When you look at your blog and realized that there's only one, lone post in the new year, you just have to sit down and write something, right? So here's a quick (a little boring) update.
The Basement
New Daddy was off of work yesterday for MLK Day, and we had our own day of service in the basement. We've been slowly cleaning the area so that we can get the floor finished. Well, yesterday was a great success! The attic is now full :). The kids are riding bikes and having "workouts" down there.
Things to do: Floors done (concrete acid wash, we're thinking), Wiring and new light fixtures finished, Drywall, Paint.
Things already completed: HVAC installed, re-wiring, CAT-6 cable run and network installed.
I need to take "before" pictures for this project.
The Dog and the Chickens
Rosie is almost 100% perfect with the chickens! I'd give her a 95% today. She did something at sunset that made them scatter. It might have been something as simple as walking too near them; they still get weirded out by her. But most of the time, she is just awesome. She's leaving eggs alone, too, which is really nice (ahem- thanks to the spray collar). We're getting about three eggs a day, which means we need to get laying boxes hung. I think if the chickens have a place to "go," they'll do just that. This is all thanks to the citronella spray collar; that thing is awesome, especially when the batteries aren't dead.
The kids
We've started singing a few hymns together in the evenings as a family to give the kids better exposure to hymns. And I was very surprised and pleased to see that when we gave Precious and Bubby verses, they read quite well through them. I'm hoping we can continue doing this. Cutie passed the time by -first- singing very sincerely, and -secondly- by trying to swing on the armoire door, before she was averted by New Mommy. Tater was already in bed, or he would have been grinning at everyone, no doubt.
We're still going through Cycle 1 with Classical Conversations, on week 14 right now. I think Bubby wants to try for Memory Master- where you know everything from the cycle. So we've been going backwards from week 24 on our weeks off of school. This week, for the MLK holiday, we did week 21.
I have a friend whose son is in CC Challenge A. We chatted today, and here was her advice to prepare my kids for Challenge A:
And that's not really all, but this is getting long and boring enough, so I'll stop.
The Basement
New Daddy was off of work yesterday for MLK Day, and we had our own day of service in the basement. We've been slowly cleaning the area so that we can get the floor finished. Well, yesterday was a great success! The attic is now full :). The kids are riding bikes and having "workouts" down there.
Things to do: Floors done (concrete acid wash, we're thinking), Wiring and new light fixtures finished, Drywall, Paint.
Things already completed: HVAC installed, re-wiring, CAT-6 cable run and network installed.
I need to take "before" pictures for this project.
The Dog and the Chickens
Rosie is almost 100% perfect with the chickens! I'd give her a 95% today. She did something at sunset that made them scatter. It might have been something as simple as walking too near them; they still get weirded out by her. But most of the time, she is just awesome. She's leaving eggs alone, too, which is really nice (ahem- thanks to the spray collar). We're getting about three eggs a day, which means we need to get laying boxes hung. I think if the chickens have a place to "go," they'll do just that. This is all thanks to the citronella spray collar; that thing is awesome, especially when the batteries aren't dead.
The kids
We've started singing a few hymns together in the evenings as a family to give the kids better exposure to hymns. And I was very surprised and pleased to see that when we gave Precious and Bubby verses, they read quite well through them. I'm hoping we can continue doing this. Cutie passed the time by -first- singing very sincerely, and -secondly- by trying to swing on the armoire door, before she was averted by New Mommy. Tater was already in bed, or he would have been grinning at everyone, no doubt.
We're still going through Cycle 1 with Classical Conversations, on week 14 right now. I think Bubby wants to try for Memory Master- where you know everything from the cycle. So we've been going backwards from week 24 on our weeks off of school. This week, for the MLK holiday, we did week 21.
I have a friend whose son is in CC Challenge A. We chatted today, and here was her advice to prepare my kids for Challenge A:
- Know Cycle 1 Latin (declensions).
- Start tracing the Geography and drawing it freehand, not just identifying everything.
- Write the memory work, not just recite it.
And that's not really all, but this is getting long and boring enough, so I'll stop.
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