Day at Home

Today was the day. The doggie had to go. After cleaning up at least six poopy messes in the past two days, we just couldn't take it anymore. So I decided I'd really have to distract my daughter so she wouldn't miss the doggie. We started off the day EARLY, 5:45am, but I managed to keep her in bed for fifteen more minutes. We got up and headed to the living room, I put a big comforter on the floor and we watched some movies. Then we did school book work with lots of art :) My daughter's been begging for cookies (she calls them "recipe cookies") so we made chocolate chip cookies, using all organic ingredients.

After the cookies were done, we did some more book work. Then I had the bright idea to make pillows. My grandma had apparently started a quilt, but never finished it (I think this may be a genetic trait, I'm notorious for this *smiles*). The other day, I pinned the quilt pieces to backs to make quilted pillows. Today, I sewed them together and my daughter stuffed them full of polyfiber fill. They turned out amazing, if I do say so myself ;).

My favorite part about today? The fact that I can count it all as art, home ec and science! Not to mention logic. My daughter showed some amazing reasoning skills as she was stuffing the pillows. She stopped and said "oops, this is too big, I need a smaller handful to fit." She also told me I needed to make the "tangle thingy"(thread) match the pillows.

Well, I think I'm gonna go reward us with some movie time. Adventures in Odyssey, here we come!