I have to say that the rest of our week was just as crazy as the beginning...We wrapped up the week by (in no particular order):
*Making homemade pitas (twice...Mr. IM said, "How do they keep?" I replied, "Not very well. It doesn't matter how many I make, the children eat them before you get home....")
*Making homemade tomato soup and semi-homemade lentil soup
*Cleaning up the yard in preparation for spring planting and hanging out
*Shoveling snow from patio (both before and after cleaning up yard)
*Shoveling snow into buckets to use to water plants when it stops snowing (always thinking)
*Um...two? Maybe three? visits to the library to get cookbooks, novels, and movies
*Two calls to the library to find out why Hoopla doesn't work right (The answer? It just doesn't...try again tomorrow!)
*Sleeping until 7:30 more than once (But I'm not counting on that for today, as I am the only one home who will let the dogs out)
*Watching several movies (from the library and amazon prime)--Including Dr. Strange (The Boy loved it, I think it was weird), Pete's Dragon (Um, a lot darker than the first version), Ninja Turtles (I didn't really watch), Avengers Age of Ultron (I tried to nap and was caught), The Magnificent Seven (Not what I thought it would be, but it was good, a little violent, but to be expected), Joy (It wasn't what I expected either. It was kind of strange, but good for a free library movie) and I think a couple Lord of the Rings movies, but that was really The Boy, not me.
*Drove The Girl around (she had school)
* Visited the Grocery Store at least three times
*A nice walk to see the red winged blackbirds at the wetlands and other explorations
Annnnddd...now it is the weekend and there is school on Monday. This weekend I'm supposed to retrieve the Girl from her sleepover, go to Life Group (guess I should read at least chapter one...), church, order lunches, pay bills, pack lunches...maybe pack my school bag?
Hope you all had a spring break and that it was marvelous...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
More Spring Break 2017
The Spring Break wildness is just unstoppable!
Monday morning we were up, while not bright and early, brighter and earlier than we might usually be. Mr. IM took the Girl to school (sorry kid) and The Boy and I proceeded to DOWNTOWN to go to the Museum of Nature and Science with friends. There is a Viking exhibit there, that with my friend's membership discount, is well worth the trip (as we discussed at length, it would not have been worth the $28 per adult and $15 per student that is advertised on the website). We used the local library Adventure Passes to get some us of in for free, so between memberships and passes, eight of us were able to get into the museum for free and the Viking exhibit for a greatly reduced price.
The Viking exhibit inspired me to sing this song all day: Veggie Tales Vikings Song (fast forward to 1:00 for the real ear-catching portion), greatly annoying my friends. The hits of the exhibit seemed to be: being able to try to lift a Viking sword and seeing one of the 8th-grade teachers from the boys' school (who was working a docent) . We visited "all" the other exhibits, were "trapped" briefly in a lung dissection seminar, and realized that adding a couple more kids to the group would allow us to qualify as a "group". We've decided to form a Home Schooling Cooperative that cooperatively decided to send our children to school, but meet as a cooperative during breaks. I think it sounds perfectly logical.
We also realized that the advantage of the oldest child and youngest child being in different districts than the herd of boys is that the herd stays pretty close together. And, they are now all old enough that we were comfortable lecturing them, giving instructions about "stay in this exhibit" and then sitting down in those chairs that we never understood the purpose of when our kids were younger. ("Oh, this is why there are chairs and benches on the edges and in the middle of every exhibit! Crazy!"). We took the herd to the beautiful balcony where the solar telescopes are and spent quite a bit of time enjoying the view while the boys learned about solar flares. The weather was perfect spring break weather!
We spent a long morning re-exploring the museum and chatting before heading to Chick fil A for lunch. We did drive to the Chick Fil A in Suburbia, I'd like to think mainly because we know where it is and where to park, although I have over-analyzed my motives a few times. It's all good...After lunch, the Boy and I headed home, where I dropped him off for some mindless screen time and I headed to the grocery store...I'm telling you...wild and crazy stuff. I picked up the Girl from track practice, unloaded groceries, made dinner and went to bed early with a book...
