Precious conversation between dh and ds5 tonight...
ds: "Is Thanksgiving Jesus's holiday?"
dh: "No, Christmas is Jesus's birthday. Thanksgiving is a day to be thankful for all God has done for us."
ds: "Oh! So...it's really thanksGODday!"
dh: "Yes!"
How cute is that?! I had to share.
May each and everyone of you have a blessed Thanksgiving Day!
*Ü* Blessings,
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Turkey Day! (gobble, gobble)
Hope you all had a wonderful turkey dinner, pie and et al. (did I spell that right?)
We did have a nice time, and my oldest son was home, so we took that opportunity to grab the camera and snap, snap, snap! After dinner, I then decided to scrap, scrap, scrap...oh course? what else was I to do?
I've lots more photos we took today...of just the boys, just the girls, etc. and I can't wait to scrap those as well!
I made my first pecan pie today, and other than being cooked a tad too long...it came out great! I'm happy because I was a little nervous about this. My sister had tried several times to make one for her dh, but has only succeeded once, and given she bakes more often than I do, I didn't think I had it in me...but yay! it came out fine, and my dh liked it!
The turkey was tasty, the potatoes perfects and the stuffing...well it was rather stuffing! lol No really, dinner was scrumptious! I hope yours was as well.
*Ü* Blessings,
We did have a nice time, and my oldest son was home, so we took that opportunity to grab the camera and snap, snap, snap! After dinner, I then decided to scrap, scrap, scrap...oh course? what else was I to do?
I've lots more photos we took today...of just the boys, just the girls, etc. and I can't wait to scrap those as well!
I made my first pecan pie today, and other than being cooked a tad too long...it came out great! I'm happy because I was a little nervous about this. My sister had tried several times to make one for her dh, but has only succeeded once, and given she bakes more often than I do, I didn't think I had it in me...but yay! it came out fine, and my dh liked it!
The turkey was tasty, the potatoes perfects and the stuffing...well it was rather stuffing! lol No really, dinner was scrumptious! I hope yours was as well.
*Ü* Blessings,
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Our Pies are done...(well, almost)
Today was our day to make pies! We make alot of pie...so several years ago I decided to bake the day before and alleviate the stress of pies/turkey/taters, etc. all on the same day...boy was that a BIG help!
Because our family is so large, I plan on 4 pumpkins, one fruit and one mincemeat (the jarred apple/raisin variety - a tradition from my childhood.) Well, apparently mincemeat is scarce this year, wally-world didn't have it...so I opted out (*sniff*sniff*) and I'm hoping I'll find it somewhere before Christmas, and I'll make it then.
My dh loves pecan pie, which I have never made...but I did pick up the supplies, and will try to make that for him tonight.
The kids love to bake with me, so of course I let them help. This year I decided to let them help with the crust, so here are a few pics of me teaching them that skill, and two of our finished pumpkins (before baking.) YUMMY!
We are looking forward to a wonderful Thanksgiving with ALL of my children here at home! I hope your Thanksgiving is just as blessed.
*Ü* Blessings,
Because our family is so large, I plan on 4 pumpkins, one fruit and one mincemeat (the jarred apple/raisin variety - a tradition from my childhood.) Well, apparently mincemeat is scarce this year, wally-world didn't have it...so I opted out (*sniff*sniff*) and I'm hoping I'll find it somewhere before Christmas, and I'll make it then.
My dh loves pecan pie, which I have never made...but I did pick up the supplies, and will try to make that for him tonight.
The kids love to bake with me, so of course I let them help. This year I decided to let them help with the crust, so here are a few pics of me teaching them that skill, and two of our finished pumpkins (before baking.) YUMMY!
We are looking forward to a wonderful Thanksgiving with ALL of my children here at home! I hope your Thanksgiving is just as blessed.
*Ü* Blessings,
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
making pies
Good Morning, Friends,
We have a family coming over today to learn how to make pie...it will be so much fun to share that experience...it is one I look forward to every year!
I don't have alot of time as I have to pick up the house a bit...but I wanted to check it with you all and tell you I haven't forgotten you.
I plan to take pictures today and add them here a little later, maybe during naptime!
How are your Thankgiving plans coming along? The turkey is thawing in the fridge here. Every year the company my dh works for gives it's employees a turkey, which is such a blessing. But every year we forget and put it in the freezer (after all it is frozen when we get it.) Then have to scramble to thaw the big bird...so last year I told dh, "next year when you get the turkey we should just put it right in the fridge so it can have a week to thaw" of course we forgot and into the freezer it went. However, I did remember I think it was Sunday night and so it's in there, taking up half the bottom shelf...but hopefully he will be thawed on time!
Have a lovely day!
*Ü* Blessings,
We have a family coming over today to learn how to make pie...it will be so much fun to share that experience...it is one I look forward to every year!
I don't have alot of time as I have to pick up the house a bit...but I wanted to check it with you all and tell you I haven't forgotten you.
I plan to take pictures today and add them here a little later, maybe during naptime!
How are your Thankgiving plans coming along? The turkey is thawing in the fridge here. Every year the company my dh works for gives it's employees a turkey, which is such a blessing. But every year we forget and put it in the freezer (after all it is frozen when we get it.) Then have to scramble to thaw the big bird...so last year I told dh, "next year when you get the turkey we should just put it right in the fridge so it can have a week to thaw" of course we forgot and into the freezer it went. However, I did remember I think it was Sunday night and so it's in there, taking up half the bottom shelf...but hopefully he will be thawed on time!
Have a lovely day!
