Bailey Family

This summer has been a summer of getting things done, and the one I've worked on most is trying to rearrange and declutter the house. Here's our new "office" - which used to be the storeroom (2nd pantry). It's tiny, but the computer is no longer cluttering up the den corner. Seth has been working on his art skills. He's been doing a drawing class we got online from udemy. He'll do more drawing and painting classes this year. He wanted animation, but that wasn't available through any school option. (We have one of those from udemy also  that he can do on his own.)  These 2 just want to play. Finished library levels for coupons. Gideon was easy - I read about 15 minutes before nap and another 15 minutes at bedtime daily. (Alee had a little more trouble getting her minutes in since I left most of her reading to her to complete - audiobooks count - but she is not a big reader. She finally finished last week.)  Seth got braces. Becau...

This post contains links to individual Recital Videos, the Playlist of all individual videos, and the live recording of the recital from Saturday, June 1st. Individual Videos: Beth -  Skatin'  from Peanuts Boomwhacker Band - "Do Re Mi" from The Sound of Music Luke - "Beyblades Burst Turbo Theme Song" Carolyn - " Le Festin " from Ratatouille Aleeyah - " Rewrite the Stars " from The Greatest Showman Alee - " Touch the Sky " from Disney's Brave Kinsley - " Let it Go " from Disney's Frozen Seth - " Pollyanna " from Mother/Earthbound (video game) Chloe - " This is Me " from The Greatest Showman Natalie - Disney Medley featuring "When you Wish Upon a Star" opening theme, "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King, "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog, and "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story Kaitlyn - " A Million Dreams " fr...

It's been almost a month since my last post, so that "post more often" thing obviously didn't happen. As it turns out, homeschooling takes a lot of my time. (Is that really a surprise?) Between Gideon's "help" and Alee's lack of independence, things take a while. We still finish before the end of the school day, but my goal this month is to become efficient so I get more of Gideon's naptime back to myself! Some years I try to make the little holidays cute and some years, I just say forget it! This year, I did just enough to please the kids, but came up a little short. I did make a Valentine's (heart-shaped dinner), but on the 13th. (Because Thursday is dance day, the meal always has to be fast, and I had chosen a not-so-fast-to-prep heart meal...that I will probably never do again!) It's cute though. (The rest of the meal had nothing to do with hearts.) I would do dessert the next day on the 14th. Dessert, however, didn't happ...