My weekly notebook: snow and olympics

Life this week...

I gave my cat a bath this week to see if we could get rid of more fleas. He was not a fan. In fact I'm pretty sure he thought it was the worst torture there is. Afterward, he just runs around trying to find a warm spot, and licks himself constantly to make the wetness go away. He did pretty good in the actual bath though. I think it only helped a little. I've also tried a homemade flea trap (unsuccessful), and brushing him with lemon water. I'm still on the search for something to get rid of these fleas. I think they are still there. He's scratching less, but still scratching suddenly.

Homeschool this week...

A lot of Olympics this week. We've been watching in the evenings as a family, and doing some projects during school time. I had some unused canvases lying around, and thought it would be fun to make an Olympics 2018 memory. I found an outline of the Olympic rings, and traced it on both canvases, and found 2 kids who wanted to paint them. It turned out to be Aric and Alex.

I set up the easel. Painting with an easel is so much fun.

I also printed up a picture of the Olympic rings for reference.

I think they both had a great time painting these. It was a good lesson in painting small areas, and figuring out techniques to keep the paint where they wanted it to be.

Reviews we are working on...

I believe I have about 7-8 reviews I'm currently doing. Yes, that is a lot, but a few of them are pretty easy ones, like MagicStix markers. I just received April's homeschool diploma yesterday, so that is another fairly easy one. But, I do think I've taken a bit too many on. It's hard to say no sometimes, there's just so many great products I want to try. April's homeschool diploma is beautiful, and the ordering was so super easy. Pictures to come soon!

Places we're going and people we're seeing...

We went to Get Air on Wednesday for the homeschool jump time.

The boys played dodge ball for the whole hour of jump time they had. April read her book, and I did some planning. It was a nice break.

My favorite thing this week was...

Watching Olympics with the family, and taking a walk in the snow before it all melted.

My kids' favorite thing this week was...

I forgot to give Alex this Valentine's day gift, so I gave it to him this week. I'm pretty sure it's his favorite right now.

I'm cooking...

I made this for lunch this week. Sheet-pan Sausage and Peppers.  It was tasty, but the peppers ended up as mush. I think just frying it next time will work better so the peppers stay crunchy. Pretty tasty otherwise.I used regular rice, but the recipe for cauliflower rice sounds really good too. I also cooked up a turkey this week. We had one in our freezer from 2 thanksgivings ago, and we're trying to clear it out so we can defrost it. Now I am going to be cooking turkey dishes for a while.

That about wraps up our week!