The Bunch Get Ready for Birthday Season and Watch the Eclipse

One of the great joys of homeschooling is having the ability to schedule our day however we seem fit. This worked well with the eclipse. The local library had a viewing party, which was fun. We decided to attend and luckily finished school early so we had no worries when we returned. The library had pizza, lemonade cake, mish mash snack, and freeze dried ice cream (it was left over from the summer reading program). All of us enjoyed watching the progress of the moon and while we only witnessed a 75% eclipse here, it was great fun. We witnessed a change in the amount of light and noticeably cooler temps. I love it when the kids can experience things they read about first hand. The kids were really into what was happening and it was SO great to see everyone united doing the same thing, even if it was just for a little while. We are looking forward to being in the path of totality on April 8, 2024.

My mad scientist husband working on A's gift in the super high humidity.

D and I are making A a Harry Potter wand holder for her birthday. I can't wait to show everyone, but it will have to wait another 2 weeks. She asked for it, but has no idea what we decided to do; so I want it to be a surprise. It has been really time consuming, but has turned out wonderful.

My little Indian watching Davy Crockett

Over the next two weeks we will celebrate 3 birthdays: mine, T, and A. My darling husband has decided to make my birthday a day of surprises like I did with his and I look forward to seeing what he has planned. I gave him free rein and he felt some what uncomfortable at first and asked me to please plan, but he seems happy now with whatever he decided so I am curious what it is. The kids seem really excited about it so it must be good. We always celebrate A and T's birthdays together so family only has to make one trip, much to A's dismay. They are going to the trampoline park with their cousins and friends. Afterwards, we will head back here for cake and refreshments. They each pick their own cake and they tend to be fairly elaborate. I will let you know what they pick next time. We also take off school for that week and have a relaxing week. We are 4 weeks into school....who doesn't need a week off already?

Our fantastic chicken coop

He can be so creative.....we were watching a western.

Please don't let it be a rooster! This is one of the nice ones!

The homeschool lab at the library made slime this month....pretty neat...and messy!

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