Woke up at 7. Didn't work on novel, instead planned RE class for this p.m.
S and J showered. W worked on paper. H went to Spanish.
Said 3 decades of Rosary - W led.
J finished up math homework but lost his test, grrr. Worked with math tutor.
W - worked with math tutor and also did chemistry with her.
B and S - did Mad Lib, sang songs, B - practiced writing number sentences dictated to her. S - did addition problems trading two columns. S copied spelling words over on white board. B practiced Jj's. Taught about spelling pattern -le.
J - reading next chap. in F&L Poor S pulled a muscle in his neck and is fairly miserable.
4:07 - well I let S watch Between the Lions and Arthur while he sat on the couch with a heating pad up against his neck. I gave him Motrin as well. He was really hurting. He's better now but it still bothers him a little. No more gymnastics for a while.
W has been working on his paper off and on all day. He takes little breaks and plays guitar for a few minutes and then goes back.
J - finished reading Mystery of the periodic table and reread the FMMA chapters. We reviewed geography for the test.
H came home from Spanish. R has been working from home today. Kind of a half day because it's Veteran's Day. R took her to get stereo fixed in her car. That was her b-day present from us. R also ran errands with B and S while I took shower. H has also been working on her paper. She informed me she can't find her timeline. Sigh.
S read two pages from his reader. Now he's downstairs playing pool with B. J is helping R test the chemicals in the fishtanks.
Cleaners came today. House looks nice. I need to move laundry.
Made ravioli and sausages for dinner. Went to teach first RE class with new students. Girls are so much easier to teach than boys!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
11/10 Happy Birthday Hannah
Today's to do list:
1. Write novel-did some this a.m.
2. Get bagels for breakfast - done
3. Tidy up living room and dining room before piano teacher comes-got to l.r. but need W and J to tackle d.r.
4. H to choir practice - yes
5. Piano lessons=yes
6. R and W do dump run???? R said tomorrow
7. W works on history/lit homework-nope
8. Do lots of laundry (didn't do enough yesterday)-nope!!!! Argghhh
9. R take H to get car stereo-yes
10. Clean fridge-partially
11. Get ice cream cake for birthday party plus party decorations-R did this
12. Tidy and vacuum basement-paritally, gotta do more
13. Take nap!-just woke up!
14. Pizza again for dinner, yech! - yep! With lots left over.
So this was my to do list yesterday. H had her party which went very well. Several of the girls slept over. I think they plan to go to 8:15 Mass. How crazy is that? W just came downstairs, let a cat out and went back upstairs. I thought I heard scratching at a door somewhere!
1. Write novel-did some this a.m.
2. Get bagels for breakfast - done
3. Tidy up living room and dining room before piano teacher comes-got to l.r. but need W and J to tackle d.r.
4. H to choir practice - yes
5. Piano lessons=yes
6. R and W do dump run???? R said tomorrow
7. W works on history/lit homework-nope
8. Do lots of laundry (didn't do enough yesterday)-nope!!!! Argghhh
9. R take H to get car stereo-yes
10. Clean fridge-partially
11. Get ice cream cake for birthday party plus party decorations-R did this
12. Tidy and vacuum basement-paritally, gotta do more
13. Take nap!-just woke up!
14. Pizza again for dinner, yech! - yep! With lots left over.
So this was my to do list yesterday. H had her party which went very well. Several of the girls slept over. I think they plan to go to 8:15 Mass. How crazy is that? W just came downstairs, let a cat out and went back upstairs. I thought I heard scratching at a door somewhere!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Friday 11/8
12: 15 p.m. Cold, rainy day. H and W got up early to go to 6;15 mass. Took chem books with them to study at Starbucks and then go to class at 10:00.
We were out of toilet paper, cat food, milk and peanut butter, so I wound up running to the store. S woke up and watched tv but everyone else stayed in bed until 9:30!!!!! Except R who got up and went to work.
Had unhealthy breakfast of donuts and croissants. Took a shower while the kids dressed and ate.
J - practiced piano, did a lesson in Saxon, did his pe (20 push ups, 20 sit ups and 40 squats!!!!!) Now he's rereading FMMA in prep for test.
B and S - sang songs, did mental math and 3 magic squares. B read a whole primary phonics book very, very well. S did a little lesson on contractions, a page of cursive practice and then read us a poem from his reader. He's been playing piano and composing all morning when he isn't doing gymnastics. B has been trying on her new clothes. She is currently wearing her new Christmas outfit, hat and all. She's dining on ramen noodles right now.
