Christmas just about did me in. My house is filled to the brim with toys of all kinds (and for all ages). My brain is tired from trying to figure out my palm pilot. (very cool gift from Jason) My heart is full from special times with family.
Now it's time to get back to normal. We have 100 days of school left. I meant to only have 80 days left at this point, but well, uh... Yeah, no good reason except this has been a tough school year in ways I'd rather just ignore for this post. We start back tomorrow with Rachel having lessons from the book, Hanna's Cold Winter. I'm excited about this one because it is set in World War II Europe and we have not studied WWII much. We'll have a chance to learn so many new things together. Mary Evelyn's lessons will come from the book, A Pair of Red Clogs, which is set in Japan. Many, many good lessons in store for our time together this week. These lessons are in addition to the three R's, Bible study, and read aloud time. Speaking of read aloud time, we finished up Little Town on the Prairie last night and will begin These Happy Golden Years tonight. Only two more books in the Little House series. I am going to miss the Ingalls family when we are done...good thing I can read them to Betsie in a few years! If you have a suggestion for what to read next, I'm ready to hear it.
We also have a little family New Year's Eve party tomorrow night. We'll do things like read the blessings from our 2007 blessing jar, play pictionary using 2007 events, play Twister, eat out at Olive Garden using a gift card we received for Christmas, watch a movie, etc. This is the first year the older girls have cared about staying up until midnight so I am trying to make it fun and memorable for them. School the next day will happen, but it will have to be very low key because I am sure we'll all be very tired!
Happy New Year everyone! I'll post pics from our little party later in the week.
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