it's all fun and games

our little school house!

we do our book work when ellies napping. it works for us. ive started a tradition of clearing off the table and light a candle, we play quiet christmas music in the back ground. ive noticed that nate whips through his work now that we are working at the table

he loads up his books, while i make my tea

i put a small cart in the corner, it holds all our books, papers, pencils etc...sure its not pretty but its very convenient!

after i teach the lesson, i am free to get some work done. haha. laundry! this works really well, i can free to move around but i can close enough to answer questions

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Posted by mel at 9:42 AM

our christmas bag are here!

they arrived monday night and we busted into them!
4 cute bags! and a candle for ben. thanks ursi

ellie with her new bag, made just for her! nate keeps asking when he can help her open hers....im thinking to get the chocolate. haha

nate!

bens candle

snacking right before supper!

thank you so much ursi, muetti and vati!

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Posted by mel at 9:34 AM

playing together

my little baby-toddler! she is growing so fast. sniff sniff

i had nate make breaky this am. its about time he pulls more weight around here

ellie was very patient while waiting for her grub

yum! she loved nate's breaky

is it just me or are the days blurring together and i am too busy to notice it until i flip the calender to dec, how in the world did we get to dec already?!?!

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Posted by mel at 2:44 PM

happy birthday ben!

today is your 4th birthday! i had the privilege and joy of holding, singing, loving and crying over you 4 yrs ago today! you came into our lives and changed me for ever. you changed our family. i laid awake the other night, thinking of you. imagining how our home would be with you in it today, would you be close to nate and elllie ? would you enjoy sharing your bedroom with your big brother? you would have started pr k this fall, sitting along side your brother for your studies, running along side of him at gym, or would you be like your sister and like music? i dont have the answers to these silly questions right now, but one day i will! i can't wait to see you again and discover the little boy god created you to be

you my son are so loved. so missed and never, ever forgotten. we love you ben. i can not wait to see you again!

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Posted by mel at 1:28 PM

christmas!

monday morning NATE!! helped me carry the boxes up and we decorated while ellie napped. seriously, nate was such a help! he put all the ball holder on himself and decorated 60% of the tree. we stuck with plastic balls this yr, i think ill keep my good glass balls in hiding for another 5 yrs or so...

anyways, it was fun to share this with him. he was so into it and then carried the boxes down stairs for me and ran the vacuum because and i quote "every boy need to know how to run a vacuum you know" haha

i took bens sock out and placed it on the fire place. i bawled. he is and always be a part of our family. he's my baby boy, hanging out with jesus right now

i did have to move the car to the wreath. i have 2 sets of sticky fingers around here :)

advent! a few weeks back i made a set for my canadian nieces and quinn :) hope you guys got them. i finally finished nate's up yesterday.

each little bag has a candy, a christmas poem, joke, story etc, and a sticker for the count down tree (nate came up with that idea!)

we stuck them on to card stock

and voila! advent in a bag!

i had to take a pic of nate's attitude calender. seriously, this was the best idea ever! so yeah, he's basically excellent during school.....notice i said school....hahaha

we hung nate's advent beside quinn's pic on the b. board

my little doll. seriously. this child is such a joy to have!

i was looking for her earlier. she was way too quiet and playing alone so i went in search of her. no worries! she was playing behind the couch. alone. in quiet, with her 2 dolls and a book

my dolly with her doll. which is funny cause it's not her doll, it's nates. she only has 1 doll

there! i am getting back on the blog wagon....now to remember to bring and take pics outside the house! hahaha 2 comments

Posted by mel at 8:57 AM

week in review

i did a few activities with last last week, with the weather turning colder brrrr outside education is over. ha i loathe being cold!

anyways. i made a simple puzzle for him, i did the prep the night before and gave him the puzzle to work on

he took a phone call from nana in between

and by lunch time he finished. tada. took me 5 mins to make, took him 45 mins to finish. score one for me!

with the weather turning cold and the playroom being colder than the rest of the house (less insulation and its over the garage) nate asked to do school down stairs

so we did. and guess what? it worked SO well

my little scholar

fr morning was insanity around here. i was running late and yelled to nate to get ready to go (we had science) i came in the room to this

nate was putting on ellie's shoes. sigh

we finally got a globe!!!! ive been using a cheap 3.00 plastic one from the dollarstore, that has been glued back together a few times and has wrong info on it. hahaha. toys are u had this one on sale for 25 so i snapped it up. our geography lessons are going well!

QUINN! nate and i finally made the craft you gave us for nates birthday. ha
thank you!

i hope this week is not as busy as last week. as i sit here and type i am listening to my kids play nicely, my phone is buzzing, my inbox is clicking away and i wonder if this week will be even busier? haha

happy monday everyone and i hope to blog more regular! 0 comments

Posted by mel at 8:50 AM