Homeschool Mother’s Journal–Week of 9/10/12

Monday: Beginning of week 6. I spent the previous week working on school schedules. I’m fairly sure that I’ve got it all down well. I’ve added a few books to each of the kids’ workload which adds some to my workload  School was finished by 2pm. Perfect. And almost perfect attitudes as well.  

Lee will start WealthQuest for Teens today (a review item). It will most likely be later in the day. Much later. *Note, this didn’t actually happen until Thursday because first she was sick then I was sick.

We had scones for breakfast with coffee. Yum.

We don’t have any plans to go any where today, although Lee did get some birthday money from a long time friend of the family and wants to go spend it. Nope, not today.

Dinner is vegetarian. Well at least meatless. It’s noodles with a white ‘garlic’ sauce, a bit like alfredo I suppose, and peas.

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Tuesday: Forgot to record what happened on this day. School was alright. We got everything done but Lee wasn’t feeling well so she didn’t babysit. Fox had had insomnia the night before which leads to somewhat poor attitude the next day.

We had meat and cabbage for dinner. It was a recipe my sister gave me that originally is for cabbage rolls. Well, it seems my sis and I think alike; a recipe is simply a loose guideline She tweaked the original recipe and I tweaked her tweaked recipe. It turned out so good that we have less leftovers than I’d hoped.

We went to the store and library. Lee got some birthday money the day before so she had to spend some. Just had to. She also put most of it in the bank. I had to buy a new mouse. By the way, if you want to look at more than one computer mouse, is it still ‘mice’ or is it then ‘mouses’? My computer thinks it’s definitely not the second!

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Wednesday: Got my Math911 review done, just in time. It was a difficult review for me to write for some reason.

It’s already 8:15 and the kids are not up yet. Tsk tsk. Lee is to make pancakes for breakfast. Guess I’ll wake her up. …She got up but we had the pancakes we made last week and put in the freezer (for just a day like this). She still isn’t feeling very well and didn’t get everything I’d put on her list for school done.

We had leftover from dinner last night for lunch. Lee declared it delicious. Dinner tonight is spaghetti (without meat) with garlic bread (just slices of bread with butter and garlic powder).

I mowed the front and back lawn today because the next two days are supposed to be not so nice. We didn’t mow last week because it was too wet; we had a mini-jungle

I got an email letting me know that a product for a review that is coming up has shipped- it’s for me. I’m really excited about it, too. I’m reading over at the AO forum. Also just received two books I bought (inexpensively, of course!).Still working on a few review books. Signed up for the Good Morning Girls Colossians study that lasts 8 weeks, starting September 17.

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Thursday: I was sick and slept most of the day. The kids were very good about their school, getting started and done without hardly a word from me.

We had grilled burgers, franks and steaks for dinner. Dh and ds had the steaks (which were maybe 4 oz), both also had a hotdog and ds had a burger. He’s a growing teenager. I had a hotdog and a burger (was starving after sleeping all day). Lee had a hotdog. The hotdogs are huge, the burger so not. For the side we had a potato…thing. They come frozen and say they are au gratin potatoes but they don’t really taste like it.

That’s all I recall about that day!

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Friday: We had to go grocery shopping today. That meant figuring out the weekly meals. I have kept all the previous weeks we’ve been doing our weekly shopping so I often just copy one of those weeks. There are none the same though. Next week we will be having crockpot lasagna for Lee’s birthday dinner. We went shopping and spent $32 for the week. I think it was $32 –or so- last week as well. The first week was crazy at $140 but we had to buy dishwasher soap and some other non-food items that hike up the cost. Oh and our ‘staples’; had to restock flour, ketchup, mayo, etc. Even so, we are at just over $200 for 3 weeks; if the trend continues the last week should be fairly the same. Our total would be about $240 for a month of groceries for a family of four. Not bad, I say.

I received the big box from the National Tax Training School and am e.x.c.i.t.e.d to start it! Not to mention the binder the course comes in is huge and I love 3-ring binders! And received Fox’s own copy of How to Read A Book. We’ll be starting that this year. It’s a great book.

School was.. done… mostly I’ll post that here since I didn’t make a separate one for today’s school. I don’t think I will continue the daily posts; perhaps back to weekly, or every other day. Maybe. Or maybe work on a post throughout the week but only publish it once a week. Whoa. What would once a month look like? Hmmm.

