It's hard to believe this is the LAST week before school starts. Well, I guess we could start 'officially' when we want now that we are a home school family!
The summer has just disappeared. We've had a GREAT (no make that FANTASTIC) summer with lots of visitors and TWO family vacations (both very low key, but still loads of fun). Jacques traveled lots (no, too much) for work this summer (all of August, except one week :( ) and Noah spent two weeks at different camps, one week at Science Camp and another week at Soccer Camp....leaving Noah's and I a total of only 20 days free with NO activity, visitors or vacation plans......shheeeesh!
Out of these 20 days, we did school 13 days (trying our hardest to accomplish all we wanted to, so we would only have to do f/t school 4 days a week). That plan didn't work out, but we're okay with that because our 5th day of school will only be a part day!
So to celebrate the LAST week of summer before school officially starts in our house and we're stopping to have some major fun!
So far, we have done:
DAY 1: BOARD GAME DAY
The game of choice was Star Wars Monopoly!
And I MAJORLY lost! Can you tell that Noah is over the top excited?
DAY 2: BAKING & WEED pulling DAY
Before it got too warm out today, we both went out and got tonnes of cucumbers from our garden then began weeding. It's surprising how well mulch helps with the weeds (considering I hadn't weeded in over 3 weeks)!!
We came in the house, had our showers and then made some banana bread. I think and Noah agrees that it was the BEST banana bread we EVER made!!! We made a small loaf for us and a regular size loaf for our pastors family (who are in the process moving).
Our plan for the rest of the week is this:
DAY 3: COOKING AND BALL GAME DAY
Today, we are making some supper for our pastor's family (and for us at the same time). We chose a recipe off the internet, went yesterday to get the ingredients and are cooking today.
Tonight, we are going to watch the local baseball team. It's playoff season and we can't miss out on the peanuts at the ball park!!!
DAY 4: SCIENCE EXPERIMENT DAY
YUP, we pulled out the science experiment book and chose a few experiments to do! Should be fun!
DAY 5: CAMP DAY
So today we're getting ready for 'our' final jam, the end of summer bash. One of our favourite family movies
Camp Rock 2, one of our favourite family movies premiers this night (if you recall, we LOVE Disney musicals in our family) and we're having a Camp Rock party....doing everything that you'd do at camp!!!
This day is our preparation day. We're going to get all our supplies to make roasted hot dogs, marshmallows, s'mores and maybe even some Jiffy Pop on the campfire!!!
Noah's friend is coming to have a 'camp rock' kinda day....they are having a 'camp out' in the back yard and we're going to have a campfire - all before Camp Rock starts at 9pm. We plan to let the boys stay up TOO late to watch the movie!!!
Fingers crossed that Hurricane Earl holds off for us for our Friday plan! If not, we'll make the best of it and have a camp out inside!!!
NOTHING is going to ruin our fun....N O T H I N G!!!
Sounds like a fun way to celebrate the last week, huh?
So that will be 'our' final jam!
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Sounds like a great week!
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