H just called she and W are going to a friend's house for lunch and then coming home.
Afternoon: after lunch, B and S played upstairs. J joined them. They were playing carnival, where they set up different stations in J and S's room and I had to go around and play the different games. B made up a game where she took the modeling beeswax and put it in a hat. I picked a piece and then had to match it to something of the same color in the room. If I could then I got to keep the beeswax as my prize. S was just selling sundry items using monopoly money. J was doing the old cup routine. He took the plastic cups that I had bought for H's birthday party. He put a key under one of them and then moved them around so that I had to guess which cup the key was under. He also had another game where he stacked the cups and I had to knock it down with a tennis ball.
I spent serious time trying to declutter and while the house looks better, it is laughable as far I still have to go.
B went to play at neighbors house. M came over and played with J and S.
Went with W to Foxes and bought Anna Magdalena's Notebook for J per request of his piano teacher. I also got a book of Christmas carols because S wants to learn What Child is This. He's actually already picked out the tune. W came with me and tried out the electric guitars. That is going to be his Christmas present.
The traffic and weather were awful. I can't get used to the evenings getting so dark so early.
Came home and realized I'd never gotten the fish out of the freezer so W and I wound up going back out and getting Mexican. Except I forget to get something for H!!!!! I was really rushed ordering the stuff and she had written her order on the back of the list I had. She was mad!!!! So she went out by herself and got her own dinner. Bad, bad mommy!
R came home and read to the two little ones. Then we watched most of I remember Mama. I am hooked on TCM lately.
We were out of toilet paper, cat food, milk and peanut butter, so I wound up running to the store. S woke up and watched tv but everyone else stayed in bed until 9:30!!!!! Except R who got up and went to work.
Had unhealthy breakfast of donuts and croissants. Took a shower while the kids dressed and ate.
J - practiced piano, did a lesson in Saxon, did his pe (20 push ups, 20 sit ups and 40 squats!!!!!) Now he's rereading FMMA in prep for test.
B and S - sang songs, did mental math and 3 magic squares. B read a whole primary phonics book very, very well. S did a little lesson on contractions, a page of cursive practice and then read us a poem from his reader. He's been playing piano and composing all morning when he isn't doing gymnastics. B has been trying on her new clothes. She is currently wearing her new Christmas outfit, hat and all. She's dining on ramen noodles right now.
H just called she and W are going to a friend's house for lunch and then coming home.
Afternoon: after lunch, B and S played upstairs. J joined them. They were playing carnival, where they set up different stations in J and S's room and I had to go around and play the different games. B made up a game where she took the modeling beeswax and put it in a hat. I picked a piece and then had to match it to something of the same color in the room. If I could then I got to keep the beeswax as my prize. S was just selling sundry items using monopoly money. J was doing the old cup routine. He took the plastic cups that I had bought for H's birthday party. He put a key under one of them and then moved them around so that I had to guess which cup the key was under. He also had another game where he stacked the cups and I had to knock it down with a tennis ball.
I spent serious time trying to declutter and while the house looks better, it is laughable as far I still have to go.
B went to play at neighbors house. M came over and played with J and S.
Went with W to Foxes and bought Anna Magdalena's Notebook for J per request of his piano teacher. I also got a book of Christmas carols because S wants to learn What Child is This. He's actually already picked out the tune. W came with me and tried out the electric guitars. That is going to be his Christmas present.
The traffic and weather were awful. I can't get used to the evenings getting so dark so early.
Came home and realized I'd never gotten the fish out of the freezer so W and I wound up going back out and getting Mexican. Except I forget to get something for H!!!!! I was really rushed ordering the stuff and she had written her order on the back of the list I had. She was mad!!!! So she went out by herself and got her own dinner. Bad, bad mommy!
R came home and read to the two little ones. Then we watched most of I remember Mama. I am hooked on TCM lately.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
11/8 Thursday
Well, the day started out badly. Had migraine when I awoke. But it did go away around 10:30 a.m. I was supposed to go to a meeting about E. I didn't make it.
