Yesterday was a hard day for me.† For some reason everything just kinda crashed.† I am going into my 4th month being laid off and for the most part I have stayed positive and upbeat.† I trust God to take care of us and try to let him take control.† But sometimes, not very often but sometimes, I have a bit of a meltdown.† Yesterday was one of those days.† Thankfully I have an amazing friend who talked me down, gave me hugs and tons of encouragement.† I think it is so important to have great female friends.† I am blessed with several.
We have had such a good week besides that.† September, October and November are HUGE festival months around here.† I love that everything is FREE!
We went to Oka Kapassa last Friday.† This is a festival celebrating Native Americans.† It is open to all students which means it was FULL of public school kids.† It just reinforced how lucky we are to homeschool.† The kids had 10 minutes at each ‘station’ which is NOT long enough to do anything.† They were herded around all day in their matching shirts.† We took our time and leisurely strolled through all the exhibits.
We love the Native American dances and since we weren’t in a group we watched them over and over.
Saturday we went to an Art Festival.† Now every year this is on the square of one of our favorite little towns.† This year they decided to have it at the local college.† We did not like it nearly as much.† It was crowded and just not as cool.† We did see some awesome art though.† I got several ideas for things I want Keilee and I to try.
Monday was Keilee’s first day of Co-op.† We have never done Co-op before.† She loved it.† She is taking Spanish, cooking and Robotics.† She had a great day and there are a few girls she really likes in her classes. She had SO much homework in Spanish.† Seriously.† She worked on it for 3 days and got it all done.† I was actually proud of her since she has never had homework in her life.† I am hoping she doesn’t have this much every week.† It is a little too much like Public School to me.† She didn’t mind it and actually enjoyed working on it.† As I said before this is a high school level class so maybe that is why there is so much homework.
Our church has 5 services each Sunday.† So there are people who go to Epic that I don’t even know.† Every 3 months we rent a local Theater and have ‘Convergence’.† It is an amazing experience.† Wednesday night was Convergence.† It was a powerful message and a wonderful time of fellowship.† Imagine 1000 people singing “White Flag” and waving white flags during the part of the song that says, “We raise our white flags, we surrender all to you”.† Goose bumps and God was SO in this place.
My cousin’s daughter is getting married this weekend.† Since money is so tight I decided to make this Christmas ornament I saw on Pinterest.† I got a plastic ornament at Hobby Lobby for $1.47 and I took her wedding invitation and cut it into pieces, rolled it around a pencil and dropped it in.† I love how it turned out.
As far as ‘school work there was a lot of that going on too.† It amazes me how much we get done when Kei isn’t in school 8 hours a day with 3 hours of homework.† We did Saxon Math, she worked on the book she is writing, she did a Module in General Science and 4 experiments, we learned about westward expansion after the Civil War and she made a notebooking page about barbed wire and its inventor.† I am so blown away by her creativity with her notebook pages!
Barbed Wire…
It always amazes me writing out our weekly post to see how much we get done.† And of course there are TONS of things not listed on here.† Isn’t homeschooling just the greatest thing ever?
My favorite resource this week is called “Stossel in the Classroom”.† We have these DVD’s and there is a new one out that I just ordered.† From the website:
“Stossel in the Classroom offers a new DVD free to teachers each school year. The DVDs include video segments from John Stossel’s television programs and specials, along with a teacher guide with lesson plans and ideas for complementary activities.”
Thank you all for the prayers about my job.† Hopefully it will begin around the first week of October.† It has been a long 4 months.
Happy weekend to all my bloggy friends,
Homeschooling Rocks
Karen
ìChurch isnít where you meet. Church isnít a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Letís not go to Church, letís be the Church.î ~ Bridget Willard
Happily linking up with
Mary at “Collage Fridays”
Susan at “Favorite Resource”
Passport Academy at “iPhone Dump”
iHomeschool Network at “Homeschool Mother’s Journal”
Kris at “Weekly Wrap Up”