They're Playing Our Song

Erin over at Growing With My Girls recently shared what her and her husband's song was and the story surrounding it in the post They're Playing Our Song.  She invited others to share what their song is.  I was going to comment, but the story behind "Our" song is something worth saving on my blog as I've never committed it to writing and it's quite humorous at that...

Up until our wedding day in July of 1998 when asked the question, "So what's your song?"  The answer would've been Good Things by the Bodeans.  This is what my husband and I were to dance to for the traditional first dance.  A little quirky I know, but we had seen them in concert so much and loved this song.


However, DJ Tony, screwed up big time and played this song...


You all laughing?  I know we were when it happened.  This was several before BEFORE the Wedding Singer came out, but when that Adam Sandler movie came out, well everyone thought we must have had Adam Sandler at our wedding for him to get the idea...


So after our wedding day, when asked what "Our" Song is, we smile and tell them, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"

Jj week

Jj is for Saint Joseph,

Jasmine,Jewelry, Jam! We made Jewelry!  This was a kit from Oriental Trading I had sitting around for a while.  They are Guardian Angel necklaces.  If we had more time we would've made some jewelry using this idea from Catholic Icing.  And what's the point of having all this wonderful new jewelry without a place to put it?  Princess' Auntie gave her this do it yourself jewelry box set for Christmas and it seemed like the perfect time to work on it don't you think?

Jj week was a busy week for us.  We read the The Giant Jam Sandwich and completed the corresponding lapbook and activities at homeschoolshare.com.

We also made homemade jam and we baked our own bread using the recipe provided at homeschoolshare.  For lunch we had many jam sandwiches.

Feast of St. Brigid

Young Sister Brigid and seven other women lived together in a convent.  They worked hard, raising cows and chickens, planting and harvesting fruit trees and gardens.  With these, they prepared food and fed all the hungry people who came to them.

One day, many hungry people had come to the convent.  All the eggs were scrambled; the butter had been used up on the bread, which was gone, too.  Not a pear remained in the bowls.  Not a drop of milk remained in the pitchers.

Then before the good sisters had time to relax, word came that they were to receive more visitors--seven bishops!

The sisters were very upset.  "What can we do?  There is no food left in the house to serve them!" one of the women wailed.

Of course, there were no supermarkets or restaurants, either.

Brigid smiled.  "I think God will provide this meal," she said.  "Go ask the hens if they might be so kind as to give us more eggs.  Then talk with the cows.  Perhaps they will give us a bit more milk.  Oh, and go ask the fruit trees to ripen some fruit."

As the other sisters left the room, Brigid stirred up the fire of the oven.  Then she opened the oven door and smiled again.  There were two loaves of hot, golden brown bread!

Soon the others returned.  One carried a pitcher filled with fresh milk.  Another carried a basket filled with hens' eggs.  Two others held their aprons out, which were filled with pears.

"Time to cook!"  Brigid said cheerfully.  "God has blessed us again!"

Story from The Big Book of Catholic Customs
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To celebrate the feast day of Saint Brigid we colored lovely pictures from waltzing maltilda and had to have brunch for dinner.  The kiddos loved it.  I think brunch is their all time favorite meal and to have it for dinner during the week was beyond a treat for them.

Salt Dough Letters and Numbers

We made salt dough using this easy recipe. It was so easy to make and wonderful to work with. I did decrease the water a touch and added a teaspoon of vanilla. The dough smelled delicious.  The kids are very impressed with the way they turned out, too!

These are the aprons the kids made before Christmas.  We sliced an apple in half and stamped the star shape in the middle. 

 I will admit this project took quite a few days to complete. The mess was quite a bit and it had a lot to do with the fact we were dealing with the in flow of Christmas presents.


However, the kiddos smiles were well worth the few days of mess.  It was a good way to ease back into the school routine again.  I will need to make note of that for next year.

Ii week

Ii is for Saint Ignatius and Blessed Imelda

We listened to the Glory Stories Blessed Imelda.  Now that I moved all of our school stuff in one room---our schoolroom---I am able to find lots of supplemental materials that were once tucked away.  I can't tell you how happy I am about having all our school stuff in one place!!!
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Ii is for I'm Sorry

As a springboard using the wonderful alphabet virtue coloring sheets from Pondered In My Heart, we did a lesson on forgiveness.  The first picture are Princess' puppets for the story of the Prodigal Son.  Next we read stories about forgiveness in Devotional Stories for Little Folks.   I would like to incorporate a virtue study using both the coloring sheets and Devotional Stoires for Little Folks.  In the back of the book is a topical index to indicate which stories would work well with a particular virtue. 
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Ii is for Insects

We did a mini unit on insects for Ii week and created a notebook for Insects.  Currently it is 20 degrees outside so not too many bugs to go outside and see, however, come the spring I'm sure we'll fill the notebook and then some!

Roe v Wade Anniversary

A Person's a Person No Matter How Small!

Today with the kiddos, we read Horton Hears A Who and made A Person's a Person No Matter How Small project at Catholic Icing, donated baby items to our local crisis pregnancy center, and prayed for an end to abortion...

 

A Pro-Life Prayer For Our President And Public Officials

Lord God, Author of Life and Source of Eternal Life, Move the hearts of all our public officials and especially our President, to fulfill their responsibilities worthily and well to all those entrusted to their care.

Help them in their special leadership roles, to extend the mantle of protection to the most vulnerable, especially the defenseless unborn, whose lives are threatened with extermination by an indifferent society.

Guide all public officials by your wisdom and grace to cease supporting any law that fails to protect the fundamental good that is human life itself, which is a gift from God and parents. You are the Protector and Defender of the lives of the innocent unborn. Change the hearts of those who compromise the call to protect and defend life. Bring our nation to the values that have made us a great nation, a society that upholds the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. Mary, the Mother of the living, help us to bear witness to the Gospel of Life with our lives and our laws, through Christ, Our Lord.

Amen.

Imprimatur:

January 22, 2009

Most Reverend Robert J. Baker

Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama

Along the Alphabet Path Hh

Hh is for Health, Saint Helen, Home, and Honeybees!

The kids recieved a Color Me House for their birthdays from their Auntie.  What a perfect week to pull it out and continue coloring and decorating.

These pictures are from a rainy summer day.  My camera seems to have lost my Hh week pictures :(

Along with Hh week we learned about honeybees.  We lapbooked about honeybees using this lapbook from homeschoolshare.com. 

About midway through the week, one by one we began to succumb to one nasty virus bug.  Princess broke out in hives...really bad ones, too.  We aren't sure if it was a virus or if another allergy is rearing it's ugly head.  She'll be tested in a few weeks at the allergist.  Big Boy was next with a double ear infection.  Poor guy!  And then Baby Bear had not only an ear infection, but also developed the croup.  Very scarry to say the least.  We spent lots of time in a hot steamy bathroom several times a day for about a week.  My skin never felt better in January and if I closed my eyes and had sand between my toes, I could imagine myself at a warm beach somewhere other then here.

Originally, I wanted to ease back into school and work on Hh week for two weeks.  It has now turned into three.  Now that we're on the back end of this virus bug, I'm getting into home reorganization.  We went through Princess' room and rearranged a few things.  It was great to be able to work with her to show her the process of how to organize things.  As for my not so small project, I'm turning our dinning room into a schoolroom.  I want to post about this later.