The Happy Homeschool Mom: Our Week in Review (June 3rd-9th)

Most of this week can be summed up in 3 letters VBS. It was VBS week at our church so Monday through Friday from 8:30-12:15 we were at church. I was the Science Leader again this year and had Anthony and Christian as my youth helpers. We picked up Chelsea and Liam and brought them with us. Nick was the Recreation Leader (someone filled in for him Monday when they were on their way home from D.C.) Alex was a floater working wherever they needed him, mostly crafts. Our VBS theme this year was ROAR which focused mostly on the Israelites in the Old Testament with one lesson on Jesus in the New Testament. We learned that When Life is Unfair...God is Good! When Life Changes...God is Good! When Life is Scary...God is Good! When Life is Sad...God is Good! When Life is Good...God is Good! We had a great group of children this year and amazing adult and youth helpers.

The science station was a lot of fun. On Monday we played with tumble drums, dominoes, and marbles. On Tuesday we played with catapults, and hoopoe birds and watched an amazing egg experiment. On Wednesday we played with presto changos, made elephant toothpaste, and did a color changing water experiment. On Thursday we played with optichromes and made an optical illusion with fish in a fish tank. On Friday we made slushees in a bag (I will never do this again with this many children!) and did the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment (they love this one!)

Other Activities this Week

Monday the boys finally got home. I say finally because when they were about two hours away one of the vehicles traveling with them had car trouble and they were stuck on the side of the road for quite awhile. They got home about 3 hours later then we expected but they made it. We found out their ranking in the competition later in the week. In the obstacle course they placed 71st in the challenge course they placed 46th and in their engineering notebook they placed 46th with an overall rank of 62nd out of 84 teams in their category.

Anthony waiting for the car to get fixed

Wednesday there was a 4 H Leather Making workshop from 9-2 that Lily, Christian, and Alex were very interesting in attending. So I dropped them off and then took the rest of us to VBS. When we were done we took our sack lunch and went to the EH House to eat and wait for them to finish up. They made, stained, and painted two coasters, a key chain, and a bracelet.

Thursday after VBS the girls had their music lesson. Later that evening our AG agent came out to help give one more shot to the pig to hopefully completely clear up the pneumonia. She is eating great and acting what appears to be normal for a pig.

Friday after VBS we went grocery shopping and then had pizza and a movie that night. It had been several weeks since we have all been home to do that on a Friday night.

Lily and I finally had a chance to play with our embroidery machine this week. We practiced making a few designs on some scrap fabric and learned how to download designs to our computer and transfer it to the machine with the usb. This is a design we downloaded and transferred.

I was trying to get some pictures of our baby goats all lined up. They were not real cooperative. Sugar and Frank were the twin brothers and are almost 6 weeks old. Frank (the red goat) is a monster, he will be a really big goat. Sugar (the goat with the light colored face) was the runt and is much smaller. Betsy (white with the darker colored face) is 3 weeks younger then the boys and is almost as tall as Sugar, wider, and feels like she weighs more.