April Showers

It seems like when it rains, it pours.  I have been pulled every which way and have had way too many trials that I'd care to take on, but there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel.

After my first little sickness, I got sick again with a cold for several days.  When mom is sick, the house get's neglected and kids get super bored.  We got snowed on, and since I wasn't feeling well, the kids stayed inside because I had no energy to deal with snow clothes and messes.  Plus, it was an awful muddy mess at our house since we just built a house.  My van got stuck, 6 inches deep, in mud.  Fun stuff! NOT!

So what did we do?  We strung beads onto yarn.

Obviously, The Sprite had a blast.  Her favorite part was rolling them onto the floor and throwing them at her brother.

Ferdinand enjoyed putting several beads on at once.  He was pretty good at it.  I think his motor skills are improving.

Curly Girly loved doing patterns.  She mostly wanted to make sure she got ALL the beads of the same color.  Heaven forbid her siblings take them!

We also learned about emergency preparedness.  The kids had fun putting bandaids, gloves, gauze, alchohol swabs, etc into their own little baggies.  We also gave them their own backpack for their 72-hour kits.  It's important to tell the little ones about what to do if there ever were an emergency.

Homeschool isn't just learning academics.  It's teaching them about life.