*Ü* Blessings,
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Science & Thanksgiving Tree
Good Afternoon (almost),
This week in science we've been learning how sound is made by vibration. Specifically, vibrations in our throat...we transferred that knowledge today to water in glasses and the sound made by the glass vibrating. Here are a few pics:
I almost forgot...here is a video of dgd telling what she learned about sound:
Afterwards, we (well...I) created the Thanksgiving tree. I put it on a little cork board as I said I would, and cut out a bunch of leaves. I put the leaves in a basket with a black marker and the stapler...a little sign on the tree gives instructions. Each of the kiddos made their own leaf (including ds4 who wrote FAMiLY). So the tree will fill up over the next several days, and on Thanksgiving we can talk about all we are thankful for! Here's the tree today:
*Ü* Blessings,
This week in science we've been learning how sound is made by vibration. Specifically, vibrations in our throat...we transferred that knowledge today to water in glasses and the sound made by the glass vibrating. Here are a few pics:
I almost forgot...here is a video of dgd telling what she learned about sound:
Afterwards, we (well...I) created the Thanksgiving tree. I put it on a little cork board as I said I would, and cut out a bunch of leaves. I put the leaves in a basket with a black marker and the stapler...a little sign on the tree gives instructions. Each of the kiddos made their own leaf (including ds4 who wrote FAMiLY). So the tree will fill up over the next several days, and on Thanksgiving we can talk about all we are thankful for! Here's the tree today:
*Ü* Blessings,
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Thanksgiving Thoughts
Hi Friends,
I'm sorry I haven't been homeschool blogging lately...I've been doing some digital scrapping and filling that blog instead. I do have some photos of what we've been doing lately, and some new ones of the baby, too...I'll try to get those downloaded tonight so that I can upload them here.
I love the teacher resource publisher Evan-Moor, I even signed up for their newsletter. Today they sent me a really neat freebie by email. It's three writing frames for Thanksgiving...a turkey, pilgrim boy and pilgrim girl. The frames are two page print-outs to color, and then you put your child's writing in between. I think the pictures are really, really cute...so I thought I'd share...here's the direct link. I think you'll like them, too!
Have you popped over to check out my digital scrapbook yet? I hope you do soon...and leave me a note so I know you stopped by!
Hmmm...let's see, what have we been up to lately? Well, today is day 58...which means we are 1/3 of the way through school already! I can't believe it. We're learning the different addition facts for 10, counting the minutes on a clock by 5s and getting better at transitioning from counting one type of coin to another (example: dimes to nickels to pennies - we haven't started on quarters yet.) I'm very pleased with the girls progress in the coin area. We have been doing a spelling program (Evan-Moor) for a few weeks now, and it has dictation built in twice a week...the girls now start and end sentences correctly without needing to be reminded.
OH! I just remembered...lol... I was in the store with B, and we were in the craft dept. She noticed a large package of beads for kids and read it..."Mom, this box has ten-thousand beads in it!" I couldn't believe it! She recognized and correctly read the number 10,000 on the box! I asked her how she knew that was ten-thousand, and her reply? "It has three zeros" duh...I still have NO idea how she did it!
B is reading Little House My First Chapter Books now, and G (having just gotten her very own library card *Ü*) is reading Mr. Putter and Tabby books. Both girls are reading very well.
Yesterday we did some baking, and I had the girls reading the recipe card sentence by sentence as we mixed up the cookies. They put on my grandmother's aprons, and I just love that connection we have to her. We used it as a learning time for not just reading and following directions, but recognizing measurements in a recipe. The cookies were very yummy! Peanutbutter cookies are my favorite!
The timer is beeping, the pizza is ready...gotta run!
*Ü* Blessings,
I'm sorry I haven't been homeschool blogging lately...I've been doing some digital scrapping and filling that blog instead. I do have some photos of what we've been doing lately, and some new ones of the baby, too...I'll try to get those downloaded tonight so that I can upload them here.
I love the teacher resource publisher Evan-Moor, I even signed up for their newsletter. Today they sent me a really neat freebie by email. It's three writing frames for Thanksgiving...a turkey, pilgrim boy and pilgrim girl. The frames are two page print-outs to color, and then you put your child's writing in between. I think the pictures are really, really cute...so I thought I'd share...here's the direct link. I think you'll like them, too!
Have you popped over to check out my digital scrapbook yet? I hope you do soon...and leave me a note so I know you stopped by!
Hmmm...let's see, what have we been up to lately? Well, today is day 58...which means we are 1/3 of the way through school already! I can't believe it. We're learning the different addition facts for 10, counting the minutes on a clock by 5s and getting better at transitioning from counting one type of coin to another (example: dimes to nickels to pennies - we haven't started on quarters yet.) I'm very pleased with the girls progress in the coin area. We have been doing a spelling program (Evan-Moor) for a few weeks now, and it has dictation built in twice a week...the girls now start and end sentences correctly without needing to be reminded.
OH! I just remembered...lol... I was in the store with B, and we were in the craft dept. She noticed a large package of beads for kids and read it..."Mom, this box has ten-thousand beads in it!" I couldn't believe it! She recognized and correctly read the number 10,000 on the box! I asked her how she knew that was ten-thousand, and her reply? "It has three zeros" duh...I still have NO idea how she did it!
B is reading Little House My First Chapter Books now, and G (having just gotten her very own library card *Ü*) is reading Mr. Putter and Tabby books. Both girls are reading very well.
Yesterday we did some baking, and I had the girls reading the recipe card sentence by sentence as we mixed up the cookies. They put on my grandmother's aprons, and I just love that connection we have to her. We used it as a learning time for not just reading and following directions, but recognizing measurements in a recipe. The cookies were very yummy! Peanutbutter cookies are my favorite!
The timer is beeping, the pizza is ready...gotta run!
*Ü* Blessings,
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