We just have finished our first full week of school, and it’s been a LONG one. Lots of tears and smiles this week, and not much sleep…..
First, Victoria’s baby turtle died this week. Victoria found her on Easter Day and has cared for her since. We’re not sure what happened, but she was in her cage outside to get some sunshine so her shell would harden. The next morning we found her dead. We had a funeral and buried her under the weeping willow tree.
Now some neat blessings of our week: Victoria was given several bags full of clothes by a friend whose daughters have outgrown them. We were even able to pass along a few that were not her style to a close friend of hers who loved the ones that Victoria did not want. Between the 2 girls all but 3 items were loved. We got enough to fill our clothesline of new clothes – see the picture below.
We also went and used our passes to Callaway Gardens this week. We did school in the a.m. and were finished by 11am and went to the circus! We also played mini golf, climbed trees and just missed the Birds of Prey show. Noah got bit up pretty bad by something, but he was a trouper as we have an hour circus and then an hour home before we could get any itch cream for him.
Then, Victoria had a surprise visit from her friend Rebecca for an overnight stay on Friday, and the highlight of Elijahs week was spending the day at Six Flags with his Dad and seeing his first big concert. He even won backstage passes, but sadly they did not understand when or how to use them, so they missed that part, but were extremely thankful to the generous friend who provided the Six Flags passes.
It’s the beginning of another week. We’re off to a free Home school day at the Atlanta History Center tomorrow. We’ve never been and it’s free (and probably VERY crowded) but we want to take the opportunity to go for the first time this year.
