A Great day of Thanks and more

Our Thanksgiving was again a blessed event. We had 16 at our table with 3/4 of them being my own family. The afternoon was lit with laughter, good food, everyone telling what they were thankful for and just a great time of fellowship.

Cleaning is almost finished for the season and I am ready to move on to my favorite time of the year... celebrating Christ's birth!!! Today is the first day of advent and we again will be setting up our Jesse tree. I think the book to read this year will be Tabitha's travels.

May everyone have a blessed advent season.

Thanksgiving Day is almost here!

Cleaning the house during break has been great. I promised a few pictures of some of our school room and organizing ideas so here you are.

I included a cabinet my gifted hubby made that stores our Betty Lukin felts, a storage shelf for toys and such that is label friendly for little ones, and a picture of some of the desks we use for formal schooling time.

I pray all my family and friends have a Thanksgiving full of memories, blessings, family and the love of Christ.

highlights of the weekend

This was a good weekend for finishing things, catching up and starting our Thanksgiving vacation off on a nice note. Friday I started my Fall cleaning because I really do not want to spend my entire week off from school cleaning! Quiet room (aka the livingroom) is completed along with the diningroom. It took most of Saturday but it really gave me a boost mentally. I took a break on Saturday and Tom and I took the children to the library for a craft day. They made cute little teepee's and turkeys and had a great time. Tom was formally introduced to glue dots (which almost made me hysterical at one point to see his big man hands trying to manuver very sticky little glue dots all while holding his tongue and temper as they stuck to everything but the project at hand) and I gave him an A+ for being such a great sport about it all. He will probably think twice about volunteering to go again! I am posting pictures of our crafts we made. Tommorrow I will post some pictures of some organizing ideas we came up with to help with the big family order.
Have a super week everyone as mine has already started off with much feeding from the Lord!!

Unit was great fun and we did lots of projects like building ziggurats, cunieforms, and making frescos.

Finally had the time to set up

I had a blog over on homeschool blogger but it was so cumbersome to keep up with that I dediced to just move my whole blog over here. This is so much easier to work with so hopefully I will be able to keep up with it all.
We are still Weaving in homeschooling and are presently on Volume 3 unit 4. I added some pictures of our wall building yesterday. This volume has been a blast.
We have next week off for Thanksgiving holiday and I hope to get some painting done along with some scrapbooking.
Knitting is still going strong and I only have one of Hannah's fingerless gloves to go. I went ahead and started Destini's socks just for a change of pace.
I will be posting pictures of ziggurats, our cunieform and working on our fresco's.
Enjoy

Here is a pic of Hannah's fingerless gloves.