining now, I am really glad we got so much fresh air learning and coloring and drawing about catepillars and robins and their eggs this morning, all morning long! :)
God bless,
Mary
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Giving Tree
Dear Big Tree in my front yard,
Please do not let your long and strong branches break as my children swing from them. They enjoy you so much and love how you pick them up and swing them high in the sky. So very high that I get a bit frazzled watching them do this. You are a great tree, don't let us down. Thank you.
Kindly,
Momma Mary
p.s. This reminds me of the book The Giving Tree. Terrific book-I remember my elementary principal and pastor of our school/parish would read this to us a few times a year. What great memories! ;)
Please do not let your long and strong branches break as my children swing from them. They enjoy you so much and love how you pick them up and swing them high in the sky. So very high that I get a bit frazzled watching them do this. You are a great tree, don't let us down. Thank you.
Kindly,
Momma Mary
p.s. This reminds me of the book The Giving Tree. Terrific book-I remember my elementary principal and pastor of our school/parish would read this to us a few times a year. What great memories! ;)
Quote of the Day
"God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry."
-St. John Vianney
God bless,
Mary
God bless,
Mary
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Homeschool Perk
Words simply cannot contain my excitement today!
My oldest son, 9years old, is going to play at his first ever piano recital! It is the same feeling that I had with my now 7 year old daughter who danced at her first dance recital-ballet and tap. Be it that she was almost only 4 years old (yikes!) and there she was on the stage in a huge high school auditorium. We treated and took both my parents and my husbands' parents to that recital. That day will forever be etched in my memory as one of the proudest mom moments ever. Awesome day 4 years ago.
I am overwhelmed with the thoughts of how time flies. I am ever so grateful for this gift of homeschooling. I truly believe that if my son was not homeschooled, he would not be taking piano lessons-thus not partaking in this beautiful piano recital today! You see, all my children truly love music...making it or listening to it. We knew this and prayed for about 2 years for God to lead us to a piano teacher that would be willing to come to our home to teach my son on the keyboard that someone lent us. Wouldn't you know it, but the coach of my 2 childrens' soccer team last spring, mentioned that she knew someone who taught piano but has not seen or talked to him in a few years...but then she remembered something...she opened her purse and pulled out her wallet and gave me this old beat up business card of a piano teacher! I called him this past August and he told me that he did not make house calls for piano lessons but....since we homeschooled....we could be flexible, right?....and anyway.....he was so busy teaching after school time and throughout the evening....he did not have any more free time slots.....but since we homeschool....he could come to our home....early in the day...TO OUR HOME! Got that?!?! How cool! He is fantastic and my son likes him as a teacher.
Perfect timing. Perfect match. Thank You God.
If we did send out kids to school, I know for sure, that our time would be limited to what we could possibly sign our children up for, ie: extra ciricular activities and since he is so very boy-ish and athletic and full of energy-that extra stuff, for sure, would be a sport...soccer or whatever. I doubt it highly that it would be piano. That would be a shame b/c we would never get to see the blossoming beauty of his hidden talent of playing the piano. I am so grateful. Thank You God.
You see now? This is all such a rush for me and a very grateful day for my children, my family, the gifts of homeschooling (no matter how tough and crazy and chaotic it usually is) and for music and piano recitals!
Thank you God. Thank you Mary and St. Joseph for protecting my children and leading us to homeschool.
So, here we are, getting ready for a 3:30 pm recital and I am so nervious for him! I wonder if I'll be able to eat anything before the show! haaa haaa! :)
Gotta go get ready!
God bless,
Mary
My oldest son, 9years old, is going to play at his first ever piano recital! It is the same feeling that I had with my now 7 year old daughter who danced at her first dance recital-ballet and tap. Be it that she was almost only 4 years old (yikes!) and there she was on the stage in a huge high school auditorium. We treated and took both my parents and my husbands' parents to that recital. That day will forever be etched in my memory as one of the proudest mom moments ever. Awesome day 4 years ago.
I am overwhelmed with the thoughts of how time flies. I am ever so grateful for this gift of homeschooling. I truly believe that if my son was not homeschooled, he would not be taking piano lessons-thus not partaking in this beautiful piano recital today! You see, all my children truly love music...making it or listening to it. We knew this and prayed for about 2 years for God to lead us to a piano teacher that would be willing to come to our home to teach my son on the keyboard that someone lent us. Wouldn't you know it, but the coach of my 2 childrens' soccer team last spring, mentioned that she knew someone who taught piano but has not seen or talked to him in a few years...but then she remembered something...she opened her purse and pulled out her wallet and gave me this old beat up business card of a piano teacher! I called him this past August and he told me that he did not make house calls for piano lessons but....since we homeschooled....we could be flexible, right?....and anyway.....he was so busy teaching after school time and throughout the evening....he did not have any more free time slots.....but since we homeschool....he could come to our home....early in the day...TO OUR HOME! Got that?!?! How cool! He is fantastic and my son likes him as a teacher.
Perfect timing. Perfect match. Thank You God.
If we did send out kids to school, I know for sure, that our time would be limited to what we could possibly sign our children up for, ie: extra ciricular activities and since he is so very boy-ish and athletic and full of energy-that extra stuff, for sure, would be a sport...soccer or whatever. I doubt it highly that it would be piano. That would be a shame b/c we would never get to see the blossoming beauty of his hidden talent of playing the piano. I am so grateful. Thank You God.
You see now? This is all such a rush for me and a very grateful day for my children, my family, the gifts of homeschooling (no matter how tough and crazy and chaotic it usually is) and for music and piano recitals!
Thank you God. Thank you Mary and St. Joseph for protecting my children and leading us to homeschool.
So, here we are, getting ready for a 3:30 pm recital and I am so nervious for him! I wonder if I'll be able to eat anything before the show! haaa haaa! :)
Gotta go get ready!
God bless,
Mary
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