China Week

It probably doesn't say so on anyone else's calender, but here it's China week! We're learning about China this week as part of our Stay-at-home Summer School. Today we read The Seven Chinese Brothers, learned about Chinese inventions and colored the Chinese flag. Don't they look great?

Motivation

I was feeling lazy this morning and struggling to find motivation to exercise this morning, so I asked the kids if they wanted to go for a walk. I figured they'd get bored pretty quick so it would be a short easy walk, but a walk never the less. When they decided to ride their bikes while I walked, my easy "work-out" vanished! They went farther and faster and so did I. Once again, my children lead me.

We've had a run of things breaking lately, the home air conditioning, the truck, and even the sheets wore out! The truck was the most recent and the dealer's schedule threw off mine. I finally canned my chicken today. It's nice to have more space in my freezer and a couple of boxes full of chicken in the pantry. Here's hoping next week is a little more normal!

Progress

I feel like I'm checking things off "the list". I finished writing thank you notes to the kids' teachers. I'd like to do something more for them. We'll see if I can come up with anything.

My pile of Family Fun magazines that I'm ready to part with is growing. I'm already to 2001! There are so many cute ideas, but I'm not sure I'd realistically get to them. So I'm saving what I think I might use and hope I can find the rest if the time comes. Hopefully, by the time I'm through I'll have enough room to shift things around and all the books will have space on a shelf.

This week, I'm canning chicken. It's about time too, since I only have 2 jars left! I need to get to where I'm actually building up my food storage instead of just giving me a few month supply of chicken. Actually, it's lasted me about 6 or 7 months. So that's not a bad start on my year's supply of chicken.