This Week at Our House # 47

1. Well, it was Thanksgiving week. On Thanksgiving John shot targets with the boys, and started them on a couple of wood working projects. He is going to help them make a wooden box and whittle some wooden spoons. John volunteered to do the dishes after thanksgiving dinner.
2. I only spent one day in the garden digging, but two to three full days in the kitchen cooking and cleaning. I got my website for our adventure in this house up, as well as a Facebook page. I do not intend to keep up on it like it is a business. It's just informative. I have stopped writing for United Families International and am doing this instead.I spent years in family politics because that is was I knew the Lord wanted me to be doing. I feel called in a different direction. My new website is briarhovel. The facebook page is here.
3. Ruth has not been good at communicating. I think we will need to talk to her a little about that. It's a good thing Christmas is coming!
4. Kate cooked up a storm. She made the most delicious orange rolls and her pie crust was perfect! She has become a very good baker.
5. This was our first week of our holiday vacation. We start school Aug 1st, and do not have a fall break or any other days off so we can take two long vacations. One in summer and one for the holidays. We will be basically off school until the new year. We still have reading everyday, though. Johnny enjoyed his first week of vacation by playing a lot of games with whoever he could get. John still made him do math though. When John is the teacher, no one gets vacation.
6. Adam cut his wood spoon wrong and was really sad about that. John says they will have plenty of mistakes with woodworking until they have gotten enough practice to do it well.
7. I feel like I have not seen Rachel much this week. She has been hiding away playing with her legos. 
8. Anya spent the first week of her vacation reading FableHaven 2. I was delighted to see her reading just because she was enjoying her book.
9. Whenever I go outside, Joseph joins me. He loves to be outdoors. John has cleared a lot of the briars out of the woods, so that is a nice place for the kids to play now.
10. Joshua has been writing little things, and drawing pictures to go with them.
11. Josh and Arwen found a large (and I really mean large) dead spider. Arwen came to me and said mom, you have to see it. It is a big spider. It is not poisonous. It is a tarantulata. (like tarantula+ enchilada) It was not a tarantula, though, but size wise, it could have been.
12. I am back to potty training Susan (still not going well, blah). I asked her, "Where do you go pee and poop?" She stuck her naked bum in the air, pointed to it and said, "right there!" She knows what to do. She just doesn't want to be bothered. I knew she was a stubborn little one, I did not know she would be this stubborn.
13. Samuel goes through the kitchen everyday pulling out the dishes and silverware. Whenever I do the dishes, he pulls the dirty dishes out of the dishwasher. He will walk around the house with a bowl and a fork a lot.

Pictures

The kids homemade bird nest complete with eggs (rocks)

for my new website

A falcon came to visit