Homeschool Highlights - The Week We Were Thankful

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Homeschool news  . . . It was a fairly relaxed week for schoolwork, because of the snow day last week. There were no additional assignments for Speech or French, and the assignment for Creative Writing is pretty low-key. For American History, they are just to continue reading the next Unit and the assigned novel, and I can't even remember whether I gave them a writing assignment for that class! If I did, it's another low-key one. I do know that she needs to get hustling on the novel, because I'm not sure she's even finished the first chapter, so I'm concerned about that. On the plus side, she even did some Math this week, so I'm trying to keep that in perspective. Hopefully we can get some momentum going with Math again and get that last credit completed!

Other news . . . On Friday evening, I took Kennady and a friend of hers to see Babette's Feast at the arts center. The arts center does an annual food-related film right before Thanksgiving as a way to raise awareness of local poverty and they accept donations of non perishables for the food bank. Babette's Feast is one of my favorite movies, and the girls were willing to take my word on it and enjoy an evening hanging out together. They both were concerned about whether they'd be able to follow the film since they'd have to read subtitles, but they both enjoyed it and found it a lot easier to follow than they'd expected.

And while we girls were attending a foreign film, the guys were all at a Lynnard Skynnard concert! Talk about contrast! Well, I would have been totally happy going to that too, but I'd already committed to the movie.

This week has been busy, with a Homeschool Moms Night Out for me on Monday, work for all of us, chorus rehearsals for Kennady and me (mine was a dress rehearsal), Civil Air Patrol, and then the annual Gobble in the Lot on Wednesday evening. That's the potluck/tailgate style Thanksgiving dinner my husband's hockey league does the day before Thanksgiving. They play pick-up hockey at the rink and then all the families join in a bit potluck dinner. We used to do this out in the parking lot of the ice rink - even deep frying the turkeys out there sometimes! - but a few years ago it was bitterly cold and the rink staff invited us inside, and there we've been ever since.



Yesterday, of course, was Thanksgiving, and we stayed home and had a rather quiet family celebration. We did have a lovely turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Early in the day, Landon did some work on the front porch despite the chilly weather, and late in the evening the boys had a couple friends over and had a bonfire.

A family tradition continues - a holiday meal photo with everyone in the act
of eating or drinking! My siblings and I started doing this to my mom when
I was a teen, and at first she got so frustrated, but then it became a running joke
and we got a picture like this every holiday.

No Black Friday shopping for us today, unless it's online! Except for Spencer, we are back to work as usual, and Kennady is (hopefully) working hard on school.

What made me laugh . . . This is what happened when I told the kids to get the cranberry sauce to the table - an apple corer!!

What I'm thankful for . . . my wonderful husband who puts up with my failings and quite a bit of nonsense; my kids who are loving and frustrating, and funny and annoying all at once; my charming granddaughter who I wish lived much closer so I could spoil her better; my friends, all of whom are encouraging and supportive and entertaining in unique ways; my church, my extended family, my job and co-workers, my homeschool network . . .  In fact . . .

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy . . . being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. ~Philippians 1:3-6

I recommend . . . the movie Babette's Feast that I mentioned earlier. It's a wonderful film to watch around Thanksgiving especially. If you're not familiar with it, it's an Oscar-winning Danish film (1987 I believe) based on a short story. It's set on a remote part of Jutland, where two elderly sisters are leading a small group of their long-deceased father's disciples. These aging folks take their strict piety very seriously and live a very austere life, but the sisters are known for their generosity and kindness in caring for others. Babette is the mysterious housekeeper that escapes France and comes to the little village with nowhere else to turn and stays with the sisters for many years. At last her fortunes turn, but she makes a request to prepare and serve the sisters and their followers a proper French meal. At Babette's feast, the villagers are reminded of the goodness of grace and mercy, and that the enjoyment of creativity and artistry is a blessing in itself. The story moves slowly but isn't boring, is beautiful and thought-provoking, is a quiet lesson about hospitality and sacrificial giving, yet its subtle humor and gentle twists keep it from being preachy.

   

On my blogs last week . . .

Here on Homeschool Coffee Break:

Virtual Refrigerator - Moby Dick
Drive Thru History: America! Thanksgiving Special

And on my book blog, Just A Second:

Wordless Wednesday - Flowers
Art Journals from Ellie Claire (Review)
Scripture and a Snapshot - Consider the Lilies

Just A Second is where I share book reviews and other book-related things, and update on what's on my bookshelf. This week I've been reading:

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A parting shot . . . a snowy sunrise from early in the week.

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