Spinning, Ever Spinning!

 I think we were busy more nights than we were not.  I can only remember doing bedtime reading twice during the week.

One night the kids just played outside until really late.

One night Sir Walter Scott was helping Belle buy her first car, and I was dealing with our van being in the shop.

One night was the Civil Air Patrol annual awards dinner.

One night was Uncle M--'s birthday.

One night was our Friends and Family dance finale.

Ceremonial cake-cutting with a sword!

Waiting while honors are read aloud before receiving their Mitchell awards

The big girls and I love it when there's a matching/timeline/grouping/card-moving activity for history.

I found that Lola had been busy with spring wildflowers.

Just sitting by the front door. :)

We're still running 3x weekly.  

Except for Lola.

She's going to the park with us, but she's studying flora and fauna.

There's a bird's nest with a mama bird in there . . . actually more than one!

She seems to have bewitched the Canada geese that are preparing to nest around the pond. 

They follow her when she calls!

I don't know how she does it.

Once the rest of us finish our 30 minutes of running and walking, the kids pull gear out of the back of the van and either skate on the ramps or play baseball on the field.

One afternoon, we had time to have neighbors over to play at the bottom of the yard.

Another afternoon, the boys played football at a friend's house.

Nature Angel went to work.

We had dentist and psych appointments.

We had our final rehearsal (obviously before the final show).  The only things left for the 2024-25 season are costume return and end-of-season organizing.

We'll start planning the 2025-26 dance season in June.

A few more kids are almost done with math for the year.

We finished Our Only May Amelia (I cried so hard I could barely read.  The other potential triggers did not get me as badly as the second-to-last one did.) and started Theodore Roosevelt by Genevieve Foster.  We're less than 80 pages from the end of The Story of Science: Newton in the Middle.  We're still reading The Golden Book of Natural History.  And we did a Rod and Staff grammar lesson on sentences vs phrases.

I feel like I'm fighting for every school minute we can get--there's always someone/something pulling at our attention.  

The most recent pull is a new set of moms from church planning a grad party activity.  These moms have public-schooled kids, and they set their meeting times for 9:15 am on a school day.  🤦

At least it's only a Zoom meeting.