Y9 –Lee (10th grade)
Bible: reading- 1 Samuel 1 (narration); verse- recited Ephesians 6:10-18, read, wrote and recited Galatians 5:16-17
Foreign Language: Latin (First Form, Quiz 25, oral)
History/Geography: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (historical fiction about the Salem Witch Trials); The Royal Road to Romance, ch 7 & 8
Math: Geometry, pg 31 (Mastering Essential Math Skills)
English (Literature): Tale of a Tub by Jonathon Swift, Preface (narration)
Art/Music: Picture study of La Loge (The Theater Box?) by Renoir; introduction to The Romantic Period
Home Ec: chores (dishes, vacuuming); WealthQuest for Teens (did this Thursday as well)
Current Events: 1 story (various online news sources: Student Daily News, CNN student news, NY and Washington Times, Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Worldmag.com), recorded

Y7Lite –Fox (8th grade)
Bible: reading- Judges 14 (narration); verse- recited Psalm 51:1-8
Foreign Language: Latin (First Form, Quiz 25, oral)
Geography: Seterra; The Brendan Voyage, ch 3 (narration)
Math: Algebra (No-Nonsense Algebra, Lesson 2-5, #9-16, review #3-4)
English (Grammar & Penmanship): Jensen’s Grammar, Test 9; Pictures in Cursive, Book E
Art/Music: Picture study of La Loge (The Theater Box?) by Renoir; introduction to The Romantic Period
Home Ec: chores (dishes, sweeping)
Current Events: 1 story (various online news sources: Student Daily News, CNN student news, NY and Washington Times, Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Worldmag.com), recorded

We were going to do nature study but…it’s raining. Lee says that nature refuses to be ‘studied’ by me but I’m thinking it’s trying to get me out of my comfort zone. What’s a little rain, right…?

Also, I , yes *I*, misplaced The Problem of Pain so Lee couldn’t work on that today. Bad me. Bad. And I don’t even recall picking it up. But I know I did because I remember thinking I was going to.

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I’m going to post our coming week’s meal plan here as well (we do plan out ‘snacks’ as well but I’ll not put them here)-
Saturday- Breakfast: Cold cereal
Lunch: Salad with cheese and tea
Dinner: Creamed meat over rice with veggies, milk or juice to drink

Sunday- Breakfast: Eggs and toast with juice (coffee for me!)
Lunch: Meat and cheese sandwiches with juice or tea
Dinner: Grilled ‘stuff’ (meat of some sort) with side salad, tea or milk

Monday- Breakfast: Scones with coffee (becoming a tradition this school year)
Lunch: Tuna sandwiches with juice
Dinner: Pasta with ‘garlic’ white sauce and veggies, tea

Tuesday- Breakfast: Granola with yogurt or milk
Lunch: Rice “stew” with beans, juice
Dinner: Pizza, tea

Wednesday- Breakfast: Omelets or scrambled eggs with cheese, juice
Lunch: Meat sandwiches, juice or tea
Dinner: Salad with cheese, tea

Thursday- Breakfast: Muffins with juice
Lunch: Leftovers (I’m sure there will be some; if not, we’ll figure it out)
Dinner: Crockpot lasagna, peanut butter drizzled cheesecake, moose tracks ice cream (Lee’s birthday dinner)

Friday- Breakfast: Scones (special request from Lee since it’ll be her birthday)
Lunch and dinner aren’t planned since Lee and I won’t be here. The guys will be on their own

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Things on my mind that I’ve not already mentioned: I’ve not linked up anywhere for any of my posts of any kind for a long time. I also don’t have any pictures to put in my post. For some reason those two things are sad for me.

I very rarely finish what I start. Well, I finish breakfast or dinner But larger projects. Or maybe it’s smaller projects. I mean projects like trying to read so many books by a certain date; trying to finish *one* book; trying to be active in discussions. Trying to find a ‘passion’. I give up way too easily.

I think that’s about it for the week. Tomorrow Fox has community service but I don’t have any plans. I should make plans to do deep cleaning; we have a lot of spiders lately. Shudder.

Hoping to link up this time with a few places. If I do, I’ll link them here.