Yarn Along

More yarning with Ginny...

I'm still working on the yellow lace shawl Omelet this week, but now with just 10 rows left on the chart B repeats. We're going to be in the car a lot over the holiday weekend so I'm attempting to finish up chart B and maybe even chart C on the trip.


My reading stack? Packed full with first grade materials for the upcoming school year. Everything is either here or on its way to us, and Ender has been really excited as each box has come our way.  I've already divided everything into terms, but I still need to turn those divisions into lists for each week that are actually useful.


I've been struck this week by how differently homeschoolers can see different curriculum. I think Writing With Ease is going to prove to be just the pace I'm looking for to introduce Ender to writing- not too much writing to start out with, but steadily growing with time. A homeschooling family in the studio saw my copy out on the table and asked about it, noting that they used it for awhile but put it aside because they thought it too slow. Slow is exactly what we are looking for for my son who will be a fresh 6-year-old in the fall, but not such a good fit for other families. I'm so thankful for the variety of materials available now!


Hunger Games was in my stack last week but it went quickly and I really loved it! Now I'm waiting for the other two books in the trilogy to come my way from the library.

One More Week

This is the last week of the school year in the studio.

Then on to summer.

My mind is full right now...

My mother-in-law

School plans for next year

How unbelievable it is that it's only a few short weeks until Ezra turns FOUR.

Studio plans for summer AND next school year

And the next two after that if we're being really honest,

because my brain is a crazy place that doesn't shut down after just planning what needs to be planned.

And I have my own "big birthday" in just 3 weeks...

Yarn Along

Yarning along with Ginny...

I am on to reading The Hunger Games this week and it is going much faster than The Red Pyramid did! I'm still only reading a bit at night though. since my available reading time is crunched right now- just 10 more days and we'll be on our slimmed down summer schedule. It's such a difficult book to put down...


I'm also still reading John Adams a bit at a time and enjoying the history quite a bit. The biographies I've read in recent months have convinced me quite thoroughly to be sure to tie all of our homeschool history studies to actual people instead of simply the dates and basics of the big events like my husband and I (and I'm sure quite a lot of people) did in school.

The knit is still Omelet [Rav link] and I am almost as far as I'd hoped for last week... I am almost through the 4th repeat of the B chart, with the first 10 rows of chart B to go again after I finish this repeat. Then on to the next chart. Maybe I will be through chart C by next week? I'm secretly hoping to have this finished by the end of May, and that might be possible with the amount of time we've spent waiting in doctor's offices we've been to for my mother-in-law.


There is no real hurry though, and I try to remember that when I put self-imposed deadlines up.


Do you set knitting deadlines for yourself?

A Little Artwork

Ezra is the resident artist of the drawing persuasion. He will turn 4 this summer and he spends about 90% of his time drawing. I'm pretty sure another 8% is spent cutting out some of his drawings, with the last 2% spent on snacking.

Ezra is also a ginormous Toy Story fan, and so he spends roughly half of his drawing time drawing toy story characters. He is an equal fan of the characters and spends time on all of them including the Little Green Men:

No character has too small of a part to be included in Ezra's artwork.

Most recently Jessie has been his fascination and he turned out this little drawing:

It's interesting to me how much Ezra has picked up from just listening in on the directed line drawings I've done with Ender this year. We haven't drawn anything amazing, but we have talked about drawing in pencil first, then going over that work with another medium like marker and then filling in with crayon or paint or something... and you can see all those steps. Ezra is included in those lessons as in "he's there" but he's not usually an active part of the lessons.

We just keep providing the paper and the markers, pencils, and crayons. There's no telling what he might make next.

Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

{Pretty}

These blooms are gone now, but I find myself looking back through the photos often, loving that beautiful faint purple...

{Happy}

Ezra eating cotton candy at his first baseball game of the season.

Does it get much happier than that?

It was under 40F that day, plus a wicked wind, so we were bundled up tight.

{Funny}

Me, bundled up and wondering if my tombstone would read

"froze to death at a baseball game."

Because that's just embarrasing.

{Real}

Attempts to get my super straight/can't hold a curl for ANYTHING hair to

well...

hold a curl.

My husband has naturally super curly and super thick hair and he totally doesn't get my desire for curls. 

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