The good in the Cold

This morning we woke to a winter-wonderland of sorts! I was blessed to have Robert stay home for a while this morning, long enough for breakfast and playtime in the ice! The kids are always thrilled when he gets to stay home later! Our dear little girl used it to her advantage when I told her no to candy and many other things she would make her way to find her Daddy who would console her - more than she gets from me!

Here are some more pics of the ice ....

Anyway, our day proceeded as usual even though Daddy was home, so he saw school take place first hand. The boys knocked out their copy work & handwriting at the table before and right after breakfast was served. Then they did their math sitting by the fire keeping warm! I must praise both boys - they are doing so well with their math - very few errors and are just doing a great job! Their brother did get another reading lesson yesterday too so now he points out every S, M or A he sees and sounds them out! Boy do we love How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons!! If only I would do it daily, the boy would be fighting his brothers to read their books already.... no rush though!

Then we moved in the school room temporarily to do our reading and Dad was able to listen in. Then they told him some about some of our other books we read for school. It is fun to hear them recount the stories we have read.

Here are some pics of our early recess - we had to "seize the day" while the ice was still here!


For our PE the boys played wii Fit for quite a while, I sewed and watched - not sure I burned as many calories...oh well! Still a fun day!

Not Me weeekend summary!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

As for me, there is not chance that I would actually thoroughly enjoy about 36 hours without the 4 most important boys in my life. No way! And If those boys happened to leave town and a group of friends suggest having a girls night out, I would never call and practically insist they come to my house to play wii and hang out in PJs since my house is free of all testosterone! Nor would I, on a Saturday night (before 1st grade Sunday School), stay up talking politics and other crazy things until midnight! No way!
I mean, I would dread my boys being gone and would mope around and just have a tough time! I mean I love them! Right?

Okay so that all being said, I am not trying to convince my husband to make "guys time away" a monthly deal where I promise to have the house spotless if he will just leave for 24 hours with those dirty, messy & "counterproductive to a clean house" boys! I mean that is crazy!

Seeing Pink in a BIG way!

Here is our new Big Girl Room!

Do you think she likes it?

She has lots of company in her bed - and demands to have them all to sleep.

We even found room to keep the rocking chair for now -

she loves it so I am glad it can stay!

So fun!!

Girl Time

Today me and my dear little girl headed to a local antique mall with a friend to have lunch in the tea room and shop a bit! The boys are in Vernon to pick up our bed to move into our big girl room. So we are having a girl day! About is a pic of my pumpkin eating my orange from my tea - look at those blue eyes!

Here is one of my finds today!

These goblets match a 24 place set of snack sets I recently received from my mother-in-law! She also passed along a punch bowl with the same (or very close) pattern. So now I have a punch bowl, 24 place setting of snack sets and 2 goblets! I think it may be time for a party!! I found these for $5 each which I thought was a great deal! I am sure Betsy could find them for less, but hey, for me this was a steal!

Here is the tea cup set I found for my daughters new collection. Well, soon to be collection since we only have 2 and I think you need 3 for a "collection".

THis is a plastic set - but the last one I bought her in May (last time we ate in the Tea Room) is the same material and here they both are:

And lastly, here is my last "find" - here are 3 pics in cute frames of Peter Rabbit characters. They were $5 each and I got all 3 for $9! I thought that was great too! They are very cute and will look cute in her room once we move it all around!

So, I think we had a good day and got some good deals! And the day is not even over yet. Not sure what we are going to do tonight, but it will be fun to hang out and just enjoy having the house occupied by girls (even our little dog is on the girl team!)!