In Our Life This Week:
After our hectic week last week this one was all about slowing down. Yes we have too many things going on at times and yes some days are crazy, but I know that overall our lives are much more laid back and stress free than if Keilee was in PS with outside activities. I have often wondered how those kids find time for anything? For playing or day dreaming or reading on the hammock? We are so lucky to be able to learn at home.
Most of our week was spent outside in nature. Even though our weather hasn’t really been a normal April we were still able to play outside a good bit. Everything is blooming here. It is so gorgeous. Some of our flowers. Pictures by Keilee.
Keilee found a Robin egg in the yard. No sign of a nest. We wondered if we could put it in another bird’s nest but the only bird nest we found had a Mourning Dove Momma who wasn’t budging. Papa [we think] was near by.
Co-op has been such a blessing to us both this year. We had never done it before and I am so glad we did this year. Keilee loves these girls and they all have such a blast together! Here are the cupcakes they made and a delicious Italian Cream Cake with Cream Cheese frosting. It was honestly heavenly. Once again I am made aware at how much Keilee cooks at home. Time after time she is the only one who has ever creamed butter or separated eggs or many more things. She has been cooking since she was 7 or 8!
Various shots. I found myself taking hardly any pictures lately! And about zero with my digital camera. The iPhone is just so much handier. Like I always heard, “The best camera is the one that’s with you” And that is ALWAYS my iPhone.
1. My birthday cake! My birthday was Tuesday and Keilee made this cake. It was caramel with caramel icing. She also made marshmallow fondant and cut out flowers. The candle holders are dresses she made with clay.
2. Epic Church. Sunday was our Baptism day with 111 people baptized! It was a moving, awesome day.
3. This is a weird little app called Face Fusion. This is Keilee and I ‘fused’ together. It isn’t perfect because the pictures are supposed to be non smiling. I see ‘mostly’ me with hints of Keilee. 🙂
Various things done this week:
- Khan Algebra
- Shmoop This is a really cool site. I signed up for the newsletter and we never fail to look at it each week. Lots of cool videos and information.
- CNN Student News. After seeing this on various blogs it is now something Keilee does every single morning. Great info!
- Snap Circuits
- Tons of baking for my birthday, at Co-op and goodies for neighbors and at the Animal Clinic. Keilee has taken something she baked to work every single week.
- Crash Course / Science/History/Ecology This is a YouTube channel that Keilee watches every single day too.
- Blimey Cow This is a YouTube channel that Keilee loves probably most of all. It is done by Homeschoolers and she has watched it for years. She LOVES Jordan. He is in college now but still makes videos every Monday.
- Reading, reading and more reading.
- The Medici’s on PBS. I have this app called Twonky that beams YouTube to my TV [via my Roku] We have been watching lots of documentaries on that. It isn’t 100% all the time but very close.
- SAT Prep words App
- Another YouTube video she LOVES is “Tour the States” She watches this over and over and goes around singing it all the time. It is DEFINITELY worth a watch!
I know there is a lot more but without her here to ask I forget all the things she does! Being Interest Led she is pretty much on her own unless she ask for help.
On “7 Cool Homeschoolers” the theme was “Room Tour” She had a blast doing this one. This is actually a still shot from her video so it is a little blurry. The video is below the pic. We are painting her bed PURPLE but “No Keilee we don’t have time to do it before you shoot your video!” 🙂
In other EXCITING news I ‘attended’ a Twitter Party that IHomeschool Network had last night and won a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP to Notebooking Pages! I have wanted this for so long and just couldn’t find the money to get it. I was seriously jumping up and down, both virtually and in real life. I also won a FREE class to Curr Click Live Classes. I can’t wait for Keilee to choose which one she wants! Thanks to IHomeschool Network and all the great sponsors for a great party! I don’t go to Twitter parties nearly often enough. I am going to try to find time for them.
Keilee just now text me this and this picture. She loves her internship so much. For the record I really didn’t think it was a HORSE! 🙂
So that is our week here at Homeschool Girls. As always I am in awe of people who post every couple of days! I guess I could find the time but I have been really busy for work and all of our other activities. Finding time for my Friday post is hard at times!
Happy weekend. Ours is supposed to be FULL of RAIN and COLD [for May in Alabama] temperatures. Hope yours is beautiful.
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen
“Spring would not be spring without bird songs.” ~Francis M. Chapman
“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.” ~Robert Herrick, Hesperides, 1648
Happily linking with
Mary at “Collage Friday”
IHomeschoolNetwork “Homeschool Mother’s Journal”
Savannah at “Hammock Tracks”
Happy Birthday!
I’ve missed commenting. Our computer situation has changed some and I find myself usually reading blogs on my iPod. While that has been going on a while now, I’m only now getting around to commenting with it!
Sounds like another lovely week.