Tuesday both the Boy and I slept in (I think I hit snooze about twenty times). We decided this was fine, because it was cold and rainy. We did a little cleaning (none that you would notice), went to the library, watched a couple movies, read books, made pitas, made soup, and generally enjoyed our lazy day. After I picked up the Girl, we had a repeat of Monday night--a little tv and then early to bed with a book. We did have some brief entertainment about "normal" bedtime--Sid the Cat seemed displeased that all the people were headed for bed. He started out in They Boy's room, allegedly sleeping, visited the Girl, woke her up, then proceeded to our room to mew at Mr IM who was changing after working out. He's a busy little cat...
Today's activities include monitoring the temperature in the greenhouse (it snowed last night--typical spring break) and perhaps cleaning the Boy's room enough to walk in and out. We'll see. He is actually still sleeping--I wandered by about 15 minutes ago to see if I could start harassing him to clean and his room is dark and he's in bed...I'd be suspicious if it wasn't so dark outside! Most of the pets are snuggled around the fireplace--Morrison has been out, but Liberty looked at me like I was nuts when I asked her if she wanted to go out (I assume Mr. IM made her go out before I came downstairs, she seems pretty peaceful). This evening is 9th and 10th grade College Prep Night at the Girl's school--it is scheduled from 6pm to 9:30 pm with seminars to attend...I'm thinking that I may attend one set of seminars, but learning how to navigate the Naviance system at 8:30 tonight might not be a priority...(Although there could be parent functions I don't know about...we'll see).
Stay tuned for more Spring Break Adventures from the Suburban Ranch!
Monday morning we were up, while not bright and early, brighter and earlier than we might usually be. Mr. IM took the Girl to school (sorry kid) and The Boy and I proceeded to DOWNTOWN to go to the Museum of Nature and Science with friends. There is a Viking exhibit there, that with my friend's membership discount, is well worth the trip (as we discussed at length, it would not have been worth the $28 per adult and $15 per student that is advertised on the website). We used the local library Adventure Passes to get some us of in for free, so between memberships and passes, eight of us were able to get into the museum for free and the Viking exhibit for a greatly reduced price.
The Viking exhibit inspired me to sing this song all day: Veggie Tales Vikings Song (fast forward to 1:00 for the real ear-catching portion), greatly annoying my friends. The hits of the exhibit seemed to be: being able to try to lift a Viking sword and seeing one of the 8th-grade teachers from the boys' school (who was working a docent) . We visited "all" the other exhibits, were "trapped" briefly in a lung dissection seminar, and realized that adding a couple more kids to the group would allow us to qualify as a "group". We've decided to form a Home Schooling Cooperative that cooperatively decided to send our children to school, but meet as a cooperative during breaks. I think it sounds perfectly logical.
We also realized that the advantage of the oldest child and youngest child being in different districts than the herd of boys is that the herd stays pretty close together. And, they are now all old enough that we were comfortable lecturing them, giving instructions about "stay in this exhibit" and then sitting down in those chairs that we never understood the purpose of when our kids were younger. ("Oh, this is why there are chairs and benches on the edges and in the middle of every exhibit! Crazy!"). We took the herd to the beautiful balcony where the solar telescopes are and spent quite a bit of time enjoying the view while the boys learned about solar flares. The weather was perfect spring break weather!
We spent a long morning re-exploring the museum and chatting before heading to Chick fil A for lunch. We did drive to the Chick Fil A in Suburbia, I'd like to think mainly because we know where it is and where to park, although I have over-analyzed my motives a few times. It's all good...After lunch, the Boy and I headed home, where I dropped him off for some mindless screen time and I headed to the grocery store...I'm telling you...wild and crazy stuff. I picked up the Girl from track practice, unloaded groceries, made dinner and went to bed early with a book...
