Traveling for a death in the family

Boy oh boy has it been a crazy few weeks.

Currently I am sitting in a rental car outside my aunt’s house while the kids catch a quick nap in between the funeral of my grandmother and the open house after. But let’s start back at the beginning.

A few weeks ago my little man stayed the night at his Grammy and Papa’s house for some one on one time, before going to pick him up I got the call that my stepdad died suddenly. Then comes the flurry of activities to try and figure out a last minute trip for the funeral.

At the last minute my son got an ear infection so we didn’t go……days later, very few days later my grandma went on hospice and went downhill FAST!

This was just 6 months ago

Enter another flurry of plans to try to get down and see her before she passes…….I booked plane tickets for a 2.5 week trip to hopefully spend time with her and also make the funeral that was probably soon to happen. I booked the tickets and 20 minutes later got the phone call that she died.

We are 2 weeks into the trip, just finished the funeral and fly home midweek……I cannot wait to go home. 2 weeks is a long trip with kids when we don’t have a schedule and have moved houses twice.

We have spent a lot of time outside looking at nature, have done a little bit of workbook stuff and spent lots of time with family

Did I also mention I am solo parenting this trip? Lol. This mama is TIRED!

On the plus side we are going to Disneyland before we leave….had to throw some fun in.

Weekly Workouts

Got back on the horse this week!

I worked out Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

I started using an App called justfit. Currently it is almost all body weight workouts, right now they are about 17 min long which is perfect for me right now.

This next week I just want to keep my momentum going and maybe add in a run or two.

I am really focusing on a good night routine to set me up for a good morning routine.

Homeschool curriculum pt 6

Science!!!!!!

We mix Blossom and Root’s nature study with The Good and The Beautiful’s little hearts and hands science Wind and Waves and Fields and Flowers. I try and pair them loosely to the seasons and things we might see or experience.

My oldest is a smidge young for both but if I find a good connecting book or something he really gets into it. My youngest is just a long for the ride at this point hahaha.

For example we just did the water cycle. I found a great library book that my son loved about a drop of water going through the water cycle and that brought it alive for him.

Water cycle experiment

Pinched Nerve

Oy, the last two weeks have been interesting. We had a lovely family weekend last weekend with the in-laws, but the past two weeks I have had a pinched nerve in my neck that at times was debilitating. The pain at times rivaled childbirth. I haven’t done any workouts since then.

I’m starting to get the workout itch but I want to make sure my neck is healed before I start again.

Homeschool Curriculum Pt 4

For math we started with The Good and the Beautiful level K and weren’t doing too bad but I did not feel like he was getting any mastery from it.

After thinking that, I decided to check eBay for a used copy of right start math to hopefully add some mastery in. Now we are switching back and forth between the two curriculums to go back and review some instead of continuing on.

Homeschool Curriculum Pt 3

This curriculum is about our grade level for sure but I am using it as an introduction to geography and other cultures. Basically we just find the country on the map, watch a few YouTube videos, read a few books from the country and make a recipe from there and try and do a simple paper craft.

We do one country every few weeks. No rush for us to get through it.

Book review – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

I’m conflicted about this book. I loved the original books. This one was a little weird. I understand it’s a script so it was very different but I also felt it was a little light. But that is because I was expecting even more story like the books. Overall I loved re-entering the world of Harry Potter but I wish there had been more! Hahahahaha.