How a 7 year old makes breakfast

After coming downstairs to start our school day, this is what I found.
Ruth had gotten herself a grapefruit, cut the top off, and was having some more breakfast.
She ate the entire thing, and I was very glad she choose fruit over the extra chocolate chip cookies we had made and not eaten last night.

Inside a lapbook

It occured to me this evening that I keep posting pictures of the outside of a lapbook, but never the content inside.
Here is a picture of the inside of Mary's Polar Bear Lapbook.
She made a facts book, there are information tabs about where Polar Bears live, and anatomy facts too. The page on the right is all information printed from one of my favorite school sites.

Mary loves bears

So we did a lesson on Polar Bears last week, and finished it today.
Here is the book she made.

A Busy Monday

Today is looking like a busy day. We are going to do a full day of school this morning, and then it's lunch and off to run errands. We need to go to the Main Library, pick up my sewing machine, get the car washed, and plan our week of activities.
Hope everyone had a great weekend, and Happy Monday!!

Saturday Morning

This picture was just too cute, and I wasn't allowed to take it until Mary had applied her lipgloss.

Is that what they mean by "keeping house"

Since last weekend I have been a woman on a mission.
To clean the house.
Last weekend I cleaned, and also went through the kids toys and clothes and filled up the trunk of my car with donations. I finally got around to dropping everything off at Goodwill on Thursday, so now I am tackling trash around the house (inside and out) and washing curtains.
It feels really good to have the house more tidy and picked up.
Now that Mary is reading so well, I feel like we can/should devote more time to school, so that prompted this mass cleaning too. If the house is good and clean, and if everything is in its home and not a mess, I can focus all my attention on their school, and not things that need to be done.
Wish me luck!!

Making Dinner

Both the girls got an apron and kitchen accessories for Christmas, and it has sparked a desire and love of being in the kitchen. Here they are making our stir-fry dinner tonight. Ruth made the sauce, and Mary cut up a whole cooked chicken into bite size pieces.
Dinner is going to taste really good tonight.