Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I did bodyweight workouts. Kind of pilates like.
Friday was a travel day
Saturday I walked 1.83 miles
The kids and I are out of town this week so I hope I can keep my momentum going.
Tag: stay at home mom
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.
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.
Weekly Workouts
Monday – 1/2 hour of bowling
Tuesday – arm workout
Wednesday – ran 2 miles (not an improvement on time but not much slower, I was tired.)
Thursday -3.25 double stroller miles
Friday – at least 7100 steps
Saturday – 1 mile run outside ALONE!! So nice lol did it for time 12:36! Working on that speed
Total miles this week: 6.25
Getting back at it
Getting back to school and routine after the holiday chaos
This was our first full week back.
Monday
Tuesday
We did a pond study
Thursday – we studied spiderwebs
Friday
There was also gymnastics, a trip to the library, letter recognition, a little math and so much more thrown in.
The week went much smoother than I thought it would. We did have normal young kid tantrums and issues like that but the school part went great!
Weekly Workouts – Plague edition
Sunday -OFF
Monday – Lower body workout
Tuesday – 4 miles
Wednesday – Saturday – Nothing…..
The whole house has been hit by a heavy cold. We are doing a lot of relaxing and movie watching……and a lot of interrupted sleep at night.
The crazy thing about kids is they are sick then fine for a few minutes then sick and back and forth
Book Review: The Danish Way of Parenting
I very much enjoyed this book. I’m finding that I really love learning about parenting practices and different ways to make me a better parent.
It is also hard though the more I read to distinguish between the different ways things I like and don’t like some of them of course say the complete opposite thing so you really have to do it feels right for you.
This book was equal parts, engaging and enjoyable, followed by some very dry clinical things to back it up. I do enjoy knowing that there’s science behind what they’re saying and studies to back it up, but sometimes they went a little too deep in the studies and I glazed over a little bit. But overall I thought it was a really good book and I very much enjoyed it.
Day 4 at California Adventure
California Adventure kind of sucked hahahahaha. There were only a small handful of rides my son was tall enough for and even less for my daughter. So many rides were closed, things didn’t open when the park did. There was just a lot that was disappointing. We did manage to occupy ourselves for the whole day but we were super glad we only went there for 1 day.
And that’s a wrap!!!!
It was long and exhausting but I am so glad we did it. I loved watching their little eyes light up and watching them explore so many new things.
I wish the food was better for the prices they charge. I wish some of the characters were more easily accessible or accessible at all. There were no characters from Encanto which my daughter loves and to see Anna and Elsa you had to wait in a line forever and they were behind doors until you got up there so you couldn’t even wave at them and see them if you didn’t want to wait in line.
I don’t see us going back for a very long time, if ever. It’s just soooooo dang expensive! They really do nickel and dime you…..or should I say like $20 and $50 you.
I was very happy with the time of year we went though. Granted with small kids we didn’t go on some of the most popular rides with the longest waits but with the use of watching the app for wait times and trying to be smart the longest we waited was about 20min for a ride. So, I am incredibly thankful for that because I don’t think they would have tolerated much longer.
All in all I am so glad for the memories but I don’t need to do it again.
Disneyland Day 1
As if I wasn’t crazy enough to sign up for a long race with 2 kids under 3 I then decided that with only 1 day of rest we would spend 4 days at Disneyland.
Don’t know how but we picked a great time to go. During the day, we were almost always able to find a ride that had less than a 20 minute wait. I can tell you anything longer than that and your kids are going to freak out. Even the 20 minutes my daughter would get really fidgety by the end. Snacks are key.
Trailing the blonde 