Last night J read some of W's gamer mag. and got really spooked by the grusome pictures. As an antidote I gave him Thomas Finds a Treasure which he read until very late into the night. W got up early to work on his math homework. J got up and then read about book about Blessed William Seelos. But he didn't get his math homework completed but anyway both W and J got math done eventually with tutor. Tutor also helped with chem.
H slept very late too. She and W are going to the library to study because they think they're are too many distractions at home.
B and S - we sang songs and did mental math. I taught S about trading ones in addition.
Read last chapter of Kat Finds a Friend aloud to J, S and B. H and W went and got lunch.
4:56 p.m. Oh dear, whiled away the afternoon in a most unproductive manner! Had nice discussion with H about pro life stuff and other sundry things. Then I spent an inordinate amount of time surfing the net on Medieval Christmas feasts planning the menu for the big Christmas party. Talked to T who said 71 people are expected! Ye gads!
B and S were practing gymnastics downstairs. They took all the cushions off the sofa and got out the DK book on gymnastics. B has almost perfected a no handed cartwheel. Now they are watching junkie TV. J has spent all afternoon in his room listening to Martin the Warrior for the 3 rd time, I think it is.
H and W did go to the library. Now they are on their way home and bringing pizza for dinner. R has worked at home all day. I'm running out to meet with TORCH moms for a bit. Then I have to get to workcamp meeting at church at 7.
J still needs to study for history exam tomorrow. Also I hope I have time to go over catechism lesson with him this evening before bed.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
11/7 Wed.
Had a good night's sleep, so why am I so irritable? Menopause is a terrible thing!
Didn't get a chance to work on novel. B woke just as I was about to start. Did a Mad Lib with her. Woke J and S and had them take showers. J tried to dupe me but I found him out and was heartily irritated. What is it with boys and hygiene. Such a foreign concept to them!
H would not get up. I'm thoroughly fed up with this sleeping in in the a.m.
Finally got everyone to breakfast table at 8:30. Said 2 decades. Had frozen waffles, french toast, leftover apple pie and cereal!
J - practiced piano, did a lesson in Saxon, reread some chapters in his FMMA for test, wrote some more of his novel.
B and S played downstairs while I read Sophie's World chapter on Socrates to H and W, good discussion afterwards.
Worked with B and S, sang songs, did mental math (patterns with S; simply adding for B). B took out pebbles and lined them up on little play map rug counting up to 100. S and I did workbook page on reading number words (three thousand four hundred twenty, for eg) and then writing it out in numeral form correctly. He worked very hard on forming his numerals correctly and neatly. A real struggle for him but he was very patient and did all 16 problems.
Then I introduced 'ou' sound and gave him his spelling words: through, group, count, mouth, ground. He also worked very patiently copying them out neatly. He's really trying with his penmanship. I was very proud.
B on the other hand has been horribly grumpy and screaming in rage at everything. She did however write out Ii's in her MLbook. I also went over tongue twisters or poems for G, H and I which she enjoyed.
W worked on Artes Latinae after Philsophy and then practiced guitar. He sound very good.
H got her SAT practice test score; forget the scores themselves but it was 79th percentile. H showered.
Now we're getting ready to go to noon Mass.
Made it to noon Mass but we were a few minutes late as usual. Always shoe crisis. This time it was B who couldn't find hers.
Said 1 decade on the way and 2 decades on the way home. S came out of Mass and said, that was a good Mass. We had a visitor father from India. He seemed very kindly. The regular priest at that parish is usually so dour but we've been having lots of visitors for the last couple of weeks and my it has been a breath of fresh air!
Made grilled cheese for lunch. We are not doing well on the fruits veggies this week. After lunch I took a shower then we rushed to VT. Guitar teacher couldn't come today. H went over to her friends to study for chem exam.
W - practiced lots of guitar and wandered around aimlessly. Just now (5:35) he's starting on his math homework for tomorrow.
J worked more on his novel, then he started reading mine. He liked it! S and B played. J does not have chess club this evening. I talked H into taking B and S to gymnastics so I that could do Latin with J and cook dinner. I had already partially defrosted the chicken to roast but I wasn't ready to put it in the oven when it was time to leave. Since H doesn't do raw meat, she'd rather take them. How is that girl ever going to cook for a family?????
Called K.M. back and she asked me to switch from current RE class to another girls' class. So as of Monday I am teaching another class.
J and I worked on Latin translations but he wasn't paying attention very much. Now he's back writing his novel again. He's into it today!
