My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-up

What a busy and fun week at the Home to 4 Kiddos.  So busy that it will probably be Monday before this post gets done and posted.  :-)

The kiddos participated in part 2 of the herb program.  Remember 2 weeks ago-- that the kiddos helped cook an entire meal with herbs?  This time, they planted herbs, seeds and made rosemary clippings.  I am so ready for spring!

On Thursday, Kiddo #3 got his braces.  3 down, 1 to go!  :-)

Friday was the last day of homeschool bowling and it was a sad day because the bowling alley is closing.  It has been super busy there, but the owners are getting older and their children and/or grandchildren do not want the business.  That is equally as sad-- when family businesses do not continue because of younger generations not wanting to take them on.  Family-run businesses are sadly becoming a thing of the past in this country and they helped to make it great.  Ok, sorry, I digress.  After bowling, Kiddo #1 and I attended a meeting for his homeschool graduation.  It will be lovely affair.  The graduates and their families are all planning it together.  It will be a very special and personalized event.

Saturday was 4-H and Kiddo #4 got to try her hand at quill writing.  There is going to be a history fair next month and the kids were all "practicing" their crafts before they man their tables in May.

Also on Saturday, Kiddo #4 attended a computer workshop for pre-teen girls.  They worked with the scratch program from MIT and designed the beginnings on their own animated fashion show.  They will attend the continuation of the program soon.

On Sunday, we attended the 4th birthday party of a dear friend's grandson.  It was a fun day.  It is such a sweet age!

Phew, and it is Monday again.  The time goes by quickly.  :-)

Have you seen my other posts this week?

The A to Z Blogging Challenge started and here are the first few posts:

A is for Apple Cake
B is for Buttercream Frosting
C is for Chocolate Cake

Check back every day this month for a recipe for every letter of the alphabet!  :-)

Also this week:

Try a New Recipe Tuesday linkup
My Week in Review linkup


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My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-Up

It has been a fun-filled week here at the Home to 4 Kiddos.

Did you see Jupiter?  It was visible to the naked eye this week.  It was bright and beautiful.  Here are two photos-- the clearer one was taken by Kiddo #1, who has a much steadier hand than his mom. That was taken at 140x magnification. You can even see two of Jupiter's moons!  The blurrier one is my shot, but you could see some of the markings on the planet.  Isn't that cool?

We also have been keeping a close eye on the Eagle cams.  The one in Washington, D.C, with parents "The President" and "The First Lady" showed the two babies hatch a couple of days ago.  Amazing to see those parents taking turns on the nest in wind and snow and never flinch.  I wonder if the eaglets will be called "Stars and Stripes."  :-)  There is also the Eagle cam from Pennsylvania that we have been watching, as well.  Very exciting to watch it all live 24 hours a day.

The kiddos participated in an Easter egg making class.  They made buttercream, coconut and peanut butter eggs.  It was a really fun (and yummy!) afternoon. Each participant took home 18 eggs!

Our week will conclude with us remembering and celebrating the important events that took place during Holy Week.  I will post the "My Week in Review" linkup on Saturday morning so you can share all about your week, as well.  Have a very blessed Easter!

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My Week in Review/ THMJ/ Weekly Wrap-Up March 18

It has been a good week here at the Home to 4 Kiddos.

The highlight was a 'Cooking with Herbs' class that the kids took.  It was amazing.  They made an entire meal all from scratch and we all got to enjoy the feast.  They made homemade ranch dip, potato and butternut squash soup, chicken salad, pasta salad, bread, guacamole, mint brownies and shamrock shakes.  I don't think I left out anything.  I may have-- there was just SO much.  It is a two-part series that will conclude with herb planting in a couple of weeks.  The kids will each plant their own baskets of herbs.

And there are our "regular" activites: homeschool bowling (it will be ending soon, sadly!)

and Taekwondo

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  God bless!