Tuesday both the Boy and I slept in (I think I hit snooze about twenty times). We decided this was fine, because it was cold and rainy. We did a little cleaning (none that you would notice), went to the library, watched a couple movies, read books, made pitas, made soup, and generally enjoyed our lazy day. After I picked up the Girl, we had a repeat of Monday night--a little tv and then early to bed with a book. We did have some brief entertainment about "normal" bedtime--Sid the Cat seemed displeased that all the people were headed for bed. He started out in They Boy's room, allegedly sleeping, visited the Girl, woke her up, then proceeded to our room to mew at Mr IM who was changing after working out. He's a busy little cat...
Today's activities include monitoring the temperature in the greenhouse (it snowed last night--typical spring break) and perhaps cleaning the Boy's room enough to walk in and out. We'll see. He is actually still sleeping--I wandered by about 15 minutes ago to see if I could start harassing him to clean and his room is dark and he's in bed...I'd be suspicious if it wasn't so dark outside! Most of the pets are snuggled around the fireplace--Morrison has been out, but Liberty looked at me like I was nuts when I asked her if she wanted to go out (I assume Mr. IM made her go out before I came downstairs, she seems pretty peaceful). This evening is 9th and 10th grade College Prep Night at the Girl's school--it is scheduled from 6pm to 9:30 pm with seminars to attend...I'm thinking that I may attend one set of seminars, but learning how to navigate the Naviance system at 8:30 tonight might not be a priority...(Although there could be parent functions I don't know about...we'll see).
Stay tuned for more Spring Break Adventures from the Suburban Ranch!
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
A Snow Day menu and activities
One of the beautiful things about Colorado is that it can be 75 degrees one day (yesterday) and blizzard conditions the next (today). Since we're all home, I figured I could cook. Mr. IM even opted to stay home--it isn't very nice out there.
Although the response of The Girl was "more soup?" (We had soup from the freezer last night), it smells tasty enough that I think she'll eat it.
This is a combination of the broth left from the corned beef, a bag of Women's Bean Project soup, a bag of frozen mixed veggies, and the lone tomato that was sitting on my counter.
I'm multi-tasking and also making a couple pans of Chicken and Rice Cassarole, hoping that we have a couple more cool-ish days and can use the oven if I freeze one for later.
For an added bonus, I just popped a couple loaves of whole wheat Oatmeal break into the oven...I may just eat that myself...
Meanwhile, Morrison's status has been upgraded from "forced invalid" to "take it easy", since it has been 19 days since her spay and elective gastropexy surgery. She was allowed to go outside by herself (no leash) and (gently) play in the snow for a few minutes this morning (while Liberty watched sadly from the window). Now she is enjoying her morning nap while I cook.
The Girl is allegedly cleaning her room and The Boy is doing something...hmm.. Mr. IM is trying to convince the media computer to cooperate so we can stream a movie on the big tv...snow days are exciting!
Although the response of The Girl was "more soup?" (We had soup from the freezer last night), it smells tasty enough that I think she'll eat it.
I'm multi-tasking and also making a couple pans of Chicken and Rice Cassarole, hoping that we have a couple more cool-ish days and can use the oven if I freeze one for later.
For an added bonus, I just popped a couple loaves of whole wheat Oatmeal break into the oven...I may just eat that myself...
Meanwhile, Morrison's status has been upgraded from "forced invalid" to "take it easy", since it has been 19 days since her spay and elective gastropexy surgery. She was allowed to go outside by herself (no leash) and (gently) play in the snow for a few minutes this morning (while Liberty watched sadly from the window). Now she is enjoying her morning nap while I cook.The Girl is allegedly cleaning her room and The Boy is doing something...hmm.. Mr. IM is trying to convince the media computer to cooperate so we can stream a movie on the big tv...snow days are exciting!
Sunday, January 5, 2014
A Snowy day
Written on Saturday 1/4/13
Mr Ranch and the kids were going to get up early this morning and go up to Vail and ski, but when he checked his road alerts at 5 am it said that conditions were deteriorating and that I-70 was closed west of Vail. He didn't really want to spend a huge amount of travel time in the car with a very sleepy Girl and a slightly grumpy Boy...so they all slept in. Needless to say, this has derailed my plans to "do nothing" and "maybe go to Savers". I did do a couple more loads of laundry, as planned, then loaded, ran, unloaded (and repeat) the dishwasher a couple times.
