Wow! I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve updated with a new blog post! Life has been CRAZY busy and CRAZY amazing. I’m learning sooooooooo much every day. It’s awesome! The Mother’s Day Charity Brunch was INCREDIBLE. I’m still in awe about how lovely everything turned out. Yay! I’ll be writing more details and posting pics as soon as they’re available.
Can I tell you how much I’m enjoying home school right now? Honestly. Yesterday we had SUCH a fun time, too! I’m finding that it seems of all the spaces involved in taking care of my children I don’t want to hand over their schooling to someone else. Why should they have all the fun, right? ;)
Yesterday was definitely one of those days where I’d rather spend time with my kids doing school-type things than cleaning, cooking or any other of the tasks I normally spend a lot of my time doing. We had a fun day, themed around Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
Quick side note: Doesn’t this photo look like I perfectly staged everything? Cracks me up! The tulip is so pretty and I have Claire to thank for it since she pulled it out of our yard *wink.* Have loved having it inside, though. I’ve made a resolution that every time I go grocery shopping now I’ll also buy fresh flowers. They’re not expensive and it elevates my mood so much to have them around, especially in my kitchen. It’s on my JOY List (a list of things/activities that bring me joy, just because; inspired by a challenge from the amazing Tiffany Walke Peterson). What would be on your JOY List? If you don’t have one already, I’d invite you to write down 25 things that bring you JOY and then do at least 1 thing off the list every week (items should be free/inexpensive).
After reading, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” my kids painted their own caterpillars using egg cartons.
Lena enjoyed playing with the sparkly green pipe cleaners we used for the caterpillars’ antennae.
We would have also played “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” card game (such a cute game), too, but my kids weren’t up for it after painting (I was being a little too ambitious, I suppose *wink*).
After painting their caterpillars, I made macaroni and cheese using butterfly (bow tie) noodles.
The “butterfly” mac and cheese was a TOTAL fluke, honestly, meaning that it just fell into place and I didn’t “plan” it. LOVE when that happens. :)
After the paint on the caterpillars dried we I put in the antennae and glued on the googly eyes.
Pretty cute, right? Then my kids and their friends played with them outside, hiding them in the grass and plants so they could turn into butterflies. SO fun. I don’t consider myself a “crafty” person, but I really, really enjoyed doing this with my kids yesterday.
I’m mapping out my home school curriculum for the next few months and so I’m thinking that I’ll be writing a lot more about our home school adventures over the next while. Will be fun!
Do you consider yourself to be a “crafty” person? What IS a crafty person to you? Have you ever made egg carton caterpillars before? Tell me what’s going on for you! Let’s catch up! :) xoxoxo
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You know me, no crafting going on around here…at least not much! I find all creative people to be crafty. I’m happy to sit back and watch them make their cute creations. :) Glad you’re back posting! (And I swear your kids have grown up so much since I last saw them!)
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Hello there,
I think I found your blog through whatever&stuff blog.
I love your caterpillars.
I am in awe of homeschooling mothers.
I think the word “crafty” has taken on a very different persona for this generation.
Crafty, to me, means you use your eyes and hands to make tangible” pretties”
I never, never considered myself artistic (i cant draw, so that counts me out right)
I still am picked last every time we play pictionary, but I design little quilts, sew or re-purpose old things for home instead of buying stuff made in China whenever possible. I dapple in mixed media. And now with the wonderful world of blogging I can’t stop taking pictures.
I really enjoyed scrolling through your blog.
It was especially sweet reading along your journey of your pregnancy and birth.
I printed out the recipe your midwife gave you to stop your contractions to give to my good friend who is having identical problems.
I will be stopping in again.
Cheers
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You homeschool too?? Honestly Quinn, how do you do it?
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Thanks for the fabulous idea. We’re hosting date night play group (absolutely love it! 4 families rotate babysitting on Friday so you have 1 night with all the kids having a party you host then 3 Friday night dates in a row) and now I know what I’m going to do…. now to go dig the egg cartons out of the recycle bin.
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