Fitness Friday & Weekly Wrap-Up Double Post -Again (the edited version)

Still housesitting...and it throws a monkey wrench in the plans :)

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Last Friday I had nothing to report on either of these. Today I do :)

For Fit Mommy Friday:
Exercise for the week consisted of Walking for approximately 2 miles (or about 30 minutes) because my car had a flat the day before and needed a new tire. I walked home from the tire shop and back to pick it up. Today (Friday) I shoveled snow for what seemed like 10 minutes but the clock said it was almost an hour! Worked up a sweat with that one. 

For water intake -not so good. Very bad indeed. I cannot recall drinking any water actually. *as I take another drink of coffee*

Next week, when we are not housesitting, I expect things to be better.

Weekly Wrap-Up:

Although our school days are not what they should be, we do manage to get some done. I unfortunately cannot record it as well as in previous weeks because I'm just too disorganized this week. 

Kawaii kitty- just because!

She keeps good records :) (even when I don't)

Lee has memorized Ephesians 4:31, 32 quite well. I like that verse: "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." In other areas, she is doing well. A lot of her studies are done independently. She and I do math together and she is doing very well. We were both stumped on a problem in Life of Fred (and I should know how to do the problem but unfortunately, I don't and cannot explain it to her). I plan on looking it up on Khan Academy to figure it out so that I can help her with it. 

She has been reading in Ourselves by Charlotte Mason and surprisingly to her she enjoys it. I haven't had the chance to preread much farther than she is right now but will definitely do that asap. She is moving along with The Brendan Voyage- without complaints finally. 

For Fox, we have decided to do his subjects quite differently than we were. He will do Math (PreAlgebra) every day but his other subjects will be the focus of particular days. Yesterday, Thursday, he focused on Earth Science. Today it is Literature. Tomorrow it will be ... oh, tomorrow's Saturday! Lol too bad for him, he has school. But you get the idea. He also has state testing coming up soon so we have to get him caught up with his assessments so that his teacher has 'benchmarks' to show for him. Interestingly, I've still not gotten any placement news in terms of math for him. Oh well. *Edited to include some positives! I often don't notice that I have more negative things to say about Fox's school than Lee's. I'm working on that but it does take more of my time (and patience) to work with Fox on his school (no matter what method/route we take). He has been enrolled in k12 for 3 weeks now and one of those was our 'vacation' week- so 14 days of actual school time. In that time he has completed 53+ hours of school, 19% of PreAlgebra, 7% of Language Skills, 13% of Literature, 11% of Earth Science, 4% of American History, 7% of Art, about 25% of Spanish, and 21% of Music. He really is doing alright (regardless of how I feel about the program).

He is a silly one :) he's my favorite- shhhh don't tell!

Oh, and how could I forget!? Lee got her B-R-A-C-E-S finally! 

Before braces- 9:50 am

After braces- 11:30 am -she's my favorite- shhhh don't tell!

And it's been snowing- still is snowing :) My well shoveled sidewalk is being covered slowly as I type. 

Friday isn't done at our house but I'm wrapping up our 'week' anyway. Hope all had a great week! Have a look-see at what others have been up to over at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.

PS: I've decided to add Lee and Fox as writers on this blog, although they do have their own. I thought this way it would make it easier for them to blog and this is our family blog anyway. You know, "North Laurel Home & School". Keep an eye out for their coming posts :) *Looks like Lee beat me to the announcement!! Haha!*