Wednesday

Today is the day that the girls go to piano lessons... Henry cannot start lessons till he is a better reader, but rest assured he's all about getting his chance!  The piano teacher is the sweetest lady, and she is very free with the treats.   Henry can't wait for his chance to score the goodies!

All three girls been assigned Christmas songs to work on.  Brings me HUGE amounts of joy, and makes me feel touch wistful for the upcoming holidays to listen to them practice.

Makes me feel like making and looking at Christmas ornaments.

My Birdie is pining for Christmas too.  Or rather, she has been drooping and sighing about how far away Christmas is, since August.  I ask if she really would wish away all the fun that comes before then, including Halloween, which is a Big Deal in Chaos.  She says  yes.

I don't believe her.  Not really.  This year Halloween is an even bigger deal since she is putting together a most epic costume of a suit of armor.  Alphonse Elric.

We will, no doubt, post pics of it when she is done.

Yiyah is putting together a Cosplay-type Cat Girl.  She has a few bits that we've picked up from the 2nd hand store that we plan to tweak.

Pearl found a darling hoodie at the thrift store that someone had added dragon details to, so we are gonna use that as a base for some tweaks as well.

Henry is a skeleton.  Always a skeleton.  For a few days this year he was leaning toward maybe a grim reaper... till he was confronted with skeleton costumes.  Then it was skelly.  I think his first, ever Halloween I dressed him as a pirate using a costume that a friend gave us.... but from the moment he could express a preference it has been Bones, all the way down the line.

Let's just say that Henry is NOT dying for Christmas.  He is mightily disgusted with all the Christmas decorations at the store, when all he wants to see are frights, ghouls and especially a rattling full sized skelly that lights up.  Lowes had one yesterday and it was love at first sight.  Too bad for the $90 price tag, and the fact that, oh yeah!  We aren't buying any more Halloween anything this year!

Last night Dadguy and I went and picked up a couch from KSL.com, a lovely nine year old couch for the basement.  When he found out how much we had paid for it, Henry was deeply perturbed that we would go and spend a hundred bucks on some stupid couch when we could have had that skeleton.

He was still talking about it today.

Homeschool?  Oh.  Yeah.  We did get math and reading and the Bird Reports all turned in... but we did not manage to do our read aloud.  I just started reading them The Hobbit yesterday.... tomorrow, I guess.  Tomorrow after we get back from their Aunt T'Amy's house.  They have music theory on Thursday mornings.

And chores.  And practicing.  And getting all the seeds from the sunflower heads removed and boiled in salt water.  And harvesting the last of the tomatoes. And more math.  And reading.  and, and, and...

As crazy-packed as our days are, and as challenging as it sometimes is to do our learning at home... I think the most nerve wracking part is trusting that everyone will end up with what they need to succeed and be happy.  

Praying like crazy.

-The Mama