A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 Early Sunday morning, Sir Walter Scott had a stroke. Our lives have been rather different this week. (How's that for understatement?) Because no visitors were allowed at the hospital, I had to go home after dropping him off at the ER.  What a blessing it was that the kids at home could watch church services streaming live!  What a blessing it was that I had dinner in the crock pot!  What a blessing it was that I have older kids to take care of the younger ones!  What a blessing it was that our bishop kindly led us in a "prayer of faith" in lieu of a priesthood blessing because no visitors could go to the hospital to administer to Sir Walter Scott!  What a blessing it was that the nurses followed through on their calls to me, and I was able to talk to my sweetheart once he was in a room!  What a blessing it was that I could keep people apprised of what was happening by text and calls!  What a blessing it was that family and friends have offered su...

 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...

Saturday General Conference! Three whole sessions' worth on Saturday!  Normally, Sir Walter Scott would have kept the littlest ones at home while I took the girls 8-and-up to the church to watch the General Women's Broadcast, but he'd forgotten to request the day off, so we stayed home.  I offered the little guys the choice between being tucked in first or staying up to watch the third session of the day. They all chose to stay up. But only Baymax actually stayed awake for the whole session. Sunday Waving "Good Morning" to Pixie After a huge treat of a breakfast, two more sessions of General Conference kept us busy all day, and we celebrated the end of it with a family campfire. Waving to Pixie again. :) Super Star had been waiting for an opportunity to burn Saxon Math 8/7--the year math was her especial nemesis.  Our book was purchased 3rd or 4th hand, and we gave it enough use ourselves so that it was too broken to keep.  I bought ...