HAPPY FALL!!!

Oh I am so excited it is finally fall.  this is my favorite time of year!  I love the pumpkin spice frappuccinos at Starbucks, I love pumpkin bread and soup and cool weather and colors on the trees and in my yard.  An there is the snow...the first snow of the year is so magical.

I am such a little kid when it comes to this time of year.  Between now and Christmas I am perfectly giddy!

We haven't been doing much formal learning around here lately.  Bren is working the swing shift (2-10pm) and so our schedule is a bit off.  We get up and hang out with dad for a while.  I do any errands that need to be done with none or some of the kids, or else Bren does some business he can't usually do after work on rental houses, or some project around our house.  Then the kids play more with dad and I make lunch or clean something.  Dad heads to work after lunch and we read some books or do a computer game (educational of course).  There is some book work, but not much :)  and then some outside play, dinner and a movie before bed.  And bed is a hard adjustment.  I am not used to doing it alone. 

So tomorrow will make it two weeks we have been on this schedule.  And there is one week to go.  Then he should get back to normal hours and we can get back into our normal routine.  It has been interesting, and we are managing fine (better then if he was on the midnight shift) but still, I don't care for it and want normal hours back.  Luckily he get the weekend off, last weekend he had to work Sunday.

Anyway, we are reading The Bronze Bow, doing art projects, decorating for fall, doing an online drawing class, baking cookies and muffins.  then there is math, which I am trying to do with some "living" books and games, and they are reading some nature readers, some books on the senses, we read about China and planets.  I guess things are progressing along.  I think it is good to write this stuff out because when you are taking the life learning approach, it is easy to think you aren't doing any "school work".

well, that's all for now, but again I say HAPPY FALL!!