A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 Today (Friday) was good. A Wild Day. We went to the lake. It was supposed to be a cool morning and hot afternoon, so I planned a hike and then playing at the beach. But it was hot in the morning too, so we walked about a mile and called it good. Lola loves her "egg hat."  How she wore it while we sweated our way through this walk, I'll never know! We wandered off the main trail to follow the disc golf course through the woods. And somehow, on the way back to the beach, we came up with the game of stomping on one another's "shadow brains."  Disturbing, but fun!   Hike #25 of 52:  Smithville Lake 53.96 miles + 1 = 54.96 miles We took only these pictures . . . none at all while we were on the beach.  We chose to leave the phones utterly alone and play together. Though when Beowulf was trying to turn one of our big blue tubs into a boat, I sure wished I had clean hands and a camera on! Oh!  How those kids worked at balancing and floating! There were more...

I just found him like this! It was a week of beginnings and endings. The teens began seminary --a full week of it--and they are enthusiastic, energetic, and faithful thus far. Pixie began her World Geography class at the local community college.  She came home laughing, "The first assignment is to fill in a world map with all of the countries!  I couldn't stop smiling as the teacher passed out the maps."  Pixie has long since already memorized the names and locations of every country in the world, so it was an easy and encouraging start for her. This is Nature Angel and Little Princess helping me choreograph "Cooties" from Hairspray .  Our theme this year is American Musicals, and we're having a lot of fun! We all began a new year of dance.  After hours and hours and hours of choreography, we were ready to gather, and we doubled our numbers with 45 committed dancers ages 3-16!  It was a delightful start to the year with smiling kids who work...