A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 We had a lot of out-of-the-house stuff going on this week.  Other than Morning Meeting, naps, and tucking in at bedtime, we had to practice being flexible.  And the forecast is for even more flexibility in the weeks ahead! We're almost finished re-memorizing The Living Christ .  For the older kids, it's a review, but Lola and Baymax were only 3 or 4 years old the last time we worked on it, so for them it's new.  It's good for all of us, and it's one of our Primary/Youth goals as a family.  We're 5 songs into a 6 song document (it's 10-ish paragraphs, but some paragraphs are combined in the music), so this week and next, we're reviewing one song a day, and when the girls get home from camp, we'll set to work on the final song. We had 2 kids with orthodontic appointments, 2 kids with psychiatric appointments, 2 kids with lab appointments, prescriptions to pick up, a washing machine to pick up and install, grocery shopping, a live musical performance, ...

Pixie is safely and happily back in Rexburg! On her way home, she stopped to visit my mom who was visiting her sister-in-law and a few sisters in Utah.   Because it started to rain, they invited Pixie to have a girls' night with them, and she accepted. :) Pixie, her grandma, and 3 great-aunts. I love it! And Sir Walter Scott had a chance to visit his mom, too! He is safely home with us, and we're glad. Shifting from life on the road to life at home--there are so many vultures around our area right now. I wonder why. The kids and I have yet to discover a particular reason. Perhaps they've always been here, and I just haven't noticed them as readily. Lola found poison ivy flowers. (I'd never seen those either!) We've been checking on them on our walks each day--she and I are very curious about poison ivy seeds. (It's like a horror movie that we can't take our eyes away from even though we're horrified.) The storm last Sunday night mixed up all of our s...