Tonight: tidy up, finish making dinner, take W to CLC and I'll go to Respect Life Committee meeting.
9:57 Made really yummy roast chicken! Went to Respect Life meeting. Made me sad; everybody sat and complained about Father P. I really like him, as flawed as he might be. It made me remember why I never join these types of things. I hate talking about others! I hate politics of this sort.
Got home; Rick was putting kids to bed. Time for me to go too!
Didn't get a chance to work on novel. B woke just as I was about to start. Did a Mad Lib with her. Woke J and S and had them take showers. J tried to dupe me but I found him out and was heartily irritated. What is it with boys and hygiene. Such a foreign concept to them!
H would not get up. I'm thoroughly fed up with this sleeping in in the a.m.
Finally got everyone to breakfast table at 8:30. Said 2 decades. Had frozen waffles, french toast, leftover apple pie and cereal!
J - practiced piano, did a lesson in Saxon, reread some chapters in his FMMA for test, wrote some more of his novel.
B and S played downstairs while I read Sophie's World chapter on Socrates to H and W, good discussion afterwards.
Worked with B and S, sang songs, did mental math (patterns with S; simply adding for B). B took out pebbles and lined them up on little play map rug counting up to 100. S and I did workbook page on reading number words (three thousand four hundred twenty, for eg) and then writing it out in numeral form correctly. He worked very hard on forming his numerals correctly and neatly. A real struggle for him but he was very patient and did all 16 problems.
Then I introduced 'ou' sound and gave him his spelling words: through, group, count, mouth, ground. He also worked very patiently copying them out neatly. He's really trying with his penmanship. I was very proud.
B on the other hand has been horribly grumpy and screaming in rage at everything. She did however write out Ii's in her MLbook. I also went over tongue twisters or poems for G, H and I which she enjoyed.
W worked on Artes Latinae after Philsophy and then practiced guitar. He sound very good.
H got her SAT practice test score; forget the scores themselves but it was 79th percentile. H showered.
Now we're getting ready to go to noon Mass.
Made it to noon Mass but we were a few minutes late as usual. Always shoe crisis. This time it was B who couldn't find hers.
Said 1 decade on the way and 2 decades on the way home. S came out of Mass and said, that was a good Mass. We had a visitor father from India. He seemed very kindly. The regular priest at that parish is usually so dour but we've been having lots of visitors for the last couple of weeks and my it has been a breath of fresh air!
Made grilled cheese for lunch. We are not doing well on the fruits veggies this week. After lunch I took a shower then we rushed to VT. Guitar teacher couldn't come today. H went over to her friends to study for chem exam.
W - practiced lots of guitar and wandered around aimlessly. Just now (5:35) he's starting on his math homework for tomorrow.
J worked more on his novel, then he started reading mine. He liked it! S and B played. J does not have chess club this evening. I talked H into taking B and S to gymnastics so I that could do Latin with J and cook dinner. I had already partially defrosted the chicken to roast but I wasn't ready to put it in the oven when it was time to leave. Since H doesn't do raw meat, she'd rather take them. How is that girl ever going to cook for a family?????
Called K.M. back and she asked me to switch from current RE class to another girls' class. So as of Monday I am teaching another class.
J and I worked on Latin translations but he wasn't paying attention very much. Now he's back writing his novel again. He's into it today!
Tonight: tidy up, finish making dinner, take W to CLC and I'll go to Respect Life Committee meeting.
9:57 Made really yummy roast chicken! Went to Respect Life meeting. Made me sad; everybody sat and complained about Father P. I really like him, as flawed as he might be. It made me remember why I never join these types of things. I hate talking about others! I hate politics of this sort.
Got home; Rick was putting kids to bed. Time for me to go too!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Tuesday 11/6 Election Day
Slept terribly. Woke up around 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. My legs ached. finally got up and took advil. Got up at 6. Puttered around and then wrote some more of my novel. Had two cups of tea. Moved laundry.
Everybody slept late. I kept going up and calling everybody but no one would stir. Finally at 8:30 I decided to say the rosary by myself, but then J and S came down. Then W but he didn't pray with us, instead he looked over chem and ate cereal. H really overslept. B too.
Got everybody some form of breakfast. I was going to read Kat but R took J and S with him to vote. I'll vote later. H and W went to chem class.
I read two library books to B including Something from Nothing which is one of my favorites.