The predicted "dusting" of snow appears to be about 8 inches, the last time I looked. The kids have been out, not to the sledding hill yet, because they can still see grass on it, but to the backyard and to the park across the street.
And the dogs have been out...and in...and out...and in...
The Boy entertained himself for about an hour just in the backyard.
At one point Mr. Ranch looked out and wondered where The Boy had gone--turns out he was hiding behind that pile of debris in the side yard.
Other than playing in the snow, we introduced The Boy to "Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail". He was slightly entertained--we were glad that he seems to have missed a couple lines that we'd forgotten about.
The Girl has spent the day napping, except for a few minutes of playing with her brother in the yard. Apparently New Year's followed by a "sleep" over has worn her out...as Mr Ranch put it, "skiing with an exhausted pre-teen might not have been much fun after all".
Alice the Cat, of course, is keeping busy...after stalking Tony the Fish for a couple hours she swarmed up the curtains (leaving another trail of puncture marks) to hang out and stalk all of us.
I should work on taking down the rest of the Christmas decorations...but since Christmas isn't over until Monday, there's no hurry, right? I did take the ornaments off the tree--so really that only leaves some lights, the stockings and holders, and the nativity sets (and the nativity sets actually all live inside, so they are fairly easy to put away, not too much box schlepping...)
The Boy and I also made cookies (don't tell anyone, but they were scoop from the tub and bake) and cornbread muffins to go with Mr. Ranch's chili contribution.
It looks like a I have a few more minutes until dinner, so I think I will return to my Elizabeth Peter's fiesta (I'm up to #4, Lion in the Valley). Stay warm, especially all of you headed back to school Monday!
Mr Ranch and the kids were going to get up early this morning and go up to Vail and ski, but when he checked his road alerts at 5 am it said that conditions were deteriorating and that I-70 was closed west of Vail. He didn't really want to spend a huge amount of travel time in the car with a very sleepy Girl and a slightly grumpy Boy...so they all slept in. Needless to say, this has derailed my plans to "do nothing" and "maybe go to Savers". I did do a couple more loads of laundry, as planned, then loaded, ran, unloaded (and repeat) the dishwasher a couple times.
The predicted "dusting" of snow appears to be about 8 inches, the last time I looked. The kids have been out, not to the sledding hill yet, because they can still see grass on it, but to the backyard and to the park across the street. And the dogs have been out...and in...and out...and in...
The Boy entertained himself for about an hour just in the backyard.
At one point Mr. Ranch looked out and wondered where The Boy had gone--turns out he was hiding behind that pile of debris in the side yard.
The Girl has spent the day napping, except for a few minutes of playing with her brother in the yard. Apparently New Year's followed by a "sleep" over has worn her out...as Mr Ranch put it, "skiing with an exhausted pre-teen might not have been much fun after all".
Alice the Cat, of course, is keeping busy...after stalking Tony the Fish for a couple hours she swarmed up the curtains (leaving another trail of puncture marks) to hang out and stalk all of us.
I should work on taking down the rest of the Christmas decorations...but since Christmas isn't over until Monday, there's no hurry, right? I did take the ornaments off the tree--so really that only leaves some lights, the stockings and holders, and the nativity sets (and the nativity sets actually all live inside, so they are fairly easy to put away, not too much box schlepping...)
The Boy and I also made cookies (don't tell anyone, but they were scoop from the tub and bake) and cornbread muffins to go with Mr. Ranch's chili contribution.
It looks like a I have a few more minutes until dinner, so I think I will return to my Elizabeth Peter's fiesta (I'm up to #4, Lion in the Valley). Stay warm, especially all of you headed back to school Monday!
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
First Snow
We do have interesting weather here. I had a funny conversation with one of our new teachers on Friday--she is from Philly. She said to me, "um, does it always snow this early in October?". The answer? "Yep, but don't worry, it will be 80 and sunny tomorrow".
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