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A Day in the Life...

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The clock ticks.

In a moment it will "BONG" out the chimes to tell me it is 8:30 a.m. I have been up since 6:30. When my alarm went off, I stumbled out of bed, took care of my morning ablutions, and stumbled to the living room.

Lights were blazing everywhere. And yet, I was alone. These are signs that my 13-year-old chose "Option 2" for school today, where he stayed up into the wee hours of the night doing his Math, his Latin, I'm not sure what else. I know, now, that he will want to sleep late today.

I let out the dogs,
   

brewed the coffee, unloaded the dishwasher, made my oatmeal. I checked to make sure hubby got up when he wanted to. Then I snuggle down in my recliner with my laptop, covered with a flannel quilt, and my coffee and oatmeal on the table beside me. I check my email.


8:30 strikes on the clock. I reluctantly leave the warm cocoon of my quilt and snuggle back to my room to make my bed and take my shower. On the way to my room I peek in at my student.  
Oh, and, yes, he sleeps in his clothes. He resists bathing, but when we finally get him clean he either puts on jammies, and then tries to wear them all day when he gets up, or else he goes to bed in his clothes. I guess he just doesn't see any sense in having to change clothes again when getting up in the morning...
So I showered, dressed all the way to my shoes,
swished and swiped my bathroom, 
and made my bed.
[Lest you believe I "have it all together", I later read on my "FlyLady" email that my assignment today was my living room -- sit down and think, "If I were to change just one thing, what would it be?"
...Okay... um.... I can take that one of two ways... Either I can say to myself, "Oh, good, I only have to do one thing... I can handle that...", or else I can look at my living room and give up and say, "Doing one thing won't accomplish anything. So I won't do anything." ...Sadly I did the latter... After all, I need to do school now...]

So I peeked in on JD and suggested to him that it would be a good idea to get up now, as there was a lot of school to do today, and bowling this afternoon.

So he did his Math last night. We start out with the day's "Read through the BIble in a Year" selection. Then we read two chapters from Alice in Wonderland, followed by two chapters from All Creatures Great and Small. I still want two chapters from Treasure Island and a worksheet in Latin, but it is time to pack it in, eat lunch, and then skedaddle to the Bob's Bowler's bowling league for home schoolers.  Get there around 1:00, and JD runs in while I finish my healthy home made soup that I'm having for lunch (that is, having what of it did not spill on the way to the bowling alley.)

I run in, pay for bowling, and let the adults know I'll be back in about an hour -- have some errands. Off I run to Michael's to get JD some fusable (we call them "melty")  beads for the project he is working on.  Then I pop into Whole Foods, right next door, and grab some trail mix. On the way back to the bowling alley, I stop at a famous coffee shop and buy an expensive cup of coffee. Then on the way to the bowling alley I remember that I meant to sit at said coffee shop a few minutes to tackle some e-mail. ::sigh:: Arrive at bowling alley, and sit in car trying to tether my computer to my cell phone's signal; epic fail. Go inside til JD finishes bowling. Didn't even THINK to take a photograph of him bowling. Oh well! Have conversation with an adult about the "incident" that occurred while I was gone.

JD finishes and we go out into the BEAUTIFUL day! We decide it is too nice to go home and finish the school work. We turn right instead of turning left, and we go to the nearby state park! We play on the play ground, and we hike in the woods around the lake. I take lots of photos on my phone, but I'll use those photos another day for my Nature Study blog entry, so subscribe to my blog and read it in a couple of days.

Finally we've had our fill. We found lots of neat things on our hike, but still did not find mistletoe, that I have been trying to find to show JD all winter.  We head home. On the way home I stop at the in-grocery store bank so I can replenish my cash stash, and JD crawls around and with a ruler pulls dropped coins out from under the Coin Star machine. The teller comments that he is quite the entrepreneur, and I comment that I keep waiting for someone from the store to kick him out for doing that every time...

We head home. I don't have time now to help JD with his Latin, and both of us want to call it a day. He heads to his room to play Mine Craft for a while, and I head to the kitchen and make dinner -- oven baked chicken, mashed potatoes, and broccoli (fake chicken and brown rice and broccoli for the vegan, cause the mashed potatoes is those dried potato flakes with all those additives...)

Dinner eaten, hubby kindly gets up and does most of the dishes, leaving me to put away the leftovers and do the dishes and dirty baking sheet from the chicken (to clean) while he heads off to get cash for his own wallet, and to buy gas for his car with a cash discount.

JD is, again, playing Mine Craft. He will fight with us when it is time for his bath. He will take it anyway. He will have trouble going to sleep at a decent hour, and will probably do a lot of tomorrow's schoolwork tonight instead of going to sleep. (His computer locks automatically at 9:00 p.m.) He wants to do his school work tonight and be school-free tomorrow because it is supposed to get up to 66 degrees before it starts raining in the afternoon. Then a cold front will come in and it will be back down in the 30's for the rest of the week. He doesn't want to miss this little oasis in the middle of the frozen winter desert.

I will tackle part of the living room mess in above photo, and then I will crash in my bed at about 9:30 p.m. -- with a clean kitchen sink and a dish washer that is running. And tomorrow I will start again at 6:30. 

I blogged today, mostly, instead of dealing with email, so tomorrow I expect I will be really swamped.

So that is a day in the life. Thank you for joining us. Here is a lake photo of JD--he thought would be in silouette -- his idea!

