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Mornings, Pipe Cleaners, and Embrace the Camera

morningAshley and Emily are doing the Embrace the Camera challenge this week, go check it out.

Mornings keep changing around here.

There was a time when mornings meant a quiet moment with my youngest curled up in my lap.

He rarely does that any more.

smilesHe wanted to show me what his man he made out of pipe cleaners could do.

He can play with something simple like pipe cleaners for hours.

pipecleanerI gave him a couple more so he made a fish and fishing pole for his guy.

Of course the fish kept jumping up and attacking the guy.

guyHe plays with a rubik’s cube like it is alive.

The colors talk and interact with each other.

His imagination never ceases to amaze me.

Being a mother is a beautiful thing.

Saint Patrick

I do not really go all out for all of the holidays.

We don’t usually do units on them for school either.

This year because I had a book about Saint Patrick I wanted to read I decided to do something different for Saint Patrick’s Day yesterday.

ChallengeonthehilloffireChallenge on the Hill of Fire” is done by Adventures in Odyssey.

I have really liked the other books in this series and this one was no exception.

Great read!

The stories about Saint Patrick say that he used things to do with the culture in Ireland to preach Jesus.

He supposedly used a Shamrock to teach about the trinity.

readingWe did our picture for “Embrace the Camera” while I was reading our book to the boys.

After we finished the book, we went outside in search of a Shamrock.

booksI have been wanting to get the boys into nature journaling and this seemed like a perfect opportunity.

search

picking

woodsorrel

After we found some the boys got right to work.

drawing

drawing2

done

patrick

mineI did one also!

It was really fun!

lapelOne of the stories we read about said that Christians put the shamrock on their lapels.

My youngest of course really wanted to do that.

He was not as happy when it dried out on him though…

What do you do for Saint Patrick’s Day?

Last of the Snow?

snowwalkI was thrilled when the day after we got back from our Indiana trip we got snow!

snowplayIt is hard to believe this was last week when yesterday was in the 80’s.

carry

boysWe are definitely happy about snow in this house!

mask

meI might have been pouting a bit that we would probably not get anymore snow and then we got some!

breathHe thought his breath was funny.

woodpile

sledpull

sledLiving in Oklahoma means I am pretty happy about any winter weather we get.

hiding

snowshadow

icecreamWe got one more chance at snow ice cream!!!

I would have this at least once a week if I lived up north!

snowcream

chocolateSo good!

Do you still have snow where you live?