Week two 2010

So, I'm a few days late on posting this, but I am getting it posted!I would really be happy if I could manage a post a week of the whole year.:)So here is week 2.

Monday we established our school schedule. Very important for a good,well rounded week.Okay,honestly, I'm assuming this is what happend, because sadly I cannot remember right now!We DID have a good week so we must have established it on Monday!

Wednesday is our day with the van, so we usually go to the treehouse museum...


Pearl at the dress up mirror.

Our damsel in distress.

"Am I rescued?"

The huge chess set we all love.Pearl was plowing down these pieces with her head,then climbing onto them and rolling them around with her belly.Fun, imaginative game!


Dylan and Pearl crowning the Queen.

Eli's favorite chess set.Fun to throw and knock over.


Pearl with one of the doll displays.

We LOVE the Treehouse!Surprisingly, Asher is in none of these pictures.He is usually at the chess sets most of the time.

Dylan has been making an aquarium all week.Completely self led.She found all the sea books we have,and studied them,played with our hermit crabs, inspected a dried starfish we have, and on Friday, she made a sea anemone!Awesome!

Eve making her anemone/noodles/dreds...Great use for the garlic mincer.Ever the chef.:)

I finally got the boys lego books framed and on their walls!

Fun week.We also switched Eve from her daily Language arts(reading and coloring)to phonics.She is SO ready to read!Yay!And Asher got more in depth with his writing.:)

Phew!See ya next week!

Hold the phone!

It has happened, my friends!I have,after eleven months of toil,COMPLETED my first knittery!!!!!!It is a success!It works, it fits, and it doesn't look like crap!Suuuure,it's not wool like I planned,and we hardly use cloth anymore, but This may be the very boost I need to feel like I can get back into our cloth!Okay, that's a bit early yet.Maybe in a month or so, when it's warmer and we can air out bums and rooms and hang the diapers outside and put the animals outside so they don't eat the soiled diapers....BUT the point is, I domestically engineered!

What I have learned knitting this diaper cover;

1-I had a very tense year.(tight stitches!)

2-I need to learn to relax when I am knitting.

3-I CAN follow a pattern!!!!!

4-HOW to knit!

5-How to do a purl stitch,and ribbing.

6-How to double crochette!

7-That I much prefer crochette especially with little tasks requiring me to use one hand.When I'm knitting I have to stop the whole thing and start it all back up.With crochette I just hold my work and hook in one hand, the hook holds my place, and I have a free hand!

8-and this one is HUGE!!!!!!! I learned the deep satisfaction of providing a fine and useful article for the use and comfort of my child. :)

9-I learned a little about the art of perserverance(not how to spell it, mind you).I learned how to keep at something a little at a time.I learned to put something aside and not lose focus.I learned that time can be magically made,and creation,no matter how small brings peace of mind.

10-I can see how knitting opens pathways in the mind for greater focus,mathematical reasoning,kinetic understanding of how things can fit and work together,and a purposeful reason for following direction and pattern set out by someone else.I can see how it would help the mind strengthen reading(left to right)and hand-eye coordination.I can see how the mind needs some work to free up other important parts of the mind,of thinking and problem solving and creativity.I can also see how these things are being lost to our children and ourselves.Too much,too fast,too easily at the expense of others efforts and our own time traded for money and then for items we feel we don't have the time to create for ourselves.It's a cycle.A pattern of sorts.

Hey,look at that!I can almost see the >>>>>> of a knit pattern in those words.The tapestry of my blog...O.K. a little far fetched,but,I am inclined to quip "I don't give a knit!" Potty mouth.Must be why I knit a diaper cover....

Week one 2010

What a great week to start the year with!We were so ready to return to our regular lives after the holidays,it was a relief to be on task again!I had kids asking for more schoolwork,more structure,etc..!Truly!AND I was actually able to provide it!SO,we had a full week of consistant school lessons!FIRST TIME EVER!!!!!

Also, we got lots of quilting and knitting done,

and to top off the week, Eve lost a tooth unexpectedly Friday night-her tuna melt toast was too toasted she said.It took her about 1/2 an hour to process and then she was happy to show and tell dad and siblings:)THEN Saturday morning the one next to it flopped out!She was still in bed!AMAZING!Very exciting!She placed the teeth in an acorn top for the tooth fairy to transport easier.:)

Great week, hope we can keep it up!