Then she read a primary phonics book to me. In the middle of that J and S came home and R went off to work.
J: practiced piano, read another chapter in Mystery of the Periodic Table and is now rereading his FMMA in prep for the test.
B did a tiny bit of work in her PP workbook. S read three pages from his reader, then we went through and picked out all the beginning blends we could find. He did a page of cursive. We sand our Nov. songs but they got really involved in a puzzle and I could feel that I wasn't going to get them to cooperate with any math.
Right now I'm going to go do Latin with J. Then I have to tidy up, get lunch and prepare for Brit. Lit and Hist. class. Very sleepy right now.
4:54 p.m. Wound up not doing Latin with J. Instead I tidied the kitchen and took a shower to wake up. H and W brought lunch home from Burger King. After lunch had Brit Lit and Hist where we reviewed for the essay exam next week. J did a little in his Latin workbook and then worked on his novel a little bit. B and S watched the tube downstairs and played pool. J joined them.
Class was over at 4. B and I are getting ready to go vote. H went out with her friend and then she's off to her SAT prep class. I'm making tacos for dinner as soon as I get back. Need to remember to read Kat Finds a Friend at dinner tonight.
9:29. B and I did go to vote. I let her push all the buttons. Came home and was so sleepy. I did something I never do, I put on the tv, watching home and garden shows and then dozed right off on the couch. The three younger ones were downstairs doing I don't know what. Woke up and it was nearly 7! Quick browned up the ground beef and made tacos. The kids all really liked them. After dinner I read the next chapter of Kat and then the next OM fairytale for B. Then S and B wanted to see nadia comenici on video so I googled and found footage of her. We watched amazed! R is working late tonight. Cleaned kitchen again. Said prayers and then just now finished putting B and S to bed. B is working on a maze book up in bed. W was playing guitar. J is reading Mystery of the Periodic Table. H came home bringing dessert.
I still need to put away at least 3 loads of laundry.
Everybody slept late. I kept going up and calling everybody but no one would stir. Finally at 8:30 I decided to say the rosary by myself, but then J and S came down. Then W but he didn't pray with us, instead he looked over chem and ate cereal. H really overslept. B too.
Got everybody some form of breakfast. I was going to read Kat but R took J and S with him to vote. I'll vote later. H and W went to chem class.
I read two library books to B including Something from Nothing which is one of my favorites.
Then she read a primary phonics book to me. In the middle of that J and S came home and R went off to work.
J: practiced piano, read another chapter in Mystery of the Periodic Table and is now rereading his FMMA in prep for the test.
B did a tiny bit of work in her PP workbook. S read three pages from his reader, then we went through and picked out all the beginning blends we could find. He did a page of cursive. We sand our Nov. songs but they got really involved in a puzzle and I could feel that I wasn't going to get them to cooperate with any math.
Right now I'm going to go do Latin with J. Then I have to tidy up, get lunch and prepare for Brit. Lit and Hist. class. Very sleepy right now.
4:54 p.m. Wound up not doing Latin with J. Instead I tidied the kitchen and took a shower to wake up. H and W brought lunch home from Burger King. After lunch had Brit Lit and Hist where we reviewed for the essay exam next week. J did a little in his Latin workbook and then worked on his novel a little bit. B and S watched the tube downstairs and played pool. J joined them.
Class was over at 4. B and I are getting ready to go vote. H went out with her friend and then she's off to her SAT prep class. I'm making tacos for dinner as soon as I get back. Need to remember to read Kat Finds a Friend at dinner tonight.
9:29. B and I did go to vote. I let her push all the buttons. Came home and was so sleepy. I did something I never do, I put on the tv, watching home and garden shows and then dozed right off on the couch. The three younger ones were downstairs doing I don't know what. Woke up and it was nearly 7! Quick browned up the ground beef and made tacos. The kids all really liked them. After dinner I read the next chapter of Kat and then the next OM fairytale for B. Then S and B wanted to see nadia comenici on video so I googled and found footage of her. We watched amazed! R is working late tonight. Cleaned kitchen again. Said prayers and then just now finished putting B and S to bed. B is working on a maze book up in bed. W was playing guitar. J is reading Mystery of the Periodic Table. H came home bringing dessert.
I still need to put away at least 3 loads of laundry.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Monday 11/5 Happy Anniversary to us!
