This past week has been a lot more like May in Wisconsin with 50 to 60 degree days and cold nights.
The furnace has been back on, and we have had frost which has made us cover our garden.
Even though we have not been able to swim (except for on Monday), it still has been a very good week!
Monday was a beautiful day which meant that our read aloud time was outside on the deck.
I have been reading aloud some very good books to Tate and Eliza!
We do an illustration and narration after read aloud each day, which is an activity that allows so much learning as they retell what I read to them with a drawing and words.
I love their illustrations!!
Lane finished his History course and has a beautiful time line he made to show for it.
We also kept up with piano practice and lessons this past week.
Tate and Eliza are back in the same level again, which means they are sharing that piano bench during lesson time!
On Monday we planted our garden.
It was VERY anticipated by us all and we had a lot of fun!
We planned to plant our plants and our seeds during the day that day, but it was so very windy that the seeds were literally blowing out of our hands!
Once Blake was home and dinner was finished, we realized the wind had died down.
We headed back outside that evening to put the seeds in the ground.
Wednesday was a very cold and cloudy day.
We headed down to the library after lunch and before piano lessons.
We haven’t been visiting our library much these days because there is a huge construction project between here and there.
I cannot complain about road construction!
It puts our meat and potatoes on our table!
We decided yesterday we are going to head the opposite direction for awhile and visit a different library to avoid the long line of waiting in the road construction.
We LOVE books though!
I read a very, very good book last week called Chasing Shadows.
It is about WWII.
It was challenging, inspiring, unimaginable and has left a long lasting impression on me.
The courage and faith of the people who lived through that war is amazing!
Thursday I snuck to church for the afternoon to be with a handful of sweet friends.
There was an instant pot class that was being held!
We learned all kinds of very great ways to use the instant pot, including this little do-it-yourself part that can be placed over the release valve to direct the steam wherever you want it to go.
Thursday, late in the evening, brought a pretty bad storm to our area.
It was FIERCE!
Lots of hail, lightening, thunder and it poured and poured rain.
Yes, our little garden was affected.
We lost some of our little plants, but I hope to replace and replant them today!
Friday was my normal get up and run out the door to do all the errands and grocery.
I have a great team in our trio once I arrive home though!
They are a force to be reckoned with!!
We get all that grocery put away fast.
I leave long before my husband does on Friday mornings.
I came home to find notes from him all over our bathroom.
It made my day!!
I love him so much!!!
These were my Friday afternoon rest buddies, because we were having company Friday night.
I had already put in a nine hour day by 1 p.m., crazy as that sounds!
Of course you know that we ate this week!
I’m sure you know that we had fun in the kitchen too!
Long after I was asleep one evening, Blake got our Kombucha ready for its next brew.
We haven’t had any Kombucha for a long time!
I’m so thankful that he enjoys doing that for us!!
I had some this morning and it is yummy!!
Saturday was big kitchen day, but I’m here to tell you YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
These kiddos of ours are efficient, fast, diligent and joyful in this kitchen!!
Thankful for all of the time we have together in our kitchen, for how much they are learning, and also for how much they love to do it all by themselves!
Being part of a team brings confidence to children!!
All that to say, big kitchen day was over at 9:45 a.m. and Tate and Eliza headed out with Blake and Grant to go to Grant’s house to work.
Lane stayed behind to mow our land, and I worked on some odds and ends in a quiet house!
Saturday night was our monthly Hymn Sing and it was FABULOUS!!
We had such a nice time even though pretty much everyone there was exhausted.
Seems this crazy pace of life isn’t just happening to us!
We did have cooler and cloudy days this past week, but our the world is coming alive like it does every spring, and there were some beautiful sunsets too!
It seems this week will be cooler too.
Can you believe it is Memorial Day weekend this weekend??
Me neither!!
I hope you all had a GREAT week!!
And I hope you have a GREAT week ahead!!
