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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

It's a high of 67 today and predicted to snow 8-10 inches tomorrow. Colorado weather always has surprises. And because of teacher conferences with TCA this week, we are taking tomorrow off school anyway - perfect for my snow day plans. If anyone wants to come over we'll be making snowflakes, drinking hot chocolate and maybe bake some cookies.

Troy had to work late last night so I managed the dinner-hour myself. Madelyn has started leaning towards being a little picky towards certain foods, mainly anything that has more than three ingredients or that is too colorful. During supper, I asked her to make a list of ten dinners (had to include at least one vegetable) that could be our menu (start 'em young I say on helping with the grocery list making). Here's her list, copied exactly:

  1. Cheese quesadillas w/ carrots
  2. Ham and cheese sandwiches w/ carrots
  3. Egg casserole w/carrots
  4. Cereal
  5. Yogurt and fruit
  6. Pizza w/ carrots
  7. Rice and chicken
  8. Lunch-able - crackers, cheese, pepperoni or lunchmeat
That was as many as she could think of. Dinner should be quite easy for the next eight meals. 

We're a quarter of the way through the school year! Week nine of thirty-six. Medieval history is much more interesting to me than the ancient history we studied last year; just personal opinion. God's story of history is indeed an amazing tapestry. I'm learning so much right alongside the girls. Being the flexible, like-new-things-person that I am, I had to reconfigure some lesson plans and we've added some additional things to our day but we're settling nicely into the year. 

Amazingly perfect timing -we just finished studying the Mongols, Marco Polo, Genghis and Kubla Khan. Last week, I randomly saw an ad for the local Mongolian grill...if you came to the grill dressed as Genghis Khan you would receive a free lunch. Having a friend alongside, using the same curriculum, is wonderfully convenient; we decided to participate together. Nothing like taking seven children, seven and under to a sit-down restaurant for lunch at 12:30, nearly nap-time. They actually all enjoyed the food (or was it the chopsticks?) and company of friends.



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