Woke early, managed to work on novel for 25 minutes or so. Only up to a piddly 3 thousand words.
S and J took showers. B was bathed yesterday.
Said two decades of rosary. B was naughty and sent to room.
Had quick breakfast. J did rest of math homework as did W.
H showered and went to Spanish class. Didn't make it to mass. She's having trouble sleeping.
After breakfast read the story of Esau and Jacob to S and B from Golden Bible. Showed J his assignments for the day.
Sang two new songs for Nov. Now Thank We All Our God and Over the River and Through the Wood. Greenworks showed up to repair stone walls in garden. I explained a bit of the story behind Now Thank We All Our God. S was really interested. He wanted to know what the plague was. He recalled it being mentioned in a story on his Knights cd.
Did mental math with B. She had to name what two numbers added up to 5, 7 and 8. We wound up doing this on the whiteboard. For S's mental math we rounded to nearest ten and then added together two numbers. S was getting very into the physics of pool balls. He noticed that if he knocked one ball with a line of balls only one ball rolled out the other end. So we experimented. It worked up until 5 balls then the number of balls rolling out didn't correspond with the number of knocking balls. I'll have to show him an example of a Newton's Cradle on the internet. He wanted to know how fast the force went through the balls. Good science question. He asked W who said he was learning the formula for kinetic energy right now in Chemistry. So he'd find out and let S know. S is very proud of his scientific questions!
S did LLATL. We reviewed compound words. I had him work on printing neatly because he's been saying he wants to learn to write better. I'd been giving him a break since he's been struggling so with it. He filled in the blanks and tried to figure out how to spell words on his own. He did pretty well with sounding them out. We review lots of phonics rules during this. He also practiced a page of cursive.
S also played music all day either on piano, keyboard or recorder.
B practiced writing her Gg's. Then she had fun tracing stencils on a big paper and making a picture for me. She read a Primary Phonics reader and then did a workbook page. She was into it!
Kids were very cooperative this morning in spite of the fact that we haven't been in our regular routine for several days due to Halloween, All Saints and All Souls.
Math tutor got here around 10 30 and has been working with J and W. She looks so tired. She says she has a migraine. Poor woman!
J read 3 chapters of Mystery of the Periodic Table this a.m.
Read Kat Finds a Friend out loud during lunch (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) Said another decade of rosary.
H called to say she is going to B&N to get a SAT study book and a SAT II chem book.
W has been playing guitar. Now he's going jogging. J is reading Faith & Life, 1st chap. which were are going to discuss afterwards. S is up in his room, don't know what he's doing. B is listening to the last cd in Charlie and the Glass Elevator in her room.
R just sent me flowers! It's our anniversary! I keep forgetting!
W went to play a computer game but now it's 4:10 and he said he'd start back up to work by now. I don't know what H is doing. She did come home though. I asked her if she could type up some templates for J and me so we can practice writing out the Latin forms we need to memorize. J did the geography portion of his FMMA test review and then translated 3 sentences and went over new vocab and dictum and forms from lesson.
B came down from quiet time and asked me to do a mad lib with her. Good review of nouns, adjectives and adverbs.
I took a long shower and remembered to take my iron!
Now J is complaining of a headache and not feeling well. Uh oh! B had a headache and then developed a fever over the weekend. Wonder if J is coming down with it. He went off to play with his gameboy.
Sean just brought in the mail for me. Now he's watching Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
W is wandering around. I sent him out to work on his history paper but he came back in and announced he'd work on chemistry instead.
I'm going to find out what H, B and J are up to. I might put H on laundry duty.
5:26 I found H. She was studying Chemistry. W did some research on Pius V. I still don't know where J is. I read some Health, Safety and Manners to B at her request and then read her the next OM fairy tale for the letter H, Mother Holle. S has been playing on the computer but came in to listen to Mother Holle. I did get a load of laundry on and now am going to tidy the kitchen.
H made dinner, ham, egg and cheese sandwiches. R took me out to Bonarotti's and we had a wonderful meal. I ate lots of spinach and red meat. Gotta get that iron. H took B with her to mass at 7:30 and B was very good!
R and I got home, W was playing guitar again. H up in her room, 3 young ones laughing away at America's funniest home videos. What a silly show.
Got kids to bed late. R read them more Wayside. Got Christopher West's new book on Love in mail earlier today and gave it to R for present. Read him introduction but he fell asleep!
