Unschooling week in review.....

Started the week out attending Girls group on Monday. Lex chose to stay home, with Wilks, as she was totally and joyfully engrossed in her new Wii My Sims Agents game. She completed the game just a few days latter! Wilks, Liv or I was by her side, to assist with the heavy reading.

Lex's tries on a rock and roll persona

We went to VLM to check out the Charles Harper exhibit.

Checked out a totally Green house!

Had a ball at Shirley Plantation, the oldest in VA. They had a home school day with several special activities set-up. We met up with great friends and everyone enjoyed being outside on a gorgeous Earth day. They loved writing with slate pens and quill feathers.

Bess Bess in pure bliss!

Liv went on a sleep over on Thurs. night....so Lex and I went on breakfast date Fri morning...she decided to have a syrup tasting and we had a bit of silly fun.

We finally got the supplies we needed to make some more ooblek.

Em stayed with us over the weekend and on Sat she joined us for our UU Earth day clean-up...the girls worked really hard and it was quite impressive for them to see how much trash we all collectively picked-up...... 33 bags in total! We had a nice lunch and enjoyed great music and spirit dancing and story telling afterward. The girls also each made really cool dream catchers and helped decorate some sun catcher discs with inspirational words and art for our planet.

Our neighbors HS'd grandchildren where also visiting for the weekend...so lots of kids and lots of outdoor play, spy games with walkie talkies, bike riding, head lights for nighttime back yard adventures . The girls plus Em spent a good part of today making their own version of a Ke$ha music video...they even gave me a small part =). Wilks worked 4 days this past week...it was really weird not having him around that much.

The girls have discovered Jim Henson's The Storytellers series and Growing Up Creepie on Nexflix streaming. We also started watching a few of the Liberty Kids episodes thru the stream. We are all (Wilks too) now hooked on Ugly Betty and are about half way thru season 1. Liv is reading the Twilight book and the girls and I are currently all listening to Saffy's Angel

Rare photo of Liv using the Wii this week...as Lex was on a mission!

46 years on this planet!

This past week held my birthday..Wed April 14th. Seems like a lot of years that went by, way to quickly...I fretted over the number (inching closer to 50) but then I slowed and really looked at what I have gained in all the years.....it humbled me and filled me with a joyful peace. I hope I have at least 46 more to experience all the wonder life has to offer.

Some of this past weeks' joys:

Riding buses with these cuties!

Making and then uncontrollably cracking-up over our self-portraits, after just spending a hour on a very dignified Art Detective tour at the Dewitt Wallace Museum at CW

Getting to ride around in a brandy new Santa Fey for a few days...girls thought it was so cool that it had a port for an I Pod. Happy to report the Subby Dubby is all fixed minus the squealing noise that it had prior to the crash. We love our Subaru..it's taken us across the country and on many a great adventured .

A great birthday lunch at Fudruckers with my favorite peeps;

watching Liv enjoy fries with a some milk shake on top.
Discovering a wonderful unexpected garden, while on a tedious errand...

Gaining a new appreciation for balloon sharpie art =)

My new lemon tree....ok not quite a tree,or a bush at this point....but I have high hopes =D
Very hot days sandwiched between very cool ones.

Our azaleas blooming

My Sims Agents game on Ds and for the Wii

Watching our garden take shape:

Dreaming of scrumptious strawberries

Having fun with great friends at BG

The ability to now stream Netflix thru our Wii absolutely tickled me this week. Having Wilks make my birthday so special and watching him smile as he headed out to work...if only for a few days was marvelous...sitting here typing while my gang sits on the couch right next to me, sharing belly laughs together over Sunday nite Fox shows, just priceless. And of course..........

being privileged to parent kids that are so cool...they gotta wear shades!!!My life is full of joy...and happiness is the state I live in!

I'm a bad blogger!

Hardly ever get over here! Not having a working computer did not help. Girls have been wonderful about sharing their laptops, but Wilks recently fixed mine...early b-day gift. Thank-you!!! Making no promises...facebook, yahoo groups and email take up enough of my online time...but I'll try a weekly effort. Here are some recent photos!

Playing in the woods/creek (at girl's group) on one of those killer hot days we had a week ago.

First visit to BG for the season(4/7/10)...also very hot day, also Spring Break, what where we thinking... we know better...it was sooo crowded....this ride was for for BB's sake, riding in the car behind the 3 amigos.

Lex swinging last Fri (4/9/10) in back yard...photos taken from my car as I head out to shop...much milder day!

Speaking of my car, my poor car, two accidents in 4 months ugh!! We, (girls and I) where headed to a unschooling/camp gathering in Cville VA on Sunday morn...when bam...crazy motorcycle man collides right into us, All involved where unharmed,THANKFULLY and I'm very GRATEFUL for this...thank you, thank you my angels. Our trip and car where derailed...now sporting a kool new black Santa Fay rental while the Subu dubie is in the shop. Sad we could not meet up with great friends =(

Lexie turns 9 and 1/2 Today!

I made cupcakes last night and Lex and Wilks iced them this morning...18 total! We thought we'd bring them to girls group today...but it was canceled. Of course we had to try them ! Happy to report the cupcakes are uber yummy... Lex made the icing color by blending two neon colors Came out a light lavender . Lex decided she wanted to go the beach and play in the sand. Thankfully today was the warmest day we've had in weeks...sunny and in the high 5o's. Nice drive down Colonial Parkway to York River Beach...we had late lunch at York Pub and the girls played on the beach and jetty rocks for a few hours. The air was still very chilly...and I had to retreat to the car after a while...can't wait for the more steady spring weather to arrive. We stopped at two thrift stores on the way home: Liv found 3 pair of jeans she liked , Wilkes got 4 pairs of dress khakis and a Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian book, Lex and I found, Pokemon Yahtzee and a complete set of wooden peg games, a new hurricane glass thingy for our blue glass lamp and a Barrons's book about Hamster(best deal at .25cents!! $12.99 local bookstore sticker still on it). We love thrifting! Happy Happy Day!