Thanksgiving is over...

We had a great thanksgiving celebration!  Three parties, three trips back home, lots of family. :)
We have so much to be thankful for this year!!!

But now that is all over and we are back to life! Matt had a four day weekend, so he was back to work today.  We took Thursday off from school, but did do half a day on Friday (remember, I have to do four days of math, spelling, English no matter what!), so I finished those subjects up then.  We got back to school full time today  I could tell the girls had a good break, they sat in their chairs, they didn't argue or complain, they learned and it went much smoother than we had left it last week!

Now that we are into Christmas season, I changed things up a bit with school.  A couple of weeks ago, I bought a book on amazon called The Christmas Countdown. For every day in December, it has a short Bible reading, a devotional, questions, and a family activity.  I thought this would be very appropriate for school! (We are going to put our bible curriculum away until January).

Today the reading was from Malachi and it talked how we should be anticipating Jesus' coming.  It talked about not getting so caught up in the commercialism of Christmas, but to get our hearts ready for Jesus! The craft was to make an advent wreath, which we didn't get to today. I can either go to Hobby Lobby and get all the pieces or I can cheat and order one off of Amazon. I wasn't quite prepared for today, so neither one got done! Hopefully I will get this done though, I think an advent wreath would be a great thing!  We will not do every family activity, but maybe 2-3 times a week. As I was looking ahead today, I noticed that we need to make gingerbread cookies at the end of the week. That looks like fun! I may call a few friends over to make them together. :)

Anyway, off to science!