December Week 4

Christmas Tide

We finished up our studies this week.

Went gift buying and

 took holiday pictures around Stillwater.

Wednesday was Christmas Eve.

This is the day we spend time with all

the Ferguson's.  It was another perfect

Christmas and the kids were spoiled.

 

 In the morning we opened all of Santas

gifts.  After breakfast we left for

Brainerd to have our Wayt Christmas.

How wonderful it was for the kids to 

be with their Great-grandparents.

After returning home from Brainerd the 

boys were invited to attend a Wild game 

in a suite!  Now they are really spoiled! 

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

Until next week

~blessings

December Week 3

We started out this week with 

the celebration of Saint Lucia.

With our very dear friends

we attended a early morning 

service at the Gammelgarden

historic farm.  Here they have 

an original chapel (unheated)

The service was traditional and 

all in Swedish and by candlelight.

It was so beautiful.

After the service we went to a 

traditional Swedish smorgasbord.

Listening to the choir.

With the assistance of her daddy

Tillie also lost her first tooth

this week!  I have felt deeply 

she was ready for more formal

academics and now I know.

She was so excited she said it 

felt like Christmas morning.

 

 

 We ended this week with an early Christmas 

celebration with Tom's side of the family.

We had a great time!

until next week 

~blessings

December Week 2

Matthew started the week with 

a Christmas concert at the 

Aurora Staples Inn.

It is such a beautiful old 

home and it was so perfectly 

decorated for the holiday.

While he played his music 

Tillie and Taggert slept near me

on the couch by the cozy fire.

He had two more performances 

this week.  One was at the 

nursing home in Bayport and 

the other was at the historic 

Wardens house.

They played beautifully in this 

quaint  setting.

 

For homeschool co-op this week

we had the chance to see our good 

friend Tristan perform in 

A Christmas Carol.

He did a great job.

They really enjoyed the play.

Next year I think I will get them 

tickets to the Guthrie.

This week we celebrated 

Saint Nicholas day.

They found chocolates in their boots:)

The kids are excited for
Christmas and we are counting
down with our advent calendars.

They are working hard to memorize
 math facts and spelling.
I feel they are progressing.
Even Wesley is getting a lot
better at reversals.  I have
confidence with time he will be fine.

Until next week
~blessings

December Week 1

This week we were still a little
down and out with our various illnesses.
We did not go out for homeschool co-op.
The kids still did go to SCOPE.
Matthew went to violin and practiced
all his Christmas music.

I started reading from the New Testament
and the stories of how Mary and Joseph
became parents :)

We made salt dough ornaments
for the tree and decorated them.

Then we decorated our Christmas tree.
You'll notice our LV showed up in the tree
this week as well.
Tillie said this year she was
"a little afraid of LV and Santa!"




Tom has been hunting more this
November and December.
He has really inspired the boys.
They had an opportunity to go with
him and sit this year.  We have several
friends in town that are generous enough
to let us hunt on their properties.
With the help of a good friend
 our family has learned
how to butcher our own venison.
This has been a great lesson for
the kids to see and experience
from field to table.  This
is really top priority for me.
I am very thankful of Tom for
bringing these skills to our children.





We are so blessed.



Until next week
~blessings

November week 4

This week was a little 

lite because of the 

Thanksgiving holiday.

We decided that it

would be fun to 

have one of our favorite families

ever...over for a huge sleep over!

We had the best time...

Then we were hit hard 

by a family illness.

Here are my usual go to remedies.

I'm not sure that any of this helped 

us this time though.

Thanksgiving was wonderful as usual 

with my mom's side of the family.

Always delicious food.

Matthew and Wesley had 

hockey tournaments.

Poor Matthew played very sick.

He still did a great job.

Until next week
~blessings

November Week 3

This week our studies were 

still focused exclusively

on the three R's.

I have been working 

intentionally with 

Tillie on her phonics.

She is doing very well and 

is extremely excited to read.

This week for our homeschool co-op 

we went to the library and made

our own books.  These were our 

gratitude books for the 

upcoming holiday.

Everyone made a book and when we

came home they made A LOT more.

They must of had a good time. :)

On Thursday's science club

we had a service project.

We found a home that still 

had many leaves left, so

we spent the day raking 

them all.  Our plan is to 

use them for our compost and

learn how it turns into great soil.

 The service projects are my
favorite part of science club.

Until next week
~blessings

November week 2

We are still consistently working 

through our work books.

Climbing our way to good English.

I have seen great improvement 

in grammar, spelling and reading

because of these books.

At the very least we do 

the three R's everyday.

We also add in as much fun

and independent reading

as we can along the way.

Our field trip this week 

was to the Kuhn family farm

The Kuhn family runs a large 

poultry farm.  We got a 

tour and a lesson of how a real

poultry farm operates.

The kids had fun feeding all the 

different breeds of chicken,

holding new chicks,

 

meeting the other animals they 

had on the farm.

 

It was a very informative tour.

We did science club this week at the 

Hudson library.

Our topic was on bioluminesence.

The kids had fun learning about this

beautiful  light up world.

I found a great TED talk on this that

the kids enjoyed and learned well from.

Tillie and Wesley started a new art 

class that lasts through December.

It is with Wesley's favorite art teacher.

They go to Off the Wall studio.

I think we may try some of her

summer art camps.

Tillie loves taking a class of her own.

She is also still loving her ballet.

Until next week

~blessings