may ~ week 20 {art, piano, turtles, keurig, theater}

what's the expression of... we've spent two full days together and i'm not ready to go back to reality, so please don't leave me home alone?   jazzy's face says it all.

while the girls were at theater practice, i seized the opportunity to pick up some mom gifts.  apparently, this mama has forgotten how to shop for herself.  this mama didn't get a thing.  oh well.  shopping is overrated anyway, right?

i took the girls through hobby lobby to find props for their much-over-do-photo-shoot.  if $100 were pocket change, i would have grabbed that wagon down there.  loved it!  we left with a much smaller wagon... and a few other things. ;)




painting props begs more painting.  nator painted a picture, naming it 'world peace' because, in her words... "it's a place of peace.  no one can get hurt or hurt other people.  people cooperate... just as the world should."  love that kiddo.   



we dropped daddy off.  he and his boss were headed a lil' north.  hubs was speaking at a conference. 

nator played her 10 pieces at our local collage campus.  just her, a judge, and a piano.  nervous mama stood outside the door.  we went out to an early dinner.  her fortune cookie said relax and enjoy yourself.  great advice.

while out of town, hubs went to the texas rangers game, sitting behind phil mickelson.  (ummm... yeah, i had to google him.  sorry, pro-golfer, phil.) <= i think google should be a verb.

while at home, mama was doing her sane best to keep the home front moving along.  the keurig was not cooperating.  see the sweet pic of the keurig ready to go for me early in the week?  sweet hubs.  by the end of the week, the keurig waved it's white flag, went wonky, and died.  just outside of warranty.  we called the company.  they were of little help.



at least mama remembered how to boil water for tea.  mama needs tea.  and quiet.  so... this lil' activity to take a vow of silence in our history lesson was quite tempting.  gracie just laughed.  yeah... it wasn't going to happen. ;)

if you felt sorry for jazzy... don't.  she currently sleeps on 4 thick layers of memory foam taken off the girls' beds after their room makeovers, waiting to be turned into dog beds.  do i even need to say how much she loves it?



theater practices always look like a hot mess 'til just before performances.  *crossing fingers*  that it will all come together.  just a nervous mama talkin'.

my little liesl is excited about the swings on stage.  one for each von trapp child. cute.

maria {sound of music} singing her last note.  some of these songs are hard, y'all.

surely, i'm forgetting something from this week, but... this mama is taking pictures for the public school cast tonight.  public school cast is usually much more... chaotic?  i mean no offense.  pray for me. ;)

all for the love of our kiddos, right??  in a world where every day is "kid's day." ;)  <= because on mother's day, gracie wanted to know when kid's day was. ;)

may ~ week 19 {putt-putt, harry potter, mother's day}

let's get caught up, shall we?

we ended our little 2 day beach get-a-way by sneaking in a game of putt-putt before heading back home.  it's really more about the fun, not the score.  who cares if it takes 15 putts to get it in the hole.  ;)



nator says, "the fun is in the challenge."
she should write fortune cookies.
or be a counselor.

i have used this quote on myself and in parenting 
a few times since then.



we met our homeschool theater group after practice for a meal.
mama grabbed 10 minutes to herself in the car...
no one - not even the dog - to ask anything of me.
quiet.  i like quiet.

library time...
nator picks more american girl books.
she has a soft spot for addy.
gracie decided to try harry potter.
i have opinions on this, but shall refrain.
it's ignited a love of reading in her.
for that, i'm truly thankful for. 

she's allowed to watch the movie when she finishes a book.
nator watches some of it with her eyes covered.
{we're watching the second movie tonight.
just in time to celebrate hubs getting back in town.}



these days, our schoolwork consists of history, math, and reading.  we'll get back in the swing of things once some of our activities level out.  

mama needs to plant some flowers.  
mama has no motivation because there's no relaxing area to enjoy them.  furniture is falling apart, no shelter from the sun, and... did i mention a time or twenty, a newly developed gas station behind our house?  

so, the potted weeds sort of match the ambiance, yes? 
i can be hired to work my magic in your yard, too.
only the best for my friends. ;)

nator had piano preparations for her yearly 'judging' at our local collage campus.  she was to memorize 10 pieces.  



not able to move about much myself, mother's day weekend ended up quite uneventful in our home.  with our trip to the beach the weekend before, we were due some downtime, i suppose.  catching up on the dvr, reading, and sofa time.

hubs usually picks out cards from the girls for them to sign.  playfully, i asked the girls if they picked them out.  nator said, "no, but we put the love in it."  ah... the handwritten part truly goes straight to the heart of a mama.  simply, the best.

the girls delivered breakfast, cards, and a flower from my white rose bouquet.  nator says, "i can't wait 'til i'm a mother and i get to be treated like a queen."  hehe...  


hope you had a wonderful mother's day weekend, filled with sentimental in-between moments... and now currently easing back into reality.

{un}civilized classmates

our furry students are becoming quite accomplished 
in middle-aged culture, 
the mysteries of converting a percentage to a fraction, 
new vocabulary words, like 'garish', 
listening to summaries of harry potter,
american girl mysteries, 
theater script...





and manners.

does your homeschool have a furry pet?
if not, this is the part where i try to talk you into it.
i would invite you not to look at the pets,
but at the kids.
happy, happy.

ummm... did it work?
*spoken with big, brown puppy eyes*