100 Verses in 2013

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I am still behind, but trying.
Review (NASB):
Week 1:

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Week 2:

John 1:14 

And the Word became flesh, and ^[a]dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of ^[b]the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that He gave His ^[a]only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
^{Week 3}

Romans 3:23

New American Standard Bible (NASB)²³ for all ^[a]have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23

New American Standard Bible (NASB)²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~
For the 4th week in 2013:
 
 
These picture cards are beautiful, but not in my version that I am memorizing. I didn't care; posted them anyway! :)

Beef Vegetable Soup Recipe

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Beef and Vegetable Soup
INGREDIENTS:
1 pound lean beef stew meat
1 tsp olive oil
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper, seeded and de-ribbed
1/2 cup fresh green beans, cut into 1-inch pieces
½ onion chopped
1 carrot sliced
1 cup water
Pepper to taste
1/4 teaspoon thyme
1 can beef broth
1 can diced tomatoes, un-drained
1 (8-oz.) can no salt added tomato sauce

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat; brown the beef, then pepper to taste. Add the water to the skillet and scrape up all of the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Add
remaining ingredients to pan. Cover and cook on low heat setting for 2hours, until veggies are tender.

SERVING SUGGESTION: A salad and rolls.

Serves 4

Menu Monday #6

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This is my carnivore/(vegan) Menu Plan for the week beginning 2/3/13:

Sunday:
Spaghetti, meatballs, sauce, salad, TX Toast (whole wheat spaghetti, sauce w/vegan crumblies)

Monday:
Fish Sticks, Fries, Coleslaw (leftover vegan stew)

Tuesday:
garlic-lime chicken, rice, broccoli (faux chicken patties, brown rice)

Wednesday:
Cheeseburgers, spinach, baked beans (veggie burgers on flats)

Thursday:
Beef Vegetable Soup, salad, rolls (vegetable soup -veg broth, not chicken)

Friday:
Macaroni and Not Cheese, Brussels Sprouts

Saturday:
Lynn's (vegan) Meatloaf; mashed potatoes; cut green beans

Thank you, everyone, for your lovely comments!

Watercolor Clouds Nature Journal - Cure for the Winter Blahs

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We had plenty of opportunities to observe clouds in the past few days. It has been really cloudy and wet...only a few breaks in the weather where we were able to get outside and breathe some air. I tried to enjoy the rain but it really did just bum me out. I was really glad that this week's challenge was to pull out some art supplies and make a watercolor entry for the weather in my nature journal.


I collected some water for my watercolor project from the rain gauge. Now that I had my supplies ready I was anxious about actually watercoloring in my journal so I decided to make the painting on a separate sheet of paper and then add the painting to my journal with tape.


I played with my gray watercolor pencil before starting the actual artwork, experimenting with different methods of applying the color to the paper. You should try this if you have a few minutes just to see how different the effects are on your artwork.

If you are interested in this sort of thing, here are the options I used.

• Left box: Use the pencil to draw the square, then apply water with a brush.
• Middle box: Dip the tip of the watercolor pencil in water, draw the square. 
• Right box: Use a wet brush on the pencil tip, apply to paper. 

All of these squares are made with the same pencil....very different results.
 
Creating a journal page always cheers me up! Between the journal page and taking advantage of the breaks in the rain to get outside, I was starting to feel not so blah.

One morning we woke to actual sunshine and we decided to take a hike to see our neighborhood waterfall. Kona loves this trail since we can let her off leash. She runs ahead and finds something interesting to sniff, following the scent until she detects another trail to follow. She definitely enjoyed the opportunity to get outside and stretch her legs alongside us on the trail.

We were rewarded for our hiking efforts with the rushing sound of water coming down the hill and over the rocks. We took a few minutes to just enjoy the moment and then we all headed back up the hill, just in time for the rains to return. I realized that without the rain we would have had no waterfall to hike to.....sometimes we need to be reminded of the benefits of all that wet weather.

This will wind down our weather study for the month. Just for fun, I will be keeping our rainfall records as we move through January. We might get a dusting of snow later this week which would be the perfect way to wind up the month. If you currently have snowy conditions, remember that there are quite a few snow challenges here on the Handbook of Nature Study up on the Winter tab.

Outdoor Hour Challenge - Seasonal Weather: Photo and Picnic

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Outdoor Hour Challenge:
This week spend your outdoor time enjoying the daily weather. Keep track of your weather for a week, recording the temperature, rainfall, etc. You can use any of the free printables on my Freebies Page. Look there for the seasonal weather pages and the weather chart.

You can also use any of the Seasonal Weather Challenges from the past that are appropriate for your time of the year:

• Winter Seasonal Weather
• Spring Seasonal Weather
• Summer Seasonal Weather
• Autumn Seasonal Weather

Printable Notebook Page: 
During your seasonal weather observations, take a photo of something that shows your current weather conditions. Better yet, let your children take the images and then print them out for a personalized nature journal entry. This can be done in each season and recorded in your nature journal's seasonal section.

Printable Notebook Page: My Seasonal Weather.

Getting Started Suggestion:
If you already own the Getting Started ebook, complete Outdoor Hour Challenge #10.  I realize that this is a cold time of year (or hot for you Southern Hemisphere folks)  for many of you but there are ways to make a "picnic" happen even if you just drive in the car, park under a tree, and enjoy some sandwiches and hot cocoa. Get creative! If you have a picnic, make sure to take a photo to include in your nature journal. I will challenge myself to taking a picnic in the next few weeks with my family and I will post our experiences here on the blog. 



You are welcome to submit any of you blog Outdoor Hour Challenge blog entries to the Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival. Entries for the current month are due on 12/30/12.



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