The End-of-the-Week Wrap-Up {snow, routine, & V-Day}

Well, here it is the middle of February already! These past couple of weeks have flown by so quickly. I know I mentioned earlier in the week about how busy we were with last week's trips (you can read more about that here), but this week seemed to go by almost as fast just playing "catch-up" around here. You know, the laundry piles, the house cleaning (especially since it was our week to host our church small group), just the usual.

I did let the kids take a "snow day" on Monday simply because we weren't at home on the weekend to let them play in it and they were just dying to get out and play in the snow. It worked well since it also gave me a day to just focus on some house work.

We stayed pretty much on track the rest of the week. There weren't any spectacular highs or lows this week, educationally speaking, but it was one of those weeks where we just stayed the course.

You probably noticed that Valentine's Day came this week, too ;) So we were a little busy with that, preparing for our annual party with our homeschool group. The kiddos made their boxes (ideas found via Pinterest). The Princess made a Rubix cube and Mr. B made Perry the Platypus--they turned out so cute!

I made red velvet pancakes for breakfast (from The Pioneer Woman's new cookbook) and also bacon hearts to go with them--which is way trickier to make than Pinterest posts imply, by the way. But it was all definitely yummy!!

It's been a good month so far, but I really am hoping and praying that next week I get to breathe a little more. That would be so nice! :)

Do you feel like your new year is flying by too quickly as well?

This post is linked to the Weekly Wrap Up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.

The Making of an Egyptian Death Mask

We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat ...

Arkansas' Crimson Clover

One of my favorite things about Spring is the crimson clover that grows along the highways and interstates here in Arkansas. I say Arkansas because this is where I first grew to love it. We actually saw some in Mississippi on our way here and I saw it in our town in Alabama for the first time this year. But it spreads like that, each year it grows and looks even more beautiful. I'm not sure who decided to plant it in the medians of the interstates , but it was genius! It seeds itself and just comes back more lush the next year. I always want to take pictures, but of course it's almost always in the median of a very busy interstate~which is a little dangerous for photography. However, the other day I found the perfect patch of it on the side of a not-too-busy highway, so Vince obliged me and pulled over:) Isn't it beautiful? I just had to share it with you...

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