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 First attempt at trying to keep things sort of on track for a holiday week. I'd say we passed, but only just. In fact, this morning while returning the "G" books to the library, Paul said, "That was quick! We didn't get to read lots of them." The idea was to read them in the car, but the kids wanted to "read" them by themselves. So before running to the library, we had a marathon of about 6 books. It was

Green Eggs & Ham

Good things for which we're grateful are gifts from God ... listed on grapes.

I promise these faces are put on! Ada was a giggly mess looking at herself like this.

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Bonus for choosing St. Francis of Assisi: singing "Make me a channel of your peace" each day. Lots.

 

Wednesday was Field Trip day! We went to Mass at St. Francis of Assisi's church (Paul: "We're going to ASSISI?!" Me: "*Sigh* No, son. We're going uptown. I wish.") and then made a trip to the zoo! Almost as cool as going to Italy, yes? Since it was a special field trip and not just a "regular" trip to the zoo, we did the carousel - oOOoooooOooOOOoo! Ada was almost scared but held it together. 

And an extra go-fish game we hadn't planned on but had to add once they saw Kate & Maddie playing!

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 Turns out, "empathy" was a really good one to use! We referenced "showing x empathy" all week!

To the question, "Why does Jesus come to us in the Eucharist?" Paul says straight away, "to show people that Jesus loves us." Love.

We skipped Wednesday because I had my last physical therapy session (yay!), and when I got back, we all piled into Vincent van Geaux to pick up Juni the scooter! We watched as Papa pulled off for work, and we went to Chick-fil-a for an early lunch treat and some play. Consequently, our egg shells sat a day drying out, and we painted them Thursday instead. But I didn't take any pictures! So, here's one of our partners-in-homeschool, Kate, doing the same thing:

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Oh, that was the plan? Interesting! That's not quite what happened...

Halloween. To be more specific: Halloween candy. 

In all honesty, they haven't been that bad. All Saints' Day Mass was pretty hefty with them, though, so the rest of the day was a holiday! Dylan and I had a mix-up regarding the car, too, so what was supposed to be our field trip day for All Souls' Day was just Tuesday's lesson. Here's what we actually did this week with "D", including a couple of days of school in the afternoons instead of after breakfast, plus Mass at St. Dominic's, my dad's elementary school, on Friday, thus necessitating Saturday school - gasp, shock, horror! In actuality, the kids love this stuff, and Papa was busy brewing beer on Saturday; so we had a chance to play a little catch-up, which would otherwise just have been scrapped. The only thing I did scrap was the dirt-pie snack because ... did they really need something else sweet this week? Plus, we made Soul Cakes.

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"Diamonds in the sky

Ordering numbers 1-10 and also 11-20, the first thing Paul met that was actually challenging!

Dylan's Day Out + Dalmatian spot gluing