Little bits...

So there's alot to be said about planning ahead and working in a clean house!!  We have ENJOYED the last week and a half, we have stayed on schedule and we have had a FUN week! 
One of the things we were staying dreadfully behind on is the read alouds with our history/reading and with my new Kindle Fire I realized I could put audio books on it so we've been spending meals with it in the middle of the table listening to The Witch of BlackBird Pond :)  That's been fun and I don't feel so overwhelmed with that feeling of always being behind.
Another thing we did this week was finish a book about Pocahontas.  This is going to sound really dumb but I always thought she married John Smith!!  LOL  Nope...
Also, we learned that the "peaceful Quakers" were the cost of more blood spilled in early Pennsylvania than any other group.  Then, they were alot of the 'witches' in the salem with trials...  Hmm...
I'm loving learning all this stuff with the boys :)  It's so fun and interesting!! 
The other interesting thing these couple weeks has been doing school with Austin.  Austin has taken Concerta for ADD for about a year.  One of the glorious side effects of that is lack of appetite.  After having his tonsils out and then getting the flu he looked like he was death, sunken eyes and gaunt cheeks.  So, we took him off for the holidays.  After the first few days when he was PSYCHO he leveled out and wasn't that bad.  We didn't let him have any pop and limited the sweets and it was dealable.  He's done OK this past couple weeks though math takes longer (like forever).  He doesn't need the meds so we're keeping him off!!  One more advantage to homeschooling!!

Our science this week has us building a volcano like Olympus Mohns on Mars.  Lucky for us the boys got a volcano set for Christmas from their grandma and all we had to do was fill in the mold!!  We'll be setting it off tomorrow.  After I go buy club soda since I forgot to get it :D