I have had a fabulous week. We took the week off of school, and aren’t going anywhere but here. This weekend we did some much needed, long overdue DEEP CLEANING. I literally stayed in my PJs till 5:00 on Saturday and started in my bedroom cleaning and organizing till the dust bunnies under my bed were all sucked up by the Dyson! (in the middle of this day when my house looked like a tornado hit, the breakfast dishes were still on the table and I was still in my pjs my MIL showed up to take the kids for a few hours… a blessing so valuable and appreciated I swallowed my pride and opened the door so she could pick up the kiddos)
Every year I have high hopes for being on top of things in the Christmas season. Last year, as hard as I tried, I was no where near on top of things. In fact, my Christmas cards became New Years cards and weren’t even mailed till the middle of January.
This year, however, I have high hopes. Thanks to a special promotion from Shutterfly, I have already designed my Christmas cards!
We decided to add a little pizazz to our normal morning chaos as we got ready to leave for our tutorial today. Since it’s the last day the tutorial is meeting before Thanksgiving, they had a Harvest Party at the end of the day and the children were encouraged to come in costume.
My son went as an Indian and his little sister went as a Pilgrim. (costumes courtesy of Mommy’s costume bin from her school days… I was Pocahontas one year for Halloween and the “Pilgrim” dress was actually a costume from a church play).
I’ve always wanted a little Yoda for Halloween.
Queen Amidala made an appearance
We also had Padme Amidala
And, of course,Luke Skywalker.
We’re pretty much, eating, breathing, sleeping Star Wars…24/7 round here these days
Get out your 2011 calendars and circle Sept 19th. It is International Talk Like a Pirate day. I assure you it is one holiday you do not want to miss. (If, by chance, you happen to get the date wrong, ahem, and celebrate it on the 20th per say, no worries, your children won’t know the difference and you can still have just as good of a time).
We celebrated in 2008, but sadly missed the holiday last year… something about being in my first trimester and starting my first year of home schooling, caused me to forego the optional holidays last year.
This would be why more than one of my children thought chicken came from cows…
Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-Fil-A is a tradition here at the circus.
We start them young with our indoctrination!
I’ll be honest. When I think Memorial Day celebration, I typically think cook outs and swimming pools. This year being 9 mths preggo, we didn’t really make any big plans for Memorial Day weekend. Scott grilled for us several times and even got out this smoker and cooked a chicken for Monday’s dinner. We went to the park, did a few things around the house and basically took it easy all weekend.
In honor of Memorial Day, I thought I’d repost this post from Jan of 09 in which my son first learned of the ultimate sacrifice many of our soldiers make for our country. As we were discussing what Memorial Day was this week, my son asked what we were going to do to celebrate. “So, are we going to the memorial in Annapolis then?” I realized that sadly, Memorial Day typically comes and goes without much thought at all to why we have the day off.
This weekend was full of family fun and excitement! Saturday morning the kids went to the neighborhood egg hunt with both sets of grandparents, while Scott and I went to a wedding reception.
The kids had a blast finding eggs and getting their faces painted.
(some enjoyed the face paint more than others)
That evening (after my son and I got back from a trip to the the after hours clinic where he was diagnosed with pneumonia), we gathered the grands again to dye Easter eggs with us!