S and J took showers. B was bathed yesterday.
Said two decades of rosary. B was naughty and sent to room.
Had quick breakfast. J did rest of math homework as did W.
H showered and went to Spanish class. Didn't make it to mass. She's having trouble sleeping.
After breakfast read the story of Esau and Jacob to S and B from Golden Bible. Showed J his assignments for the day.
Sang two new songs for Nov. Now Thank We All Our God and Over the River and Through the Wood. Greenworks showed up to repair stone walls in garden. I explained a bit of the story behind Now Thank We All Our God. S was really interested. He wanted to know what the plague was. He recalled it being mentioned in a story on his Knights cd.
Did mental math with B. She had to name what two numbers added up to 5, 7 and 8. We wound up doing this on the whiteboard. For S's mental math we rounded to nearest ten and then added together two numbers. S was getting very into the physics of pool balls. He noticed that if he knocked one ball with a line of balls only one ball rolled out the other end. So we experimented. It worked up until 5 balls then the number of balls rolling out didn't correspond with the number of knocking balls. I'll have to show him an example of a Newton's Cradle on the internet. He wanted to know how fast the force went through the balls. Good science question. He asked W who said he was learning the formula for kinetic energy right now in Chemistry. So he'd find out and let S know. S is very proud of his scientific questions!
S did LLATL. We reviewed compound words. I had him work on printing neatly because he's been saying he wants to learn to write better. I'd been giving him a break since he's been struggling so with it. He filled in the blanks and tried to figure out how to spell words on his own. He did pretty well with sounding them out. We review lots of phonics rules during this. He also practiced a page of cursive.
S also played music all day either on piano, keyboard or recorder.
B practiced writing her Gg's. Then she had fun tracing stencils on a big paper and making a picture for me. She read a Primary Phonics reader and then did a workbook page. She was into it!
Kids were very cooperative this morning in spite of the fact that we haven't been in our regular routine for several days due to Halloween, All Saints and All Souls.
Math tutor got here around 10 30 and has been working with J and W. She looks so tired. She says she has a migraine. Poor woman!
J read 3 chapters of Mystery of the Periodic Table this a.m.
Read Kat Finds a Friend out loud during lunch (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) Said another decade of rosary.
H called to say she is going to B&N to get a SAT study book and a SAT II chem book.
W has been playing guitar. Now he's going jogging. J is reading Faith & Life, 1st chap. which were are going to discuss afterwards. S is up in his room, don't know what he's doing. B is listening to the last cd in Charlie and the Glass Elevator in her room.
R just sent me flowers! It's our anniversary! I keep forgetting!
W went to play a computer game but now it's 4:10 and he said he'd start back up to work by now. I don't know what H is doing. She did come home though. I asked her if she could type up some templates for J and me so we can practice writing out the Latin forms we need to memorize. J did the geography portion of his FMMA test review and then translated 3 sentences and went over new vocab and dictum and forms from lesson.
B came down from quiet time and asked me to do a mad lib with her. Good review of nouns, adjectives and adverbs.
I took a long shower and remembered to take my iron!
Now J is complaining of a headache and not feeling well. Uh oh! B had a headache and then developed a fever over the weekend. Wonder if J is coming down with it. He went off to play with his gameboy.
Sean just brought in the mail for me. Now he's watching Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
W is wandering around. I sent him out to work on his history paper but he came back in and announced he'd work on chemistry instead.
I'm going to find out what H, B and J are up to. I might put H on laundry duty.
5:26 I found H. She was studying Chemistry. W did some research on Pius V. I still don't know where J is. I read some Health, Safety and Manners to B at her request and then read her the next OM fairy tale for the letter H, Mother Holle. S has been playing on the computer but came in to listen to Mother Holle. I did get a load of laundry on and now am going to tidy the kitchen.
H made dinner, ham, egg and cheese sandwiches. R took me out to Bonarotti's and we had a wonderful meal. I ate lots of spinach and red meat. Gotta get that iron. H took B with her to mass at 7:30 and B was very good!
R and I got home, W was playing guitar again. H up in her room, 3 young ones laughing away at America's funniest home videos. What a silly show.
Got kids to bed late. R read them more Wayside. Got Christopher West's new book on Love in mail earlier today and gave it to R for present. Read him introduction but he fell asleep!
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