Exhausted, and still content (week 9)

As I'm catching back up to date on the blog, I nearly forgot week 9. (March 3-7) It was a whirlwind of a week, filled with exhaustion and celebration, and some home school too.

Leif with his minion cupcakes.

While we were in Colorado, I needed to send out Leif's birthday party invitations for Leif's birthday on March 6th. Leif wanted to invite his entire Kindergarten class from public school, plus some new home school friends, church friend, etc. We talked him into having it at a playground, instead of our house for obvious reasons! The weather looked like it was going to be nice the weekend we were returning home from Colorado, so we scheduled it for that Sunday afternoon.
We arrived home on Friday night. I spent all of Saturday and Sunday morning frantically party planning, making minion cupcakes and decorations. Sunday afternoon was a beautiful, warm, fun afternoon! We had a pinata, 3-legged races, Duck-Duck-Goose, and Gru on the guitar. It was a wonderful fun celebration of our amazing 6 year old.

Charles helping Owen play Duck, Duck, Goose

Charles, dressed as Gru playing guitar.

 Sunday night I felt beyond exhausted. I finally got to bed after some clean up but was awakened by Owen a little before 4am. He was up until 6am (who knows why?) and finally fell back to sleep. I was so thankful that the kids and I were able to sleep in a little, and not have to rush Leif off to school. We were all very tired on Monday, the sort of day I dreaded when I first started to home school.
But, I got Leif set up with his computer lessons, and just decided to go easy on my end of teaching that day. Leif did his lessons, and had asked how Bricks were made, and we found a great documentary series on YouTube by the Discovery Channel called "How It's Made", which also has many other topics we've not yet watched. In the documentary, they mention the 3 Little Pigs, so we watched the 3 Little Pigs on YouTube as well. It ended up being a very peaceful, restful day, and I realized, if I can enjoy home schooling on a day when I am that exhausted, I think I really like this!

After our lesson on the food chain, we ate ice cream and tracked the chain from grass to ice cream. Leif's a good food model, isn't he?