Thanks for sharing all the YouTube links. My girls love watching Keilee on the & Cool Homeschoolers channel and it will capture their attention when I say “Keilee likes this”! 😀
Belated happy birthday. Love the flower photos but they made me miss spring and summer. I think I need to get us out with a camera this week to help us appreciate the joys of autumn. We’ve loved Schmoop for litereature for a while but I didn’t know they had a newsletter. Must check it out.
I love your pictures and your eclectic combination of resources. And Kei always looks so joyful.
I always love your photos. The one of the dove and the robin egg are beautiful, and the one made with the face-blending app is very cool! It’s great to see how much Keilee is enjoying the coop. We are having a wet and very windy weekend here in England, but at least we are at the beach so we can enjoy the blustery sea air! Lucinda
Awesome week of learning and fun 🙂 I hope that you had a good birthday, and congratulations on your winnings from the Twitter party!! How cool is that?!
I agree with Jess’ comment…you always have great internet resources!
Happy weekend, Karen…I’m sorry it’s going to be rainy and chilly there. I would love to share some of the nice weather we’ve been having this week 🙂
The photo of the mourning dove is so beautiful! We have been observing lots of birds in our yard, but I think the nests must all be in our neighbors’ yards…we haven’t found any in our yard yet! 🙂 Happy Birthday!
Ohh I’m from Bama!!! Roll Tide! 🙂 LOL Looks like you had an awesome week! Our weekend forecast is about the same as yours. ;( Hopefully you have a blessed week ahead and we both get some sunshine soon!!!
my girls tend to watch a lot of youtube 😉 so I am making a list of these sites you mentioned.
I love all the baking Keilee does!!
Your posts are always so inspiring, Karen! Now I want to go play with that app that fuses our faces!
Those flower photos were such a blessing. Thank you for sharing your week! Your daughter is so lovely and what a beautiful smile. Have a wonderful weekend! visiting from iHomeschool.
I will try to send some of our beautiess sun your way! What a great set of shots of the flowers! Happiest of Born Days to you! Nice cake! 8) Enjoy the weeks end!
Melissa
I always love checking in on you all. What a great week. You all are always up to such awesome stuff. I will have to go check out some of those youtube channels.
Blessings, Dawn
Loved your post. Showed Grace the video and she was in awe of everything that Keilee has accomplished in the acting arena. She kept asking me, “How does she get to be in so many movies?” I will post pictures of Aladdin next week. Thanks for the compliments of Grace’s art work. We are preparing for her first art show in just a couple of weeks. She will be selling bookmarks, greeting cards, and hopefully a few posters. Have a great weekend.
Blessings
Diane
The flower photos are absolutely stunning! I love this time of year, even though my allergies are throwing me for a loop. 🙂
I am going to check out some of the resources you mentioned. My son is doing a state study this year and I bet he’ll like the one on states that you listed.
Congrats on winning the lifetime membership! Wow!!!! I am really happy for you.
I hope you had a beautiful birthday. You SO deserve it!!!!
Much, much love and prayers!
Lisa
I never heard of Crash Course! This ties in so perfectly to SOTW. I just added this to my planner for next week! You have the most amazing internet resources. Thank you for sharing them.
I love the flower shots. 🙂 We have some pretty flowers coming up here too, but it’s been so rainy lately that we don’t even have our garden plowed yet. It won’t dry up enough for the people who plow to be able to plow yet!
About finding time to post…I don’t think I’d ever post on my blog ever if Owlet didn’t stay up so late at night. I usually wait until she’s got her little board books spread all out about midnight (or later), and feed my urge to write 🙂 We “work” beside each other.
Another great FREE video resource is hippocampus.org.
Gorgeous flower pics! It was spring here, but then it snowed last night:/ Seriously…in May- first time in history for our area! A mama mourning dove has taken shelter in our carport for the past two days of rain and cold. She flies off whenever we come outside, so we can’t get a good look at her. What a great photo of the one on the nest at your house!
Happy Birthday! Love the cake and the lifetime membership to notebooking pages. Awesome!
My girls watch the Tour the States video all the time and are working on memorizing the song;) And now they are going crazy with the Face Fusion app…thanks for the recommendation. And Blimey Cow…Jordan is so cute:)
Happy Birthday, Karen! The floral photos are stunning! One of my favorite subjects to shoot. Congratulations on the lifetime membership to Notebooking Pages! I’m sure we’ll be seeing some terrific creations by Keilee! I wanted to pass along an interesting new site, Coursera.org. It’s a collection of free college level courses – just bookmark for later 🙂 Have a blessed weekend!
Happy birthday!
Beautiful flowers! The flower shoots in Cati’s garden are about 6 inches tall now. We should have flower in another 2-3 weeks! LOL Even the peonies and Bleeding Hearts are coming up this year.
That’s quite a dog, huh? LOL
Wish I had that horse. So cute. Happy Birthday. I hope you had all the happiness you deserve. Love the beautiful nature photos. What a great week of interest led learning.