On Our Book List this Week

Mr. Putter and Tabby Toot the Horn, by Cynthia Rylant

Annie and Snowball and the Dress-up Birthday, by Cynthia Rylant

Little Bear and the Marco Polo, by Else Holmelund Minarik

Fancy Nancy at the Museum, by Jane O'Connor

Usborne First Encyclopedia of the Human Body, by Fiona Chandler

Summer Unschooling

"Boredom, is merely the precursor to creativity." - Kim John Payne

Family Altar

Here is a pic of our family altar that I set up this Lent. I need to post an updated photo of how it looks for Easter. The Children loved arranging and rearranging the statues. I've since added a beautiful, framed picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The thorns have been replaced with flowers. I also removed all the statues except a beautiful Sacred Heart statue. Photo to come!

Science Project

I have been remiss in posting! Life has just been very, very busy. But I wanted to share this photo of a science project Joey made. Instead of a solar mobile, we made a shadowbox of the planets in order!

Another Cool Lent Calendar

A friend sent me a link to http://catholicicing.blogspot.com/ for this great Lent calendar!

Wouldn't you know, I'm out of ink in the printer! So, tonight I have to brave the snow to get more ink and print this out.

Click here to visit Lacy's blog entry to print out her free calendar!
Thank you, Lacy!

New Speller

Joey spelling phonetically is hysterical. Woder.... was water. He just rewrote it correctly in his notebook after he mispelled it the first time. No, we aren't doing school on Sunday. But he was inspired to spell some words after seeing something daddy was watching on tv. Funny kid. I'll have him write my next shopping list and see how he does. :)

November and the Holy Souls

Just a quick little update. Our 5th child arrived a month early. We couldn't be more blessed! He is wonderful! We found out we were having a boy only 2 weeks before he arrived.

November is the month of the Holy Souls. Our family is offering prayers and sacrifices everyday for them. We are also going to visit our family grave and clean it up, sprinkle some holy water, and pray for our relatives.

The last few weeks we've been inundated with lady bugs. The children are having a great time playing with them. We also have a stray bunny that frequents outside our window. We are trying to catch him so we can give him to a shelter. It's never a dull moment around here!

I'm busy making preparations for Christmas so that we can relax and enjoy our Advent. It is right around the corner!