Weekly Update

Things are busy at our house these days.  Andrew leaves so early for his school swim practice.  Like 5:30 early.  So some mornings I don't even see him before he goes to school.  I guess that is good practice for next year!  After school most days he goes to his year around swim practice. Between swimming, school, and homework he keeps busy. 

Monday's are always busy days at our house we have lots of extras on Monday:

Gymnastics
Piano
Clogging
Swim team, Andrew is not our only year around swimmer, Sophia is also swimming.


This Tuesday I had a doctor's appointment to get a second opinion on my foot.  So that added to the busyness of the week.  The orthopedic I saw agreed with the surgeon that recommended the foot surgery and said he would recommend the same procedures and he would let the surgeon I saw operate on his foot.  Having a second opinion makes me feel more confident that I am making the right decision. I should hear Tuesday if the 21st is still the date. 

Wednesday is the day our co-op meets.  So the morning was filled with school and the afternoon was filled with co-op.  Our co-op does History, Science, and Writing.  I LOVE IT!  The younger kids do History, Science, and have an Activity Class.  After co-op we go to church.  So it makes for a late dinner and an even later night.  However it is worth it! 

So Thursday is our sleep-in day.  We do school but it is at a much lighter pace on Thursdays.  I spent the morning teaching and the afternoon making chili to freeze for us post surgery.  I made 6 batches and the kids asked how much chili are we going to eat?  We eat 2 batches at a time....so it really was not as much as it looked like!

Then Thursday afternoon Andrew had a swim meet for his school.  I was helping transport kids from school to the pool so we had to leave the house around 2:45.  Andrew swam in two relays and two individual events.  He did well.  He dropped 9 seconds in his 500, so that was exciting.  He won the 200 freestyle so that was great too!  The relays did well especially considering one of their usual relay participants was sick so they had subs.  Way to step up guys!  So neat to see how much the kids have improved.

After the meet ended Sophia, Lydia, and I left to go to Girl Talk.  What a fun
night!   The girls wore their PJ's, made bath salts, gave each other pedicures, ate yummy snacks, and talked about the importance of taking care of their ever changing bodies with the food they eat, the attitudes they have, cleanliness, exercise.  I really do love this program.  These girls are a trip!  LOVE THEM!  So even though it made for a very late night.  It too is so worth it.  Plus I get to hang out with the girls awesome Mama's! 

Friday we went on a field trip with our co-op to the North Carolina Museum of Art.  Which was exciting because it meant we did not have to do school!  That being said I should also say I am not a museum person....so I was not super excited.  However, I do want to expose my children to culture and perhaps some of them are museum people, so we went......I found out they are not museum people either BUT we did have fun!  Our day went something like this:

Early morning swim practice, followed by biscuit breakfast with some friends, and a fun van ride to the museum.  Then we toured and got to see Leonardo da Vinci's Codex.  We've been studying the Renaissance at co-op so this went perfectly with our studies.  The highlight for my family was a picnic lunch on the grounds!  I told you, we are just not museum people! 

This was my favorite piece of art.  It was pretty cool.  It is an upside down Mona Lisa created from spools of thread stacked on wire string.  Who would have ever thought to do that!

After the tour was the picnic.  Food, play, and visiting is so our speed so we ended our field trip in high spirits!  Audrey did not go with us but she did have a fun day too.  She hung out with Mama and Aunt Stacy. When we got home I took a short nap and then did some house work.

Saturday started with our youth group's annual Turkey Bowl. I ran a few errands, which were pretty fun cause I had a friend with me!  We left the Turkey Bowl and went to  Jackson's basketball game.  Jackson had a friend sleeping over.  So he was pumped about that.   Randy, Sophie, Jackson, and his friend got to go to the Duke/Buffalo game.  They had a great time!  Andrew was out for the evening and Audrey was at a sleepover for a friends birthday.  Lydia had spent the day with her grandparents and that evening went with her Aunt, cousin, and grandpa to see Christmas lights in Raleigh.   So I actually had some time alone at home!  It was strange.  That happens....never.

After the Duke game we met for dinner at Pizza Inn, went home and played Spoons, and watched a movie....well part of a movie.  We got too tired and went to bed.

Today was a great day of worship.  Love our church family.  We had lunch and then I had a good nap.  While I napped Lydia researched, wrote, and typed her entire history project on Cathrine of Argon.  She does not want to worry about it on Christmas break.  It's not due until we get back from Christmas break.  She even made the poster on her own.  Then she picked out what to wear because she has to present her project to her class and dress as Catharine.  LOVE that she initiated it and did a great job all on her own.  She is such a blessing to me. 

Randy, Jackson, and I ran a couple errands tonight and had a nice family dinner at home.  The little ones are off to bed and Randy and Andrew are cheering on the Steelers.

That was our week.  Next weeks looking busy too!