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My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-Up

I haven't done a My Week in Review post in some time.  It has been so crazy busy.  I'm sure you know what that is like.  Kiddo 1 has been taking college classes, Kiddos 1 and 2 are taking some pretty intensive CLEP review classes, all of the kids have been enjoying their Taekwondo and bowling.  I still teach classes at church weekly and my older kids serve as teen helpers.  Sometimes, I can't keep it all straight!  :-)

Here are some photo highlights of the last couple weeks:

Kiddo #4 had a spring ceramics class.  I can't wait to see the finished product next month!  It will be curved and stand upright.

Here are some great shots from bowling and Taekwondo

In the collage below, are a couple of photos of the chicks we hatched with a 4-H project and with the warm weather now upon us, I shared a couple from Snowmaggedon, which wasn't that long ago!  :-) Kiddo is almost 6 feet tall, so look at how much snow we got!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend and God bless!

Stay tuned for next week when the kiddos will be attending a cooking with herbs class.  :-)

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My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-up

This is a 2-week update since I was unable to finish this post last week due to our car accident.  Here is what I had for last week:

It has been a fun and busy week here at the Home to 4 Kiddos.

On Monday, Kiddo #4 finished an apron that she has been working on in sewing class.  Isn't it pretty?  I love how it has multiple pockets.

We have continued our geography work in Eastern Europe as well as Ancient Egypt in history.

On Friday, Kiddo #4 had a ceramics class and she made a beautiful fall dish with a leaf impression in it.  I can't wait to see how it turns out.  After the class, we were told that we could visit the many apple trees on the property and help ourselves to some apples.  Wow!  You know I will be posting some apple recipes and soon.  :-)

Friday evening was our Welcome Back party with our 4-H club.  The kids played flashlight tag (too dark for pictures, unfortunately), painted pumpkins, enjoyed pizza and played bingo.  It was a fun evening for all.

And here is what I have for this past week, Kiddos 3 and 4 tested for their brown belts in Taekwondo.  We are SO proud of them!  

Kiddo #2 is enjoying French this year.  He had taken ASL up to this point, but the teacher, due to other commitments, was not teaching the class this year, so he decided on French instead.

To culminate our studies on ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the kiddos made their own cuneiform tablets.  The boys did their initials.  Kiddo #4 made the symbols for fish.  :-)

My posts the past two weeks:

Try a New Recipe Tuesday- October 6th (always good recipes!)

Hungarian Butter Cookies

Eastern European Flag Matching Game

Frugal Mommas Friday Linkup #7 (always great posts to read!)

Bad Accident

Try a New Recipe Tuesday- October 13th (almost 4 dozen recipes to check out!)

TOS Review- Progeny Press

Frugal Mommas Friday Linkup #8 (some good Fall themed ideas!)

TOS Review- Faith of our Fathers

Hope you have had a wonderful weekend!  God bless!  :-)

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My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-Up- October 3

Fall has definitely arrived!  The temperatures dropped and a Nor'Easter and remnants of Joaquin came to visit, as well.

We are studying the Ancients this year and this week, the Kiddos made a replica of the Great Pyramid at Giza as well as the Step Pyramid of Djoser.

We also learned about the Code of Hammurabi and the Hyksos in Egypt.

We are also studying European geography and found a wonderful series from PBS online called Rick Steve's Europe.  He has 30-minute segments on many European nations.  This week, we watched ones on Poland and Hungary, as well as working on our maps and studying the history and geography of each nation.

You can tell fall has arrived by the way these two are watching the video.  :-)

Kiddo #4 invented her own cookie recipe (I am not kidding!) and will feature it this week in a recipe post.  Be sure to check back, for they were SO good!  She got a thumbs up from her brother-testers!  :-)

The storms knocked out our power for a while on Friday evening.  We made the best of it!  :-)

At our 4-H meeting on Saturday, the ice-breaker game was wrapping a volunteer like a mummy.  Look at Kiddo #1!  They also worked on a 'Wildlife Detective' project.

