A little early with the blog this week, but after a big home school day I've found I have a bit of time before Asa is done with work (yay for work from home week!), and next week's blog will have to come Sunday (if at all), so it all works out. Next Monday we're heading off on vacation, so this week is lots of prep work.
When I last left you, Hayden had built a nice blanket fort in the corner of the living room. Which quickly took on a life of it's own. Before I knew it my entire family room was under blankets.
Monday and Tuesday were full home school days, and Wednesday Asa was off work, so we headed out to Mosi to catch the new Lemurs Documentary at the IMAX. We were hoping to do the ropes course and zip line but their was a school field trip invading the entire place. In a funny coincidence it was the boys old (old) school, Oakstead Elementary.
We managed to avoid the hoards of children though. When I saw the pure choas that was field trips, I asked Peyton if thats what really happened on them. He replied with 'Oh, yea, I HATED them. Nobody ever listened.'
We did get to see the Lemur Documentary without too much trouble. I had no idea Lemurs only live in the wild in Madagascar. It was even narrated by Morgan Freeman. What documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman isn't good?
On the way home we stopped at Sonic for happy hour, since we had missed it on Tax day.
If you read my updates on Facebook, you may have recently read about the competition to see who is the best at putting their head in the freezer. Yes, that's a thing. Calib came up with it after losing to Asa is NCAA too much. He said he was the best at something, and came up with that. So, now, I randomly find children (and Asa) like this....
Friday we colored our eggs. I hard-boiled three dozen, and am now coming up with all kinds of ways to use hard-boiled eggs.
In the middle of coloring, our neighbor stopped by to drop off some Easter candy for us. He stayed for awhile and told us some not-to-be missed attractions for our vacation. He also agreed to watch our plants, one less thing for Justin to worry about.
When we were done coloring our eggs, the boys worked on Operation Egg Drop. They were to construct a contraption which could be dropped and keep the egg in tact.
I refused to help at all, so everything they came up with was totally on their own. Peyton used a bucket, wrapped his egg in a blanket, and then taped plastic wrap to the top. Calib used an empty kleenex box, stuffed with towels.
And Hayden constructed a contraption out of his legos. I was so worried he was going to break the egg in construction.
We then took our contraptions down to the park. The plan was to drop them out of Justin's second story window, but he was at Whole Foods, so we decided to just go with the top of the slide at the park.
Also, sidnote: Don't judge my kids outfits. I tried to tell Peyton to get dressed, and he replied with 'what for? we're just going down to drop the eggs', it was a cold dreary rainy day and we had all sat around watching Harry Potter and constructing egg contraptions.
Asa dropped Hayden's first.
Sadly, it broke.
Peyton's was dropped, and his egg came out totally unscathed.
And then Calib's was dropped.
His also turned out totally fine.
Oh, so I forgot to tell y'all but earlier in the week, Asa and I totally KILLED it grocery shopping. We don't usually coupon. However, when I hear there are $10 off coupons in the paper, I'll usually pick up a couple. Publix and Target both commonly run these coupons, this week it was Targets turn. A bunch of other good coupons kind of fell in my lap and we ended up with $170 in groceries for $81. I would have taken a picture of all of our purchases, but thats a lot of work. It was a good grocery week though. In addition to all that, I had $20 free to spend on Groupon so we bought one to the Land and Sea market, and ended up getting 4 meals worth of meat for $4.
I'm bothering telling you this, because the meal you see before you came in for UNDER $3 for ALL FIVE of us. Yes, for real. The chicken is from the land and sea market, so it was $1. The sauce Asa made was negligible, but even if you put it at .50, the frozen veggies were also .50, and the bread was less than $1, being a sell by today bakery item. The strawberries were free. They're on sale for $1.50, but I had $1 off fresh produce coupon, and a .50 cents off Driscolls berry coupon. It was such a good dinner too. Asa did an awesome job.
I did mention we watched another Harry Potter movie. Peyton finished book #5 (The Order of the Phoenix). So we all watched the correlating movie. As soon as he was done with book five, he grabbed book 6 off the shelf. That was Saturday. He's almost half way through it at this point. This is basically where he spent Saturday. Asa was working, and it was another dreary day (get it together, Florida weather!) so I didn't mind too much.
When I had Calib, someone once told me 'they're all good ages'. I used to get quite sad that my kids weren't babies anymore, and they were getting big so fast. It's also a bit of a hazard when you have kids so young, and then when your oldest is hitting his teenage years, your friends are having their first babies. But, since we've been home schooling and I get to spend so much time with them, I don't mind it so much. Time has slowed down a bit, and I try and remember to enjoy every minute of it. Even when they are driving me nuts. This relates, because this was the first year we had no Easter Bunny Believers in my house. And, it didn't really bother me. I got to sleep in (we actually had to wake the kids up at 10), and we hid everything in the morning. Since the eggs weren't out all night, they're totally still edible, which is nice.
We didn't really pick out good basket hiding places ahead of time though, so I think they were a little too easy. Everyone found theirs pretty quickly.
In a fun turn of events too, the eggs Asa likes to hide up high aren't too high for Calib to get. That boy is getting taller by the second.
After our egg and basket hunting, we had our usual rabbit pancake brunch.
And we also made a trip to the park, in which Hayden found a stick he was totally intent on bringing home. Sometimes you just have to deal with their messes. Childhood is messy, you know. But this time his stick actually had a purpose. He came home, sat down, and colored this guy and made him all by himself out of his stick. This boy has quite the imagination. His favorite home school thing is his writing journal, where he gets to write stories. He's getting much better at them, too. It's pretty impressive.
So, categorized under the weird things that happen in this house: the tortoise and the cat just hanging out, looking outside. I think Deleno is going to be bummed when we're on vacation and he has to spend it in his habitat, and not wandering the house. I'm so hoping the new house has a screened in room he can live in. How do you think the Realtor will feel about that request? 'Um, yes, we're going to need space for our tortoise to roam. Preferably something screened in with tile.'
We also broke out the Super Nintendo. Flashback to my college days. Sad story though: I spent months trying to get to level 100. One day I finally got to level 99, and discovered it didn't go any higher. What a let down.
For Easter dinner, Peyton offered to cook. We were having a low country boil, which is so easy, I told him he'd have no problem making it himself. I talked him through it, but didn't help him at all. He did it all on his own.
That's it from here. We just had a blue day for Peyton (he's on 1963 on his timeline-- JFK was just assassinated!), and Calib is still working on his checklist. Hayden finished ahwile ago and has managed to strewn his toys all about the family room while I've had my headphones in.
Up next: Our final aquarium class of the year, a civil war puppet show, and visiting with some friends. If I don't get a blog up on Sunday, I likely won't have one up again until the following week when we get back- but then I'll have loads to share! And then it'll be May... and May is going to be busy, busy, busy!
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