Well, I haven't posted in a week I suppose. We have been busy hanging out with the family mostly. Last night we drove around town to view local homes decorated with Christmas lights. How was it you ask? To say it was disappointing would be the understatement of the season. There was one house worth viewing. I think we may drive over to Tyler to see the village of lights that is out there each year.
Unschooling. Well, since unschooling is just living and learning we seem to be handling it well. We did attend a Christmas ballet this season and we are soon to see the annual Nutcracker @ a local theater as well. There is one play I want to take the girls to but I am not certain we will make it.
I know we are visiting different venues and helping the children to be more active in the community but I feel as though something is missing. That maybe something on my end-I will have to talk with Mady about it and see what she has to say. Mady has been playing a ton of computer games trying to make sure she is where she needs to be with her math. We do science experiments and we usually count reading as history though no one has been interested in reading much lately. I am currently reading The Golden Compass to the boys. The girls mentioned they would like to go see it on the big screen but I like to read the original story before we see the movie.
In the last week we have been to the Christmas party (which I didn't take many pictures of for some reason,) made bird feeders from pine cones, prepared ingredients from a 60 year old mincemeat pie recipe from our Grandma Ann,visited the zoo on the last warm day of fall, been to art lessons, played the guitar, and chatted with a Jewish friend about Hanukkah. We went shopping for some of the family and Mady spent the night with two different friends. Niki has had to stay home lately. I think spending so much time away from home has contributed to her recent uncharacteristic disposition. Life in itself is just busy, even if you don't take in account all the holiday activities we have still been with our extended family most days.
Our family recently purchased about 20 acres in a remote part of Texas so we can have somewhere to go to decompress without the usual daily distractions. I am excited to take the kids out to see it-and camp! It is too cool for camping now but as soon as the weather is about 70 again we will head out so we can mark the spot for a future cabin of sorts.
Plans for this weekend include a local play, spending the day with Pam on Sunday for her birthday, hanging out with the rest of the family, and breakfast with Santa @ a local business on Saturday morning. We have to get started wrapping our Christmas presents! How long will that take? Uhg...enjoy some pix of all the holiday activities.
2 comments:
I'd be interested to know your thoughts when you finish Golden Compass. I first read it in high school. The first half is interesting, but I think it gets kind of strange at the end. I haven't felt like reading the sequels, especially after reading plot summaries. Apart from all the stuff in the media about them, I just didn't love them. :) I write reviews of all the books I read on goodreads, which notifies all my friends btw, if you want something else to do on the computer LOL!
Thanks for this site. I think this will be a better way to keep track of books we have read and want to read.
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