Wet Wednesday

Wow! What a wild, windy, watery Wednesday! I knew it was going to be a "different" kind of day since I got a call a couple days ago to remind me of 3 dental appts I had made 6 months ago. Since my calendar was wiped out (thanks to T-Mobile/Danger/Microsoft), I didn't exactly have this on my radar screen. I decided to go with it, and adjust accordingly. That was a fine plan, but then it turned out Dane had a cavity that needed to be filled. (Geneva & Kat were cavity-free...yay!) The appt started at 10, and I was hoping to be on with school by 11:15, but the dentist had an opening for Dane right then. I took that, rather than dealing with another interrupted school day. So...the kids had gotten Math done before and a bit after the dentist, but nothing else.

I left the big kids doing Latin while I went to do my workout...it was Ramp it Up today...48 minutes of lunges, squats, plies, push-ups, leg lifts, band work...whew! Nice to have gotten that done. Bailey facilitated Latin stuff and then made lunch for all...blessing!

I got a call about Kat's new reading club while I was eating my lunch and Bailey was reading Robin Hood aloud...very excited that the first club meeting is tomorrow. They read "A Little Princess," by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Such a childhood favorite of mine! Kat loved it. We will be meeting at the Bellevue library...should be fun!

After Robin Hood time, I did a quick Science experiment with the kids so they could see a simple visual of how lava works. I heated some butter and then poured it onto the surface of an inverted custard dish which was surrounded by a layer of flour. The butter ran down the sides of the dish and dribbled all over into the flour. We let it cool, and then later we were able to see how the "lava" cooled and hardened. It had melted some of the flour into it, and it had maintained some of its original "flowing" shape. Very cool! Nice idea from our Astronomy text. I'll try to post a pic.

Ohhh...super excited! My hubby got my domain name for me, so I will be switching to that as soon as I figure out how. I will BE domesticallyemployed.com! :)

To close out the day, I had Kat and Dane do some work in their Astronomy and History notebooks. They drew comics called, "A Day on Venus," and they drew some pictures of Columbus stuff and recorded the facts we learned that day.

As I told Bailey today, she is the sun on my cloudy day. Without her here encouraging me, I would have felt utterly forlorn about our disorganized day. But instead, life is good! So nice to have a Bails. :)