Skip to main content

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!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Bunch Are Off To A Wonderful 2025 And Are Considering A Change 🤔

It's official, she has a college diploma!! Besides totally enjoying a drama free year, we have been consciously spending time doing things as a family and spending time with each child doing things they enjoy. D has been playing ball and watching movies with his larger "mini me" while A and I have been spending a lot of time in Dallas going to the theatre. A absolutely loves going to see off Broadway productions! I won't be surprised in the slightest if she ends up getting season tickets. Dallas Broadway does a lottery to each show where if they draw your name you have 3 hours to buy tickets for $39 each including all fees! That is an absolute steal! She actually won the lottery on Tuesday so we went that night to see the production of "& Juliet". The seats she won were FANTASTIC! They don't give you cheap seats in the back for the lottery. You win good seats. The seats we ended up with worked out to be only about a quarter of the regular price! We h...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Bunch Celebrate Christmas

  It's become tradition for T to wear a Santa hat on Christmas. Our Christmas was pretty low key. D was able to go in late so he was able to have Christmas with us before he went to work which was really nice. The kids and I packed up and moved Christmas brunch to C&H's house since he needs to stay close to home and we worried about the lack of emergency care both on the way to our house and while here. I made up a potato casserole ahead of time, brought stuff for garden scrambled eggs, and banana bread while H made a really good cranberry punch and some pigs in a blanket. I have to say for only 5 people we had a ton of food! In fact, T ate so much for brunch I don't think he really ate anything for the rest of the day. He also finished his very last hour of driving on his way back home! Driver's license here we come....next week! After the mess Axl made last time we left him in his crate, we reenforced the doors with zip ties. We also made sure to take him on a wal...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Bunch Visit Family

  We had fun playing some board games...and it wasn't even a fun jar idea! We just did it because it sounded like fun! The fun jar has been a little slow being implemented this year. T made sure to let me know! We're making up for it next week by drawing several things.  We have had a wonderfully busy week visiting family and getting things done around the house. We went over to my parents house to celebrate Father's Day and while the boys played games with Grandpa, the girls went with Grandma to show her what all the fuss about Trader Joe's is about. She enjoyed looking at all the different things and even found a few gems of her own. It was a nice day and fun to get out together for a little bit. We had a great day!🥰 We picked up Whataburger for my Dad as a treat and my mom made some tots and a side salad up to go with it.💗 We also had a nice long visit with our Aunt P. She's been under the weather and we hadn't had a visit in a couple weeks so it was nice t...
Post a Comment
Read more