All is well in our homeschool: nothing new, really, but no big bumps in the road either. We’re just plugging along pleasantly through the next month and a half til we’re done with this school year. We are, however, considering the possibility of moving to a year round schedule with something along the lines of six weeks on, one week off. As I start homeschool-year planning, I’ll be playing around with how that might work for us.
Last Saturday morning, I attended shabbat with Kathryn and her dad and his family at his messianic synagogue. Later in the day, Kathryn and I entertained ourselves with more sidewalk painting, running a few errands, and a walk/scooter ride around the neighborhood. We ran into my mom on the way (because she lives right around the corner from us), and went to her house to see a bird nest in a potted plant on her back porch. Earlier in the week, she’d told us about the bird nest and we’d helped her identify the bird as a house wren. We’ll stop back in again soon to try to get a glimpse of babies. See Mama Wren burrowed down in the pine straw nest (top right)?
We continue to study and admire our heirloom irises, like that purple-blue one above. And there have been bunnies galore in our yard lately. If the Easter Bunny didn’t make it to your house, it’s because he and all his little minions were here in our yard. 
Easter Sunday was a perfectly beautiful spring day. Because Ken and Lindsey got in late Saturday night, and because our big church is usually insanely busy on Easter Sunday, and because middle school small groups were not meeting (where Ken and I volunteer) that day, we decided to let everyone sleep late on Sunday. Earlier in the week, Kathryn and I decided that the perfect way to celebrate our risen Lord, and to celebrate our family being back together again, was to go on a picnic and spend the day enjoying God’s creation. So we packed up and headed to nearby Kennesaw Mountain Park for a picnic lunch on an old quilt, then flew kites, looked at clouds, played frisbee, walked a nature trail, and played at the creek. This, my friends, is nature study at it’s finest. Lindsey and Kathryn waded in the creek, but it was still too cold for me to be sticking my feet in that water!
Tonight is the military ball for the JROTC program for several surrounding schools. As usual, the Worley Beauty Salon (a.k.a: my bathroom) was in full swing for Lindsey and her friend Sarah. Doing hair and makeup is one of the ways I get Fun Mama points from Lindsey — and “cool” points from her friend. Ken was, as usual, designated photographer. The girls are spending the night here tonight, so I’ll be sipping my tea waiting for them all to get home safe and sound.
**Next Monday begins my “10 Days of Adoption” series, so please come back for that!
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Lindsey is such a beautiful girl. She looks lovely all dressed up!
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It looks like Lindsey has the most highly decorated escort, and they all look beautiful!
Lindsey looks beautiful!
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Lindsey looks great! How neat you get to see a wren and her babies, hope you get pictures
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You know I’ll share photos if we do get a chance to see the wren babies!
Great post and I love that you can just take a walk and run into your mom. That would be so wonderful. It sounds like you had a lovely Easter. We’ve been forced to miss Easter on church before and though it felt strange, going to church on that one day is the only way to celebrate our Risen Lord.
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Okay, I’m tired. Going to church ISN”T the only way to celebrate. I guess it’s my bedtime
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Totally understand that! I’m feeling a little sleep deprived myself!
The girls and their dates looked so pretty and handsome!!
What beautiful couples!! How fun for them.
When my hubby was in the military, he just retired last year, he did not like to take me to such events. LOL I had the knack of remembering all of his gripes about work and saying stuff like “Oh, you’re the one who thought it would be a good idea to XYZ. What were you thinking?” I just couldn’t help myself. I was allowed to go to his retirement ceremony though. =o)
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I do hope the retirement ceremony was lovely, at least!
That last picture is wonderful! IT looks like you all had a great week.
Blessings,
Dawn
I like your collage! That last photo is such fun.
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Jamie, lovely photos of lovely young ladies and handsome young men! I, too, have toyed with the idea of a year-round schedule as you describe. The hurdles for us are our June activities (swim team — I’m concessions co-cordinator again this year — and VBS — Miss Priss and I both are volunteering) AND our two months in Maine, when even I just want to relax, read, boat, and swim. And visit with friends we only see in the summer there! But this is my family’s particular situation. Oh, one other thing: I tend to have fun projects awaiting me for summer break; if we only took a week off in between several weeks of study, I’m afraid I’d never get to those projects because I’d be too busy catching up on household studd during the week off. Again, this is just me. I can certainly appreciate the benefits of year-round schooling.
As a compromise, we are going to continue math lessons and some readings (to finish up/catch up) throughout the summer this year. I also want to focus on more nature study/journaling, which tends to fall by the wayside chez nous. Perhaps this will be the happy medium that will work for us.
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We do year long schedule and really like it.
We have bunnies too and they are just adorable!
I LOVE the way you celebrated Easter…outside in God’s beauty. How perfect.
Beautiful girls. Love the picture of them with their escorts. Lindsey looks gorgeous.
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I love that last photo of Lindsey and her friends
Looking forward to next week’s adoption series…
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I hope you can get to share more photos of that nest of the house wren.
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