Today I drug out the “environmentally friendly lawn mower” (you know, what used to be called a push mower) and mowed the front lawn. Love the mower but if you have long stalks of vegetation it won’t cut some of them. So that led me over to our weed whacker which I plugged in and… nothing. So the lawn IS mowed but it still looks rough… and my good intentions were for not.

To make it somewhat better I packed up the 4 bigger kids while Echo was sleeping and left Ken in charge of the house. It is a super short walk to the convenience store and a 2L of A&W rootbeer. Which, while it did not SOLVE anything certainly was a pick me up for the whole family.

 

Our schooling today was more of the same… math, sight words, and of course our chapter book. What I am trying to do is give them a set goal for the amount of everything the HAVE TO do in a given day and then allow the boys to decide when and for how long in a sitting they go at it. There are some definite differences, Zander likes to plow through and be done. Gavin, on the other hand, likes to divvy it up with some artistic personal endeavors mixed in. Both styles seem to work well. 

 

We went out AFTER lunch and naptime to work on the backyard. Everything IS still rather damp so the poor mower couldn’t go through the whole thing in one go but we did a good chunk. I put Echo out on a blanket with the umbrella propped up for shade and her siblings standing watch.

 

After supper we made an evening run out to Walmart for a VERY, ok TWO very special purchases – one – the much lamented after PINK potty seat. This one is not collapsible and the right colour so I am HOPING this will speed along our training. She already sat on it twice before bed!

 

Now for the other purchase … THE shoes for the wedding in August! And for only 15.00! They are labelled “pewter” in colour and are not really copper or silver or brass… a lovely flat sandal that I could even see wearing another time. Now to hunt down the 3 pairs of black pants and we are all pretty much clothed and ready to go (if you ignore the make up issue).

 

I finished a few bows last night. One a pretty blue with the last of my blue and brown flowered ribbon and a little selection of button flowers. I am actually running out of 3/8 ribbon of differing patterns. There may be a ribbon hunt in my future (and I certainly am NOT complaining).

 

 

 

With another day of schooling done and gone and a family trip to the store not overly painful I think it has been a good day! We need more of these to be sure!!! Oh and more ribbon…