My posts this week:  

Frugal Mommas Friday Linkup

Try a New Recipe Tuesday

Keep safe and dry!  Hope you have a wonderful weekend.  God bless!

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My Week in Review/THMJ/Weekly Wrap-Up- September 26

Another week has come and gone.  Not as "eventful" as last week with 2 field trips, but sometimes relatively uneventful can be good, as well.  :-)

We did visit a friend's house for the Eagles/Cowboys game.  Don't ask how our Eagles did....  :(

Kiddos 3 and 4 are continuing to do well with their online math class.

And we had an awesome breakfast out with Pop on Wednesday....

As part of our study of ancient cultures, we made a ziggurat out of cucumbers and a Chinese lantern.

Ok, our ziggurat definitely doesn't look like the ones of ancient Ur, but we got the general idea, lol.

Hope you had a wonderful week!

My Posts this week:

Frugal Mommas  Friday Linkup- come linkup all of your posts about home and homeschool

Try a New Recipe Tuesday- come join us and share your recipes!

TOS Review- Fascinating Education- a great online science program

My Week in Review- all kinds of great posts shared about homeschool adventures

Linking up today with My Week in Review, Homeschool Mother's Journal, Weekly Wrap Up, 

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!  God bless!  :-)

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My Week in Review/ Weekly Wrap-up/THMJ- 9/19

What a great and adventure filled week here at the Home to 4 Kiddos!  :-)

The kiddos have been working hard on their schoolwork/classes, but of course, there has to be some fun hands-on activities in there like mummifying apples.  You can't study the Ancients without doing some fun experiment regarding mummification!  :-)  We will let you know in the next few days how our "mummies" turned out.  :-)

On Thursday, my birthday, my hubby made me a yummy breakfast and then we headed with some dear friends to the Sight and Sounds Theater in Lancaster, PA too see Joseph. (they were offering an extremely generous homeschool discount and my friend gave me my ticket as a birthday present!!!)  What an amazing production.  Wow!  And, to top it off, one of my friends made me cupcakes and I got serenaded with "Happy Birthday" right there at a bench on the grounds of the theater.  :-)

My parents made me a delicious birthday dinner, so we headed there upon returning from the show for some yummy eats and some Thursday night football.

On Friday, we again trekked up to Lancaster County (I just LOVE it there!) to the annual Cherry Crest Adventure Farm's homeschool days.  If you have never been able to visit Cherry Crest, I strongly encourage you to take the time and do it.  There are over 50 hands-on fun activities for kids as well as a 5-acre corn maze.  The maze has all kinds of fun surprises inside including a zipline, sliding board and even a cafe, water stations and port-a-potties!  It is a family-centered and wholesome place; one that I am pleased that my children ask to visit every year.  We were glad that some good friends got to join us.  It was so much fun!

My posts this past week:

Try a New Recipe Tuesday- so many delicious recipes shared!
TOS Review- Stinky Kid Math- a great resource for Algebra and Geometry
TOS Review- Super Teacher Worksheets- over 10,000 worksheets and more!

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Hope you have a wonderful weekend!  God bless!  :-)


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My Week in Review/ THMJ/Weekly Wrap-up- September 11/12

It is Back to Homeschool time here at the Home to 4 Kiddos!

We continued with our first day traditions of breakfast and photos at the park.

Kiddo #4 was especially excited about starting Ancient History as well as a study of orchestral instruments.

Kiddos #3 and 4 have started their very first online class-  Middle School Math!  :-)

and there was a fall-themed homeschool ceramics class on Friday, as well.  A great start to the new year!

I hope your school year is off to a wonderful start!  :-)

My posts this past week:

Try a New Recipe Tuesday (come link up your recipes!)

Frugal Mommas Friday Linkup (come link up your posts about home and homeschool!)

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